Tumgik
#healthcare for all
sleeping-raccoon · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
1K notes · View notes
ancappunk · 6 months
Text
Hey so if conservatives oppose a national healthcare system that we're all forced to pay into, which they def should, does that mean they'll stop supporting a national immigration system that forces us to pay into?
30 notes · View notes
Text
Oregon voters have narrowly passed measures that would strengthen gun laws and mandate healthcare as a human right.
Measure 114 requires residents to obtain a permit to purchase a gun, bans large-capacity magazines of more than 10 rounds except in some circumstances and creates a statewide firearms database. It is one of the nation’s strictest gun-control measures.
To qualify for a permit, an applicant would need to complete an approved, in-person firearm safety course, pay a fee, provide personal information, submit to fingerprinting and photographing and pass a federal criminal background check. The permits would be processed by local police chiefs, county sheriffs or their designees.
The ban on large-capacity magazines would not apply to current owners, law enforcement or the military.
Proponents of the measure say it would reduce suicides — which account for 82% of gun deaths in the state — mass shootings and other gun violence.
Opponents, including the left-wing Socialist Rifle Assn., say it would infringe on constitutionally protected rights and could reduce gun access among marginalized communities and people of color if law-enforcement agencies are the arbiters of the permitting process. They say permitting fees and the cost of the firearms course could also be barriers to access.
The healthcare proposal, Measure 111, makes Oregon the first state in the nation to change its constitution to explicitly declare affordable healthcare a fundamental human right.
The amendment reads: “It is the obligation of the state to ensure that every resident of Oregon has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.”
It does not define “cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable,” nor does it say who would foot the bill.
The Oregon Health Authority says 94% of Oregonians currently have insurance coverage and more are eligible for the Oregon Medicaid plan or a subsidy to reduce the cost of commercial insurance.
Opponents said the amendment could trigger legal and political challenges if it passed.
96 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
139 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
a new world is growing. As our roots pierce the concrete - our imaginations blossom new realities the violence-based world can see.
Abolition is Creative Hoodie by For Everyone Collective - fashion free from harm.
21 notes · View notes
angeloftheodd · 1 month
Text
🔥 Hot take: People who are actually knowledgeable about essential oils will never tell you to use them to replace actual medicine. The people who tell you to replace scientifically-supported medical interventions with aromatherapy alone just want to take your money without any real regard for the very negative impact that could have on your health and well-being.
I say this as someone who has been into aromatherapy for years: Essential oils provide remedies, not cures.
3 notes · View notes
xxconnection · 5 months
Text
Tumblr media
Photography c 1994 Kira Corser Poetry c 1994 Frances Payne Adler from "A Matroit's Dream: Health Care For All" exhibit sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation, Health Access, and The March of Dimes Photo is of Helen Vandervere, born 1904
2 notes · View notes
kalscattergood · 8 months
Text
"I genuinely do NOT GET IT. Women's health issues. FUCK! Women will fuck you if they feel good. All these dudes who are like, 'Ugh, hurr durr, my wife won't fuck me because she don't feel good,' and I'm like, WHAT THE FUCK WHY AREN'T WE FIGURING OUT HOW TO MAKE WOMEN FEEL BETTER!?
3 notes · View notes
wildcreativekatz · 1 year
Text
youtube
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2 notes · View notes
saberlin · 1 year
Text
Made this earlier this year when the United States of North America decided to rewind the clock 50yrz and overturned RvW.
This is one of a few response pieces I created out of RAGE and Fear, especially with the state I live in.
Stay strong, keep sharing information that'll aid us all forward and in care of one another.
Tumblr media
2 notes · View notes
leftistteendrama · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
“Don’t stay for a boy, but do stay for the NHS” -Kelly on the latest episode of Leftist Teen Drama, in reference to Maeve’s decision to study in the United States instead of staying in the UK for Otis. Streaming now everywhere you get your podcasts.
Listen and subscribe on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Stitcher, Deezer, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, and Podcast Addict.
5 notes · View notes
aprylmae · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
2 notes · View notes
ancappunk · 1 year
Text
If healthcare is a human right than I have the right to reject government controlled healthcare in favor of finding a private plan or just paying out of pocket for what I need. Much like professionals in the medical industry have the right to reject either government plans or private plans since it's their business and their profession.
