I am on Medicare and had a case of strep throat over the weekend in a major NE snowstorm. I had a tele-health visit and received antibiotics. If I had waited, I believe I would have ended up in the hospital. It saved an ER visit, infection spread, and hospitalization. Why would they take this away?
No, Social Murder is the point. The goal is to kill the sick and the old by withholding care. This is what genocide looks like. The cruelty is just frosting.
They truly are trying to downsize the American population. Don't they think that at some point, people are going to clue in and will do something about all these changes? If there's anything I know about people, it's many have a low threshold for change and anger. At some point the lid will blow.
JFC, our damn hospital is over 1 hr away and all the emergency peeps are volunteers so I’d wait for them to locate us 1st and then, dammit this pisses me off, we have horrible winter icy forest roads so telehealth has been awesome. I hate these people more every day.
What is cheaper doing a phone or video conference, I think I'll ask my a-hole congressman who told me today that they have a mandate. I will point out, no mandate
This will affect people who have difficulty traveling, who are susceptible to illnesses, who are in remote regions, who meet with mental health providers online. It will also affect my dad’s online groups and visits for his Parkinson’s Disease program. Trump and the GOP are profoundly inhumane.
Rural folks, seniors, and poor people who can't take a half day off to go into an office. That is exactly the hope, that these people will not pursue these same services in person thereby saving more money.
Telehealth saves money. I had an appointment this week. Didn't have to pay for an Uber, Dr told me what to do for a fractured toe. Had I gone in, and was on medicaid, they'd have x rated it, made another appt to bandage it... This is nuts.
That's entirely the point. The more you fuck up the government the more unhappy people are with the government. Even though the anti-government assholes are behind the problems, they know most people will blame the government and say "See, we told you government was bad" all while pocketing cash.
Rural, disabled, elderly who have no family support for transportation, the long, long wait for office appointments, chronic conditions that only need a base touch, etc.
When covid hit, this not only helped people get care, it helped stop the spread of a deadly virus. Doctor offices are filled with germs, why expose vulnerable people
I get why everyone thinks all rural seniors vote Trump but generalizing is heartless & shitty. My husband’s aunt lives in rural TX. My MIL did until 2 yrs ago. They didn’t vote for him nor did most of the seniors in my MIL’s living facility in a small city in TX.
My MIL uses virtual as able. Not only will she have to depend on us to drive her more frequently (more time off work) but going forward, we & everyone in her doctor’s office will have higher levels of exposure to whatever is going around. Seniors will be more consistently exposed.
Many will just avoid medical care. Are these fools trying to collapse our entire for-profit, venture capitalist monopoly we call healthcare in this country? If so, I'm all for it because apparently they have little self-awareness & no forethought for the domino effect about to slap them silly.
Wait isn’t it more expensive and burdensome for the doctor as well, to see patients in person, versus via telehealth? Help me understand who this benefits.
You think there will even be rural free delivery under Trump? Over 100 years ago, rural areas depended on Sears for things they couldn't get in their small stores. Sears depended on USPS delivering everywhere.
Yeah, a lot of people not living in cities don't even have doctors in the area they live in and Telehealth's the only way they can get medical care or SEE a Dr without driving 50, 60 or 100 miles.
As far as I can tell every single thing the Trump Junta's doing is to hurt Americans. Period.
ENOUGH!
Call your REPS AND THE SENATE
202-224-3121
Remind the Scared Lying Sacks of Shit.
If they think ELON will primary them.
Just wait until AMERICA VOTERS
get done with them.
Weird You. tube didn't want me to post this innocuous weird truth.
WE are being suppressed folks.
STOP THEM NOW
It’s not just rural. I know plenty of seniors who need telemed appts in the city. Saves on taxi fares or the slog on the bus. Especially if they are also infirmed.
It's disappointing to see policies that seem to disregard the needs of rural communities and seniors. Access to telehealth has been a lifeline for many and removing it feels like a step backward
Relable😭 I have BPD and PTSD.
