While some athletes have raved about the muffins and others have complained about the cardboard beds, some American Olympians are taking advantage of the free healthcare. Team USA rugby player Ariana Ramsey didn't just get a bronze medal in Paris — she's had a pap smear, X-ray, teeth cleaning, and an eye test. She's posted about this on TikTok, influenced other athletes in the Village to visit medical professionals, and now plans to fight for universal healthcare in the U.S. Here's more from Sports Illustrated.
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#Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government
The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government #shutdown WITHOUT the #HealthInsurance subsidies #Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.
#healthcare #ACA #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/10/us/trump-government-shutdown-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
Update on the "Teach ME, Treat ME" medical education campaign from #MEAction :
https://www.meaction.net/2024/09/04/teachme-treatme-we-cant-believe-these-numbers/
"We tallied up some numbers from our 'Teach ME, Treat ME' campaign to educate clinicians and medical students about ME, and the results are fantastic!
The campaign has been a herculean effort by #MEAction staff and our 16 incredible teams across the U.S and U.K., and we are beyond proud!"
@mecfs @longcovid
#MEcfs #LongCovid #MedEd #CME #HealthCare #MayoClinic #TeachMeTreatME
Bullshit
Enough #Democrats voted with #Republicans to allow a spending deal that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.
#ACA #Healthcare #HealthInsurance
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes #Insurance
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Those who need #therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have #health insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
#News #HealthCare #MentalHealth #Government #Business #Law #Doctors #Hospital #Patients
#SCOTUS allows #HHS to divert funds over #abortion referrals
The #SupremeCourt Tues cleared the way for the #Biden admin to strip millions of #HealthCare dollars from #Oklahoma over its refusal to direct patients to info about #abortions — a federal req that the state says would be at odds w/its strict #AbortionBan.
Last yr, the Biden admin diverted $4.5M from OK’s #FamilyPlanning prgm, which primarily serves #LowIncome or #uninsured patients.
#law #ReproductiveRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/03/oklahoma-abortion-funding-supreme-court-title-x/
Candi Miller would have turned 43 today.
Under Georgia’s abortion ban, Candi avoided doctors, deciding to navigate an abortion alone. Her death is the second preventable abortion-related death ProPublica has found.
#News #Abortion #Georgia #AbortionBan #USNews #Pregnancy #Health #Healthcare #Government #Politics
#Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week #Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care
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Abortion clinics rushed to provide care after a judge rejected the state’s ban, an order that could soon be paused by a higher court. It’s only the latest development since ProPublica reported the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller.
#News #Health #Healthcare #Pregnancy #PlannedParenthood #WomensHealth #Law #Government #Politics #KamalaHarris #Doctors #Hospital
UK voters need to read this and pay serious attention. This is what Wes Streeting and his despicable acceptance of donations from American for-profit Healthcare providers is bringing to the UK.
If it doesn’t make you very upset and very angry there’s something wrong with you. #NHS #Healthcare https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/113618572452925991
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.
Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.”
She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s #abortion ban.
#News #Health #HealthCare #Pregnancy #Government #Law #Safety #Family
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
#Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of #pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
#Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #Mothers #Families #RoeVWade #Health #HealthCare
This week's comic: "Protecting the children"
#uspol #comic #cartoon #children #education #lgbtq #climate #health #healthcare #transgender
For-profit death: "A physician, said that after her practice was acquired by private equity, she “was forced to see 45 patients daily with 1 medical assistant. This was unsafe."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/private-equity-healthcare
Seattle Children's Hospital has begun halting some gender affirming care and caved far earlier than most expected in the face of Trump's illegal executive orders.
There's a call to action below and protests are planned today and tomorrow.
https://monogr.ph/67a3f86c0b0ee042476f706c
#Seattle #ProtectTransYouth #lgbtq #USPol #Healthcare #calltoaction
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The idiotic (and evidently pampered and privileged) folks who mock "public health" and governmental initiatives to prevent spread of infectious disease and assure that people get basic healthcare obviously did not live prior to the 1950s when, for the first time, parents could spare their children of the crippling disease of polio — due to government initiatives.
Me, I tend to turn a deaf ear to idiocy spouted by the pampered and privileged.
Questions about #covid that many people have and may not understand... And they matter and I've asked them too.
#Surgical vs #n95 #masks and #one way masking , with links to the studies and info in it, feel free to read of you are interested:
https://airsupportproject.com/does-one-way-masking-work-covid-19-series/
And info on the fight to improve infection control standards in #healthcare settings with #HICPAC and #CDC and #Hospitals etc
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"Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land. For two months, Israel has blocked delivery of all aid into the strip."
~ Financial Times
#Netanyahu #Trump #Israel #Gaza #starvation #healthcare
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https://www.ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7-4d1f-b842-752e3aca9272
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump Administration’s VA Cuts After ProPublica Investigation
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The lawmakers also accused Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins of stonewalling their efforts to learn more about agency cuts and their effects. “There are real-life dangerous impacts for veterans,” Rep. Chris Deluzio said.
#News #Veterans #Healthcare #Health #Democrats #Congress #Government #USPolitics
Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the prices in other wealthy nations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-americans-pay-more-for-prescription-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Drugs #Pharma #Health #Healthcare #Cancer #Business #Congress
The #GOP’s New #Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.
#law #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The Limitations of Professional Psychology - Tuning In
This is just an overview, a summary, of my thoughts from over three decades of study and practice in positive psychology to describe some limitations of contemporary professional psychology. What do you think? What have I missed? I’m eager for any comments, disagreements, or other perspectives.
#Psychology #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Politics #culture
http://www.ajschuler.com/blog/the-limitations-of-professional-psychology
I'm back from the denturist. He said my gums are getting damaged by the current immediate dentures & obtaining fixed ones would help with that & with eating more foods. The fixed dentures aren't as expensive as immediates were but they are still costly & not covered by my pharmacare. I am a disabled death doula/death care aide, working on independent contracts basis & have no additional health insurance coverage. I was slowly saving up for fixed dentures but had to use the $260 saved for unexpected medical costs for me & Mom's recent downturns in health last month.
These are the costs I was quoted today, for getting full set of fixed dentures made with the related costs that I'm #fundraising for:
X-rays, casting & full fixed dentures set - $1650
4 relines for any adjustments needed after - $680
$331.55 CDN in donated funds received as of 5:40pm on June 2nd.
Total still needed: $1,998.45
If you can donate anything at all to help me pay for fixed dentures, please use my PayPal QR code or my Kofi or e-transfers:
https://www.paypal.me/quebanh
https://ko-fi.com/phoenixserenity
quebanhincedar@gmail.com
Please boost, if you're unable to #donate to my fixed dentures #fundraiser. Thank you for any & all assistance 🙏
I'll document the whole process of getting fixed dentures, afterwards, so folks can see what they helped to fund.
#MutualAid #Dental #Healthcare #DonationsNeeded #PeopleWithDisabilities #WorkingPoor #HelpNeeded
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I’m so sick of these stories.
I’m enraged, exhausted and heartbroken.
This should never happen, yet it happens every damn day.
Misogyny in medicine kills.
Women are frequently ignored, gaslit, under treated and mistreated.
Some of us live to tell our stories, but many do not.
Tell your story. Scream it from the rooftops. Demand better. Keep raising your voice until we never have to fight the patriarchal system of medicine ever again.
https://www.thewomenpost.com/p/georgia-oconnor-uk-boxer-dies-at?utm_medium=ios
#misogyny #patriarchy #medicine #healthcare #ableism #discrimination #womenshealth
We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.
His tool concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post