Your regular reminder that the US doesn't have #healthcare, we have a health industry. #Greed and #Profit come first, patients come second.
#HealthcareReform #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #OnePayerStates
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/06/hospitals-risk-closing-operating-margins
Even the #WSJ admits it: Mail order delivery of prescriptions was supposed to lower consumer prices, but drugs delivered by mail are costing multiples more than those picked up at a store counter.
The US doesn't have #healthcare, we have a health industry.
#Greed #PBM #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HealthcareReform #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/higher-drug-costs-mail-order-prescription-bf37886f
@StillIRise1963 @birdpoof @Pineywoozle
All of this is exactly why I became a healthcare advocate and activist. My 89-year-old mother-in-law lives with us. I’m at a medical facility with her at least once every three weeks. It has been quite an education. I will spend the rest of my living days trying to reform this horrific, for-profit healthcare system that we live under. #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HCR4US #OnePayerStates #HealthcareReform
CVS Health (Aetna) and Centene execs say #MedicareAdvantage rates for 2025 aren't "sufficient" and hinted they could cut benefits if the federal government finalizes the rates as is. The specter of potential cuts to seniors' health care benefits in an election year could put pressure on the Biden administration.
No, it should put pressure on the companies that holds #healthcare and #seniors hostage to their #greed.
#HealthcareReform #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/08/medicare-advantage-cvs-centene-biden
More than 55% of rural US hospitals no longer offer maternity care. Insurance reimbursements to hospitals for births are such that hospitals must deliver 3 babies a day to break even on the cost of maintaining obstetrics. #Profit does not belong in #healthcare. #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/23/maternity-care-rural-hospitals-states-map-cuts
Our #healthcare system is broken.
Nonprofit hospitals selling their souls at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference:
These hospitals, which are supposed to provide community benefits in exchange for not paying taxes, were eager to ... showcase money-making mechanisms besides patient care — they call it “revenue diversification.”
No. Healthcare should begin and end with healthy people. Get profit out of the equation. #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/jpmorgan-health-care-conference-investors-pitches/
When bankers and investors flocked to San Francisco for the largest gathering of health care industry investors, the buzz was all about artificial intelligence, the next hit weight-loss drug, and new opportunities to make money through nonprofit hospitals.
In 2010, 46.5 million Americans had no health insurance. Today that number is close to 26 million. 8 percent of the population is still uninsured and many of the people who have health insurance still find it difficult to cover their share of their medical bills.
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #Healthcare #AffordableHealthcare #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
"For years, vital decisions about who got medical care coverage took place in back offices at health insurance companies. Now, some of those life-altering decisions are being made by artificial intelligence programs."
Medical decisions should be between you and your doctor. For-profit insurance should have no place in #healthcare
#HCR4US #OnePayerStates #HealthcareIsAHumanRight
Angela G
