https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/thompson-hospital-norway-house-mom-1.7484113

This is outrageous!!!
Sounds like #racism is alive and well in #thompsonMB
I can't imagine what this family has been through.
#healthcare services have consistently discriminated against #indigenous people in #canada, in particular #women, who are already prone to being gaslit by health care personnel.

I was treated horribly by an #obgyn and their staff, and I'm well-educated, middle class, white appearing woman.

What chance do others have?

"Uncertainty over health research funding is prompting the elite Baylor College of Medicine to scale back plans to expand the university’s research efforts and to reduce its incoming graduate school class size by about 15 students."

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/baylor-medical-school-nih-funding-cuts-20194299.php

Oz is chummy with senators at hearing, says that "There's a new sheriff in town" re: fraud in #Medicare Advantage

It remains to be seen whether #DrOz will be tougher on Medicare Advantage (where there's rampant documented overspending) or on #Medicaid.

Oz also nods to using #AI to reduce prior auths and incentivize doctors to "optimize care" and focus on patients

via @STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/dr-oz-confirmation-hearing-medicare-advantage-crackdown-medicaid-cms/

"To cover a budget gap in Medi-Cal — which provides health insurance for roughly 15 million disabled and low-income Californians — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is borrowing $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund."

https://calmatters.org/newsletter/medi-cal-budget-gap-newsletter/ #Medicaid #Healthcare #California #USpol

WOW just got back from the veterans' march, which overshot the event permit's estimated crowd size by 2 orders of magnitude.

With very good reason, the anger is extremely intense. Every time a speaker mentioned Republicans, there were many shouts of "COWARDS" and "TRAITORS" and "WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS??" among deafening boos.

There were also chants of "FUCK CHUCK SCHUMER," and this was a crowd with lots of federal workers in it.

YOU -- Yes, you.

You are not a temporarily embarrassed, oppressed, not yet realized, millionaire, billionaire, or future, trillionaire either.

You're a regular individual who has better chances of being struck by lighting, than waking up rich through hard work and determination. It is time you grew up, and accept that.

#EatTheRich #Wealth #WealthTax #Healthcare

Gutless #PostalService chief [appointed by #trump] bends to #DOGE with 10,000 job cuts #USPS #mail #ballots #democracy #medicine #healthcare #disabled https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/14/2310170/-Gutless-Postal-Service-chief-bends-to-DOGE-with-10-000-job-cuts #mail #prescriptions #government #corruption

“In exchange for their tax exemption, nonprofit hospitals are supposed to give back to their communities by providing free or reduced-cost health care to folks with low incomes,” Ellison said in a statement, adding the findings uncovered evidence of “actively dissuading certain patients from seeking charity care.”

“While this is disappointing, I am heartened by the substantial improvements Mayo Clinic has made to their charity care program, and I am grateful for their cooperation with our investigation.”
https://www.startribune.com/ag-settles-with-mayo-clinic-over-charity-care-debt-collection-practices/601235992

Any business that moves to Texas, just so they can avoid paying for healthcare, and avoid paying taxes, is a business I do not want to do business with.

This is not failure of other states. This is failure of people failing to realize these corporations don't give a fuck about you. That is the mindset you should have, because in the rest of the word, people have healthcare, and they pay their taxes, but business still makes profits, and it isn't the end of their world.

#Taxes #Tax #Healthcare #California

"But undocumented parents of U.S.-born children, if picked up by immigration authorities, face the risk of losing custody of their children. Without a power-of-attorney document or a guardianship outlining who will take care of the children left behind, the children go into the U.S. foster care system, making it harder for the parents to regain custody of their children in the future."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049

Distribution of People Ages 0-64 with #Medicaid by Race/Ethnicity
White: ~40%
Black: ~19%
Hispanic: ~30%
AANHPI: ~5%
AI/AN: ~1%
Other/Multiple: ~6%
#healthcare #medicine #health #disease #veterans #disabled #maga #GOP #republicans #elderly #retirement
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-distribution-people-0-64-by-raceethnicity/

"Restricting gender-affirming care doesn’t just keep trans people from accessing hormone therapy and surgery to alleviate gender dysphoria — it can keep them from seeing a primary care provider at all, Smith said. Providers of gender-affirming medical care are often a trans person’s main health resource."

https://19thnews.org/2025/03/trans-intersex-health-trump-administration/

"Too many people focus on 'what is' rather than 'what could be'" - Futurist Jim Carroll

I'm in Georgia, where later today, I'll speak on behalf of a corporate group on the topic of the future of healthcare. (Before that, I'll be hard at work studying the nature of turf science, particularly concerning the actions of a small spherical object as it encounters the turf after being struck by a long object, particularly when the turf in question is quite dormant. There is much to learn.)

I digress.

The photo for today's image comes from my keynote for the American Association of Orthopedic Executives, and I'm speaking to them about the emerging reality of 3d printed body parts - knees on order via a Web site. A crazy idea? Not really - it's a fast-emerging reality. They needed not to just think about what is today, but would be tomorrow!

I'll walk through several slides having to do with the science of healthcare and medicine, the acceleration of new forms of treatment, and other issues. It's an interesting time to be covering this type of material from the stage, given that I'm doing so in a country where the very science of healthcare is under attack.

Even so, one of my jobs is to help the group - all involved in the health benefits community - understand the big sweeping trends and ideas that provide so much potential for society. Such as the statement, "What we did for heart health in the 20th century, we can do for brain health in the 21st century" from Dr. Deepak Chopra, an integrative medicine advocate

I've got several slides with these big, bold ideas or observations in my deck.

All around the idea of thinking big about tomorrow, not thinking small about where we are today.

Read more.

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**#Innovation** **#Healthcare** **#Future** **#Vision** **#Possibility** **#Science** **#Medicine** **#Technology** **#Perspective** **#Potential**

https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-future-of-healthcare-too-many-people-focus-on-what-is-rather-than-what-could-be/

"...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report last week indicating that it was impossible for House Republicans to meet their goal of eliminating $880 billion in spending over the next 10 years from the committee that oversees Medicaid and Medicare without cutting from either of the social safety net programs. Medicaid provides health insurance for disabled and low-income people. Medicare insures seniors over 65."

https://calmatters.org/health/2025/03/medicaid-cuts-republican-districts/

I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE THINK WE NEED VACCINES

Wearing asafoedita in a bag around the neck keeps measles at bay. It's a sure preventative.

If you think you need extra protection, sip some water from a holy well while walking widdershins around it and reciting the Lord's prayer backwards.

#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #vaccination #healthcare #measles #science #medicine #disinformation #nonsense
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Photo of child with day-four measles rash is by CDC/NIP/Barbara Rice, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles#/media/File:RougeoleDP.jpg

BREAKING: Hours before his Senate confirmation hearing, the White House pulls Dave Weldon as #CDC director nominee.

Sources told STAT the administration had concerns about Weldon’s longtime vaccine criticism.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/trump-administration-withdraws-dave-weldon-cdc-nomination/