Time to repost
Gasp - heβs all growed up
Actual footage of me after my latest phone call with an insurance rep
It continues to be stupefying that I canβt get a health insurance company to tell me THE ACTUAL COST of something I need. They NEVER KNOW and if they do eventually give you a number it comes with the warning that it isnβt guaranteed. Eff this system and all of those working hard to keep it in place.
Yeesh, the essence of this movement: "Her answer underscored how this law isnβt just about policy. It is about flipping the script on what weβve considered the norm for generations now: that if youβre going to be part of a community, you must help protect the other people in your community."
Ah, yes - the answer to our healthcare woes surely must be adding more prior-authorization tactics. π
π happy to help
This is v fascinating
(and also v depressing)
Rich parents.
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Please listen to patients and not Big Pharma or politicians about the cost of living with Type 1. Check out this thread for some of the latest out-of-pocket survey results from T1International
As someone who met with a cofounder of Levels several years ago, I can confidently say that Casey Means- and anybody involved with that company- has no business as surgeon general
In the US we are told that health insurance = access to healthcare. But once you have to use or depend upon your health insurance, you quickly learn that that is a lie.
βI think a lot of people would think ... taking shots would be the worst part of it, but thatβs honestly something that becomes routineβ¦But you donβt ever really get over the frustration of having to pay $300 for a vial of [insulin] that you need to survive ..."
I couldn't be more proud of my longtime friend @seanbaby.bsky.social and the important work he's doing
One of her grifts is selling CGMs to people with fully functioning pancreases in order to show them their pancreas works exactly as it was intended.
What my friend @missdiabetes.bsky.social saidπ; the man needs an education, not a mic
@propublica.org / @tchristianmiller.bsky.social reporting revealed that Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of procedures involved in breast reconstruction β but don't worry at least the insurance executives were approving special deals for their wives!
If I see one more AI action figure I stg
Who needs health care when you can just have acceptable water pressure in showerheads instead
Is there anything worse than the video feed on LinkedIn
The AI generated images that went with April Foolβs Day posts somehow made the posts less funny
DinΓ© textile artist Venancio Aragonβs wool weaving, "TRANSform Hate," held up by his mother Irveta Aragon (DinΓ©). Photo by Corrine Cain, Savvy Collector
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#VenancioAragon #SaveCollector #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #NDNArt #DinΓ© #TextileArts #HeardFair #NativeSky
A very large Exmoor Horn ram, with a small yet noticeable smile.
look at this absolute unit
When someone asks "Where do you see yourself in 5β10 years?"