More Medicaid considerations, focusing on the illustration of Idaho and the arrangements of Indian Health Service to cover 100% of costs via Medicaid.
#Medicaid #Idaho #singlePayerNow

https://open.substack.com/pub/marktrahant/p/seventy-five-million-lies?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios

Seventy-five million lies

Changes to Medicaid reduce spending by more than $900 billion and are estimated to result in 7.5 million fewer people with health insurance

Mark Trahant
FINALLY: Trump called out on LYING agenda TO HIS FACE

YouTube
You can't see a Dr if you aren't rich or have expensive insurance . Upfront payment required. Cleveland clinic. American healthcare is a scam .. non profits are making millions in profits and here is the outcome. #taxtherich #HealthEquity #singlepayernow

@cookiesinheaven

Universal Healthcare Now!

(We're not getting even the meagre benefits of things going on in the inadequate way of the past. We may as well start demanding what we really want and need.)

#SinglePayerNow #NationalHealthForAll

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced

Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

The Guardian

UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/unitedhealth-brian-thompson-killing-health-insurers-social-media
"When you shoot one man in the street it's murder. When you kill thousands of people in hospitals by taking away their ability to get treatment you're an entrepreneur,"

Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/murder-and-social-murder-the-case-of-unitedhealth-ceo-brian-thompson.html

UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/

How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients
https://pnhp.org/news/how-unitedhealth-harnesses-its-physician-empire-to-squeeze-profits-out-of-patients/

Title of Book About Insurance Companies Matches Bullet Casings at Crime Scene
https://www.thedailybeast.com/title-of-book-about-insurance-companies-matches-brian-thompson-bullet-casings-at-midtown-hilton/

The Coup, 5 Million Ways To Kill A C.E.O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxH414tGkA

#UnitedHealth #CEO #M4A #SinglePayerNow

UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers

The lack of sympathy may underscore how Americans tend to like their own insurer but distrust the industry as a whole.

Axios
United Healthcare has the highest denial rate in the health insurance industry. So it's no shock as to what happened.
#singlepayernow

The beginning of the final thread that @Tinu posted here, giving an update on her medical status and her #battles with her insurance company and her medical treatments:

https://mastodon.social/@Tinu/113112518839888233

May the predatory insurance system see some retributive justice for what they did to her.

#WarDAMNTinu #ForTinu #FuckCancer #LongCOVIDSUCKS #SinglePayerNOW

This is ridiculous! The US has the worst healthcare system of all developed countries - more expensive and worse outcomes!

Why California Health Care Costs More in Monterey Than LA

Prices for the same hospital services vary wildly, with no relation to quality, researchers have found.

From hospital to hospital, prices for the same service vary wildly, with no relation to quality, researchers have found. In Monterey County, California, local employers and unions have long decried the prices charged by the local hospitals.

#healthcare #healthcarecosts #hospitalcosts #singlepayernow
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-09-04/hospital-price-discrepancies-drive-health-care-premiums-higher?cmpid=BBD090424_prognosis

Hospital Price Discrepancies Drive Health-Care Premiums Higher

Hi, it’s John in New York. Millions of US workers should prepare for sticker shock over how much more they’ll pay for health care next year. More below, but first ...

Bloomberg

The for-profit American healthcare system is causing more and more medical divorces.

A medical divorce is a way for a couple to separate their assets while remaining married to help a chronically ill spouse qualify for benefits without depleting the healthier spouse's assets. The goal is to protect the couple's financial stability and give both parties a better chance at receiving the healthcare they need. #SinglePayerNow