Frank Garufi Jr.

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#ITDirector for a High School in NJ #EdTech

Husband and father to an amazing wife and two wonderful kids

Dog Lover to two yellow #Labadors who are #rescues

I'm also a #PatientAdvocate and #Caregiver for #IBD ( #Crohns Disease and #UlcerativeColitis )

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/frankgarufijr/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/fgarufijr
Twitter ( #IBD Related )https://twitter.com/crohnseffect

@jeffjarvis I thought of you Jeff the minute I saw this

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dmm1Hr/

PredMonster on TikTok

#fyp #fypシ #foryou #america #usa_tiktok #life #scary

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We are suffering a massive cancer drug shortage b/c “While the meds are cheap to manufacture, pharma corps are not incentivised to because they don't bring in large profits.”

We must guarantee healthcare as a human right—not as a for profit enterprise for the wealthy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65791190

US doctors forced to ration as cancer drug shortages hit nationwide

One woman denied a chemotherapy drug compares the situation to "triage on the battlefield".

BBC News
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Ubuntu Book Authors Live Stream Q & A

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@TonyStark Here's one. This isn't an ACA plan. There's an early paragraph that's a bit misleading. It says that 1 in 7 claims are denied and then gives the figure of ACA plan denials that aren't appealed.

We need more socialized health care, not less.

The United States government funds the development of drugs, then the drug companies turn around and make huge profits on them. If they decide your treatment is too expensive, they can deny it and try to make you pay out of pocket like they did with Christopher McNaughton. He was facing nearly a million dollars of denied claims for his ulcerative colitis and a lapse in his care could have left him with no treatment that would have worked. UnitedHealthcare kept denying his claims and decided to pay for a drug that was four times the cost of the original one his doctors wanted because it matched their arcane rules.

Medicare for All won't solve everything but it would be an improvement.

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

ProPublica

Some facts about #COVID19 in the US right now:

- For the last month, deaths have been higher than all but three weeks since April.

- The level of COVID in wastewater is higher than all but 20 weeks in 2020 and 2021 combined.

- Transmission levels are high in 60% of the US and substantial in another 20%.

That isn't living with COVID. It's surrendering to it.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

https://biobot.io/data/

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk

COVID Data Tracker

CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Bring your daughter to work day....

A #throwback to 2015.. I had just got a new promotion and moved to my new office. Phoebe ( my yellow Labrador ) came with me to my office to help set it up with me.

I love when I can bring her to work with me. She absolutely loves sitting in a chair directly next to me while I do my work. She's the perfect little work buddy!

#dogs #labrador #dogsofmastodon #rescue #RescueDogs

decades-long manhunt finally ends
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RT @linode
12 commands that will change the way you use Linux forever: https://lin0.de/nYQWmK via @JayTheLinuxGuy
I have said this before, but there is something absolutely amazing being able to download a 30 GB game in 4 minutes and 38 seconds ;) ... especially considering that with my first computer (a Commodore 64), it could take 30 minutes just to load a tiny game off the tape drive ;)