Everything’s going to shit, they are just trying to cleanse anyone that doesn’t fit their mold. They know leaving people without mental services could be fatal.
In baronial feudalism the peasant's lives depend on their usefulness to the barons. Social Security and Medicare took away that life and death dependency on the oligarchy so they want both gone. This is their way of telling seniors they're no longer of any use and should just crawl off an die.
It's not just rural folks who will be hurt by this. It is an efficient and safe way to deliver health care services for seniors and providers in every community.
Rural telehealth and mental health telehealth should be okay according to this. We’ve got a lot of rural Texans needing Medicare so I hope this stands.
Trump evidently doesn’t care about his rural supporters any longer. Either Republicans/Musk will rig the next election or there won’t be any more elections.
My friend lives with her son and he is extreme maga. She does most of her appointments by telehealth. Guess he’ll be taking time work off to take her to her appointments now. Oh well!
I'm so tired of the generation bashing. I won't engage in it but I sure feel lots of it aimed at me. I tried to remind one younger liberal, blaming my generation for Trump, that Nick Fuentes & friends aren't my generation, and if all younger people voted, they'd be running the show.
Fun fact from working with rural medicine - those rides are so understaffed at least half of them no-show so the patient misses their appointment and the provider loses the time. I've even seen Medicare hire Lyft then have no drivers in the area so it cancels.
It's the Death Panels that the GOP was so insistent on warning their base about. And guess who is running the show? Yep, good old GOP.
It's genocide, they ARE trying to kill us.
Billionaires don't need much of a support staff to oil their robots. The rest of us are liabilities.
🌊🗽🌊🎯🌊
That said, there could have been a lack of political will to extend it longer. The bottom line is that this hurts a lot of older Americans who live in rural areas. That demographic seems to lean heavily Republican, and I don't really see Republicans extending this coverage given the state of things.
Cool! Now Medicare can pay substantially higher prices for in-person visits, and reduce access to care for seniors, like my mother who no longer drives. It’s both stupid, cruel and does the opposite of what it claims. Par for the course.
Agreed. The true Republican party used to at least have that, along with some humanity. Now, it will just be read about in the history books. It is heart-wrenching to watch,read, and feel.
Privatize it, because the business market is much more efficient than a government agency. Look how efficiently United Healthcare denies 32% of claims.
in my area, we have a clinic and a 4 bed hispital. people often use the ER as a dr's office. The nearest access to a large medical community is 2.25 hours away. In that large community, appointments for almost any scheduled in person visit is 1-6 months out, if you have the resources to get there.
Is this actually real? That is a crime IMO. I am a telehealth provider. Will have to say goodbye to my remote clients on Medicare if this isn't stopped in court. And how, might I ask, does this save the government money? Just curious.
Oh, I agree. And I work at a rural hospital, lol. These people won't understand unless they feel the pain. They act as if they are "rugged individualists" but have no idea they are being spoon-fed by blue states. I hope my job doesn't end up affected in the future but I can get a job somewhere else.
Blue states are going to be just fine throughout this fascist takeover. But the welfare red states getting all their funding from blue states are going to suffer and they have only themselves to blame. FAFO
The only way I could access care for mental health treatment in New Mexico was telehealth. A State suffering from a significant lack of treatment this will devastate treatment options. Cruelty is the goal
Yes, people who live in more remote areas. It will also mean people who test positive with COVID will have to go in to get prescribed antivirals, thereby increasing the chance of spreading the virus to the office.
They want to hurt rural America. They want people to lose land they have had for generations. People need to prepare to watch their farms and their land be developed by rich foreign investors. And if they voted for Trump, they have no one to blame but themselves.
Not just rural, but the elderly who have transportation and mobility issues or poor support systems in place to help them make in-person visits regularly.
