Healthcare going forward

[rareboy]

There are no lies here as we have seen with the MAGAts

 

[KaraBulut]

There are no lies here as we have seen with the MAGAts

They need to be studying the effects of hair bleach on human intelligence.

 

[rareboy]

And then there's RFKjr who seems to be blaming toxins for autism but has no research to name them and make the people reaping the profits stop????????????

What if it simply turns out to be the petrochemical industry after a century or so?

 

[TX-Beau]

...One source of contention among House Republicans, according to The Hill's Emily Brooks, is Medicaid. A group of House Republicans in swing districts, Brooks reports, are making it clear that they will vote "no" to any bill that includes major cuts to the program...

MSN

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One wonders how many of them will stand their ground when the bribes and threats start.

 

[KaraBulut]

MSN

www.msn.com

One wonders how many of them will stand their ground when the bribes and threats start.

The biggest employer in most of these Republicans' district is their local hospital. If Medicaid (or Medicare) reimbursements are cut, those hospitals will either close (layoffs) or get acquired (layoffs). They know this.

 

[TX-Beau]

The biggest employer in most of these Republicans' district is their local hospital. If Medicaid (or Medicare) reimbursements are cut, those hospitals will either close (layoffs) or get acquired (layoffs). They know this.

...and that knowledge didn't stop them when they did this to Texas. Take a good look over here, the rest of you; it's what's coming. Was there a public outcry? No. They were too busy panicking about the many, many invisible rapists and drug dealers charging the border.

 

[KaraBulut]

...and that knowledge didn't stop them when they did this to Texas. Take a good look over here, the rest of you; it's what's coming. Was there a public outcry? No. They were too busy panicking about the many, many invisible rapists and drug dealers charging the border.

It in a big issue in your state. When they did cut Medicaid and they took punitive action against Planned Parenthood, it put many rural hospitals in Texas in jeopardy. Those hospitals sold to the big mega-networks in your state- Baylor/Scott&White, Ascension, HCA, et al.

When the big hospitals bought up the failing smaller hospitals, the first they did was shutdown inpatient services like obstetrics care. Now, there are large swaths of your state where there is no staffed delivery room, so either the baby has to be delivered in an emergency room or the expectant mother has to schedule an induction at a larger hospital that might be 2-3 hours away by car.

Those measles hospitalizations in far West Texas? They're having to send those kids to Lubbock or to Albuquerque.

But your state isn't being run out of Austin. It's being run out of the Midland Petroleum Club and the Exxon boardroom or by "think tanks" underwritten by the oil industry.

 

[TX-Beau]

BSW bought the two hospitals closest to our farm—about 15 minutes away—and then shut them both down. Now, the nearest ER is 40 minutes away, and the closest Full Hospital is the big one in Temple, also about 40 minutes away. The burden of urgent care is falling on the Volunteer Fire Department. It's ridiculous. Real EMTs can't get to them very fast, and that just leaves sheriffs and firefighters, and god knows what kind of training they have.

 

[TX-Beau]

They live a little over an hour from Austin's suburbs, by the way; that's hardly the hinterlands like the Permian Basin.

 

[KaraBulut]

BSW bought the two hospitals closest to our farm—about 15 minutes away—and then shut them both down. Now, the nearest ER is 40 minutes away, and the closest Full Hospital is the big one in Temple, also about 40 minutes away. The burden of urgent care is falling on the Volunteer Fire Department. It's ridiculous. Real EMTs can't get to them very fast, and that just leaves sheriffs and firefighters, and god knows what kind of training they have.

That's the "hub and spoke" approach- similar to how the airlines have big hubs like Chicago and Atlanta.

BSW has been doing flavors of that for years. Baylor has focused on building new hospitals in affluent areas in the suburbs where people are more likely to have private insurance. Scott & White has been setting up clinics or buying up physician practices in small towns; those clinics may be the only game in town and they refer all of their patients to the big megahospital in Temple.

I can't remember what the maternity stats are in Texas but in most of the southern US, about 50% of the newborn deliveries are paid for by Medicaid. This has accomplished a couple of things: the first is the depopulation of rural areas of the South, as younger people move to bigger cities for employment and better healthcare; the second thing it has accomplished is that it has made Texas one of the premier neonatal intensive care providers in the US. Lack of maternal prenatal care, lack of available OB/Gyns and labor & delivery facilities results in higher risk pregnancies, premature deliveries or babies who end up in the NICU.

 

[rareboy]

So Trumpian.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

This is actually Hitler level stuff happening here.

A crime against humanity.

This man is actually a monster on the order of Mengele...only by omission rather than commission.

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.

www.wired.com

 

[TX-Beau]

...While some experts were pleased that Kennedy had supported any vaccine project, they said the May 1 announcement contravened sound scientific policy, appeared arbitrary, and raised the kinds of questions about conflicts of interest that have dogged many of President Donald Trump’s actions...

MSN

It seems there is no vaccine for graft.

 

[fallsguy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

So something that literally will not happen is announced.

 

[Kulindahr]

So something that literally will not happen is announced.

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Even if that's legit, which is debatable, it's like a guy lighting a fire then showing up to put it out and then acting as a hero for putting it out.

I'd be more impressed by an order nationalizing all medical insurance companies -- probably less legal basis but a lot more useful.

 

[TX-Beau]

Even if that's legit, which is debatable, it's like a guy lighting a fire then showing up to put it out and then acting as a hero for putting it out.

I'd be more impressed by an order nationalizing all medical insurance companies -- probably less legal basis but a lot more useful.

Have we not been watching this for the last eight years? That's exactly his playbook: create a crisis, then pretend to fix it. Only the crisis is real, but the fix never is.

There is no way that the Trogs in Congress are going to accept that any faster than they did tax cuts on the rich.

He's just thinking his base will be too stupid to notice. That's probably the only thing he's ever been right about.

 

[rareboy]

This is the thing that Trump will never do.

He will just claim he lowered the price of drugs and when it does get thrown out in court, he'll blame everyone else...pointing out that if he only had all that power,
he could have made it happen.