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She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Surfing Hallyu | Boosts ≠ endorsements - I share what I'm reading, but it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with

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"I had to scrub out mid-surgery to call United, only to find that the person on the line didn't even have access to the patient's full medical information, despite the procedure already being pre-approved. It's beyond frustrating and, frankly, unacceptable. Patients and providers deserve better than this. We should be focused on care, not bureaucracy."

newsweek.com/doctor-says-unite


@bicmay
just a note to agree and sympathize, AND to remind all of us, that it ain't JUST UHC! It's all of the healthcare gatekeeper oligopoly, it's the state medicaid/medicare offices, it's the bottom feeders selling add-ons like HSA investments. There's an industry dedicated to making billions off of our Health Care! This is SO wrong, it's a sin.
*If there's a company, state, private ambulance co, etc. who are exceptions to this rule, I apologize -- but I don't think I'll owe any apologies!

by Free Leonard Peltier ;

@bicmay How about 'care and not corner-cutting greed'?

by David Nice ;

@bicmay Free Luigi.

by MamiyaMan 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ;

@bicmay Hmmm. Maybe there IS trouble in American healthcare.

by Dirty Hippie ;

Tags: #healthcare #insurance #unitedhealthcare #priorauth #priorauthorization #surgery #cancer

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"Exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing health problem across the country, as human-caused climate change increases the risk and intensity of wildfires and the smoke that can drift thousands of miles downwind from them.

Here's what you need to know about the health risks — and how to protect yourself."

npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-52524


@bicmay Watching the images of these fires on TV I am quite concerned about the respiratory health of firefighters and citizens impacted. are very helpful for particular filtration, however it doesn't remove all poisonous and heated gases from a fire like this.

by Nicholas R ;

Tags: #publichealth #smoke #wildfires #california #air #airquality #environment

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"The 2024 'winners' of the annual Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the Lown Institute, an independent healthcare thinktank."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j


@bicmay

They are the lowest form of human life...😡

by Maddad ☑️ ;

Tags: #healthcare #greed #waste #fraud #abuse #costsofcare

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@bicmay I'm not sure if I know of any Drag Kings here on Mastodon yet. Most of them are still elsewhere. What's the deal with that?


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@bicmay

Not trying to teach anyone to suck eggs, but all banning abortion has ever done has been decrease the number of safe abortions.
Wonder how they'll try and stop that?


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Fight Fascism #RESIST

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@bicmay they’ll do it indirectly 🙄


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yuhasz01

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@bicmay American voters, of all sides, should vigorously hold GOP and Trump ACCOUNTABLE to honoring this campaign promise regarding no cuts to SS and medicare..


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Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)

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@bicmay They won't "cut benefits," they'll simply limit who can access them, especially if that means cutting off a majority of their base because they know their base will never hold them accountable 🙄


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"...drag king performers in Houston frequently go unpaid for performances, with some local bars and restaurants unwilling to compensate them. Other bars decline to host drag king performances altogether, instead only hosting drag queens, Mii says, contributing to a lack of representation and recognition that drag kings have been fighting for over a decade to earn."

houston.eater.com/24319809/hou

Great Code Switch podcast on this: npr.org/2024/07/24/1197958229/


@bicmay I'm not sure if I know of any Drag Kings here on Mastodon yet. Most of them are still elsewhere. What's the deal with that?

by David Zappelli ;

Tags: #lgbtq #drag #dragkings #representation

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“My heart broke to see how sick some of these children were,” Green said in an interview. “As a physician in the United States, you almost never see these diseases, because we vaccinate our communities.”

washingtonpost.com/health/2025


Tags: #publichealth #measles #vaccinations #Immunizations #Samoa #hhs #uspol

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"No, the president has made clear that Social Security and Medicare have to be preserved," Johnson replied when asked if he was open to cutting the programs as part of the spending plans being worked out between House and Senate Republican leaders. "We have to look at all spending while maintaining… The Republican Party will not cut benefits."

abcnews.go.com/Politics/johnso


Tags: #healthcare #medicare #SocialSecurity #immigration #uspol

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"The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection...by finalizing the regulations now, the CFPB effectively dared the incoming Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress to undue rules that are broadly popular and could help millions of people who are burdened by medical debt."

kffhealthnews.org/news/article


Tags: #healthpolicy #medicaldebt #creditreports #CFPB

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"Since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states like Texas to ban nearly all abortions, the number of pregnancy terminations in the United States actually increased. This paradox, which pleases abortion advocates as much as it frustrates their conservative counterparts, hinges mostly on pills.

An average of 2,800 Texans receive abortion-inducing medications through the mail each month from states that still allow abortion..."

texastribune.org/2025/01/07/te


Tags: #healthcare #reproductivejustice #texas

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Calishat

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' In this group, 44% of them received cash each month from a government program while 56% did not. The families that received the cash were significantly less likely to contract TB. Among the extremely poor in this category, TB cases and deaths dropped by more than 50% and in the Indigenous population the drop was even more dramatic: more than 60%.'

npr.org/sections/goats-and-sod


Tags: #ubi #tuberculosis #publichealth

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Texas Observer

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Our most-read story of 2024: Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. We revealed the real identities of four of these hatemongers. texasobserver.org/revealed-ope


Tags: #elonmusk #politics #uspol #extremism #socialmedia #bestof2024 #news #antisemitism

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@Nonya_Bidniss

Low bar, low bar 😞


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"For the first time in history, the US Food and Drug Administration has established guidance for levels of lead in processed baby foods that are sold on supermarket shelves and online. The agency’s action, announced Monday, only provides guidance to industry and is not enforceable."

cnn.com/2025/01/06/health/lead


Tags: #publichealth #lead #babyfood #food #babies #children #pediatrics #familymedicine #primarycare

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Lenora

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@bicmay when new epidemics spread and children die the will blame everyone but themselves


Tags: #antivaxxers

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@SaraR

This and the previous episode are SO FUNNY. 😂 💜 💜


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Texas Observer

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In : The friends dished about the usual stuff: the latest craziness on TikTok, games they were playing, their sports ambitions, classmates, teachers, and boys—if they were at all interesting. And one other topic, a more haunting and dominating subject: how to cope as a survivor of a mass shooting. texasobserver.org/uvalde-schoo


Tags: #books #bookstodon #gunviolence #schools #children #education #texas #southtexas #uvalde

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