This is #healthcare in the #USA
A #doctor argues for approval for a procedure with a #UnitedHealthcare hack
She posted it on social media and is now blacklisted by #UHC and she had to sell her house and get a lawyer, they're ruining her career over this video:
gofundme.com/f/stand-with-a-su…
If you live in the #US dont get too mad- your blood pressure will spike and your healthcare sucks because you're just "a little person" and your moronic country prefers you to just die
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •I think I can probably get MAID (Medical Assist In DYING) cheaper than I can get the health care I need.
It's been 1984 here for quite a while now and I'm getting tired..
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in reply to Kid Mania • • •Anthony
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •this is totally crazy!
Glad I live in Australia, we may have a few problems with health care, but overall it is way better than the US!
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in reply to Anthony • • •Obviously government should step in here, but not in the current political landscape.
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in reply to Doug 🌈🇨🇦 • • •@Oldfartrant @skyfire747
i agree with you
there is an economic reckoning coming for the usa
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Catherine is not complacent
in reply to Doug 🌈🇨🇦 • • •Bills coming due any day now.
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Unknown parent • • •@mhanson101
a trillion times, as long as they buy enough congresscritters to prevent any reform
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@stevewfolds
Unknown parent • • •Blue Cross just jumped a pancreatitis prescription from $20/week to $2,000/week. Friend got “special relief” at $275/week until the end of September because her child is still a minor.
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David Njoku
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Holy. Shit.
I guess the one positive is that doctors like her exist. Though, if this is the price she has to pay, I don't see that many of them standing up for their patients in the future.
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Bodhipaksa
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •So when United Health's CEO was assassinated, the lesson they learned was not "let's be less shitty and actually help people," but "Let's continue to be shitty but hide our identities."
It's time to burn the whole fucking thing down to the ground and start over.
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Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
what's wrong with you. you should enjoy scraping by for rent and worship billionaires, as god intended! (/s)
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in reply to @stevewfolds • • •Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy
in reply to @stevewfolds • • •@stevewfolds Is this Trump “lowering” the cost of medicine 1500%!!
SO, MUCH. WINNING. #MAGA
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Billionaires are funding the destruction of American health care.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/14/go…
Voters didn't suddenly wake up one day & volunteer to die.
It's the Heritage Foundation that wants to remake health care into a revenue source for the 1%
cnbc.com/2021/03/09/koch-netwo…
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Nationalized healthcare is better. It makes businesses more competitive moving healthcare to the public sector.
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GOP and Koch Groups Want to Slash Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts - EXPOSEDbyCMD
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Theolodian
Unknown parent • • •Millie
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Unknown parent • • •Theolodian
Unknown parent • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Theolodian • • •sarcasm doesnt communicate in text. you have to use the sarcasm indicator (/s)
we don't know you. and trolls and stupid maga people are real. for all we know you're being sincere. there's no indicator or way for us to know you're joking. it's your responsibility to communicate that, not our job to be mystified by your intentions and make assumptions
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David Njoku
Unknown parent • • •@zannesan Cos I'm not American, I can't work out what your post means.
I'm guessing Blue Cross Blue Shield is an insurance company. Does clawing back means you had to pay an additional $900? And are you saying you pay $2,000 a month for your cover?
That's mad.
@benroyce
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
Unknown parent • • •@Ambulocetus @zannesan
it's sustainable:
you're poor, just fucking die already
(i joke, but that's the plutocrats seriously)
Ambulocetus
Unknown parent • • •Mrinappropriate
Unknown parent • • •Mrinappropriate
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Mrinappropriate
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Mrinappropriate • • •no
europeans are not possessing of magical powers to divine someone's intentions in a straight text post
what you're writing here is bullshit, i'm sorry
the point is morons and trolls are real. who's to know?
unless you know the person, there is zero way for you to divine sarcasm over sincerity in a post without any inflections or facial expressions
this is just a pure communication issue
Theolodian
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
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David Njoku
Unknown parent • • •@zannesan But why did they claw it back? Were they saying that your policy doesn't cover the physical? $900 sounds like A LOT for a physical, but putting that aside, what did they expect you to do - stop the doctors from doing their jobs?
It's a mad system.
