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While we're talking abt shitty things insurance companies do UHC refused to cover my RABIES shots because they "don't cover preventative care". I argued that the rabies vaccines weren't preventative since they were the only way to not die from rabies but UHC basically said "we prefer you die" 😃

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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org

submitted 70 days ago • 860 comments

It’s funny because it’s true 👇

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I'm not an assassin. I am lie detector and I detect none here.

submitted 80 days ago • 10 comments

What must be done with the insurance industry? #healthcare

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments

A deeply personal piece by my wife Ayesha and I about the hell insurance companies have put us through to get the life saving care our daughter needs to live. We're sharing because her story is sadly all too common. I have a platform & I intend to use it: www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-insur...

submitted 81 days ago • 26 comments

Nondisabled people are trying to reconcile Luigi Mangione's proximity to seemingly contradictory political agendas like "make it make sense!" Meanwhile, the only thing disabled people need to see is his spinal x-ray and Goodreads history.

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care. Insurance companies have weaponized a seemingly benign process to protect their profits, & it’s putting patients at risk. #patientsafety #healthcare #DoNoHarm www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

"For both patients and providers, prior authorization can feel like an unfair game they are designed to lose." Honored to work w/ Dr @nathangray.bsky.social on a graphic op-ed out now @usatoday.com on how #PriorAuth can leave some patients literally dying in pain. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

More of this #medsky www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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As a disabled American I am horrified that they want to cut ss and ssdi. With my disability showing up right at the time I finished studying I have NEVER. Had the opportunity to save. Disability is not cheap. Cutting my only income? Barbaric.

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Straight up Medicare is the way to go youtu.be/cQR67WRcVUg?...

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Thoughts?

submitted 82 days ago • 2887 comments

I don’t need closure from some people. I’m fine with just cutting them out of my life and moving on.

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submitted 82 days ago • 9 comments

‼️🧵 #MedSky IMPORTANT & URGENT #Telehealth flexibilities will expire 12/31/24 unless Congress acts before then! I just contacted my Senators/Rep to 👍 CONNECT Health Act (S. 2016/H.R. 4189) & Telehealth Modernization Act (S. 3967/H.R. 7623). /1

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Friends, Penzeys Is having their periodic gift card sale, $35 for a $50 gift card plus they are having a big sale on their Mexican vanilla which is my favorite, and buy it now before there's a 900% tariff. www.penzeys.com/online-catal...

submitted 83 days ago • 16 comments

Reading how all these health insurance people are switching their investor meetings to virtual now instead of reflecting on why people might not like them

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments

United Healthcare story getting far more coverage than one could ever hope to get from United Healthcare. Weird.

submitted 83 days ago • 113 comments

My friend attends a silent book club where everyone gathers and reads quietly to themselves. They serve drinks and little snacks. I need this in my life.

submitted 83 days ago • 176 comments

Is there also a way to bring healthcare insurance execs to justice for relentlessly denying care and causing unnecessary suffering and deaths for profit? www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc...

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Do me a favor..breathe. It’s going to be ok.

submitted 83 days ago • 75 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 343 days ago • 997 comments

I love Christmas. It’s the one day I can eat like I’m on death row, surrounded by the people who put me there

submitted 83 days ago • 34 comments

Bravo Romania - its court annulled the 1st round of elections due to online interference by russia bc 1 candidate received “preferential treatment on social media platforms, which … distort[ed] … voters’ expressed will.” Does anyone doubt the same thing happened here? apnews.com/article/roma...

submitted 84 days ago • 114 comments

Any organization dealing with human lives should not be profit based. Lives are damaged or lost when healthcare, prisons, schools, health insurance and social welfare agencies are allowed to profit from the people they're supposed to be helping. Time to change the model.

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LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up

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Soon to be Senate Majority Leader John Thune says they will be looking at how to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare. I'm a senior who depends on that SS money to make ends meet and Medicare to cover my health care costs. If cuts are made, it may be literally, "over my dead body."

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

Before I got into education, I spent 15 years making insurance companies pay claims they didn’t want to pay. It’s all of them. They don’t want to pay all of them.

submitted 85 days ago • 70 comments

Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology. And a tough one for antivaxx crowd. Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....

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Small but interesting single arm study - Intratumoral delivery of dendritic cells + anti-HER2 antibodies alone resulted in complete responses in 3 of 12 patients! Congrats to Heather Han & colleagues at Moffitt. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Over 200 democracy scholars urge Congress to adopt proportional, multi-member districts. This change would end gerrymandering, give every voter a voice, and ensure fair representation for all. www.fixourhouse.org/an-open-lett...

submitted 85 days ago • 20 comments

Shoutout to South Korea. Their guy tried to pull a Trump and he got shut down and impeached within 24 hours. Gangsta democracy.

submitted 86 days ago • 861 comments

"a lack of empathy for Thompson." Some online posts referred to UnitedHealth’s claim denials or suggested the CEO's "death may have been retribution for patients who were unable to get care when the insurer declined to pay for it." www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/u...

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So do I have this right IN NY, if I need surgery with UHC, I now need to get a project plan from the surgeon and anesthesiologist before surgery to make sure they wont go over and if they do WHAT? WAKE ME THE FUCK Up? How does make any sense

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Walking pneumonia cases three times higher than pre-Covid … and still no one is masking. Most hospitals aren’t masking. Schools don’t have clean air. The consequences of constant reinfections are becoming increasingly hard to ignore - yet people are still choosing denial.

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10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine

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And then there's me not doing something asked of me because the med or other request is toxic and will screw up my quality of life. Do I still get the hug? Yeah? No. Well, at least I get to keep some semblance of #qualityoflife. So tired of guarding my life. I'll settle for a nap.

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A study shows high doses of vitamin D doubled pancreatic cancer survival rates, increasing median survival from 6 to 12 months. Dr. Michael Holick calls it “a game-changer” in treating this aggressive disease. Could vitamin D be the breakthrough we need?

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