Thinking today about all my #patients who tell me they can’t take even one day off work after they’re diagnosed with #cancer
Reflecting on how often the treatment plan has to accommodate the patient’s need to continue to work (in the U.S.)
And this was before the intentional #dismantling of the minimal services available to help
Worried about what’s to come
Luigi Mangione, accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, asks fans to limit number of photos they send to Brooklyn federal jail - ABC7 Los Angeles
Rare Diseases Day is February 28th.
Over 6000 rare diseases are characterized by a broad diversity of disorders and symptoms that vary not only from disease to disease but also from patient to patient suffering from the same disease.
The long-term cause of the Rare Disease Day campaign is to achieve equitable access to diagnosis, treatment, health and social care and social opportunity for people affected by a rare disease.
New server, new #Introduction
Greetings! I am a resident of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Currently surviving the mess in the US as best I can, so I occasionally drop an F-bomb. Sorry, not sorry.
Kristen Bell & Matt Damon are paying off people's medical debt—but why should they have to? | The Mary Sue
This is beyond insane. Why Americans aren't in the streets tearing the whole place down, I'll never understand.
@GottaLaff
That's some mad healthcare plan she has that she falls and two days later gets a new hip. Everyone should get that
How Wall Street Billionaires Avoid Paying Medicare Taxes — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-tax-loophole-steve-cohen
One more post today on #healthinsurance #denials to make it a triad:
It was almost 5 years ago that I published my first blog post comparing obtaining #priorauthorizations in #oncology to The Hunger Games
I think we've made a lot of progress in those five years, but we still have a long way to go
The Prior Authorization Games: Where the Odds are Never in Your Favor
https://jenniferlycette.com/prior-authorization-games-where-odds-never-in-your-favor/
Universal healthcare in U.S. would have saved 212,000 lives, $459B in 2020, study finds
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/universal-healthcare-us-would-have-saved-212000-lives-459b-2020-study-finds
Develop morals or hide? Hmmmm?
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
The violent response to #BrianThompson, a CEO who profits obscenely from the torment and suffering of millions of customers.
It didn't need to happen. Those CEOs have had plenty of warning that oppressed people will be pushed only so far before seeking a violent response.
The title short story from collection _Radicalized_, by @pluralistic, details how people are corralled by the physical suffering of family members, exploited by an insurance industry deliberately designed to extract wealth while denying health care, and finally resort to violent terrorism in the absence of any other effective option.
CEOs have had this, and for decades many other, warnings that they must stop the ghoulish practice of denying health care to those who need it, while extracting wealth. A reckoning is coming.
I believe EviCore (EvilCore) also has a CEO. Just an observation.
EviCore, the Company Helping U.S. Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments — ProPublica
The left panel is a screenshot from my speculative medical thriller, THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW. The right panel is a headline from today
(I started writing the book in December 2016 and it was published in March 2023. The excerpt is from a character who’s a podcaster trying to get out the truth about the nefarious fictional corporation PRIMA = PRognostic Intelligent Medical Algorithms)
In the U.S. #healthcare subsidies are due to expire in 2025. Republicans oppose the subsidies, *but* ending them would result in premiums more than doubling in 12 Republican states (because of how those states structure their insurance). #Greed-driven insurance companies also would lose $25B annually if the subsidies end.
Will #Republicans votes against the corporations who fund them and against their own constituents? (Probably)
#Profit over #Healthcare
UnitedHealth Group remains optimistic about its #MedicareAdvantage business, CEO Andrew Witty said Tuesday. The healthcare conglomerate that owns #UnitedHealthcare responded to #financial and regulatory setbacks for the sector by emphasizing stability in its offerings, and will continue efforts to improve its star ratings quality scores, Witty told investor analysts when announcing the company's third-quarter results.
How about patient care?
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight
@_L1vY_ Evil greed making massive profits off the backs of the sick and those without the time and energy to fight the bureaucracy. They do an end-run around every restriction anyone tries to put on them.
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight
