#healthcare departments

[mugiwara-lucy]

Guys….i have to say it….i was wrong trying to get you all to vote for Kamala all these months and not President Trump who was saved by God….President Trump just exposed something inhumane about her!! That witch wants to give us HEALTHCARE!! 😂

How communist of her! It’s not like Doctor and Dental Care is expensive as shit! No let’s vote in the reincarnation of Jesus Christ himself President Trump who wants to make it to where votes will no longer matter and it’ll all be fixed for us after four years!!

(/s for Sarcasm if that wasn’t obvious 🤣)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

The Department of Defense’s health insurance plan, Tricare, must cover gender-affirming surgery for transgender dependents of active and retired service members, a federal judge has ruled. The exclusion of coverage for this care violates the equal protection guarantees of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen ruled November 1. The suit was brought by two transgender women in their 20s, identified by the pseudonyms Jane Doe and Susan Roe, who are both daughters of retired military members and are covered by Tricare. Doe and her father filed suit in 2022 in U.S. District Court in Maine, and Roe was added to the suit last year. Doe lives in Maine and Roe in Florida. Both of the women’s fathers served more than two decades in the military.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Defense Department, the department’s health agency, and Tricare were named as defendants. The women challenged a 1976 federal law that excluded coverage for “surgeries ‘justified solely on psychiatric needs including, ... sex gender changes’ and other services deemed ‘not medically necessary,’” Torresen wrote in her ruling. “Congress considered all ‘cosmetic’ procedures (including ‘sex gender changes’) to be ‘nonmedical’ in the sense that they were ‘psychologically’ or ‘psychiatrically’ justified, and not strictly medically necessary,” she continued. But Torresen found that such surgery is indeed medically necessary and that the Defense Department had not shown that any important governmental interest was advanced by denying the coverage.

Good news: Judge Nancy Torresen issued a ruling on November 1st in Doe v. Austin that Tricare is required to cover gender-confirmation surgery for transgender dependents of active and retired service members.

[carlthecheeseburger]

I voted like the bisexual, college attending, not wanting children at this moment cheeseburger I am. I hope you voted to preserve education and health care too, but I respect everyone's decision to make their own choice. Please exercise your democratic right to vote! Go! Now! What are you waiting for? Today is the day!

[bunnihearted]

🕸🎀˚.⁺⊹

[theriverbeyond]

bitches will procrastinate an academic presentation for 2 months and then be stressed

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. again gave the “lab-leak” theory a major boost, as its Energy Department, citing “new intelligence” but holding “low confidence” in it, joined the FBI in smearing China.

Reported exclusively by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Sunday, the claim immediately made headlines in major U.S. news outlets. However, its timing and source “only show the low credibility” of the report, analysts said, adding that the new hyping of an old topic is part of the U.S.’ political and information warfare with China.

[michaelbrous]

I just wanted to show my appreciation for Taylor Swift. I’ve never talked about this publicly and I would really like to make an impact and show my appreciation. Although she may not see this, thank you. For backstory, I was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022. Because it had been there for so long, doctors were unable to remove the complete tumor for my brain because it wasn’t safe.

Obviously, this changed my life. I was only 13 and scared. I didn’t understand whether I would live or not. Ever since then, I have appointments almost weekly due to the cancer and other health problems.

I found Taylor Swift’s discography around late 2022/early 2023. I deeply connected to her words and her experiences, which helped me get through my own. My favorite song, seven, helped me process my childhood, having me realize that my parents not being around still affects me to this day. I also deeply connected to the song Ronan. He had a very similar connection to what I had, and I was so so happy that Taylor had made a song about him and had so much sympathy for his family.

Taylor Swift has been there through the hard, rough parts of my life, and her words make me feel as though she is singing about my life. I’m not sure I would’ve gotten out of 2023 without her, after going through a whole separate mental health journey and connecting with her even more deeply.

Thank you Taylor Swift for the music you make. Millions of people worldwide can connect so deeply and it truly does improve everyone’s life. I am so grateful we have amazing women like you in the industry. We love you ❤️

If there are any other people who can relate in any way to this, I would love to hear and know about it. I hope to make updates to my health here so everybody has a chance and a community to speak to about problems like this.

[grimbleby]

I hate Sundays

The silence of the birthplaces screaming the ear bleeds, how dreadful every bite feels, like carver shaping every inch of my gullet.

Hesitate my dear, do not speak intellect, do as directed or get your soul stabbed.

Talk to the air, wait for no response, clean the dishesh my love, do as siad or your soul gets stabbed.