That simple.
31 notes · View notes
Text
Debate surrounding Florida’s new restrictions on gender-affirming care focused largely on transgender children. But a new law that Republican presidential candidate and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last month also made it difficult – even impossible – for many transgender adults to get treatment.
Eli and Lucas, trans men who are a couple, followed the discussions in the Legislature, where Democrats warned that trans children would be more prone to suicide under a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and Republicans responded with misplaced tales of mutilated kids. Eli said he and his partner felt “blindsided” when they discovered the bill contained language that would also disrupt their lives.
“There was no communication. … Nobody was really talking about it in our circles,” said Eli, 29.
Like many transgender adults in Florida, he and Lucas are now facing tough choices, including whether to uproot their lives so that they can continue to access gender-confirming care. Clinics are also trying to figure out how to operate under regulations that have made Florida a test case for restrictions on adults.
Lucas, 26, lost his access to treatment when the Orlando clinic that prescribed him hormone replacement therapy stopped providing gender-affirming care altogether. The couple also worries about staying in a state that this year enacted several other bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community.
“My entire life is here. All my friends, my family. I just got a promotion at my job, which I’m probably not to be able to keep,” Lucas, who works in a financial aid office at a college, said. “I’m losing everything except Eli and my pets moving out of here. So this was not a decision that I took lightly at all.”
The Associated Press is not using Eli’s and Lucas’ last names because they fear reprisal. While their friends and families know they are trans, most people who meet them do not.
The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.
Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.
“For trans adults, it’s devastating,” said Kate Steinle, chief clinical officer at FOLX Health, which provides gender-affirming care to trans adults through telemedicine. Her company decided to open in-person clinics and hire more physicians licensed in Florida in order to continue to provide care to patients who have already enrolled, even though that represents a major change to the company's business model.
Eli has been seeing a physician for years and therefore still has access to care. But SPEKTRUM Health Inc., the Orlando clinic that prescribed Lucas hormone replacement therapy, has stopped providing gender-affirming care.
“There are a lot of people looking for care that we’re no longer legally able to provide,” said Lana Dunn, SPEKTRUM Health’s chief operating officer.
Florida has the second-largest population of transgender adults in the U.S., at an estimated 94,900 people, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. It used state-level, population-based surveys to determine its estimates. Not all transgender people seek medical interventions.
At least 19 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. But restrictions on adults haven't been part of the conversation in most places. Missouri’s attorney general tried to impose a rule in that state, but it was pulled back.
Florida is “the proving ground of what they can get away with,” Dunn said.
Her organization treats about 4,000 people — most in Florida and some out-of-state telehealth patients, she said. While SPEKTRUM has bolstered its mental health services since the law passed, it and other organizations heavily rely on nurse practitioners to provide care.
Dunn estimates that 80% of trans adults in the state were getting their health care from a nurse practitioner and now have lost access.
"Right now what we’re seeing in the community is just chaos,” Dunn said.
The law also contains language that she said could scare off doctors who would be otherwise willing to treat trans patients, such as a 20-year statute of limitations to sue over care they provide.
As a trans woman herself, Dunn is grappling with losing her own access to hormones while trying to provide support to terrified patients. That's taken “a significant emotional toll,” she said.
“Not only am I faced with this lack of care for myself but a lot of people within the community are also facing the same thing, and they’re reaching out to me for guidance,” Dunn said. “So I’m doing my best to help guide people and console them, but nobody’s really reaching out to me saying, ’How are you doing? Are you OK?'"
Lucas, who transitioned eight years ago when he was 18, anticipates running out of hormone treatments in June. In the best case scenario he can foresee now, he will be able to get a new prescription in August. He fears he might start to get his period again.
“It’s just going to be extremely difficult mentally to have your body changing in a way that doesn’t align with your brain,” Lucas said.
Eli and Lucas have switched to a month-to-month lease and tentatively plan to relocate to Minnesota in November. They said they would leave sooner if they can afford it and started an online fundraiser to help. Moving with their dog and two cats increases the expense and difficulty of finding a new place.
“I just never thought it could happen this way, this fast and to us,” Eli said.
24 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
42 notes · View notes
Text
a new world is growing
4 notes · View notes