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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting #MentalHealth Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
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United used an #algorithm system to identify #patients who it determined were getting too much #therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due to a patchwork of #regulation.
#News #Healthcare #Health #Insurance #UnitedHealth #Medicaid #Government
Inside UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage
United’s practices were deemed illegal in three states. But that hasn’t stopped the company from policing mental health care with arbitrary thresholds and cost-driven targets.ProPublica
#Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict #Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women
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The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas #doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs."
#News #Health #ReproductiveRights #Pregnancy #Healthcare
Texas Lawmakers Push for More Exceptions to Strict Abortion Ban
The new legislation is prompted by ProPublica’s reporting on Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain, who died after they could not access timely reproductive care in Texas.ProPublica
#Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of #pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
#Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #Mothers #Families #RoeVWade #Health #HealthCare
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica’s Report on Amber Thurman, Candi Miller Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals.”ProPublica
You can still get free COVID tests from USPS. Take advantage while you can, I suspect this will go away by January. special.usps.com/testkits
NEW: Courts Appoint Special Counsel to Oversee Reform of New York’s Troubled Guardianship System
Judicial leaders in #NewYork created two new oversight positions as they work to reform the state’s guardianship system.
The personnel additions follow a ProPublica investigation that spotlighted lax monitoring of court-appointed guardians.
#News #Courts #Law #Government #NYC #Health #HealthCare #PersonalFinance #Money
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New York Bolsters Oversight of Court-Appointed Guardians
Judicial leaders in New York created two new oversight positions as they work to reform the state’s guardianship system. The personnel additions follow a ProPublica investigation that spotlighted lax monitoring of court-appointed guardians.ProPublica
#Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding #Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
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Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The federal #government has done little to stop it.
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Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The federal government has done little to stop it.ProPublica
State Regulators Know #Health #Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It.
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Health insurance experts said that, unless agencies can crack down and issue bigger fines, insurers will keep selling error-ridden plans.
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Why Health Insurance Regulators Have Failed to Curb Ghost Networks
State agencies say they’re holding insurers accountable for errors in provider directories. But ProPublica found that the actual actions taken so far do not match the regulators’ rhetoric.ProPublica
"St. Paul officials are sending letters to 32,000 people this week alerting them that their medical debt will be erased.
Residents didn’t have to apply to be eligible. Instead, the city analyzed resident incomes and debt levels and prioritized those with the highest need.
By using federal American Rescue Plan funds, the city paired with the nonprofit, Undue Medical Debt, and M Health Fairview to wipe out $40 million in medical obligations."
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St. Paul to wipe out medical debt for 32,000 residents
City officials said the $40 million program will help alleviate medical costs for debt-strapped residents.Dana Ferguson (MPR News)
DATE: November 09, 2024 at 08:37AM
SOURCE: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
TITLE: Cynics not only lose out on friendships, love and opportunity — they’re also wrong about human nature
URL: edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/hea…
Cynicism can drag down civic engagement such as volunteerism, while hope can drive people to take action.
URL: edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/hea…
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Yes, Texas’s abortion laws are killing women. @ProPublica reports on another case — 18-year-old Neveah Crain, who was diagnosed with sepsis but sent home because her six-month fetus had a heartbeat, and on a subsequent visit, had delayed care because the obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise.” She died hours later. She and her mother, Candace Fails are both devout anti-abortion Christians, but supported it in the event of life-threatening illness. “I know it sounds selfish, and God knows I would rather have both of them, but if I had to choose,” Fails said, “I would have chosen my daughter.”
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#Texas #RoeVWade #Abortion #Healthcare #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals
It took 20 hours and three ER visits before doctors admitted the pregnant 18-year-old to the hospital as her condition worsened. She’s one of at least two women who died under Texas’ abortion ban.ProPublica
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.
Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.”
She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s #abortion ban.
#News #Health #HealthCare #Pregnancy #Government #Law #Safety #Family
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Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals
It took 20 hours and three ER visits before doctors admitted the pregnant 18-year-old to the hospital as her condition worsened. She’s one of at least two women who died under Texas’ abortion ban.ProPublica
"It’s difficult to convey to people how much the GOP has radicalized, how much the power centers of conservative politics are in the hands of extremists, how much the rightwing intellectual sphere is dominated by some really radical ideas that are being pushed into the mainstream."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you are some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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It Could Definitely Happen Here
Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist RightThomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)
"It’s easy to look back at the Trump years and declare, “We survived!”—unless you’re one of the thousands of Americans whose death from COVID might have been avoided if not for Trump’s mismanagement, demagoguery, selfishness, penchant for conspiracy theories, and incompetence. There’s no guarantee that any of us, in the next crisis, will be lucky again."