Maybe that's the way of living

What about others blooming, so cheerful and loved. Maybe not everything copy pastes , what about my quiet death

Let live, it's an everyday thing,used to the lukewarm affection, weekdays are weekends ,

That is why i hate Sundays

[mercymaker]

there's really a unique flavor to the fear of seeking medical help because you're anxious the doctor won't believe you or think you're lying 💀

[izvmimi]

i’m so tired of these people ordering studies and i, the person who will actually read this study, explain to them that the thousands of dollars they’re about to spend on this test will not benefit further management of this patient and it goes ‘well we want it’

[dullahandyke]

adult adhd clinic attempting to be relatable by not reading my fucking emails

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:

The Florida Health Department released guidance “strongly advising against the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines” and urging doctors to avoid administering them. The state justified this recommendation by citing a lack of “booster specific…randomized controlled trials.” This stance sharply contrasts with the guidance from federal agencies and health officials. Notably, the state's rationale mirrors the approach it has taken in its anti-transgender attacks on gender-affirming healthcare—a tactic commonly employed by Florida agencies and many anti-transgender activists. “The most recent booster approval was granted in the absence of booster-specific clinical trial data performed in humans…Although randomized clinical trials are normally used to approve therapeutics, the federal government has not required COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to demonstrate their boosters prevent hospitalizations or death from COVID-19 illness,” reads the press release from the Florida Health Department.

This is not the first time Florida has used the absence of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to justify bans on best-practice medical care—a tactic familiar to the state’s transgender community. During debates by the DeSantis-appointed Florida Board of Medicine over whether to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth and many adults—a decision they ultimately made in favor of—the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration issued guidance against transgender healthcare, stating, “There are no randomized control trials on the effectiveness of ‘gender affirming’ treatment.” Randomized controlled trials are often difficult to perform, take time, and may not be practical. Over 90% of all medical care does not have “high-quality” GRADE scores, which often require randomized controlled trials to receive. This does not mean that the treatments are deficient or harmful, rather, they are driven by other forms of evidence, such as observational studies, which are easier to perform, and individualized patient responses to treatment.

[...] The CDC currently recommends everyone older than 6 months get the updated COVID vaccine.

The Florida Department of Health under Surgeon General “Dr.” Joseph Ladapo continues to pander to anti-vaxxer extremists by issuing guidance against mRNA-based COVID vaccines.

See Also:

UPI: Contradicting experts, Anti-vaxxer extremist Fla. health chief Ladapo advises seniors to avoid mRNA COVID-19 boosters

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its most dangerous components.

Now known as the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model, the experiment inserts a for-profit entity between traditional Medicare beneficiaries and healthcare providers. The federal government pays the ACO REACH middlemen to cover patients' care while allowing them to pocket a significant chunk of the fee as profit.

The rebranded pilot program, which was launched without congressional approval and is set to run through at least 2026, officially began this month, and progressive healthcare advocates fear the experiment could be allowed to engulf traditional Medicare.

In a Tuesday letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) argued that ACO REACH "presents a threat to the integrity of traditional Medicare, and an opportunity for corporations to take money from taxpayers while denying care to beneficiaries."

The group, which advocates for a single-payer healthcare system, voiced alarm over the Biden administration's decision to let companies with records of fraud and other abuses take part in the ACO REACH pilot, which automatically assigns traditional Medicare patients to private entities without their consent.

CMS said in a press release Tuesday that "the ACO REACH Model has 132 ACOs with 131,772 healthcare providers and organizations providing care to an estimated 2.1 million beneficiaries" for 2023.

"As we have stated, PNHP believes that the REACH program threatens the integrity of traditional Medicare and should be permanently ended," Dr. Philip Verhoef, the physician group's president, wrote in the new letter. "Whether or not one agrees with this statement, we should all be able to agree that companies found to have violated the rules have no place managing the care of our Medicare beneficiaries."

Among the concerning examples PNHP cited was Clover Health, which has operated so-called Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs)—the name of private middlemen under the Trump-era version of the Medicare pilot—in more than a dozen states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and New York.

PNHP noted that in 2016, CMS fined Clover—a large Medicare Advantage provider—for "using 'marketing and advertising materials that contained inaccurate statements' about coverage for out-of-network providers, after a high volume of complaints from patients who were denied coverage by its MA plan. Clover had failed to correct the materials after repeated requests by CMS."

Humana, another large insurer with its teeth in the Medicare privatization pilot, "improperly collected almost $200 million from Medicare by overstating the sickness of patients," PNHP observed, citing a recent federal audit.

"It appears that in its selection process [for ACO REACH], CMS did not prevent the inclusion of companies with histories of such behavior," Verhoef wrote. "Given these findings, we are concerned that CMS is inappropriately allowing these DCEs to continue unimpeded into ACO REACH in 2023."

While the Medicare pilot garnered little attention from lawmakers when the Trump administration first launched it during its final months in power, progressive members of Congress have recently ramped up scrutiny of the program.

Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) led a group of lawmakers in warning that ACO REACH "provides an opportunity for healthcare insurers with a history of defrauding and abusing Medicare and ripping off taxpayers to further encroach on the Medicare system."

"We have long been concerned about ensuring this model does not give corporate profiteers yet another opportunity to take a chunk out of traditional Medicare," the lawmakers wrote, echoing PNHP's concerns. "The continued participation of corporate actors with a history of fraud and abuse threatens the integrity of the program."

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[insufferablemod]

healthcare system my detested...

[renee-mariposa]

I think I would fucking love my job if the corporation I work for wasn’t flagrantly exploiting us employees for shareholder profit