NEW: Powerful #Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum #Medicaid coverage.
The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected to sign it into law.
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NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.
That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.
Getting more Democrats behind this should be a priority for progressives in the USA.
When insurance coverage for her husband’s lifesaving care was denied, Teressa didn’t stand down. She fought back and won.
She found the secret to winning buried deep in her insurance coverage booklet.
Listen to her story on episode 3 of our podcast, "Paper Trail": https://www.propublica.org/podcast/health-insurance-industry-secret-external-review
#podcast #health #healthcare #insurance #mentalhealth #medicine #podcasts
!["If you're ever in a similar fight with your health insurance company [over denied coverage], you might need to know this too." -Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica reporter and "Paper Trail" host. Listen at propublica dot org slash podcast.](/proxy/post_attachment/275243/4d7f119252.jpeg "\"If you're ever in a similar fight with your health insurance company [over denied coverage], you might need to know this too.\" -Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica reporter and \"Paper Trail\" host. Listen at propublica dot org slash podcast.")
Overturning a health insurance denial can feel like a maze — one that can seem designed to confuse you so much, you just quit.
But in this episode of “Paper Trail,” we tell you the story of a woman who did the impossible: She found a way out.
#podcast #health #healthcare #insurance #mentalhealth #medicine #podcasts
NEW: Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges
Tim Robinson, the former CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, which once operated more than 40 drug treatment facilities statewide, was charged with attempting to resell millions of dollars worth of tax credits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-robinson-indicted-addiction-recovery-care
NEW: Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It also cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make.
Listen to this episode of “Paper Trail” wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/revlimid-cancer-drugs-fda-healthcare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
WATCH: “Keep the family healthy.” Those were some of the last words Clifford Thomas’ mother said to him.
But in Albany, a town with a health care monopoly and no Medicaid expansion, staying healthy is a luxury that many are priced out of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgCsj9nDZQ
#Documentary #Video #Healthcare #Georgia #Medicaid #Health #Insurance #BlackMastodon #Family #Journalism
Citing a previous ProPublica investigation, House Democrats pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins for answers in a letter last week about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under the Trump administration.
https://www.propublica.org/article/democrats-veterans-affairs-doug-collins-letter-mental-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Veterans #Congress #Government #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Trump
On a CANCER doctor network's website
#USA #healthcare
#ForProfitMedicine #ForProfitHealthcare
#ChaChing 💰
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I'm in a position where I have to reach out for help from my family, friends, and correspondents here in our Fediverse. I do not do this: It's right there in my bio, that I won't use this great platform for fundraising or to sell anything; that I don't follow those who use it solely for such purpose. I'm a hypocrite I guess. I'm more than greatly concerned - I'm terrified that Society might not seize the huge opportunity here & now for the systemic change necessary to protect our #healthcare here in #VT, other rural areas, and around the country. Governance is great but governments are unreliable. This isn't charity, nor even mutual aid. This is about our sovereignty. I'm looking for a handful of people who'd like to be members in our effort. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
https://givebutter.com/vwc2026/DaveVT
#healthcareIsAHumanRight #nonviolentMedicaidArmy #NVMA #VWC #vermont #vermontWorkersCenter #medicaid #hospitals #saveOurHospitals #keepOurHealthcareLocal
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Hello 👋
I need your help! We need as many signatures on this community letter as possible! Anyone in the USA can sign! Allies needed!
Solve ME & #MEAction are asking State Medical Boards to add ME/CFS questions to national licensing exams.
Doctors need to learn about ME/CFS!
Please sign here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXIoHN1Ej7qadY4fhGF7BZB8dtX7zWul0jugb4sh75Ybl2RA/viewform
There are a few pages (scroll down to click next) but it doesn't take long.
Boosts appreciated!
Thank you ❤️
NEW: For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients
Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with no recourse.
#news #health #healthcare #hospitals #doctors #insurance #government #business
Israel got away with targeting #healthcare in #Gaza It’s no surprise it is doing it in #Lebanon too
When will @EUCommission and especially @Bundesregierung speak out and stop supporting this insanity? #Complicit #BDSIsrael
Once again #Israel is breaking a #ceasefire once again targeting #hospitals , once again using callous #doublestrikes
Happy #TaxDay for all in the U.S. who celebrate. If you wonder why all we seem to get for our taxes is unaffordable #healthcare and unaccountable #billionaires, let me direct your attention to point 10 of Defend Public Health's People's Health Platform: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/peoples-health-platform-0
Brian Tracey died of pneumonia while being held at a Florida jail.
The jail’s healthcare provider is affiliated with Armor Health companies, which have a history of delaying or denying care to inmates across the country, lawsuits allege.
https://www.propublica.org/article/armor-health-florida-jail-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Florida #Healthcare #Prison #Law #Health #CriminalJustice
Rated On the Seventh Day 8/10
Deportations were happening before Trump and most Americans--most USians--were okay with them. Jennicet Gutierrez was hassled out of Barack Obama's White House bringing attention to this very issue and it didn't register a blip on the radar of most "progressives". Please don't situate this film in the context of Trump's escalation of tactics endorsed by previous administrations; don't perform outage for clicks or likes or validation for the fact that it helps you finally "see" the humanity of those regularly denied it.This film is great because it exists and because it shows the entirely untenable reality that many residents of this country are forced to make choices between financial stability and community uplift and empowerment. I applaud McKay for getting so much right without the film devolving into torture porn. We've had enough of that. It's time to recognize the magnitude and the history of the harms of yesterday and today--and act.
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One of the best summaries of what went wrong with #US #Healthcare. No longer available from the PBS website(s) as far as I can tell. So I've taken the liberty of writing a review and posting it here with links to the original #video.
"Sick Around the World" (2008 #PBS #Frontline #Documentary)
Conclusions...
1) #Insurance companies must accept everyone, and cannot make a profit on basic care.
2) #Everybody is mandated to buy insurance, with government paying the premiums for the poor.
3) #Doctors and #Hospitals have to accept one standard set of fixed prices.
https://richard.rathe.org/medicine/sick_around_the_world/index.html
