Why Is Health Care In America So Fucked Up?

[Grand Potentate]

definitely read the comments

 

[Grand Potentate]

Column: Leaked SoCal hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare

Screenshots of a system used by Scripps Memorial Hospital show markups of as much as 675% being imposed automatically during treatment.

www.latimes.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Health Care Providers Constantly Pass the Buck to Deny Patients Needed Care

The American health care industry revolves around a very lucrative scam: drugmakers, hospitals, and health insurance companies are constantly passing responsibility for denials of care to one another, in order to maximally gouge the public.

jacobinmag.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

2022 Kaiser Permanente advertisement for health care costs on one of its plans (a very good plan judging from the numbers!)

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

2022 Kaiser Permanente advertisement for health care costs on one of its plans (a very good plan judging from the numbers!)

That's comparable to here. Well done, at least by one measure, you're cost effective.

 

[Grand Potentate]

That's comparable to here. Well done, at least by one measure, you're cost effective.

kaiser is one of the best insurers in the nation and only available in one state and to employed or special needs people. its not like that anywhere else.

also, and more importantly, having a baby shouldn't need to be "cost effective" in any decent well run society.

 

[Grand Potentate]

none of these fucking people have any clue what they're doing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/medical-mysteries/medical-mystery-dizzy-deaf/2021/12/10/c23fff1a-375f-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.html

Hours after a massage, a professor was wildly dizzy and deaf in one ear​

 

[Grand Potentate]

The Big Business Behind Travel Nursing

During the Covid-19 pandemic, demand for nurses—already understaffed—surged to even higher levels, and travel nurses deployed to fill the gaps.

inthesetimes.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

two very interesting posts on how the healthcare system is about to collapse

 

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What’s really amazing is that BabyBIG was created through a joint venture between CA and MA Public Health Services and is manufactured by California’s Department of PublicHealth.
It’s 100% developed and manufactured by the public sector.

 

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Universal health care bill fails to pass in California, unable to garner enough support

A bill that would have created the nation's only universal health care system has failed to pass the California Legislature.

abc7.com

 

[fxh]

Off the top of my head here in oz , it’s about $41 for script or if low income around $7. A script is a month’s treatment, and a course usually takes 3 months. So. Around $120 for a complete course or $21 if you are on concession.

 

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[Fwiffo]

How does the bartender taste his cocktail with a mask and face shield on?

 

[Grand Potentate]

Private Health Insurance Is a Racket — And It’s Taxpayers Who Are Increasingly Keeping It Afloat

A new analysis finds that private insurance giant UnitedHealth has taken in hundreds of billions in public money over the last decade — all while insuring fewer people.

jacobinmag.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

A funding dispute with G.O.P. senators may complicate Biden’s efforts on antivirals and tests.

www.nytimes.com

 

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A Massive Purge of the Medicaid Rolls Is Coming

When the pandemic officially ends, millions of Americans will lose federal health coverage. For-profit health industry contractors are poised to massively cash in on their misery and precarity.

jacobinmag.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Emergency Room Doctors Are Organizing Against Profit-Driven Health Care

Doctors in the US are rarely unionized. But in the face of staff shortages, patient surges, and the chaos of COVID-19, emergency room doctors are starting to organize.

jacobinmag.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Mental Health Apps Like BetterHelp Are a Privacy Nightmare, Mozilla Says

New data from Mozilla indicates that some common mental health apps have concerning user data practices.

gizmodo.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Vulture Capitalists Want to Flood the Health Care System With Cheap Medical Labor

Private equity firms have conspired to flood the emergency health care market with ER doctors in an effort to cut labor costs — in the midst of what patients will still experience as an acute physician shortage with declining standards of care.

jacobinmag.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Woman Flies to Turkey Instead of Paying $3,000 for a Root Canal in Viral TikTok

"Madness."

www.distractify.com

Thruth thoughts on Turkish dental care?

