#denying medical care

[nerdykeith]

This is an absolute utter disgrace, a catholic clinic has refused to treat a 14 year old girl's ADHD; all because she is trans. They told her mother "We don't see transgendered patients in this clinic."

This is complete discrimination and I'm fed up with religious institutions expecting a special right to discriminate. A religion shouldn't be the exception to the rule.

[andresmounts2]

Normalize letting trans kids live.

Every trans child on this planet deserves to be safe & supported.

[tilbageidanmark]

Word on the street

[3-aem]

universal healthcare is not broken and anyone trying to convince you it is is delusional and a dckrider for big health insurance. yes there are wait times but waiting for care is Not the same as being denied care.

in america your physician prescribes care and an insurer can still cuck you out of it because someone across the continent who has never met you can say: doesn’t seem medically necessary. Leaving you to handle a bill that is wildly inflated by the same insurers that just denied you.

let me drill it through your head you can pay thousands a year in premiums and still end up sick and financially burdened for years by One incident. no insurance company is Avoiding going broke by denying claims. theyre doing it to profit off your misfortune and your illness. Because healthcare fundamentally does not cost the amount that they claim it to be.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

As an outsider, I do think it's very telling that the only good thing they can think of to say about that guy who got shot is that he was a father.

Not just because everybody should have more good things to say about them than that, but because… he ran a company that (in theory) pays for people's healthcare?

Like, that's what a health insurance is, right? The Americans have way too expensive healthcare for any normal person to afford, so they get insurance to help them pay. That's supposed to be the deal, isn't it?

And yet nobody is posting saying stuff like: “my Auntie Mabel would have died from her cancer, if UHC insurance hadn't paid for her treatment!”

Or “after the accident, I thought Timmy would never walk again, but thanks to physiotherapy paid for because we had UHC insurance he's playing for his school football team!”

In fact, a bunch of people are saying stuff like: “after the accident, I thought Timmy would never walk again— and I was right, because UHC said that being bipedal was a pre-existing condition, and Timmy ended up dying from gangrene due to lack of treatment.”

Like, the NHS has done a lot of fucked up stuff (google 'NHS scandal' for examples) and has some bullshit policies. But they also help people on a daily basis, because that's their job.

What the fuck service is UHC meant to be providing? Because it apparently isn't helping many people pay for healthcare.

[foxyfoxyfoxyfoxy]

I wish mayor adams a very choke and die immediately

[the-beacons-of-minas-tirith]

Terfs really have no brain cells huh

“Intersex does not exist”????

Anyway:

From Ask A Biologist:

From Planned Parenthood:

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/whats-intersex

From the Intersex Society of North America:

TERFS/RADFEMS STOP BEING IGNORANT SHITS CHALLENGE LEVEL IMPOSSIBLE

[nixtorr]

that they’re just getting sick and going insane for the last chapters before what was supposed to be their marriage makes me insane. what do you mean myshkin was scared he’d die in his sleep. what do you mean nastasya drove him past the epanchin’s house and he was sick for two days. what do you mean myshkin was so scared about rogozhin that nastasya couldn’t calm him down and she only made him worse. what do you mean she saw a vision of rogozhin with a knife in her garden and was ‘in a state of near delirium’ for the whole day. what do you mean he showed up at her house and she started sobbing in his arms. they need to be studied under a microscope

[clione16]

"Eat the rich i hate billionaires" leaving people's bodies after United Healthcare CEO get shot

[fenrichaita]

Not only is having a mental health diagnosis in your records not neutral, but it is dangerous. Not just in the medical setting, but, yeah, including within the medical setting.

You are immediately less likely to be believed. You are immediately more likely to receive lower quality care, no matter what symptoms you're experiencing or whether or not it's considered a "physical" vs. "mental" issue. Everything will be attributed to your diagnosis, and depending on the nature of that MH diagnosis. Considering that most of these diagnosis are based in racial and gendered biases, among other things, they are "scientific" ways of declaring certain demographics less deserving of care in the medical setting.

A mental health diagnosis should not make you a second-class citizen during a medical emergency. The stigma is baked into these diagnoses, and it's killing people.

[martenpounce]

also im not even halfway through squirrelflights hope and god bramblestar is insufferable. are we sure he wasn't possessed before tbc even starts

[academicgangster]

Really hate the 'welcome to adulthood, hope you like ibuprofen!' style of post because do you know how much better my childhood and adolescence would have been if I'd had access to ibuprofen.

[tilbageidanmark]

Saint Luigi

[lapdogchase]

sitting here in shock bc i just genuinely agreed with house on something. thats like the first time its happened

[c4rdkingd0m]

i think it's really funny how after denying thousands of people medical care, that ceo guy was also denyed the ability to be saved by it

[hafwen]

Everyone has human rights, even the people you hate (yes even the person you’re thinking about right now) Peoples rights should not be dependent on which people are deemed “good” or “pure.” It’s so easy to think if you take away some rights from groups you don’t agree with you will improve the world but you won’t. You will just become another person removing rights from people you don’t like.