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reasoningdaily · 11 months

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these people think this characterizes what a good politician can do as some communist propaganda - when he is only doing his job.

Until Medicare for All is approved - america will continue to shoot itself in the foot over Medical Care for its tax payers.

America you are in last place for developed nations in health care for citizens, and it appears that the gop wants it to stay that way.

#medicare for all #Bernie Sanders #Pramila Jayapal #US Health Care

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disagigglebilities · 2 years

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Ah to be uninsured and to be prescribed medication that is $600. The irony being the higher dose is literally $10 but I can't be on that smfh. I hate it here

#us healthcare #us health care #uninsured #insurance #health insurance #ableism #guess ill just die

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bespokeredmayne · 2 years

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Simple but chilling

A new image on Netflix streaming platform showing the duality of Eddie Redmayne’s The Good Nurse character, the real-life serial killer Charles Cullen. Eddie has described how Cullen “weaponized” his empathy to commit untold numbers of incomprehensible murders.

#eddie redmayne #the good nurse #netflix #charles cullen #serial killers #US health care

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atropos-moth · 6 months

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Health insurance in this country is wild. The plan offered by my work costs $610/month and covers nothing and has super high deductibles. What is even the point. Why do I even have to know what a deductible is.

#us health care #health insurance

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reasonsforhope · 25 days

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Less than three months after U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and her colleagues launched an investigation into the four major American manufacturers of inhalers, three of the companies have relented, making commitments to cap costs for their inhalers at $35 for patients who now pay much more.

25 million Americans have asthma and 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), meaning over 40 million Americans rely on inhalers to breathe.

Inhalers have been available since the 1950s, and most of the drugs they use have been on the market for more than 25 years.

According to a statement from the Wisconsin Senator’s office, inhaler manufacturers sell the exact same products at a much lower costs in other countries. One of AstraZeneca’s inhalers, Breztri Aerosphere, costs $645 in the U.S.—but just $49 in the UK. Inhalers made by Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, and Teva have similar disparities.

Baldwin and her Democratic colleagues—New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders—pressured the companies to lower their prices by writing letters to GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, and AstraZeneca requesting a variety of documents that show why such higher prices are charged in America compared to Europe.

As a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Baldwin recently announced that as a result of the letters they had secured commitments from three of the four to lower the out-of-pocket costs of inhalers to a fixed $35.00 rate.

“For the millions of Americans who rely on inhalers to breathe, this news is a major step in the right direction as we work to lower costs and hold big drug companies accountable,” said Senator Baldwin.

A full list of the inhalers and associated drugs can be viewed here.

It’s the second time in the last year that pharmaceutical companies were forced to provide reasonable prices—after the cost of insulin was similarly capped successfully at $35 per month thanks to Congressional actions led by the White House.

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

#united states #us politics #us senate #tammy baldwin #bernie sanders #big pharma #health care #us healthcare #inhaler #asthma #pulmonary disease #healthcare access #affordability #disability #good news #hope

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the-cimmerians · 7 months

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Vice President Kamala Harris announced this week that the Biden administration is looking to lessen the burden medical debt has on people by purging it from their credit report. This means that even if people have piles of medical debt — one in five Americans say they do — it’s not going to affect their ability to get a mortgage or a car loan. So they will at least have a place to rest their head and a car they can drive to work every day while paying off their medical bills.

Via AP:

Harris said that would make it easier for them to obtain an auto loan or a home mortgage. Roughly one in five people report having medical debt. The vice president said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is beginning the rulemaking process to make the change. The agency said in a statement that including medical debt in credit scores is problematic because “mistakes and inaccuracies in medical billing are common.” “Access to health care should be a right and not a privilege,” Harris told reporters in call to preview the action. “These measures will improve the credit scores of millions of Americans so that they will better be able to invest in their future.”

It only seems fair that high medical bills for an emergency or serious illness shouldn’t affect one’s credit rating anyway. It’s not like we’re talking about someone irresponsibly dropping several grand at Versace and then never paying off the credit card bill. Fifty-seven percent of Americans could not afford a surprise $1000 emergency, so the inability to pay off massive amounts of medical debt is hardly a fair reflection of an inclination to default on normal payments — payments you can budget for — on something like a mortgage or auto loan. “Way to be irresponsible by getting cancer, lady! You should definitely be punished for that by not being able to find any place to live!” seems pretty harsh, no?

