#healthcare policy

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Allyson Schwartz

Representative Allyson Schwartz was born in New York City in 1948. From 2005 until 2015, Schwartz represented Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. Her first legislative proposal in Congress was a bill that offered tax credits to businesses that hired veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and this proposal was signed into law as part of a 2007 business tax reduction bill. Rep. Schwartz developed a reputation as one of the leading healthcare experts in government, authoring several key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including the ban on denials due to preexisting conditions. She also spearheaded efforts to reform the Medicare physician payment system.

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[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS; STATE GOVERNORS & LEGISLATURES

Say NO to Loony-Bins: Immediate Action Required for Inpatient Psychiatric Care

2 so far! Help us get to 5 signers!

The current model of inpatient psychiatric care, which primarily focuses on safety and crisis stabilization, falls short in promoting sustained recovery. The prevalent emphasis on ultrashort lengths of stay often overlooks the need for comprehensive treatment plans.

A proposed model of care advocates for rapid diagnosis, goal-setting, and treatment modalities before initiating treatment, organized into three distinct phases: assessment, implementation, and resolution. This approach emphasizes individualized treatment and active patient involvement in treatment planning, addressing critical psychosocial aspects that are frequently neglected.

As we strive to reform the mental health care system, it's imperative to prioritize effective, recovery-oriented treatment strategies. This includes ensuring patient comfort and preferences are accommodated within reason. Considering patient preferences, like comfort items (such as safe stuffed animals; Share-Bears, if you will) and rescue medications (like melatonin,) is essential to upholding rigorous standards of care and safety.

Let's advocate for reforms that enhance patient-centered practices while adhering to established treatment guidelines and advancing recovery-oriented care.

Say no to “loony-bins;” those archaic relics that should be relegated to the distant past.

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💘 Q'u lach' shughu deshni da. 🏹 "What I say is true" in Dena'ina Qenaga

[objectivistnerd]

One of many reasons healthcare is so expensive in the United States is that we rank very poorly compared to developed country on both training doctors domestically and importing them from abroad. This was the consequence of a deeply confused policy capping medical school creation and enrollment from 1980 to 2005, as well as our restrictive immigration laws.

[thisismenow3]

We need to dissolve private health insurance and create universal medicine in the USA

But the assurance of wealth for its members is brazenly still the top priority for the Physicians association and hospitals being for profit too makes this worse. We kind of have to fix all three things together if we want more access to care and for that care to be actually good and not rushed and sub par.

related because it seems like the anesthesia cap was horribly mis reported and misunderstood (me included) and is actually more a situation of broken clock being right in regards to the insurance company

[astralfiasco]

In case you're wondering, the law is The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and it has some big implications for the pharmaceutical industry--read more here:

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/explaining-the-prescription-drug-provisions-in-the-inflation-reduction-act/

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[artisticdivasworld]

The Future of Nursing

Hey there, fellow nurse! Let’s chat about what’s in store for our profession in the coming years. It’s going to be quite a ride! First off, we’re going to see a lot more tech in our day-to-day work. Think artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and electronic health records. We’ll need to get really good at using these tools, not just for patient care but also for things like data analysis and…

[travelingtwentysomething]

You know what's funny? The minute people start aiming higher and taking out the powerful and wealthy and "elite", they're going to change the gun laws. Because their goal has always been for us to stay fighting each other instead of looking towards them as the real threat to our life, liberty, and freedom.

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[unsolicited-opinions]

I used to run a doctor's office. If your doctor's office hasn't explained this to you, let me do it for them.

You probably don't know how much time your doctor and their staff spend fighting with insurance companies for routine, ordinary things. The stories you see online might leave you thinking that these fights are, if not rare, maybe occasional. A sometimes sort of challenge.

Nope.

It's every day. It's all day. Your doctor's office has employees who fight with insurance companies as a full time job.

This isn't an accident or a side effect of other market forces at work - this is the deliberate, calculated plan the insurance companies have chosen to implement. They know very well it is hurting patients and providers, and they're okay with that because their priority is to maximize ROI for investors and other stakeholders. They're in the business of business, and they don't give a single fuck about human beings or health care.

They've lowered reimbursements in primary care so effectively that primary care has only survived in many parts of the US by becoming a loss leader for larger health systems. You know how the local retail store gets you in the building by selling something at slightly below cost because they know you're likely to buy more once you're inside? It's like that, a loss leader.

The health system where you get your primary care often loses money when you see your PCP, but since your PCP refers you to speciality care inside their own organization, the system makes up the money when your doctor sends you to see their own systems' surgeons, endocrinologists, dermatologists, etc.