@benroyce
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @theolodian @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
i think we have a culture clash here
what i'm understanding is the british are heavy users of sarcasm, so that's their first go to in reading a comment
and us americans require a clear indication of sarcasm, which the british are assuming is some sort of handicap
while i don't like to make cultural judgments, i'm coming down on the side of americans here:
do they not have trolls and morons in the uk?
how can one know?
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in reply to Peter Brown • • •@peterbrown mastodon.scot/@peterbrown/1150… Partly the consequence of current gun 'freedom'?
Peter Brown
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Peter Brown
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DeterioratedStucco
in reply to Peter Brown • • •@peterbrown
Source for this, please? I'd like to post it elsewhere.
@benroyce
Peter Brown
in reply to DeterioratedStucco • • •DeterioratedStucco
in reply to Peter Brown • • •Thank you.
Theolodian
Unknown parent • • •Grovewest
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in reply to Grovewest • • •Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸
in reply to Grovewest • • •Grovewest
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in reply to Grovewest • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Theolodian • • •we are, here in america, indeed, living in a suicide cult
some of us are not willing participants in it though, it's forced on us
we encounter morons and trolls on a regular basis who speak as you speak, but sincerely. i have no idea who you are. i didn't know where you are from
an honest question for you:
are there no morons and trolls in the uk?
how do you know via a text only post who you're dealing with?
Theolodian
Unknown parent • • •Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠
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in reply to Gondor • • •Raymond Russell
Unknown parent • • •Gawd sakes.
$2000 per month is bonkers, that is a mortgage payment on a very very nice house where I am from.(UK - Not London).
Theolodian
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 I treat everyone the same, I make no judgements.
Yes, the UK has turned racism, privilege and parochialism into an art form. The real morons are the politicians though, all of them.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Theolodian • • •so let's say you're dealing with a british topic online and you see this in response to a politically charged post:
"just like a poor person"
you assume sarcasm, i assume
but how can you be sure? how do you know you're not dealing with an idiot?
i'm going to make a prediction
you will not like it:
online social media, in text form at least, is going to kill the longstanding british tradition of heavy sarcasm
Theolodian
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 I’d be the first one saying it. 😉
I never claimed to be popular. 🙄
Raymond Russell
Unknown parent • • •I know you don't need to hear it but it is always an example to tell folk who fear socialised medicine.
My dad who is in his 80's got sepsis about 4 years ago and was in hospital for 3 months including 6 weeks the high dependency ward. He recovered well and carried on with life.
He then had a stroke (unrelated to the sepsis) before xmas 2024. He made a very swift recovery, only in hospital for about 4 weeks this time. No charge for any of it.
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Unknown parent • • •@zannesan The whole system is a mess.
Our system over here isn't perfect, but it sounds like you need an advanced degree to work your way through your system over there.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Theolodian • • •as long as us americans keep getting quality syndicated british television which is always full of heavy british sarcasm
it is delighful from the american point of view
i can't say "well met" but i gave you a follow
please reply to me one day or another in heavy sarcasm, unindicated
i will be amused only, i promise
i got your number now! 😆
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Raymond Russell
in reply to Raymond Russell • • •It was his grass I was cutting today
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Mrinappropriate • • •see now i'm reading that as sarcasm, that you're telling me you'll obsequiously concede and conform
😆
by the way:
(/s)
Moz
Unknown parent • • •Anthony
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Anthony • • •@skyfire747 @theolodian @nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant
oi, don't be a c*nt
australia: hey, don't be so daft
usa: what the fuck did you say to me you motherfucker?
😆
Mrinappropriate
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Mrinappropriate
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Moz • • •@moz @fixatedpersonsunit
tingo is specifically posting this in reference to american doctors
canada is poaching american doctors too
i don't blame australia, canada, or the doctors at all
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Mrinappropriate • • •@MrInappropriate @theolodian @nazokiyoubinbou @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
love through sarcasm
i dig it
Blamellors
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •THIS my Insurance company. My cardiologist prescribed Brilinta after my Angioplasty and Stent insertion and they denied it . They instead prescribed Plavix.