My adult daughter is severely disabled and I know how to care for her. She has a family doctor who sees her as recommended. But she has to have a Neurologist see her as well every year. It has been a godsend to have video appointments instead of going to an appointment in the nearest big city. 😫
A big win for the MAGA folks, who will now have to take off from work to take elderly parents and grandparents to the doctor instead of just doing a less expensive and more convenient telehealth appointment.
Not even when they have to quit jobs and stay home to care for a parent or grandparent because Medicaid was eliminated and the nursing home went bankrupt and shut down. They'll blame it on anyone and anything but themselves and their own bad choices.
This is correct, unfortunately. We saw some of them, for instance, deny to their last breath that they didn't have Covid during the first couple years of the pandemic. They died still believing in conspiracy theories. Cultists until the end.
Yeah you can stop that. It won’t. They’ll cry and wail and blame the doctors they wouldn’t go see. When you’re a fanatical racist cult member you can’t ever admit you’re wrong.
Red state rural people need to complain to Congress people and local TV news. They're a core Republican constituency so their votes should matter... if... their Republican officials don't take their support for granted in the primaries and beyond.
I've been saying this since forever. The only solution is a good education and of course they resist and criticize places offering high ed. That is why I am unsympathetic to their plight. They want to be lied to by Fix Noise and conservative media sources.
Are they gonna do this with VA, too? They’d expanded telehealth years ago (seriously, 15ish years) to better diagnose glaucoma and other ailments. They could use the tests to diagnose across the country instead of a single hospital.
I'm in Colorado, Mom is in Illinois and her brain surgeon is in Wisconsin. We have a follow up telemedicine appt in August, but instead I'm going to have to fly to Illinois, rent a car and drive to Wisconsin. How does this make sense?
Mobility issues, seniors or ones that don’t have a loved one to drive them… wheelchair struggles, seniors sitting in waiting rooms for their turn. Unbelievable
Make them have to drive a long distance instead. Some people won't be able to do that. Some won't be able to get help and will just die. But think of the savings that can help pay for tax cuts for the rich.
People being forced into benzo withdrawal, agoraphobics, GADs, autoimmune conditions that hammer GABA & pretty much anyone with anxiety, be magically healed by 4/1/25. Thanks ~ The U.S. Gov
And now, patients (perhaps with a weakened immune system) that just want to check in with their doctor about a minor issue, will need to unnecessarily sit in a waiting room with people that are ill. WHO does this help??? How does this save money or help ANYONE???
It’s not supposed to. It’s supposed to cull useless people. It’s called eugenics. Did you read project 2025? Go do that. Show it to everyone you know that’s old and using services. Everything is there.
I spent three years working at a mental health desert in one of the more rural counties here in Texas. By the time I left all of our doctors were Telehealth and that was before covid.
They really don't have a fucking clue what's coming.
People tried to tell you this would happen. Trump lies and manipulates people. That is all that he does. Everyone in this country will suffer. He and his henchmen simply do not care.
I think the goal will be to have the old people off themselves instead of winding up in retirement homes? Idk just guessing what could happen when a bunch of old people see no hope.
This is the efficiency rural folks (predominantly R & MAGA)voted for?
Must not be a problem to get Grandma to the Dr 40 miles away or the hospital 70 miles away.
Cutting costs by culling the heard? Andrew Cuomo used Covid to reduce his nursing home costs, surely the Trump people can be more creative than that. Trump could sell funeral insurance to make a few buck on the side.
"Questions? Call your provider's office."
Do not call your provider's office. They do not have the staffing, the time, nor the ability to explain Trump's changes to Medicare billing. Also, they are unlikely to have an available appointment to see you prior to the change Call your Congressman.
And jam already overbooked medical practices. Doctors who could handle five or six telehealth visits an hour will now only take two or three in-person appointments.
Seniors don't necessarily drive long distances,nor take buses waiting hours it's physically easier to get diagnosed quickly. Are they suggesting there's " fraud & Waste" its all total bull, considering Its the Musk/Trump show of repeat the same lie, they won't ask questions
Since my doctor wont see patients with COVID in the office, I guess I'll be screwed if I get it again. I will need Paxlovid if I do and the only way to she'll give it to me is if she sees me via teleheath/video.