Smaller primary care practices literally can't survive. That's why there are almost no independent family doctors any longer. That's why it is so hard to see the same provider with consistency, someone with whom you can develop trust over time, who knows you and knows your challenges. United Healthcare and it's private healthcare insurance competitors have nearly finished killing off that kind of primary care.

Larger primary care practices (30-40 providers) might still be able to make ends meet independently through economies of scale and/or what they earn by doing their own lab/testing/imaging services in-house, but that won't work much longer if current trends continue. We're headed in the direction of just a handful of vertically integrated businesses running healthcare, and they are in the business of business, not health care.

The insurance companies deliberately create administrative barriers which make it expensive for your doctor's office to advocate for you because it moves administrative costs away from the insurance company and onto your doctor's office. This results in fewer paid claims when your doctor's office can't afford to hire another full time position whose only job is to argue with insurance companies and jump through their deliberately obstructive hoops. They want your PCP to be struggling to stay open. They want your PCP unable to afford the cost of overcoming the administrative burdens they have deliberately created for the purpose of denying you the health care your doctor thinks you need.

There are other words for this, but the most appropriate one is "evil."

I don't want to glorify murder or lionize Luigi Mangione, but Brian Thompson was a ghoul, his senior team are ghouls, and the for-profit health insurance industry is a disaster for Americans, even those Americans who don't yet see the problem affecting themselves. They will.

We need universal, single-payer health coverage, just like every other wealthy nation.

We're not going to get it any time soon, and things are about to get worse for healthcare in the US.

Set aside the damage RFK Jr is likely to do to an already patchwork public health system by attacking regulations and spreading misinformation. Let's look at other ways Trump and the GOP plan to worsen health care.

1. They're going to go after Medicare and Medicaid benefits. They'll seek to lower them and raise the bar which must be cleared to receive them.

2. They're going to seek to raise the age for social security benefits (above 70!), and reduce benefits paid, so the most financially vulnerable seniors will have greater out-of-pocket costs. Those seniors are going to struggle harder with out-of-pocket costs.

3. They're going to attempt to cripple the Affordable Care Act (AKA 'Obamacare'), despite the fact that the ACA has been a HUGE money maker for the private insurance companies.

4. This administration will be run by hyper capitalist billionaires. It will seek to deregulate wherever possible and promote supply-side economics (tax breaks for the rich and large corporations) at every opportunity. United Healthcare and its competitors, which already weild an obscene, horrific amount of control over US Healthcare, are about to get substantially more power.

It's bad, folks. It's a very bad time to be sick and it's going to get worse.

Alan Grayson was right in 2009. The Republican health care plan has been and remains:

* Don't get sick

* If you do get sick, die quickly.

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

When people become convinced that they have no power to change anything within the system—that's when folks choose violent options. More importantly (since there's always someone around who chooses violence), that's when folks begin to support *other* folks choosing violence.

That's where we are. Most of us Know that no matter who we voted for, the corporate heist of America would go on. Neither Harris nor Trump had any interest in ensuring that ordinary people get quality healthcare everyone can afford.

We know voting is irrelevant to creating a society in which we can all prosper. The oligarchs have very carefully dismantled the ability of ordinary people to get justice. In their greed to get everything and hold all power, they forgot to allow folks to feel like they had hope.

Folks with no hope of getting justice within a system, have no reason to uphold the system. Lots of folks are talking about the French revolution and the Russian revolution, but don't forget how FDR addressed the problem in the US.

FDR created Federal programs that gave people hope for a scrap of fairness. He stopped violent revolution in the US by making the country a fairer place. He has been viciously hated for it for nearly a hundred years, by the rich people whose necks he saved.

When so many ordinary people celebrate the killer of a rich evil man, that is 100% the fault of the oligarchs. In a society where most folks can feel some hope for a fair and decent life, there's not a lot of fertile soil for growing outlaw folk heroes.

Now The Claims Adjuster, admittedly, is a smart and creative performance artist. But he wouldn't be loved in a fair, compassionate, and decent society. He is loved specifically because our society is unjust and cruel, and leaves most ordinary folk with no hope of a better life

If the oligarchs want to prevent more Adjusters, it is 100% in their power to do so. Change laws/policies so that everyone can get justice. So that everyone can eat, be housed, be free to pursue dreams and joys, pursue an education, enjoy clean air and water, have good healthcare

Anyway, this I learned in high school humanities, and I am pretty sure the oligarchs learned it too. They'd just rather pay influencers to try to shame us, than work to get us healthcare. Fuck em, and long live The Claims Adjuster.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Wow shocking things might be getting out of control, how could anyone have seen this coming?