Brilinta (ticagrelor) and Plavix (clopidogrel) are both antiplatelet medications used to prevent blood clots, but they differ in strength, administration, and potential side effects. Brilinta is generally considered more potent and faster-acting than Plavix but carries a higher risk of bleeding. Plavix is generic so cheaper.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Blamellors • • •@blamellors if you need a stent, you should be getting a stent
🤦 🤦 🤦
Blamellors
in reply to Blamellors • • •A CARDIOLOGIST prescribed Brilinta.
Not a Cardiologist denied it. I know that because my cardiologist called them. UH tries to save money over experts opinions and puts its patients lives at risk doing it.
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in reply to Raymond Russell • • •Airikr
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in reply to Airikr • • •@edgren
let the usa horrify you so that europe does not share our fate
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Raymond Russell
in reply to @stevewfolds • • •@stevewfolds
Secondary gap policy?
Falling forward 🍉
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •> your moronic country prefers you to just die
That's my preference also 🍦
Christina
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Christina • • •we do get sarcasm
read further up:
the problem is unindicated sarcasm online in text only
the culture clash is the british person assumes sarcasm, while the american person assumes troll/ idiot
Amro has been
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Well, they had Brexit. Turned out to be as stupid as anyone expected. And not at all sarcastic.
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Catherine is not complacent
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •It’s truly twisted, they’ll approve unnecessary tests and Medicare mill procedures but fuck you sideways on things you really need.
@stevewfolds
in reply to Raymond Russell • • •Mrinappropriate
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Raymond Russell
in reply to @stevewfolds • • •Thanks for the info. Always nice to hear what happens elsewhere.
Juggling With Eggs
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •As a Brit, I fear the creeping privatisation of our healthcare system, because it means essentially entering a zone whereby insurance companies will determine whether we live or die.
And when the medical practitioners the insurance companies use to determine their decisions are so far removed from the specialisms they’re making decisions on…we’re *ucked. This video confirms that to me.
It already happens with disability benefits…this is the next horrific stage.
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in reply to Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸 • • •$$$
or, rather
£££
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in reply to Juggling With Eggs • • •far, far more damaging though is that the private interests likely feel no obligation other than rent extraction, so their calculus will always favor whatever measures increase revenue or reduce cost. Patient welfare is not a priority, nor is public health, society in general, and certainly not the workers in the system - those entities are anathema to the private interest
Bodhipaksa
in reply to Juggling With Eggs • • •@JugglingWithEggs As a fellow Brit, now living in the US, I think you should be very worried.
Health insurance companies exist to make money, and they do that by making sure that you pay more for your treatment than is necessary, and by preventing you from getting treatment that you need.
Think of the current situation with water in England (not 🏴 fortunately). Decaying infrastructure. Polluted beaches. Tainted water. Massive profits for shareholders. You don't want that for health.
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mike805
in reply to Grovewest • • •@Grovewest @bodhipaksa @JugglingWithEggs It is important to understand the actual function of health insurance in the USA.
Health insurance is a collective bargaining organization. A buyers' cartel. It negotiates with the sellers' cartels to get a "better deal" for its customers, but takes a lot of the gain for itself. It's like a corrupt labor union in reverse.
The individual doctor, outside of a medical group, is as screwed as the uninsured patient in this gangster system.
Bodhipaksa
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs An insurance buyer's cartel would be run by buyers (us), who would elect representatives to ensure our interests were represented. That would be an improvement.
In real life, health insurance companies have all the power, and consumers have none. We are simply a resource to be charged as much as possible, to be given as little as possible in return, and to be allowed to die if that's more profitable than keeping us alive. It's an evil system.
Grovewest
in reply to Bodhipaksa • • •Bodhipaksa
in reply to Grovewest • • •mike805
in reply to Bodhipaksa • • •@bodhipaksa @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs So why can't you just walk into the doctors' office and pay directly? You get charged more if you do.
Insurance is supposed to spread out risk of unlikely events. But everyone will need health care. Insurers have evolved into collective bargaining organizations that are supposed to protect their customers from the worst of the ripoffs.
