Mastodawn

Trying to navigate health in the context of medications over the next decade has yielded nothing but talking myself into side effects and really wanting to Grandpa Simpson rant about the fact that, yes, stupidity has never been in short supply on the interwebs, but JFC, it used to be possible to find pockets of smart, informed people. Now it's the fucking wild west of Woo and conspiracy theories. #Health #USHealthcareCosts #ushealthcaresucks #UShealthcare #Enshittification

Matilda T. ZombieQueen Feb 23

Optum Rx specialty pharmacy is incredibly efficient. One month into this medication that I am supposed to take daily for two years and I fucking give up trying to get it.

#US #ushealthcare #ushealthcaresucks #USHealthcareCosts

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Matilda T. ZombieQueen Feb 21

@matildazq I've been without it for about six weeks now and assuming that I'd just readjust to living with what I'd been living with for nearly a decade and get on with life. Instead, every day is an exercise in being whacked in the fucking head with the misery I had just adjusted to. 3/3

#USPol #USHealthcare #USHealthcareCosts

Matilda T. ZombieQueen Feb 5

My brain needs to stop doing capitalist math, but stalker pharmacy keeps reminding me that they filled the Rx that will now cost many hundreds of dollars a month, even though I told them not to refill it, because at some point I am going to be on the hook for the non-negotiable Rx that costs many thousands of dollars month until I (hopefully) max out the yearly out-of-pocket, which is more than 50% of the income I just lost because my class got canceled. #USPol #Capitalism #USHealthcareCosts

Jun 5, 2025

Very true .... #USHealthcareCosts #healthcare

𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 Jan 23, 2025

This is why Luigi Mangione did nothing wrong. Salute to Luigi!
#LuigiMangione #USHealthcareCosts #healthcare #capitalism #china #america

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jan 23, 2025

#UnitedHealthCare #USHealthcareCosts

"The U.S. is notorious for incurring the highest costs per capita of any wealthy nation, yet failing to achieve an even remotely equivalent improvement in patient outcomes versus Europe’s social market-based economies.
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According to the FTC report, UnitedHealth’s OptumRx, along with Cigna’s Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, were able to collectively pocket $7.3 billion in added revenue above cost during the five year period of the study through 2022."

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https://fortune.com/2025/01/15/ftc-pbms-unitedhealth-brian-thompson-cvs-caremark-cigna-pharmacy-benefit-managers/

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

Fortune

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Jan 20, 2025

Trump claims US outspends on healthcare globally

The claim: Trump said the US spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world.

What Trump said:

“We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world.”

The facts: Trump is correct. The US does spend more on healthcare per capita, almost twice the average of other wealthy countries.

WHAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED: US Healthcare outcomes are among the worst of the "wealthy nations" - We're Number 12 in life expectancy. Maternal Mortality -#64 Cardiovascualr dsease- # 5

Why is the President proud that we are wasting so much money?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-inaugural-address-factcheck?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#HealthCare #Results #USHealthcareCosts #MedicalCosts #PresidentialIgnorance

Factchecking Trump’s inauguration speech, from inflation to healthcare

Following up on key claims made by 47th US president during his day one address

The Guardian

smeg Jan 15, 2025

PBMs made billions marking up specialty drugs by more than 1,000 percent: FTC
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5085119-ftc-report-pharmacy-benefit-managers/

#pbm #pbms #PBMreform #cigna #unitedhealth #prescriptions #pharmacybenefitmanagers #cvs #caremark #ushealthcarecosts #ushealthcare #healthinsurance

draNgNon Dec 5, 2024

I can't boost this post enough

this is why we need universal health care
not medicare for all
not medicare advantage for all
not medicaid for all

just, universal health care.
I don't give a shit about UBI. you wanna give someone $1000/month when health care cost $2000/month? how about just give them health care.

https://mastodon.myocci.social/@bishop/113600244209483494

#USHealthcareCosts #UniversalHealthCare

Bishop Greer Godsey (@[email protected])

My #UnitedHealthcare story. I am a longtime #diabetic who had uncontrolled #diabetes at the time. I had been on several #medications with no luck getting my A1C down below 8. My doctor wanted to put me on Januvia before attempting insulin. UHC denied my prior authorization for the med. They said we needed to try different meds first. My doctor sent them the list of meds, dates of use and A1C results. I had taken every single med they suggested. Still denied me. I finally got ahold of someone at #UHC “customer service”. After fight with various “managers” one finally explained…I was denied because my life was worth less than the long term cost of the medication. He explained that as a pastor, which has no real value to society, and my health issues, I might live another 10-15 years. I might be able to bring in $20,000 in profit to them in that time if I was lucky. The med cost over that time was over $30,000. So it was not worth the cost.

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