ProPublica is investigating health insurance denials.
If you want to share your insights, here's how: https://propub.li/3VBY7MA
On UnitedHealthcare:
"People hate Unitedhealthcare, for good reason, because he personally decided – or approved – countless policies that killed people by cheating them until they died.
Nurses and doctors hate Thompson and United. United kills people, for money. During the most acute phase of the pandemic, the company charged the US government $11,000 for each $8 covid test"
~ @pluralistichttps://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
#Unitedhealthcare #healthcare
Worth reading from @pluralistic
“… If you die with a bullet in you, the chances are that the finger on the trigger was your own. The next most likely suspect is someone you know. After that, a cop. Getting shot by a stranger out of uniform is something of a rarity here …”
#guns
#healthcare
#UnitedHealthCare
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
"The leadership claims it's about speeding up the review process, but of course, many members pointed out the main effect is that 'they would not be reviewing deaths that may have resulted from delays in care caused by Texas’s abortion bans.'"
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump#SupremeCourt
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Further evidence that Republicans are attempting to suppress evidence that their abortion bans are putting women's lives at risk:
"The Texas decision comes on the heels of a similar move in Georgia, which dismissed the maternal mortality board members to punish them for giving journalists the facts about the deaths of two other women killed by that state's abortion ban."
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump#SupremeCourt
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She points to what Texas did after ProPublica published the story of Porsha Ngumezi, who suffered a miscarriage at 11 weeks but was left to bleed to death at the hospital:
"A day after this story was published, the Washington Post reported that the Texas maternal mortality board would skip reviewing the deaths of pregnant women in 2022 and 2023 — conveniently, the first two years after the abortion ban went into place."
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump
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"The leadership claims it's about speeding up the review process, but of course, many members pointed out the main effect is that 'they would not be reviewing deaths that may have resulted from delays in care caused by Texas’s abortion bans.'"
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump#SupremeCourt
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Amanda Marcotte reports that as deaths from red-state abortion bans are being reported, "Republicans are behaving like guilty liars do everywhere, and destroying the evidence. In the process, they are also erasing data needed to save the lives of pregnant women across the board, whether they give birth or not."
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump#SupremeCourt
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She points to what Texas did after ProPublica published the story of Porsha Ngumezi, who suffered a miscarriage at 11 weeks but was left to bleed to death at the hospital:
"A day after this story was published, the Washington Post reported that the Texas maternal mortality board would skip reviewing the deaths of pregnant women in 2022 and 2023 — conveniently, the first two years after the abortion ban went into place."
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump
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Amanda Marcotte reports that as deaths from red-state abortion bans are being reported, "Republicans are behaving like guilty liars do everywhere, and destroying the evidence. In the process, they are also erasing data needed to save the lives of pregnant women across the board, whether they give birth or not."
#abortion #misogyny#Republicans #healthcare#Texas#Georgia#Trump#SupremeCourt
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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.
Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.”
She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s #abortion ban.
#News#Health#HealthCare#Pregnancy#Government#Law#Safety#Family
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
New: A #Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
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Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.
She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
#News #abortion #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #law
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
#TimWalz killed it on the #healthcare #debate!!!
I mean really.
Killed it.
#JDVance actually tried to sell us that “#Trump saved #Obamacare” 🤣😂😆
Are you kidding me?????
Do you know how many times that jackass tried to overturn the #ACA?? I can’t even count the number!
Some unplanned medical tourism including an emergency appendectomy:
"Our insurance doesn’t cover us when we’re overseas, so we ended up paying out of pocket for all of it. That thought scared me at first, but all told, our bill was, conservatively, about 1/30th what we would have paid out of pocket in the US. In fact it was considerably lower than what we would have paid in copays in the US even *with* insurance."
It doesn't have to be like this.
This is getting seriously ridiculous!
It is one thing that somebody doesn't WRITE their own papers, and another if they don't PROOF-READ their own papers – but a completely different thing altogether if the editors and reviewers don't read/see what's been written in a manuscript! Good lord!
#AcademicMastodon #academia #publishing #academic#science #sciencefiction #sciencemastodon #research #healthcare#LLM#AI#ArtificialInteligence
