#single payer healthcare

[scottguy]

Poor babies. They use their patent power to literally EXTORT money from sick people, especially cancer patients causing people to lose their life savings simply to stay alive.

Now they wail that their obscene profits may drop a bit when they never should have been that high in the first place.

[theculturedmarxist]

[thenarator]

batten down the hatches kids, because THIS is my supervillain origin story!

i was recently (several months ago) diagnosed with diabetes. it was an extremely traumatic process for me, not at all aided by my doctor, who would only prescribe me a single first-line medication and when that didn’t completely control things told me that i would have to do the rest myself by putting myself on a strict diet to cut out basically all the foods that make life worth living. i have a history of disordered eating though, so i wasn’t about to do that, and i spent many weeks in turmoil and dismay over what the rest of my life was going to look like.

this is, i have been assured, a fairly standard reaction to being diagnosed with diabetes.

then, not being able to deal with my normal doctor anymore, i went to an endocrinologist, and that changed everything.

this woman was so kind and so compassionate i can’t even begin to tell you. she spoke to me calmly and reassuringly about my options, assuring me that there were many medications we could try and telling me the benefits and drawbacks of all of them. eventually we settled on a once-weekly injectable medicine, and she spent a lot of time explaining to me how to give it to myself, how to dispose of the needle, and how safe and easy the process actually was.

she did not, throughout the whole 45 minute appointment, say a word about my diet. she didn’t even tell me to cut out soda, which everyone and their dog had been telling me to do. i could have wept tears of joy at the revelation that i was going to be given medicine for my disease instead of being told it was all my fault and to handle it myself.

the endocrinologist also told me to monitor my blood sugar. this is pretty standard fair for diabetics, and while i had been told by other doctors to monitor my blood sugar, none of them had told me how or prescribed the proper equipment. my angel of an endocrinologist, however, prescribed me a good system and told me i only needed to test my blood sugar once a day, so they could get a baseline of how i was responding to the treatment.

naively, i thought this would be fairly straightforward. i am a diabetic, diabetics need to monitor their blood sugar, there should be no question of my getting the meter.

wrong.

first i got a notice from the pharmacy telling me my insurance didn’t cover this specific brand of system. fine, whatever, bit annoying but i can deal. i called the insurance company and got a list of systems they cover, and passed that along to my endocrinologist so she could prescribe me a different one. weeks pass, but i assumed it just takes a while to get these things done. i got another notice from the pharmacy saying the insurance had denied my claim, because i needed prior authorization. it was pretty cheesed off by this point, because it had been weeks and they were just now telling me this, but i called my endocrinologist and told her she needed to do a prior authorization. another few weeks pass, and we’re creeping closer to the follow-up appointment where i’m supposed to submit the data of all the blood sugar tests i’ve been doing for inspection.

then, i get this.

the insurance completely denied my claim for a blood glucose monitoring system. ANY blood glucose monitoring system. EVEN THE ONES THEY SUPPOSEDLY COVER. i have a formal diagnosis of diabetes, from MULTIPLE DOCTORS, but apparently that isn’t enough to convince them that i need to monitor my blood sugar. and even if i go on insulin, which is a HUGE step up from where i am and is VERY dangerous even taking a little bit at a time, apparently they won’t cover the cost of monitoring my blood sugar until i’m taking THREE SHOTS PER DAY.

THREE.

SHOTS.

PER.

DAY.

you have to have ADVANCED diabetes to be taking that much insulin. you have to be fucking DYING. i’m type 2 as opposed to type 1, type 1 being much more serious from day one, but with type 2 your diabetes has to have gone uncontrolled for YEARS before you get to the point of taking that much insulin per day. you have to be fully dependent on insulin TO SURVIVE.

AND THEY DON’T

EVEN

THINK

I NEED TO BE

M O N I T O R I N G

MY BLOOD SUGAR

UNTIL I GET TO THAT POINT!

this policy will kill people. i feel confident in saying it already has. and because i am entirely dependent on insurance to afford ANY medication to control my diabetes, i am at the mercy of their rulebook.

THIS IS WHAT FOR-PROFIT HEALTHCARE HAS DONE TO US!

this is not freedom. this is not choice. this is a cage closing around us like a death trap. this isn’t just ableism, it’s eugenics, the systematic stamping out of an undesired class of people. this is “give me your money or i’ll shoot you in the head” with barely any extra steps.

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOW!

