Children are bearing the brunt of India’s worsening air pollution crisis, with 43 per cent of all pollution-linked health insurance claims coming from the 0–10 age group, according to a new report by Policybazaar. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/india-air-pollution-children-health-crisis-ugg117ou?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #airpollutionIndia #childrenhealth #healthinsurance

You know what? You're right. I actually LIKE doing things this way. I LOVE having to manually screenshot websites, transcribe their contents to spreadsheets, develop formulas for likely costs that also respect the plan rules --- knowing that these are only the baseline rules and that The Rulebook is what's actually legally binding (and the rule book is several hundred pages) --- all while gambling with whether or not I'll end up in the ER, whether or not I'll have expensive tests, whether or not a new problem will crop up that I hadn't anticipated, etc.

AND I didn't include all of my providers, just the crucial ones. AND the same story for meds.

This is fucking insanity. Burn this system to the god damned ground and build universal, single-payer, free-at-point-of-service Medicare for All.

#Healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #ObamaCare #DenyDefendDepose #csv #LibreOffice

"In its 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' the GOP gutted Medicaid and shifted nearly a trillion dollars from that program to tax breaks for the wealthy. It also slashed funds for SNAP and other food assistance programs. And critically, it didn’t extend insurance premium subsidies that have kept health care affordable for millions who are buying it through the ACA marketplace."

~ Jay Kuo

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/21

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/democrats-shutdown-trump-two-jobs

"We need to hang all of this around their necks like an albatross and disabuse them of the notion that they can continue to vote against the interests of the American people. We shouldn’t stand for it any more than we should stand for what the Republican Party is doing to this country."

~ Mary Trump

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/20

https://www.marytrump.org/p/where-things-stand

Venus Williams’s candid admission that she returned to tennis for health insurance spotlights the deep flaws in America’s employer-based system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/11/world/all-that-is-wrong-with-health-insurance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #venuswilliams #healthcare #medicine #healthinsurance #cobra

"The whole hard reality is We have a crazy fascist party and we have a status quo party. And unfortunately, both of them are funded by way too many of the same people in APAC and AI and crypto and pharma and big tech and the real estate lobby. And we need that something else."

~ Maurice Mitchell

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/19

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/shutdown-letdown-who-can-afford-healthcare

"But then suddenly eight senators chose to bow before the altar of caution – rather than honor the earthquake we all felt Tuesday.

And in doing so, they made our work – my work, your work – infinitely harder."

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/18

"Yesterday, as I spoke to activists and organizers – all of whom understood that Democrats were trying to feed 42 million people and pay federal workers – I heard a common refrain: betrayal.

We were all in on the strategy, however painful it was. And the strategy was working. We were winning the messaging wars, public opinion – and even elections."

Michele Hornish

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/17

https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/convention-has-held-us-back-the-political

"Several of the Democrats who voted to open the government have been on a media tour. They held a press conference on Sunday night and then made the rounds on cable trying to sell the deal.

Stop.

They are doing a terrible job. Trying to sell this as some sort of win is embarrassing."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/16

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-democrats-can-get-past-the-shutdown

"Senate Democrats surrendered when they had maximum leverage and were winning the fight. This surrender came weeks after the largest protest in American history, and days after the best election night in a decade or more. The public opinion polling showed Democrats were winning the fight, and the party’s own approval ratings were rising in response to them keeping up the fight."

~ Ezra Levin

#Democrats #shutdown #HealthInsurance #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/15

https://substack.com/@ezralevin/p-178547458

(continued from /13)

"betrayed the thousands of government workers who have held out, the SNAP beneficiaries who have faced starvation, and the millions of Democrats who supported this fight. They have blurred the lines on the single best issue they have—healthcare—allowing a handful of Republicans to vote with them in December, knowing it will not reach 60 votes or pass the House."

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/14

"The eight Neville Chamberlains who foolishly convinced themselves that caving for a vote (with a 60-vote margin, no less) with a reversal of reductions in force (RIFs), backpay (which the regime was legally obligated to do anyway), and a package of three appropriations bills (with no guarantee Donald Trump won’t pull a rescission)" (continued in /14)

~ Jennifer Rubin

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/13

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-d03

"Health insurance subsidies, upon which tens of millions rely, are at extreme risk. Medicaid and Medicare are scheduled for cuts and it is logical to wonder whether Social Securjty is next.

All of this is done to pay for tax cuts for his wealthy cronies. But it is more than that: the cruelty is the point."

~ Mark Mansour

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/12

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-great-robbery

"Don’t forget that their 'Big Beautiful Bill' already cut SNAP by $186 billion, and many in the GOP spent the last few weeks sneering that food stamp beneficiaries are a bunch of lazy moochers ('Stop smoking crack,' one congressman tweeted)."

You can either stuff the pockets of the already filthy rich with more dollars or you can see that people are fed and have healthcare coverage.

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/11

"Republicans were in an advantageous position, since they sincerely don’t care how much people suffer. They want those ACA subsidies to disappear, just as they wanted millions of people to lose their SNAP benefits."

~ Paul Waldman

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/10

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/shutdown-deal-democratic-rebellion

"The health insurance crisis is happening right now, as Americans open letters from their insurers and discover that they are facing huge increases — more than 100 percent on average, much more in many cases — in the cost of coverage beginning in just a few weeks."

~ Paul Krugman

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/9

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/republicans-are-damaged-by-their

"I fear a few people are going to literally die. And this is before Medicaid gets cut with these billionaire tax, you know, these great tax cuts for the billionaires. They'll help the money trickle down. Nothing gets trickled down ever. It all stays at the top always."

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/8

"These health care subsidies, folks, if they expire, I'm telling you, people are going to die. They're going to die. You know, how can they afford this? They're going to give up their health care. They can't. They can't. They're going to be bankrupt."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/7

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/dont-let-democratic-centrists-hijack

"Senate Republicans will line up like penguins and vote down the subsidies in December, and the House won’t even bother to hold a vote. By that time millions will have received notices of what their new health insurance bills will be. They will be very, very unhappy consumers of what Republicans are selling to them."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
/6

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-lose-sleep-over-the-shutdown

"Virtually no one wants this. Three-quarters of Americans want Congress to extend the ACA credits. And not that it should matter, but most Americans who rely on the ACA for healthcare live in states that went for Trump in 2024."

#Democrats #shutdown #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #capitulation #surrender #betrayal
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