I keep saying, a few more Luigis and we won't have this problem any more.

#HealthCareInsurance #USHealthcare #FreeLuigi #FreeLuigiMangione #UniveralHealthcare

: #defundbillionaires #democrats #donaldthehoaxtrump #donaldtramp #eightysix47 #health #healthcare #healthcareinsurance #medicalinsurance #nokings #presidenttramp #trumpstein #trumpsteincoverup #uspol #uspolitics :

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According to a Bernie Sanders post I re-posted here yesterday, the number of Americans who go bankrupt annually from medical debt is 530,000. Make no mistake about it, THAT is the Republican healthcare plan. This is a thing that does not happen at all in other major world nations.

Gold standard healthcare for the rich. Everybody else had better look out for themselves. THAT is the Republican healthcare plan.

“he was trapped in what’s commonly known as a “ghost network.” Many of the mental health providers that Ambetter listed as accepting its insurance were not actually able to see him.”
#DenyDefendDepose #GhostNetwork #HealthcareInsurance #HealrhcareForProfit

https://www.propublica.org/article/centene-ghost-network-lawsuit-ambetter-ravi-coutinho

oh boy, tried to order a refill on Link's ADHD meds (which took us 4 tries to find one that helped him without horrible side effects) and got a message from the pharmacy that there's "a problem with the pharmacy" they're reaching out to resolve, and the price without insurance for a two month supply would be $892 🙃 We haven't changed anything about our insurance, so I assume the fuckers changed what meds they cover or something like that for the new year, as the robber-baron US #healthcareInsurance lobby is so fond of doing. If we have to, we can try a different dosage (which inexplicably sometimes they'll cover) or just...go without it, because as wild as his ADHD gets, I cannot afford $900 every other month just to treat it.

Fuck this fucking country.

"The shocking murder of health insurer UnitedHealthcare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson has ignited a fierce debate about the United States’ uniquely for-profit, insurer-dominated health care system, with the assassin having been apparently motivated by rage at its many injustices. What has largely escaped notice is UHC’s decades-long efforts, in concert with other parts of the health care industry, to blunt attempts to reform the system in a way that would benefit consumers and assuage this roiling anger.

From the earliest days of the Bill Clinton administration’s tilt at health care reform, through wrangling over Barack Obama’s dog’s breakfast of a health care bill, to the rise of Bernie Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal, UHC has been a Zelig-like presence, taking a central role in beating back efforts to change an often capricious and cruel system. Working with other insurers and for-profit health care entities, UHC has marshaled considerable resources — its money, lobbyists, and political connections — to prevent anything approaching the kind of public health care systems that exist in other countries from emerging in the United States, and to preserve a market-oriented system where the government’s role, if any, is to feed the profits of companies like itself.

A bitter irony is that the reforms UHC and others have bitterly fought for decades, had they been enacted, may well have prevented the kind of boiling over of popular fury that erupted in the reaction to Thompson’s killing. It’s impossible to know, but perhaps these defeated reforms could have not only saved the lives of countless patients over the years but also that of the late UHC chief executive himself."

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/unitedhealthcare-reform-political-lobbying

#USA #Healthcare #HealthcareInsurance #UnitedHealthcare

'It Had to Be Done': #LuigiMangione Manifesto Revealed

"A reminder: the U.S. has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy," the 26-year-old accused of assassinating a health insurance CEO reportedly wrote.

[contains transcript (corroborated by NBC) published by Ken Klippenstein]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/luigi-mangione-manifesto

#press #news #HealthCare #HealthcareInsurance #politics #HealthcareIsAHumanRight
#Medicare4All

The Press Is Complicit in America’s Health Care Deaths
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/press-health-deaths-diabetes-thompson

#Healthcare #HealthcareInsurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #UnitedStates #Magazine