OR I’LL FUCKING EAT YOU!!!

[workersolidarity]

Fox News exit poll

Nationalize Healthcare Now!

[thelittlepalmtree]

So if you believe in single payer healthcare what is the solution for all the people who are gonna lose their jobs because they are no longer necessary. Like there are a bunch of people who basically do secretarial positions who deal with insurance companies and Billing. Who cannot expect to make the same amount of money that they are currently making in their jobs in any other position.. I'm not against single payer health care in fact I believe in single payer health care, I'm just wondering what we're planning for these people are we leaving them behind?

[bookkats]

Community and PCUSA Insurance Changes

Book of Order E-1.0301 The Church is the body of Christ. Christ gives to the Church all the gifts necessary to be his body. The Church strives to demonstrate these gifts in its life as a community in the world (1 Cor. 12:27–28): The Church is to be a community of faith, entrusting itself to God alone, even at the risk of losing its life. The Church is to be a community of hope, rejoicing in…

[cryingbreaskfastfriends]

*drags my soap box to the corner of the street*

12 HOUR SHIFTS FOR MEDICAL STAFF ARE UNSAFE! PEOPLE NEED SLEEP TO WORK SAFELY! WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?!

"but I would rather work 12 hour and have to week days off so I can run errands..." NO!

STUPID CAPITALISM! MAKING MEDICAL STAFF THINK THEY CAN ONLY HAVE TIME OFF WHEN STORES ARE OPEN IF THEY WORK LONG HOURS!!!!!!!!

Universal basic income! Universal health care! Tax the rich!!!!!!!!!!!!! Renters rights!

[foreverlogical]

The Guys Who Killed Toys R Us are Coming for Doctors

[departmentq]

As a libtard in America, I don't know who you are, and don't care what you choose to believe in, or that maybe you believe that I don't have a right to exist, but I'm willing to pay a little more in taxes if it meant that you, or anyone else, didn't die from cancer...

[berniesrevolution]

LBC | US Senator BernieSanders warns the UK against America’s private healthcare model.

[saydams]

found here

[la-principessa-nuova]

I had my therapy consultation today and it went well. Now I have to figure out some arcane system to make my insurance aware of it, not because they’re going to pay for it, but just so they can know I’m paying for it so that I think around mid November I will have paid enough that they might start paying for part of it.

The American Healthcare system is amazing. I pay and my employer pay an insurance company so they can jack up prices for everybody while still not paying for my healthcare. What a fucking deal.

[unchartedthelostlegacy]

the problem is that the live service game model is a waste of money for players AND companies. the problem is I paid like $35 for Knockout City on switch and ran around being a dodgeball casually for a bit and played some matches with a friend on ps5 that were fun! the 50s aesthetic is fun! cosmetic-only and not pay to win is fun! the free avatar badges for different pride flags were fun!

and now it’s a recession and the tech industry lays thousands off and decides they just take away the product that you spent money on and there’s no way to play it offline, there’s no single-player mode with CPU combatants like fucking every sports video game before the internet.

It’s not an MMO. it’s not a battle royale. It’s a stupid futuristic dodgeball game. I would be happy with a stupid single player or couch co-op dodgeball game. It doesn’t need to be online! It doesn’t all have to be online! Multiplayer can be optional! I would play Knockout City against CPU opponents all day without worrying about internet connections cutting out and I don’t use video games to socialize!

Companies need to give up on trying to be the next fortnite it’s not going to happen you’ve failed just make multiplayer optional not everyone has access to reliable internet and paid for games are not a service they are products to be owned

[wormsslime]

today i received a letter sent not by my doctor, not by my insurance, but by some company ive never heard of on a third level of separation - working for my insurance, apparnetly - that they need “detailed information” about an mri i got months ago, to see if they actually have to pay for it

a couple weeks ago i took my friend to get a covid test and we waited in the drivethrough for 45 minutes while the pharmacy techs tried to figure out why the insurance wasn’t paying for it when it was supposed to. the actual sample collection took like 3 minutes

i cannot express to you how much “everyone gets health insurance” is not the same as “everyone gets healthcare”

[kandoros]

Conservatives: "We can't do anything to improve the US health care system because that'll lead to death panels!" My doctors office, upon being bought out by a new corporation: "Our computers 'didn't merge right', so we need you to fill out these forms giving us your name, DOB, insurance information, and remind us of your future appointments that were already scheduled. Oh, and the phone number doesn't work anymore." Me: