"At least five children and three adults with cholera died as they went in search of treatment in South Sudan after aid cuts by the Trump administration shuttered local health clinics during the country’s worst cholera outbreak in decades, the international charity Save the Children reported this week."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/world/africa/south-sudan-cholera-children-deaths.html
@benroyce @gocu54 @deepmud I would like to think that it’s still possible to hold the belief that the United States #HealthCare system is an absolute disaster and the notion that taking another life is morally wrong at the same time without disonance. I am straight up against capital punishment, no exceptions. This includes both Luigi and the guy he gunned down. I’ve seen many of the rationalizations and they just don’t fly with me. I can’t help but think that it was just plain luck that someone else didn’t get hit along with the target. Maybe I’m just a bleeding heart pacifist, but I can’t condone this as a righteous killing. No doubt he was a prick of the highest order, but as has already been said in this thread, nobody has the right to act as judge jury and executioner. That’s just capital punishment by other means.
nick:
you agreed #healthcare as #profit is wrong, bless you
you appreciated how #plutocracy (not #capitalism) corrupts the legislative process to continue being a rent seeking #parasite- not a #freeMarket
since we agree here, you need to take the final step with us:
where peaceful change to stop suffering and death for profit is blocked
then #luigi is *inevitable*
you don't have to embrace him
but you must accept him
because luigi is the symptom, not the root problem
"it doesn't give anyone the right to be the judge, jury, and executioner"
you're speaking of the "#healthcare" system that debilitates, bankrupts, and *kills*
for #profit
right?
i am not asking you to support #luigi
i am asking you, simply:
do you think there will never be pushback?
and if pushback through normal, legal means is stymied
by the parasites profiting here
via #corruption
do you think that pushback will just magically disappear?
please think on this:
and now please provide your #moral judgment on a "#healthcare" system that creates suffering, impoverishment and death... for profit
i am not condoning luigi's behavior
but if you don't understand the inevitable consequences of such a "healthcare" system, you are a fool
if i tell you that by driving drunk you will hit a tree and die, am i trying to kill you?
or am i warning you
and what would you say of a person, a society, that does not heed such an obvious warning?
"As cuts sweep across federal health agencies, the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) has been terminated.
Notably, the ACHDNC...is responsible for the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP), a standardized list of dozens of conditionsopens in a new tab or window the HHS secretary recommends states screen for as part of their universal newborn screening programs."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115070
Where is the #care in Health Care? "Blue Cross had stranded many of the center’s patients with high bills, amounts that it had absorbed over the years. On several occasions, though, Blue Cross executives had signed special one-time deals with the center, known as single case agreements, to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment."
https://www.europesays.com/uk/13815/ The UniWee will improve care for immobile female patients #Health #Healthcare #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/1989170/ Unravelling the linkages between conflict and antimicrobial resistance #Conflicts #geopolitics #HealthCare #microbiology
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills.
But the insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross executives signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"A California neurologist who’s among the nation’s top researchers on dementia has been swept up in Pres. Donald Trump’s purging of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, adding to the growing cadre of research science terminated because of the administration’s edicts":
https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/04/health-research/
#Trump #WarOnScience #healthcare #politics #DEI
If it's been too overwhelming to read every single thing about what's happening at federal health agencies, this piece from ten (10!) of my @STAT colleagues gives you an overview of what's happened and how bad it is:
“We are really trying to hold things together with our bare hands,” said one employee.
https://www.europesays.com/uk/13281/ Man born with rare genetic condition visits Ludlow to gather opinions on the future of the NHS as part of nationwide tour #Health #Healthcare #ldrs #LocalHubs #ludlow #News #SouthShropshire #UK #UnitedKingdom
"Republicans have managed to unite two health industry sectors normally at war — insurers and hospitals — by threatening to cut Medicaid.
Lobbyists for both industries, faced with the prospect of losing billions of dollars in fees, are scrambling to convince lawmakers that tens of millions of low-income Americans who rely on the program will suffer."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/insurers-providers-medicaid-cuts-00282418
"...in the interest of not paying a woman who is suing them for actions she believes led to the death of her unborn child any more money than that, attorneys representing CHI and MercyOne (Catholic) Hospital are arguing that the unborn child was not a person."
https://www.wonkette.com/p/catholic-hospital-discovers-one-very
I talked a boatload of shit today about RFK, the Federal judiciary enabling Ostarbeiter to take place in the US, RFK's desire for concentration camps for ADHD & autistic folks, & the DOJ dropping charges on the Texas doctor who went after trans patients & violated HIPAA.
At the end of the day, every patient agreed that deleting their ASD diagnosis was the right thing to do right now.
Why do I share this?
Im urging all providers to have similar conversations with patients before September. Some may glean services from ASD diagnosis. Factor in a risks benefit discussion. Let them decide.
It's urgent.
Sources:
Federal enabling: https://apnews.com/article/illegal-immigration-immigrant-registry-trump-homeland-security-329d9b1523792aaf5940f72948d8b48b
Ostarbeiter: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/114316065490008662
RFK 1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cause-of-autism-research/
DOJ: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/transgender-care-data-leak-texas-childrens-hospital/
Further, autism self diagnosis is largely valid & UWash website has links.
Author, gynecologist Jen Gunter says she's moving back to Canada as reproductive rights erode in U.S.
Jen Gunter, a Winnipeg-born gynecologist and bestselling author, says she's had enough with the United States, but she’s also prescribing a stark warning for Canadian voters concerned about the future of their own reproductive health care.
#politics #reproductiverights #healthcare #author #Canada #UnitedStates
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jen-gunter-trump-canada-1.7508222?cmp=rss
@Trenton_Hoshiko if your health is important to you - wear a #mask in crowded places… no one can give you your #health back if you get #covid … and #healthcare is expensive!
https://www.europesays.com/uk/10996/ Boots celebrates upgraded health and beauty offering at Merry Hill store #Business #dudley #Health #Healthcare #LocalHubs #News #UK #UnitedKingdom
After a vaccine was introduced shortly before I was born in 1950, the incidence in the US declined by 90%+.
And now it's back, and its reappearance is directly related to vaccine refusal — that is, to people's willingness to believe nonsense and lies, and to show utter disdain for the common good in doing so.
Talk about a society choosing self-destruction, choosing suicide.
#Trump #RFKJr #WhoopingCough #pertussis #measles #vaccines #vaccination #science #healthcare
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