👀 Dear USA, this is a newscast your country needs!!!

"The Earth Is Spinning, Better Thank Trump"

India Smacks Down Trump

#Trump #USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnEwzgtMMJI

You may remember reading about the plastic surgeon, Dr. Elisabeth Potter, who was doing a breast reconstruction when she was called out of surgery by United Healthcare to explain why the patient needed an overnight hospital stay.

Well, Dr. Potter has a lot more to say about how the insurance side of medical care works, from a doctor’s perspective. And it’s horrible. For starters:

“It's things like getting a preauthorization for a surgery. I employ two people full-time just to get authorizations for me to do necessary medical procedures for women affected by breast cancer. … They tell me what type of implants I can place, and it varies from insurance to insurance.”

And wait until you read about the peer-to-peer calls, where the supposed peer has no relevant expertise:

I say, "Well, I'd like to talk to you about diep flap surgery." And I hear a pause, and then I say, "Do you know what a diep flap is?" And they say no.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/she-exposed-the-insurance-industrys-worst-behavior.-now-theyre-coming-after-her

h/t @rooneymcnibnug

#UnitedHealthcare #healthcare

Raise your hand if you had "neon blue pork meat" on your apocalypse bingo card because I sure as fuck did not

https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-pigs-turn-neon-blue-in-california-triggering-warnings

❗️Authoritarianism, #Texas MAGA style

"A Texas lawmaker found herself effectively stuck in her seat Monday, planted on the House floor after refusing to sign a political "permission slip"—a GOP-mandated form requiring Department of Public Safety escorts for Democrats who broke quorum over redistricting."
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/nicole-collier-texas-democrat-20822989.php

"I was gonna play until I was 40 or 45," Andrew Luck tells me.

To which I said, "Wait a minute, what?"

After it was over, he found himself in a fog. "I can't be 30 years old and retired. This is ridiculous."

Then something pulled him out of it: https://nytimes.com/athletic/65492…