If health care was not a cartel you could pay cash for most things. That was once true.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to mike805 • • •the problem is the insurers, not the health care orgs. prices are so high so the orgs get paid something. it's an arms race between two entities, and only one of those entities is genuinely necessary for healthcare. the other is a parasite
your hypothetical rando who walks into the doctors office with $5k in their pocket has nothing to do with anything
Bodhipaksa
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •mike805
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •The problem is both the health insurers and the private equity owned health providers. I referred to the insurers as "corrupt unions."
Health care is a Big Con. The insurer is the outside man, the provider is the inside man, and the public is the mark.
The mark doesn't get the fact that everyone around him is cooperating with each other to take his money.
Why are the cash prices for many services a multiple of what the insurance company pays?
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to mike805 • • •"The insurer is the outside man, the provider is the inside man, and the public is the mark."
oh fuck you
the problem is the healthcare insurance companies. provider costs being high is merely the byproduct of a bullshit finance game being played by this bullshit system that enshrines the insurer parasites
it's some original sin by providers
get the fuck out of here with this stupid bullshit
mike805
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@bodhipaksa @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs If my car needs bodywork, I can either pay for that myself (if I'm the one that wrecked it) or an insurance company can pay.
I do NOT pay 2X or 5X or 10X as much if I pay myself, versus if an insurance company pays.
WHY is it that such overcharging exists in health care? Answer me that.
Because clinics, hospitals, imaging centers, etc. have been bought up by private equity. You know, those economic parasites you are always complaining about.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 @bodhipaksa @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs
"WHY is it that such overcharging exists in health care? Answer me that."
because of the fucking game
if car costs were paid by insurance instead of individuals, car costs would go up as a byproduct of the insurer trying to squish costs and the mechanic trying to take home enough to survive
you're shooting the wrong person
the problem is 100% the healthcare insurance companies. they're fucking parasites
mike805
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@bodhipaksa @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs Well we disagree on that. I'd say it is about 60 / 40 insurance vs pharma and big health.
Pharma often develops a new drug that is not significantly better than the old drug (sometimes even worse) but a lot more expensive, and then markets the hell out of it, for example.
I mentioned a car cost (bodywork) that is mostly paid by insurance, but sometimes by individuals. It does not have the bizarre pricing that health does.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
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mike805
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@bodhipaksa @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs Part of the problem with health insurers is they are usually regulated by limiting their profit margins (not how much they can charge.)
If you could keep 10% of however much money flows through your hands, you'd have an incentive to maximize the amount of money that flows through your hands.
This is also a problem with defense contractors and public utilities.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 @bodhipaksa @Grovewest @JugglingWithEggs
health insurance companies exist to maximize profit by denying claims
John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY
in reply to Bodhipaksa • • •Bodhipaksa
in reply to John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY • • •Peter Brown
in reply to Bodhipaksa • • •�
in reply to Juggling With Eggs • • •@JugglingWithEggs
>a zone whereby insurance companies will determine whether we live or die.
so does luigi
@stevewfolds
in reply to Raymond Russell • • •Mrinappropriate
in reply to Christina • • •Raymond Russell
in reply to @stevewfolds • • •Just to throw some info your way.
In the UK Dentistry and Glasses are not covered for free. You get free dentist checkups and eye test but there are charges for glasses and dental work.
With both of these if you are 60+ or 16 or under you will get them free or at much reduced fee.
Hearing aids are free but can take a while to get so many older people buy their own privately.
My dad has free aids and gets free batteries and maintenance every 6 months (or sooner if required).
Raymond Russell
in reply to Raymond Russell • • •If you need glasses and fall within the appropriate age group and/or on reduced means you will qualify for vouchers which will cover a basic pair of spectacles or can be put towards the cost of a preferred pair.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Mrinappropriate • • •Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •I wish her the best, …and
Damn be UHC 😾
Hydrophobic Salmon
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •She Exposed the Insurance Industry’s Worst Behavior. Now They’re Coming After Her.
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Kevin Karhan
in reply to Hydrophobic Salmon • • •@hydro_salmon I hope she's having an exit strategy ready.
Clare 🏴
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Generic Person
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •my doctors went through something like this when I had two primary cancers. They denied chemo for cancer 2 because it wasn't indicated for cancer 1. They had to fight back against the insurance company (not UHC) and prove themselves. The doctor had literally written the book on the type of cancer I had.
