New healthcare thread...

[Padreruf]

In 11 months my Medicare drug insurance has paid 163,000+ for my treatments. I have paid 8,000 but that has come via. a grant that MUSC acquired on my behalf. I will have to pay $540 in January and then the grant will kick in again. I don't know how people without resources and help can manage these costs.

This year my policy has gone up to 48 per month as opposed to 21 per month last year. That is still a bargain for what I am getting. My company is UHC...they only questioned one high priced drug at the beginning of my treatment, and after the hospital spoke to them they immediately recanted.

 

[crimsonaudio]

In 11 months my Medicare drug insurance has paid 163,000+ for my treatments. I have paid 8,000 but that has come via. a grant that MUSC acquired on my behalf. I will have to pay $540 in January and then the grant will kick in again. I don't know how people without resources and help can manage these costs.

This year my policy has gone up to 48 per month as opposed to 21 per month last year. That is still a bargain for what I am getting. My company is UHC...they only questioned one high priced drug at the beginning of my treatment, and after the hospital spoke to them they immediately recanted.

Really happy to see this, Padre!

 

[mdb-tpet]

It is a difficult, nay probably impossible discussion, but we do need to have a limit on spending for our overall healthcare, lest we spend every single penny on increasingly expensive treatments pushed by profiteering medical companies.

So, the old "death panel" idea that was killed by Sarah Palin is one of the really good ideas for us as a nation to decide what is covered, what are realistic end of life treatments, and what is not covered for anyone, so we don't have these bureaucratic insurance nightmares of being turned down for treatments that should be covered and hundred thousand dollar specialized treatments that destroy our overall healthcare finances.

What “Death Panels” Can Teach Us About Health Misinformation

In his latest column, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman discusses the difficulties of navigating the misinformation minefield, including the ways in which the news media can amplify or confront misinformation.

www.kff.org

 

[jthomas666]

[pounds head on desk]

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

 

[jthomas666]

[pounds head on desk]

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

From what I've heard, this year's flu strain is particularly nasty.

 

[Its On A Slab]

I may have already shared this, but here it goes:;

My late Dad was a pharmaceutical rep for several decades. Whenever single-payer health insurance was brought up, he'd rail against it, calling it "socialized medicine".

When my folks retired, and my Mom came down with Parkinson's, i remember him raving about how great Medicare was, and that it paid for nearly all of her care.

I didn't want to ask him, "Isn't 'socialized medicine' wonderful?"

 

[Its On A Slab]

San Francisco just appointed Virgie Tovar as their Weight Stigma Czar

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1869029771876941975

And yes, she's serious. She actually working with the SF Department of Public Health.

Didn't you get the memo? Gluttony has been taken out of the Seven Deadly Sins.

We are working on sloth as well.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

From what I've heard, this year's flu strain is particularly nasty.

as a hospital worker, I regret to inform you that you did, in fact, hear correctly.

We’ve had several come in with that and it presents almost like it is a pulmonary embolism or congestive heart failure as far as the trouble breathing.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

as a hospital worker, I regret to inform you that you did, in fact, hear correctly.

We’ve had several come in with that and it presents almost like it is a pulmonary embolism or congestive heart failure as far as the trouble breathing.

Are patients presenting like that vaccinated?

 

[Padreruf]

A former Bama player and good friend of mine texted me to say that his wife, who has MM, has tested positive for H1N1 flu, flu A,& Pneumonia. She is off the ventilator but still hospitalized in ICU.

He felt bad and was tested, has the Flu as well.

Both are improving but it is a tough road for them. I would share his name but I've not asked him for permission.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[JDCrimson]

Was the patient the UH CEO?

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[Bamaro]

 

[crimsonaudio]

A rigorous nine-year research review looking at the relationship between fluoride and intelligence in children concludes that as fluoride levels rise, IQ drops.

Every 1 part per million increase in fluoride in urine — a way of measuring all the sources of fluoride a person consumes — was associated with a roughly 1 point drop in a child’s IQ score, the review concluded.

Although an impact like that may seem small for any one person, on a wider scale, the study authors note, the consequences are significant, especially for those who are vulnerable because of risk factors like poverty and nutrition.

“A 5-point decrease in a population’s IQ would nearly double the number of people classified as intellectually disabled,” they write in their conclusions.

CNN: Children exposed to higher fluoride levels have lower IQs, a government study finds

 

[Its On A Slab]

CNN: Children exposed to higher fluoride levels have lower IQs, a government study finds

I guess that explains voters in red states. All this time, I thought it was the lead paint chips. . I keed.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

CNN: Children exposed to higher fluoride levels have lower IQs, a government study finds

Some scientists, health professionals are already calling this study out as high bias, most studies were with more than twice the recommend concentrations of fluoride given in the US and none of the studies were done in the US. But I'm sure this will give RFK and other Trump nuts the ammo needed to get rid of fluoride in the US even though the dental care results would be disastrous.

Analysis links fluoride exposure to low IQ but finds 'high risk of bias' in most studies

The inverse association between fluoride levels and IQ levels remained the same when the analysis accounted for age, sex, country and exposure timing. The assessors also noted that there are no known epidemiological studies on fluoride exposure and children’s IQ in the U.S., making the results of their analysis difficult to apply to the U.S. population.

They also noted there was “limited data and uncertainty” regarding the effect of fluoride on children’s IQ levels when fluoride from drinking water was less than 1.5 mg/L.

The US Public Health Service recommends a fluoride concentration of 0.7 mg/L, which public water systems across the country abide by.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1879330447869497684

Price gouging by the ‘Big 3 PBMs’—Caremark Rx, LLC (CVS), Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI), and OptumRx, Inc. (OptumRx)—marked up numerous specialty generic drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by **thousands of percent***, and many others by hundreds of percent. Such significant markups allowed the Big 3 PBMs and their affiliated specialty pharmacies to generate more than $7.3 billion in excess revenue.

FTC Releases Second Interim Staff Report on Prescription Drug Middlemen

The Federal Trade Commission today published a second interim staff report on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty g

www.ftc.gov

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Steak n Shake to Use 100% Beef Tallow. No Cap.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1879938308580733040

Big if true. I wish all restaurants would do this.

 

[dayhiker]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1880098039429492968

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Steak n Shake to Use 100% Beef Tallow. No Cap.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1879938308580733040

Big if true. I wish all restaurants would do this.

In which case, I'd be able to eat no french fries at all...