Offline: Primary healthcare is not enough.

"...The “fundamental role” of primary healthcare is, once again, central to the 2023 vision for #UHC—90% of essential interventions for UHC can be delivered using a primary healthcare approach...”

#PrimaryHealth #PHC #Care #aging

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01843-3/fulltext#%20

https://www.minenest.com/58390/ I made useless Minecraft items USEFUL… #1v1 #CanYouBeat #challenge #DreamMinecraft #funny #henwy #IMade #ISecretly #ISecretlyUsed #jagster #MineCraft #Minecraft #MinecraftBut #MinecraftChallenge #MinecraftFunny #MinecraftManhunt #MinecraftMod #MinecraftSpeedrunner #MinecraftSpeedrunnerVsHunter #MinecraftVideos #ModdedMinecraft #shadowapples #uhc #useful #useless #wisp #wispexe

Let's Set Trump's Insulin Pricing Record Straight

https://rant.li/thenonameleague/lets-set-trumps-insulin-pricing-record-straight

Except only slightly and for a token few, the former US president never reduced insulin prices, and the current president has never increased them...

Whenever a US politician brings up the price of insulin nowadays, a pile of the ex-president's peeps get to it on social media spinning a false narrative that he had already lowered insulin prices down to $35 and on the day Biden came into office it was reversed, causing insulin prices to skyrocket back up.

#Trump signed an executive order in July 2020 in that would only end up refusing health services for the poor at FQHCs.

Rightfully, it was put on hold before it could go into effect and, later rescinded by the HHS by Nov. 2021.

In May 2020 the CMS created a rule for a voluntary $35 insulin price cap for private Medicare Part D plans. (only a third of plans participated).

As a result of the willful ignorance in the MAGA-faithful, they have conflated the FQHC EO with the CMS $35 rule.

So the myth is that the current president rescinded ton day one.

The truth is that it has never not been in effect since Jan. 1 2021, but under the IRA has been expanded to be mandatory for all #Medicare plans.

This is not a defense of President #Biden or the #Democrats by any means.
This is simply a pedantically thorough explanation of historical & political context, as well as reality.

#Diabetes isn't a fucking hobby.
Those of us who rely on a substance to make it through the day shouldn't be used as disingenuous political fodder.

(#UHC would go a long way to solve a lot of the issues with access to #insulin and its #pricing)

You can read the long pedantic source-laden article at the above #fediverse-friendly link or the #Medium link below.

https://medium.com/@c.s.balthazar/lets-set-trump-s-insulin-pricing-record-straight-b75c78a66c67?source=friends_link&sk=7b4112bd3e4930511bbf7d4366e55ee3

Dr Glaucomflecken is always right about a certain company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP-aHmTzulY&ab_channel=Dr.Glaucomflecken

#healthInsurance #UHC

@shansterable

#politics #medicine #uhc #m4a

Uhm, doctors don’t actually like dealing with health insurance. And they do support UHC.

They don’t generally support M4A, of course, because they know better. They’re not ignorant, like so much of the far left.

Hello there.

New to Mastodon & hoping to interact here more as I become more familiar.

I'm a fan of the earth's natural wonders and beauty, and a huge NY Mets baseball fan.

Hoping to gain followers and to follow like minded people & all those who support a better tomorrow for everyone, with policies like #UBI, #UHC, #GND #FreeEducation #EndHomelessness and #ReduceConsumption for a cleaner & greener planet, healing from the damage we humans have done to the natural world.

#introduction

RT @WHO_Europe
🆕 report shows that the European Region has:

👄 highest levels of oral disease, cavities & tooth decay of permanent teeth in the world
🦷 second highest level of tooth loss
👄 second highest number of new cases of oral cancers

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/366987

#OralHealth
#UHC

Which do you think #plutocrats & #megacorps prefer?

A) Use #AI #automation to improve/maintain physical/economic #infrastructure to save the planet & ppl can live better, healthier lives where jobs are optional value-add to #UBI & #UHC?

or

B) Use #AI to max short-term #profits, muddy information, trap #consumers, replace #workers, divide #citizens, dismantle governments, subvert #justice so ppl are disunited, poor, powerless, desperate, even grateful to serve plutocrats’ interests for scraps?

Vom 20. bis zum 27. April 2023 werden unsere Projektpartner aus #Südafrika 🇿🇦 , #Ghana 🇬🇭 und #Peru 🇵🇪 zu Gast sein und mit uns in Nordrhein-Westfalen auf Vortragsreise gehen. Inhaltlich geht es um die „lessons learnt“ aus der #COVID19 #Pandemie und die Chancen für eine qualitativ hochwertige und global gerechte #Gesundheitsversorgung (#UHC).