Real doctors go through shit like this on a daily basis. Times that could be spent helping their patients is burnt on this kind of runaround. So, if course they are trying to silence this being discussed in the open.
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Theolodian
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@MrInappropriate @nazokiyoubinbou @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
Better picture, from this week. 😉
Theolodian
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@VampiresAndRobots @nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
Have a 2nd look at my ‘choices’ toot above, and a 3rd.
Theolodian
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in reply to amalia • • •@amalia22 All of Europe has public funded health-care, so I don't know why you think this is relevant ? Except maybe as a caution to not vote Reform or Tory, who will, if allowed, mismanage NHS* into a state where private health-care seems not so bad. @benroyce
*) Mentioning NHS, since you've got a UK flag in you profile.
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@stevewfolds
in reply to Chris Johnson • • •I have a UA policy for Medicare Part D which is supposed to offer prescription discounts. They refuse coverage if a drug is expensive, a 40-gram tube of fluorouracil was $1,3000 at Walgreens. Found it elsewhere for $75 & Part D covered that. Out of pocket was $27, 2% of retail.
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
in reply to @stevewfolds • • •@stevewfolds
in reply to LillyLyle/Count Melancholia • • •Checked just now & the price has dropped since 2015 to $75-$360.
@stevewfolds
in reply to LillyLyle/Count Melancholia • • •Nasty, painful stuff. A topical treatment for Basal Cell Carcinoma. It works Done 3x.
Simon Lucy
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @theolodian @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
Late last century I 'invented' a signifier for sarcasm, :-}
However it may have been taken as itself sarcastic.
Mrinappropriate
in reply to Simon Lucy • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Theolodian • • •@theolodian @MrInappropriate @nazokiyoubinbou @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
an account to follow:
(i do)
@bigben
sheislaurence
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •American billionaire hedge fund manager (born 1966)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Simon Lucy
in reply to Mrinappropriate • • •@MrInappropriate @nazokiyoubinbou @theolodian @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
Oh, negligible apart from people that were used to it from me. But it took a long time for proto-Canaanite to seep into Iron Age culture but then we got Phoenician, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc out of it.
I remain hopeful.
KChernecky For Democracy
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Simon Lucy • • •@simon_lucy @MrInappropriate @nazokiyoubinbou @theolodian @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
hope? in my sarcasm?
:-}
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
Unknown parent • • •@Alison @Allkinds
well that's why i'm here amping up more new attention
Alison Meeks
Unknown parent • • •Peter Brown
Unknown parent • • •@Allkinds in order to sue her successfully they would have to prove that she was deliberately misrepresenting the interaction with United Healthcare.
That would certainly not be supported by the content of that video. I imagine United healthcare know that and they’re merely intending to intimidate.
Sacking and suing does not good employee relationships make .
Peter Brown
Unknown parent • • •Simon Lucy
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@MrInappropriate @nazokiyoubinbou @theolodian @Oldfartrant @skyfire747
+1
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xinit ☕
in reply to Alison Meeks • • •@Alison
The patience of a proverbial saint on that call.
@benroyce @Allkinds
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to xinit ☕ • • •@xinit @Alison @Allkinds
my even tempered relaxed reaction if i were in her place on that call:
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
Unknown parent • • •you won't need to advertise to americans with expertise in various fields
every professional in the usa is hearing a giant sucking sound to elsewhere currently
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Unknown parent • • •@leathekd @bodhipaksa
welcome to american capitalism
the worst part:
millions of american morons who think unfettered predatory capitalism is a good thing, even while they are literally killed by this beast
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AlexanderVI
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •"At LeaSt iT'S nOt cOmmUniST RuSsiA!"
@leathekd @bodhipaksa
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to AlexanderVI • • •"CoMmUnIsM WHARGARBBBBL!" worked in the 1950s on panicky smoothbrains
that it still work in the 2020s is nothing but zombie level brainrot
#communism is dead you fucking american morons
even "communist china" is state capitalism
the threat to you is #plutocracy
not that fox news will ever tell you that
want to wonder why, morons?
