Most Important 2024 House Candidate Who National Progressive Movement is Ignoring: @Blue__America endorsed snd self-described Intersectional Humanitarian, @Maebe_A_Girl
for #CA30
My friend who emigrated to Spain posted that he had to go to the Emergency Room today. Instead of it breaking his bank account, the visit only cost him €16.
We are being ripped off in ways we don't even realize by the US health “care” non-system which is designed to maximize corporate profits by bankrupting patients.
We need a new model and should adopt one of the universal health care models that get much better health care outcomes than ours. #universalhealthcare#medicareforall#USpol
My friend who emigrated to Spain posted that he had to go to the Emergency Room today. Instead of it breaking his bank account, the visit only cost him €16.
We are being ripped off in ways we don't even realize by the US health “care” non-system which is designed to maximize corporate profits by bankrupting patients.
We need a new model and should adopt one of the universal health care models that get much better health care outcomes than ours. #universalhealthcare#medicareforall#USpol
#Today, my oldest sister, who has brain cancer, goes into a nursing facility. She can no longer care for herself. She's fought lymphoma, eye cancer and now the brain. She's a tough old broad, who's had so much chemo and radiation thrown at her, I'm surprised she's not glowing.
The care facility will cost $9,000 a month. A month.
British people, I cannot explain adequately what absolute hell the American healthcare system is. You know how people say: "at least in the US, you can get fast treatment. At least in the US, you can choose your doctor. At least in the US, you can get the most innovative treatment"?
Lies. All of it.
The US healthcare system excels at one thing only, and that's bankrupting people.
@KFuentesGeorge
I'm an American, living near Chicago. My husband works for a large hospital chain and has #HealthInsurance that is among the best around.
He has Type II diabetes, w/ no complications (just needing pills 2x/day). I'm in my midlife, and our 25yo daughter lives with us, partly so she can keep getting her health coverage.
Our family regularly pays at least a few thousand dollars a year in extraneous medical costs (AFTER co-pay & including deductibles). Some years, it's as high as $5K (if we have any medical emergencies etc).
You do NOT want American privatized #HealthCare. We want YOUR system. We want our own #NHS.
(A reminder that more than 30M Americans have no health insurance of any kind, meaning that their "doctor visit wait times" are eternal.)
Anyone with more #BritishColumbia#GovernmentofCanada#legalities on this private medical clinic in #VictoriaBC that I was alerted about today?
Alerted by a friend who was told by her family physician that if she wanted to remain a patient that she needs to pay $1500 first.
That sounds illegal & in violation of federal health act.
Can anyone in BC please tell me more about legalities of this??
Incredibly lucky and incredibly tragic. Jeri Ryan’s stand-in in Picard, Margot, was diagnosed with a rapid form of #ALS, a fatal degenerative disease. The #Trek family has organized a #GoFundMe. It’s tragic she has this terrible condition that will kill her in two years. She’s lucky to have such an influential community to help.
Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, industry lobby group PhRMA, and the US Chamber of Commerce have all sued the US Federal Government, claiming it is unconstitutional for Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate lower drug prices.
On what grounds, you ask?
They cite the 8th Amendment. They believe that negotiating lower drug prices amounts to "excessive fines."
What the 8th Amendment actually covers:
"Eighth Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Virtually every other developed country negotiates drug prices and pays many orders less for their medications. But in the US, apparently this amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
#PeterDavid has written so many things that so many people have enjoyed-- books, movies, comics, streaming, and more. You've undoubtedly enjoyed his work without realizing it. He's written things for #StarTrek, #Babylon5, #Oblivion, the #DCU, the #MCU (comics, TV, and movies), and more.
Only in America should a man as sick as he is, and as talented as he is, need to go begging to pay his medical bills, just to live.
Now you can see why the #WGA is striking. Streaming fees and movie ticket sales never trickle down to the people who do the most important job of all: creating the stories and characters you see on screen.
I rarely post a #GoFundMe, unless I know it's truly worthwhile. Please donate and say thank you to someone who has given you so many hours of entertainment.
...its Western #European allies in the #EU that have also transcended monarchical rule.
Lastly, in the face of the next societal revolution, a universal basic income (#UBI) and #UniversalHealthcare must be established.
The Statue of Liberty must once again become the beacon of hope for the world🌎 that it once was before WWI.
For this to happen, the aforementioned, from a none-US, Western point of view, atavistic characteristics and tendencies of...
Remember "#DeathPanels"? #SarahPalin promised us that #UniversalHealthcare was a prelude to a Stalinist nightmare in which unaccountable bureaucrats decided who lived or died based on a cost-benefit analysis of what it would cost to keep you alive versus how much your life was worth.
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