Idiot, stop asking these questions that everyone knows the answers to already, including "moderates" you're trying court for some reason - MAKE A DECLARATIVE STATEMENT INSTEAD
REPUBLICANS ARE BRUTALIZING RURAL OLD PEOPLE BY TAKING AWAY TELEHEALTH
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#Surprise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj1rxI-d5wg
Fucking evil crooks!
This will cost people more and Medicaid more.
Doesn't want patients to infect the office. As it should be!
We are being ruled by sociopaths.
There are ways to keep telehealth if eligible, it's on that page.
They are all garbage people.
Why doesn't he talk to him?
Reduced mail delivery frequency, higher costs for package delivery, longer wait for packages.
F - A - F - O
I'm not confident that trump can sell USPS as a whole package. The various services could be broken up among a few vendors.
They’re probably hoping that some people will die as a result and will no longer require coverage.
Trump is pro-death.
They call an ambulance and go to the ER. This will tax an already strained emergency system.
This is what rural whites voted for
As far as I can tell every single thing the Trump Junta's doing is to hurt Americans. Period.
Call your REPS AND THE SENATE
202-224-3121
Remind the Scared Lying Sacks of Shit.
If they think ELON will primary them.
Just wait until AMERICA VOTERS
get done with them.
Weird You. tube didn't want me to post this innocuous weird truth.
WE are being suppressed folks.
STOP THEM NOW
Everything’s going to shit, they are just trying to cleanse anyone that doesn’t fit their mold. They know leaving people without mental services could be fatal.
https://www.mwe.com/insights/congress-extends-certain-telehealth-flexibilities-through-march-31-2025/
https://natlawreview.com/article/congress-extends-certain-telehealth-flexibilities-through-march-31-2025?amp
Ball's in your court, Dude.
This is on Congress, not the Trumpers.
WE warned you.
YOU still voted for the felon.
It's genocide, they ARE trying to kill us.
Billionaires don't need much of a support staff to oil their robots. The rest of us are liabilities.
🌊🗽🌊🎯🌊
Mmmm faces
om nom nom
Increasing health risks by coming into public spaces???
😡😡😡😡😡
You just have to go to the nearest rural medical facility, then you can still use tele-health.
This administration is taking us back to the dark ages. Only morons restrict technology use.
Yeah, sure, donald.
(I know, they want old folks to die, we're not "producing" to make them more money).
So much winning!
I'm sure it will somehow be the fault of liberals and immigrants.
😬🤬
Not even when they have to quit jobs and stay home to care for a parent or grandparent because Medicaid was eliminated and the nursing home went bankrupt and shut down. They'll blame it on anyone and anything but themselves and their own bad choices.
Red state rural people need to complain to Congress people and local TV news. They're a core Republican constituency so their votes should matter... if... their Republican officials don't take their support for granted in the primaries and beyond.
I relied on telehealth. 🤬
One of my Drs I see every month on telehealth. She's 134 miles from me. So that's a 200-plus mike round trip. ☹️
https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/telehealth
"Americans will do the right thing only after exhausting other options."
—observed and repeated by many over time.
They're about to be disciplined.
Happy now?
FIGHT ON!
them.
They really don't have a fucking clue what's coming.
Complete bullshit!
Must not be a problem to get Grandma to the Dr 40 miles away or the hospital 70 miles away.
Worth noting these interactions are typically with my patients so I’m not exactly probing and judging.
Do not call your provider's office. They do not have the staffing, the time, nor the ability to explain Trump's changes to Medicare billing. Also, they are unlikely to have an available appointment to see you prior to the change Call your Congressman.
REPUBLICANS ARE BRUTALIZING RURAL OLD PEOPLE BY TAKING AWAY TELEHEALTH
Get in the fight! You're not bystanders!
how's this working out for you so far????
"Not fair that we'll have to get dressed & haul our asses into the doctor's office"