~ Cathy Young
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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Trump’s COVID Response: A Preview of Disasters to Come
Based on his past record, Trump should not be anywhere near American government during the next national emergency.Cathy Young (The Bulwark)
“'By my calculations he will need 58,201 flights in fully loaded Boeing 737-800s to fly them all out' and five large-scale staging grounds the size of Houston, Porter reports, concluding that it is an impossible enterprise and Trump will fail, not before creating immeasurable hardship."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"When the goal is to crash the economy and cause widespread despair and ruin, depriving America of a labor force necessary for our productivity is just part of the plan. Here is the assessment of Washington Post economic columnist Edoardo Porter based on a 'reduced' proposal by Trump to deport 'only' 11 million 'unauthorized immigrants' from the U.S."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"If Trump returns to the White House, his plans for mass deportation would unfold on 'an incomprehensible scale,' as Melissa Gira Grant writes in an excellent essay for The New Republic. Removing 15 million people is equivalent to emptying out the populations of entire countries such as Belgium or Bolivia."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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Trump's Mass Deportation Machine in the Making
Trump's migrant detention system while president rehearsed his plans to turn the state into a mass deportation machine on an epic scaleRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
"Some people talk about Trump’s economic plans; others about his intention to undo the rule of law. In this five-minute video, I try to explain how the two relate: how lawlessness will wreck the economy."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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Trump's Lawless Crash (video)
Ending the Rule of Law Brings Down the EconomyTimothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
Jay Kuo says that :Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it."
Kuo provides a list of Trump's proposed wrecking crew, led by Elon Musk and RFK Jr. He concludes,
"Fascism thrives in chaos and misery, and that is what a second Trump term expressly seeks to create."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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Trump's Second Term Plan To Empower Musk, RFK Jr. To Undermine Institutions
Donald Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it.The Big Picture
"This campaign is fueled by hate—hate for diversity, for progress, for women, for democracy, for expertise, for facts, for the truth itself. At its center is a pathetic, egotistical would-be dictator, fueled by his own petty, self-serving hatreds."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"Elon Musk could never have got himself elected into office in the US. But as the cost-cutting tsar, a made-up role Trump has promised him, he would exert extraordinary power to cause pain, with the only choice left to citizens being whether or not to hug it."
~ Zoe Williams
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted
Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy, writes Guardian columnist Zoe WilliamsZoe Williams (The Guardian)
"If Trump wins, we’re entering uncharted territory where private actors with vast wealth and power join with a corrupt president to pursue their own ends and not those of the people of the United States. Welcome to oligarchy, American style."
~ Mona Charen
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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Donald Trump’s American Oligarchy
The billionaires are lining up to get their bread buttered.Mona Charen (The Bulwark)
Boddie quotes Jake Tapper of CNN:
"Just a reminder, RFK Jr has no medical license, and has made wildly inaccurate claims about all sorts of medicines. Frankly, this is what he said — kind of a deranged remark — about coronavirus."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"'I'm gonna let him go wild on health,' Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy. 'I'm gonna let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines.'"
~ Maya Boddie
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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CNN’s Tapper slams Trump and RFK Jr’s plan: 'There aren’t even words to describe what hackery that is'
CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday blasted Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to join forces to take over medical government agencies. "I'm gonna let him go wild on health," Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy.Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)
"Last night, antivax crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a man who once said Covid was possibly a bioweapon that had been 'deliberately targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews—told a group of supporters on a video call obtained by CNN that Trump had promised him 'control' over America’s public health agencies."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"And on Monday, he replied to an X account predicting 'markets would tumble' thanks to an 'initial severe overreaction in the economy' if Trump followed through on his mass-deportations strategy, before ultimately resulting in 'a healthier, sustainable economy.'
'Sounds about right,' Musk replied."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"Elon Musk, Trump’s richest and loudest backer and his 'secretary of cost-cutting'-to-be, has repeatedly suggested that the opening act of a second Trump presidency could be a period of serious economic turbulence. On a call last Friday, he warned that 'some temporary hardship' would be necessary to put America back on a sustainable fiscal course."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"In the closing days of the election, one party and its leading candidate are promising to inflict economic pain on the electorate; stating that they will turn over the top health agencies to one of the country’s leading vaccine skeptics; and pledging to pursue a disruptive, 'massive reform' to the nation’s healthcare system—historically, the sort of move that has proven extremely unpopular."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"MAGA’s closing pitch to voters: economic pain and health care sorcery:
With days to go, top Trump surrogates are laying out a presidency that they admit will include some suffering."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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New: A #Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
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Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.
She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
#News #abortion #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #law
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Josseli Barnica Died in Texas After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.ProPublica
Our "Uncovered" series has more on how the #insurance industry denies coverage to #patients.
One of the stories describes how Cigna #doctors reject patients' claims without opening their files. "We literally click and submit," one former company doctor said. 👇
#News #Healthcare #Health
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.ProPublica
👉 Remember: You have a right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you: propub.li/3Uj4ZO8
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file from your health insurance company.ProPublica
I published an opinion piece in an academic journal about why family physicians should be involved in civic engagement. We have a powerful voice to advocate for the communities we take care of. 💪 🗳️ 🇺🇸
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#PublicHealth #CivicEngagement #doctors #physicians #hospitals #healthcare #clinics #FamilyMedicine #vote #voting #VoterRegistration #GOTV #AbsenteeVoting #MailBallot #VoteByMail #elections #elections2024 #USpol
“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest #Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to #EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for #care recommended by #doctors for their #patients.
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EviCore, the Company Helping U.S. Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.ProPublica