Looking forward to exploring health worker education and employment at the Forum.
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RT @GHWNetwork
⏳Don’t miss the 5th Global Forum Roundtable on #healthworker #education & employment in support of #UHC

Advanced registration required 👉http://bit.ly/3ZQbuZy

☑️select *Register Now*

See you there! #ProtectInvestTogether #HealthForAll #jobs @Siofitz @MarsdenPa @Working4H
https://twitter.com/GHWNetwork/status/1636372863455461379

I just can't understand how as a wealthy country we have allowed this to happen at all. #UBI and #UHC are critical to stopping child labor and the US has the means to do it today. #Resist

I find it absolutely ironic that this was posted on Reddit under the sub "InterestingAsFuck" because I'm positive those outside looking in are truly bewildered by the blatant abuse of children

r/interestingasfuck - Children going to a 12-hour night shift in the United States, 2023 https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11pmm04/children_going_to_a_12hour_night_shift_in_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Pinning my hashes! Much thanks to those that helped me get over the hurdle of transitioning to Mastodon from that other algorithm based platform. 🫂
#UniversalHeathcare #UHC #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #Democracy #WomensRights #ProChoice #HealthCare  #Unions #SupportUkraine #EqualRightsForAll #LGBTQ #SocialJustice #Climate #Environment #VoteBlue #Resist #tech #fediverse #science

Yup -- it's true. This client has NO mental health coverage. My billing people say this is increasingly common.

In fact -- it gets worse. As my biller says:

"The only information they would provide is that she has no mental health benefits at all and that if she received treatment prior to the effective date of this coverage it would not be covered for 12 months due to being a pre-existing condition."

The plan is US Health Group (A Unitedhealthcare Company) underwritten by Freedom Life Insurance Company of America. They are formerly known as "UMR" and still appear this way in billing systems and their snail mail address.

Apparently a search of Maryland's ACA (Affordable Care Act) Health Connection website for useful insurance coverage prompts a flurry of texts and calls from random health insurance brokers looking to sell desperate people trash plans not on the state exchange. In this case some high speed sales script reading was involved and the client did not fully understand what was being purchased. This is not a stupid client.

There are so many problems here:

1) The original outrage of no mental health coverage.
2) The possibility that NO PRE-EXISTING CONDITION MIGHT BE COVERED. (I have no reason to assume that statement only applies to mental health pre-existing conditions. I don't know.).
3) That client contact data from Maryland Health Connection government website is available to brokers of possibly shady plans.
4) That United Health is actively supporting and has some ownership in a plan that certainly at least smells like a SCAM, although I'm sure it sold as extreme cut-rate no-frills insurance.

This needs to stop.

#psychology #insurance #mentalhealth #psychiatry #covid #socialwork
#healthadvocacy #aca #apa @psychology @socialwork
@psychotherapists @psychiatry #psychotherapy
#covidisnotover #telehealth
@SuprmomcatCathy @Neurogirl1976 @siderea @notes @dramypsyd
#marylandhealthconnection #marylandaca
#uhc #unitedhealthcare #ushealthgroup #UMR #freedomlifeinsurance

The first Hermitfan UHC has just started. A team from the communities of Geminitay, Zedaph, Scar, Mumbo, VintageBeef and Impulse will be participating.
There are some Hermits participating in the teams as well.

Mathw, a fellow Zedcraft admin is streaming a spectator view.
https://www.twitch.tv/therealmathw

There are some other streams of the event as well, and some participants will be making a video for it.

#Minecraft #Hermitcraft #UHC

RT @AgeBluestone@twitter.com

A life course approach to universal health coverage is not an aspiration, it is a necessity. And primary health care, empowering people and communities, and community-based services are the cornerstones of addressing #NCDs & #UHC @SUNISEAproject@twitter.com https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/blog/For%20AlUniversal-Health-Coverage-is-only-Universal-if-Older-People-are-Included

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AgeBluestone/status/1603760384414208000

@gemelliz Having lived in both US and Canada, please believe me Canadians should not want the US system. It's cruel and barbaric. Both US political parties fully support this for-profit system, backed of course by the political donations of for profit health insurers.

In Canada, these cynical efforts always begin with "but the wait times! and hey, we should have a tiered system!". It's a trojan horse. This is private health insurers propaganda, always.

#UHC #ForProfitHealthCare #Predation

RT @CPHIA_AfricaCDC
#Africa has a chance to accelerate efforts toward rebuilding #healthsystems capable of responding to multiple health threats.

Join @Amref_Worldwide Chief @daktari1 during #CPHIA2022 to learn more about #Africa’s plan for #UHC.

More info 👉🏾 https://cphia2022.com
@AfricaCDC

RT @CPHIA_AfricaCDC
Having more women in healthcare leadership is an essential building block of strengthening health systems to achieve #UHC & the #SDGs. Join the session “Women in Health - from Recipients to Providers to Leaders” at #CPHIA2022 this December to learn more. https://cphia2022.com

@TruthSandwich @JuliusGoat “All of the studies, regardless of ideological orientation, showed that long-term cost savings were likely. Even the Mercatus Center, a right-wing think tank, recently found about $2 trillion in net savings over 10 years from a single-payer Medicare for All system.” https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/484301-22-studies-agree-medicare-for-all-saves-money/ #m4a #medicareforall #singlepayer #uhc #universalhealthcare

Health insurance in the US sucks. I’ve got supposedly good coverage but United Healthcare’s website has down since Nov 14th!!! Got a rep on the phone to send me a letter with the info I needed but I need to login to get the letter. All they managed to do was send an email that a letter is waiting for me to retrieve on the website. Which I can’t access.

#catch22 #insurance #websitedown #uhc