 

[Dropbear]

Grand Potentate what are your thoughts on this:

Mark Cuban aims to lower prescription drug prices with online pharmacy

People searching for cheaper alternatives to high priced prescription drugs have a new and perhaps unexpected option. It's an online pharmacy founded by Mark Cuban, a billionaire businessman, Shark Tank star and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. His new direct-to-consumer company, Cost Plus Drugs...

www.pbs.org

 

[Grand Potentate]

 

[Grand Potentate]

Grand Potentate what are your thoughts on this:

Mark Cuban aims to lower prescription drug prices with online pharmacy

People searching for cheaper alternatives to high priced prescription drugs have a new and perhaps unexpected option. It's an online pharmacy founded by Mark Cuban, a billionaire businessman, Shark Tank star and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. His new direct-to-consumer company, Cost Plus Drugs...

www.pbs.org

well on the one hand its good to bring competition and money savings. on the other, if a greedy cocksucker like mark cuban is doing it and proclaiming how he's saving people money while still making a profit, you have to realize that the system is so wildly corrupt that this piece of shit is still going to make billions off this thing while charging these lower prices.

 

[Grand Potentate]

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt | naked capitalism

An in-depth study reveals the scope and severity of medical debt in the US is much worse than previously thought.

www.nakedcapitalism.com

 

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"Want to cry": Bill for uninsured hospital stay in Italy stuns Americans

The post generated a conversation on Reddit with one person commenting on the bill writing: "God the U.S. sucks at health care."

www.newsweek.com

 

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Pregnant people of color more likely to get procedures they didn't consent to, study finds

A new study provides a sweeping look at how birthing experiences differ dramatically for pregnant people of color compared with pregnant white people.

www.latimes.com

 

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[Pimpernel Smith]

Pregnant people of color more likely to get procedures they didn't consent to, study finds

A new study provides a sweeping look at how birthing experiences differ dramatically for pregnant people of color compared with pregnant white people.

www.latimes.com

That used suitably woke language throughout from ''birthing people'' to ''Latinx'', curiously woman not used to describe these birthing people.

 

[Grand Potentate]

That used suitably woke language throughout from ''birthing people'' to ''Latinx'', curiously woman not used to describe these birthing people.

Would it have made you more comfortable if it just consistently used the phrase non-white? Whiteless? Lacking melanin?

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Would it have made you more comfortable if it just consistently used the phrase non-white? Whiteless? Lacking melanin?

Must be all those forced abortions on racial minorities and LGBTQ+ birthing people, but that article was pretty much a good example of the first world making up problems where non-existed.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Must be all those forced abortions on racial minorities and LGBTQ+ birthing people, but that article was pretty much a good example of the first world making up problems where non-existed.

Another article you skimmed for words and didn’t read.

 

[belinmad]

Must be all those forced abortions on racial minorities and LGBTQ+ birthing people, but that article was pretty much a good example of the first world making up problems where non-existed.

You really need to go out more, and talk to real people in the real world.
Real people who have real problems, regardless of whether you think they aren’t.

 

[Thruth]

Another article you skimmed for words and didn’t read.

as per usual. Not respecting informed consent choices has always been a thing for non-whites. Few know that 25% of Native American women were sterilized without consent in the 70's.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

as per usual. Not respecting informed consent choices has always been a thing for non-whites. Few know that 25% of Native American women were sterilized without consent in the 70's.

Make up your minds, I thought you guys were into abortion and not having kids? The reasons cited for this was improving their financial and quality of life, the same mass abortion ticket argument as now. But we regress, do you honestly believe that in the USA now, there's forced treatments being carried on a racial basis of birthing people because they're non-white? They'd be litigation like never before.

Edit: Apologies, I forgot to mention LGBTQ+ folk as well, as we all know, this kind of shit effects them more than womxn, but by choice in most cases.

 

[belinmad]

I thought you guys were into abortion and not having kids?

Wut? Are you drunk?

The reasons cited for this was improving their financial and quality of life, the same mass abortion ticket argument as now.

Again, what?

But we regress, do you honestly believe that in the USA now, there's forced treatments being carried on a racial basis of birthing people because they're non-white? They'd be litigation like never before.

You really have a very, very limited understanding of what’s happening in America.

Edit: Apologies, I forgot to mention LGBTQ+ folk as well, as we all know, this kind of shit effects them more than womxn, but by choice in most cases.

We’ll alert the LGBTQ+ folxs - we don’t want the hordes of vicious queer assassin ninjas executing the hit they had called on you.