#us politics #health care #medical debt #Wonkette #Robyn Pennacchia

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inkskinned · 6 months

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love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

#writeblr #warm up #ps edited so it is more clear where “half” of men is coming from:#15% literally don't even touch water #an ADDITIONAL 35% ''wash'' by just running their hands under water WITHOUT SOAP #15+35 =50%#like that is not washing ur hands. go back and use soap #btw the numbers for women are 4% never washing and 15% ''just water''#which is still gross but like. sooo much better yikes #ps i know we're all gay on this site but watching ppl ''correct'' my math on this has been wild #i have a learning disability im genuinely bad at math so i check EVERY time someone corrects me #but no they're just confidently wrong.....#182 hours is a week babes. 182/24 (number of hours in a day) is ~7.6 #that's where i got that number from. also from rent we know there's 168 hours in a week.#ALSO btw if u read this and ur response is ''men are also struggling rn tho'' like babe you missed the point of it tho #this doesn't even make fun of men it's legit just pointing out that bigotry against women isn't founded #in anything men actually CARE about . like they don't actually CARE about ''being clean'' when they make fun of armpit hair #or they would be WASHING THEIR HANDS.#men pretend to be rollin' in cash and Apex Predators and instead they are trained to be lazy and unwilling to act in emergencies #i have never and will never make fun of men for asking for more support on important topics like DV and mental health.#this is so clearly not about men; it's about how common just being plainly misogynistic has become.#like they don't try to hide it anymore.

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karan258 · 1 year

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#medition #us health care

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pynapplepyro · 1 year

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Just spent $250 for the privilege of being told that I shouldn't get my hopes up to find out what is going on or if it is a big deal.

With that $250 came the privilege of being able to spend $850 to not fond out anything at all.

#us health system #us health care #doctors #this is so fucking stupid

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dbsmintek · 1 year

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#inbound and outbound #email services #chat services #US Health care

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p1nkblog · 1 month

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Someone else’s beauty is not an absence of your own 𐦍

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beescake · 3 months

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this is the smallest i can draw him while still making him visible

#he is a “HIGH LEVEL PSIONIC” -> 🤏 .#homestuck #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #2024 #vioart #dear askinsufferableprickmod if u see this #i love ur art awoo the affection u hv for hs characters make me so 🥺#the ambience u create w ur environments is esp fire as hell i love how u use negative space to maximize composition!!#keep up the fantastic work n take care of ur health ok looking forward to ur updates!! ✊️

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creatingblackcharacters · 19 days

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What are Black fans looking for in commissions?

I think this is another one of those things that artists may not have considered, so let's open the floor!

To my Black readers: if you are commissioning (or could commission) an art piece of a Black person specifically- maybe yourself, a friend, a cool character, an OC, etc.- I am asking you:

What things do you consider before making the choice to go with that artist?

(And I'll go first in the tags, just so no one feels pressured or alone)

To my nonBlack readers, esp my artists who want to expand their mentality, skill set, and maybe future clientele: I want you to LISTEN to understand. Listen to what Black fans are looking for in terms of care in the depictions of ourselves. Even if it gets uncomfortable, that's something you can challenge yourself on, and even overcome!

#1) if you're an artist thats my friend im trusting that you care enough about me to do right by me #2) YOUR PORTFOLIO! have you drawn Black characters before?? do you do it often? how did the piece look in your style?#3) if you havent drawn us but i like your style- do you at least show an interest in black characters?#am i going to have to risk my emotional health to explain to you why my features matter?#4) i could go to a Black artist to avoid the stress of number 3 #creatingblackcharacters #character design #black characters

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toshootforthestars · 2 years

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Posted 23 July 2022:

The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the multinational monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the agency's highest level of alert.

On Thursday, the WHO convened an emergency committee of experts to assess the situation. The committee was unable to reach a consensus on whether to declare a PHEIC, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Saturday morning press briefing. But Tedros, describing himself as a "tie-breaker," noted that under the International Health Regulations he had to consider several elements in deciding whether to declare a PHEIC, in addition to the emergency committee's assessment. Those elements included the scientific unknowns, risks to human health, and risks of further international spread.

"In short," Tedros said, "we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria in the International Health Regulations. For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern."

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As it stands, WHO received reports of more than 16,000 cases from 71 member states that span all six of WHO-designated world regions. The epicenter of the outbreak continues to be Europe. Five people have died in the multinational outbreak, three in Nigeria and two in the Central African Republic.

Though some countries are starting to report declining trends in cases, Tedros noted, other countries are now just beginning to identify cases. Six countries reported their first cases just last week, he said in a press briefing Wednesday. The vast majority of cases continue to be identified in men who have sex with men (MSM).

"This transmission pattern represents both an opportunity to implement targeted public health interventions and a challenge because in some countries, the communities affected face life-threatening discrimination," Tedros said at the outset of Thursday's emergency committee meeting.

The continued spread of the virus, particularly in countries where people face significant barriers to care, only increases the risk that the virus will spread farther and to more vulnerable populations, such as pregnant people and children, health experts fear.

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...experts at WHO caution that more such spread among people outside of the MSM communities may be occurring than is known because response efforts have largely focused on MSM and sexual health clinics. Essentially, we're finding cases where we're looking for them, WHO experts have said. The child case in the Netherlands, for instance, was initially misdiagnosed twice as a fungal skin infection and then a bacterial skin infection before being accurately identified as monkeypox.

Additionally, MSM often have stronger connections to health care providers than other demographics, which may also bias the case reporting to those communities. The longer the virus is able to spread in communities—any communities—the more likely it is to become entrenched, health experts warn.

In the US, there is already concern that health officials have missed their opportunity to contain the virus, given the slow expansion of testing and hampered vaccine distribution.