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in reply to Hermey G • • •@Bobblegagger
ICE with masks
🤔
Hermey G
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PrinceOfDenmark
Unknown parent • • •@leathekd @bodhipaksa There is a group of people with political power in the #US who fought to strip healthcare insurance from tens of millions of people. They have two goals:
1) Keep rich people from having to pay taxes that support other people.
2) Keep large numbers of people miserable, so they can tell those people who are hurting that the group who want to tax millionaires & billionaires caused their pain.
#Vote effectively. Make noise.
Seán Fenian
in reply to PrinceOfDenmark • • •The part you forgot is that these people do not really judge their worth, their social standing, or their success by what they have or what they have done for the better.
They judge their worth and success by how much more they have than everyone else they can see, and by how few people have the power to tell them NO and make it stick.
lin11c
Unknown parent • • •@leathekd @bodhipaksa
Do any other olds on here remember when health insurance was "not for profit"? Of course it was Reagan who destroyed that and let corporations make money off sick people. Now shareholders are whining about not making enough? Universal Health Care would stop their blood sucking reign over us. FURIOUS!
"Under the Reagan Administration (1981-1989), regulations loosened across the board, and privatization of healthcare became increasingly common. Mar 27, 2020"
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mike805
in reply to Neo Ehproque • • •@ehproque @edgeofeurope @AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa Spain fought a rather nasty war against Communism in the 1930s. They won. You don't forget that. They had the good sense not to go all-in with Hitler, and so remained unoccupied after the war. Franco stayed too long, but his successor restored the republic. Spain has liberated itself on several occasions.
Communism is not dead. It has just changed issues and tactics. "We are all trained Marxists!" Yes they are.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to mike805 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
Unknown parent • • •Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
in reply to Neo Ehproque • • •For the record, all these discourses said or say "communism" where they should say "communist regime".
Communism is a social order that was falsely promised as the next stage after Marxist-Leninist socialism, a utopia of abundance without money and without a state as an enforcement mechanism.
A communist regime is a kind of totalitarianism.
E.g. as existed in the Soviet bloc.
@ehproque @edgeofeurope @benroyce @AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa
mike805
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@ehproque @edgeofeurope @AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa Don't have cable TV. But I do read the Leftist media quite a bit. And THEY don't think Communism is dead.
They have rebranded Marxism around identity and environmental issues rather than labor and class. But they still intend to create an all-powerful state to enforce their vision of fairness on the rest of us.
The rules will not apply to those who enforce the rules. They never do.
Neo Ehproque
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •Virtualized Nightmare
Unknown parent • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 @ehproque @edgeofeurope @AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa
That's awesome how you freak out about some some fringe "communist" or "marxist" crackpots on the fringes of social media with no power. While our rights are being eroded into authoritarianism by MAGA in real life right in front of you. You're totally tuned into reality. Yup. Uhhuh
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Neo Ehproque • • •Martin Pigeon
Unknown parent • • •The lawsuit does not mention Blackrock suing but another shareholder, R. Faller (although it is a class action so Blackrock would also benefit). My quick reading is that UnitedHealth is being sued for promising similar profits rates in the future after the CEO was shot despite previous share prices being "artificially" pumped up through much worse-than-industry-average healthcare denials, which management knew. scribd.com/document/858731301/…
Faller v. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
ScribdJesse McClure
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •This is why I don't have any healthcare coverage. None. Zero.
If I face anything I cant successfully self-diagnose and treat with over-the-counter options, I'll die.
I say I cant afford healthcare. I could, if I sold my home and lived on the street. But then I'd deal with this shit where I still wouldn't get healthcare when I needed it.
So I'll keep the little money I have, and I'll just die if I ever get really sick. The american dream.
lin11c
Unknown parent • • •They didn't used to publicly traded corporations with shareholders.
SouprMatt
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa MAGA is vehemently anti-communism. So, uh… why don’t they have a problem with the country spending their “tax dollars” to buy a huge stake in Intel?
reuters.com/business/intel-sha…
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to SouprMatt • • •@mls14 @AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism
Derek Thompson (The Atlantic)Alexander Dyas
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Unknown parent • • •Ari "Two Holidays" Jackson
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in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@AlexanderVI @leathekd @bodhipaksa
"The Master's house will never be destroyed with the Master's tools."