@vxo @froge @pluralistic @k SERIOUSLY, WTF!?
- #ForProfitHealthcare needs to be outlawed!
#ForProfitHealthcare
During the public debate surrounding the slaying of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, many Very Serious People TM insisted that it was hyperbolic to say United Health and medical insurance companies like it, were themselves in the business of murdering Americans for profit. While obviously their denials were disingenuous on a structural level in a society where providing (or not providing) access to life-saving medical care is one of the most profitable industries in the US economy, but as it turns out they were flat out wrong in a literal sense too. How do we know? Because recent investigations into UnitedHealth management practices show the company was straight up bribing nursing homes to deny their customers hospital care and pressure elderly residents to sign "do not resuscitate" orders; even if they wanted to use the coverage they paid for to you know, not die.
Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
"The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.
Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.
The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.
Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive."
So, there's a term for a situation when you just let someone in a medical emergency die because its more profitable for your company, and that term is "homicidal negligence." Which itself, is a fancy way of describing what any normal person would call murder. If you or I were caught doing this kinda shit at our (hypothetical, I assure you) Airbnb rental property, we'd be going to jail for a long fucking time. Because UnitedHealth is a giant corporation, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and has enough lobbyists to ensure no US Senator ever dines alone again however, it's just "efficient business operations" in the eyes of many free market fundamentalists and investor class sociopaths. Folks, they literally gamified a plot to enlist nursing homes to murder our grandparents for money; this isn't a wayward comment on an earnings call, these unhinged mutherfuckers had bonus tiers for nursing homes that kept hospital visits low at any cost. In a just world, folks should absolutely go to fucking prison for this homicidal bullshit, but we do not live in a just world and since our entire society is built to service capitalist extraction and the rich people who do it, I'm not gonna hold my breath while I wait for justice.
What I will say however is bougie maggot bootlickers can kiss my puckered asshole, because you can't stop reality from being real, or folks getting killed for profit by corporations, from calling that what it is: murder. The fact is that no company in the history of capitalist society ever created any wealth; they merely extract it from our shared environment and labor class folks like you and I. If a company like UnitedHealth figures out that letting your grandma die is good for their share prices, that's exactly what they're going to do; don't let disingenuous muppets who benefit from this system tell you it's too complicated for you to understand, and this practice isn't precisely what you think it is. These folks have made killing us for money at various speeds, a profitable industry; the least they could do is stop pissing in our faces when we point out that CEOs and investors have more bodies on themselves than you'll find in a pauper's cemetery.
#Capitalism #Murder #UnitedHealth #HomicidalNegligence #ClassWar #ProfitMotive #Corporations #Oligarchy #NursingHomes #Flak #Seniors #USNews #Propaganda #ForProfitHealthcare
#Healthcare #HealthInsurance #ForProfitHealthcare #MedicalCare #MedicalInsurance #Capitalism #PredatoryCapitalism #MurderForProfit
I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.
- Plus their #Website being built to mandate #JavaScript isn't very "respecting" of me as a potential user.
I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.
- But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.
Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...
- I do however acknowledge that there is a #market for #smol & #sleek "#StupidPhones" or rather compact #Smartphones and I do want to see more competition for it.
What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...
- I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.
I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...
- It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...
I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.
- Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @kallemp @0xF21D @chu also it's not as if things can't be better...
#AmericanHealthcare is shit because it's #ForProfitHealthcare and not regulated as a #utility and #CriticalInfrastructure!
This is a very blatant #clickbait and common #misconception:
- Salaries ain't worse but what people call "#perks" in the #USA is basically #mandatory in the #EU.
Simple things like:
- paid sick leave
- paid vacation leave
- paid parental (!!!) (not just maternal) leave
- healthcare insurance
pension / retirement plan
...In the #US, gross salaries are only higher because it's WAY MORE EXPENSIVE to get the same "perks", because #ForProfitHealthcare exists and noone gets paid vacay per law, so everyone has to cut that.
#Solidarity-based systems make things way cheaper, and people won't demand 6-digit salaries when they have to spend like 10% of their salary just to downpay a #car in a #CarCentric #suburban shithole but have excellent #PublicTransport at affordable rates right at their doorstep!
Socialize costs, privatize profits.
Same as it ever was.
#ForProfitHealthcare #PrivateHealthcare
#OrphanDrugs
From: @ProPublica
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113991391952975045
@carnage4life also the lack of building out #AffordableHousing and the existance of #ForProfitHealthcare are a big problem!
@nixCraft people already die due to #ForProfitHealthcare being #HornyForMoney!
- And if they can maximize that profit, they will, even at the expense of patients!
@BruceMirken Reality: we pay twice as much for nothing. Ask how many USians have health insurance (they have to pay for out of pocket) but the ER is their only healthcare. I’ll go first 🙋♀️
#USshittyHealthcare
#ForProfitHealthcare
#MoneyForNothing
“Assembly Bill 3129…is a measure rooted in concern about what private equity is doing to Californians’ ability to receive adequate care without facing astronomical bills. In the end, though, AB 3129 appears to be falling victim to the usual suspects: money, influence and lobbying power.”
#PrivateEquity #HealthCare #california #ForProfitHealthcare
https://capitalandmain.com/as-california-officials-seek-more-control-over-private-equity-takeovers-of-hospitals-and-clinics-the-industry-fights-back
~ A little-known data firm helps health insurers make more when less of an out-of-network claim gets paid. Patients can be on the hook for the difference.
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“In recent years, the nation’s largest insurer by revenue, UnitedHealthcare, has reaped an annual windfall of about $1 billion in fees from out-of-network savings programs, including its work with MultiPlan…”
This should never happen.
~Patient’s Family Owes $81,740 for a Single Air-Ambulance Flight~
The patient (age 70) did not have Medicare Part B.
It was a 79-mile (127 km) helicopter flight in Tennessee (by a private company backed by equity investors). When people call 911, they go with whatever ambulance (or flight ambulance) service takes them to the hospital.
NPR features a “bill of the month,” which speaks volumes about American healthcare.
#ForProfitHealthcare
#Healthcare
#USA
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/air-ambulance-flight-surprise-bill-medicare-part-b/
@ChrisMayLA6
Ramp up medical training?
#Tories are actively dragging out #NHS strikes to drive people from the profession.
...into the eager arms of #ForProfitHealthcare
THIS ⬇️
"Like most Ontarians, I care about the Greenbelt, but…
WHY - with a mass of ER closures, huge wait times to see specialists, the lack of family doctors and nurses, a shortage of hospital beds, [surgical profiteering, & OHIP delistings]
WHY isn’t this also a #DougFord scandal requiring resignations and a course change?"
- Mary Fernando, MD
#HealthcareMultiBillionPortfolio
#SylviaJones #bill60 #greenbeltscandal #ForProfitHealthcare #onpoli
#medicalfraud #medicalinsurance #forprofithealthcare
The Hidden Fee Costing Doctors Millions Every Year — ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-hidden-fee-costing-doctors-millions-every-year?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
@ProPublica_rss gotta keep the stockholders happy.
#forprofithealthcare
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