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Steve Dustcircle 🌹Dec 22, 2024

How to handle these unpopular #tactics used by #healthinsurers

#Health #insurers’ tactics can adversely affect #patients’ health and their trust in the #healthcare system, which leaves patients in unthinkably difficult circumstances.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91248580/health-insurers-unpopular-tactics

How to handle these unpopular tactics used by health insurers

Health insurers' tactics can adversely affect patients’ health and their trust in the healthcare system, which leaves patients in unthinkably difficult circumstances.

Fast Company

Catherine Collingwood Estes Nov 12, 2024

Despite speculation in media outlets, such a deal really made little sense, especially given #Cigna’s move to get out of the #Medicare business. #Humana #HealthInsurers https://buff.ly/3ALNj7i

Why Cigna Deal With Humana Made Little Sense To Begin With

Cigna Group confirmed it is "not pursuing a combination with Humana, a big provider of Medicare Advantage coveage.

Forbes

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Brian Pierce MD Dec 7, 2023

@exchgr
20+ year PCP here- #primarycare has been going down the drain (#enshittification) long before #amazon got involved so (so far) they are more of a symptom than cause.
Plenty of good articles in past few years explaining it but #healthinsurers AND #medicare and #medicaid are big drivers of this so don't kid yourself that nationalizing it will be any better.
#MedMastodon

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Cory Doctorow Oct 13, 2023

#5yrsago California ballot measure to reintroduce #RentControl met with millions in opposition from #WallStreetLandlords https://theintercept.com/2018/10/12/prop-10-california-rent-control-wall-street/

#5yrsago How #TradeUnions are addressing automation https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/business/economy/hotel-workers-ai-technology-alexa.html

#1yrago US #HealthInsurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/13/sicko/#radicalized

#1yrago Shelter in place: Prison for #homelessness and lock-ins for home owners https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/11/rene-descartes-was-a-drunken-fart/#out-of-doors

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Wall Street Is Spending Big to Protect Its Ability to Jack Up Rents in California

The world’s largest real estate management firm has spent $7 million against Prop 10, which would allow cities to re-establish rent control laws.

The Intercept

ConscienHealth May 26, 2023

Threatening to report docs “to the state licensure board, federal and/or state law enforcement,” some #HealthInsurers are using thuggish tactics. The problem? Docs prescribing effective medicines like semaglutide for #obesity.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/05/enforcing-second-class-status-for-obesity/

Enforcing Second Class Status for Obesity - ConscienHealth

Some health insurers are resorting to thuggish tactics to enforce second class status for people with obesity.

ConscienHealth

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Mar 29, 2023

#Healthinsurers delaying #medicalcare
https://richardameyer.medium.com/health-insurers-delaying-medical-care-ba37b931f791

Health insurers delaying medical care - Richard A Meyer - Medium

When patients go to the pharmacy to fill a prescription, they are often told that their insurance company won’t pay for the medication unless a physician obtains approval. Patients may even wait…

Medium

ConscienHealth Feb 7, 2023

Why do #HealthInsurers use #AbusiveTactics to dodge responsibility for medical expenses? Because they can. And people with #obesity are especially easy targets. https://conscienhealth.org/2023/02/extra-harshness-of-health-insurance-on-obesity/