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To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
Medicare Advantage is covering more and more Americans − some because they don’t get to choose
Medicare Advantage − the private option that costs taxpayers extra and requires prior approval − is the default for some state agencies and corporations.The Conversation
Intense layoffs have begun at HHS.
The agency “as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.” — former FDA commissioner Rob Califf
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RFK Jr.'s HHS layoffs begin; thousands of FDA, CDC workers axed
As many as 10,000 employees — one-quarter of the department's workforce — are expected to be let go as part of the process.Sarah Owermohle (STAT)
I'm not sure of a better example of the times we live in when books about science and medicine are 403 Forbidden.
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The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only about 100 comments so far.
Please comment if you're in the US, and boost
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Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, a certified nurse midwife, and Jose Ley, 29 and her employee, were charged with the illegal performance of an #abortion, as well as practicing medicine without a license. The abortion charge is a second-degree felony, which comes with up to 20 years in prison. texasobserver.org/texas-first-…
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Texas’ First Abortion Arrests Stem from Monthlong Attorney General Investigation
These represent the first criminal charges under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.Eleanor Klibanoff (The Texas Observer)
A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.The Conversation
SCOTUS will hear case threatening no-cost preventive care | Association of Health Care Journalists
If SCOTUS rules the ACA’s no-cost preventive care provision as unconstitutional, Americans would need to pay for such care or forgo it.Joseph Burns and Liz Seegert (Association of Health Care Journalists)
A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.
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St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
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Idaho’s Largest Health System Is Taking on the State’s Abortion Ban
It’s not the first controversial stance for St. Luke’s, which was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines during the pandemic.ProPublica
