We must correct racial disparities in health too! New CDC data showed US maternal mortality,(80% preventable) declined 2023 to 2024 from 18.6 deaths to 17.9 per 100,000 births. But maternal mortality in Black mothers 44.8 deaths per 100,000 births, still more than three times rate for white women.
Some of us think Private Equity has no place in healthcare. It is the most egregious piece of profit being elevated over healthcare. Minimally we need regulation of Private Equity in healthcare now ! bhr.stern.nyu.edu/publication/...
This is WASTE of the time and skill needed to really care for patients. Are we ready to root out this form of waste and abuse?
ALL of us on Medicare paid a 10% increase of our premiums in 2025, because of overpayments to Medicare Advantage insurers of $13.4 billion. This was reported by the Joint Economic Committee (bipartisan) that advises Congress on financial matters.
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..Replacing three jets shot down over Kuwait — each of them, remember, with a price tag of $97 million — will cost about as much as providing 125,000 Americans with crucial food aid or providing healthcare to 100,000 American children. (From P. Krugman)
We need to keep our eyes on the "warehouses" concentrations camps that DHS is attempting to set up around the country. some small towns have successfully defeated these in their towns- youtu.be/8_BzbHim8aY
So much Waste and Abuse wrought by Trump- one billion dollars here and one billion dollars a day in a war that most Americans did not want nor understand even its stretched rationale. But not enough money for healthcare and food supplements?!
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We must demand that our Members of Congress oppose ANY and ALL funding for Trump’s illegal war, including voting against any supplemental funding package.
CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper, the general who actually oversees US military operations in the Middle East, was not invited to a single planning meeting about Iran. Trump was getting his military counsel on Iran from Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.(What Fresh Hell Is This? -Patti Vasquez)
Thank you Nick Anderson- it gave me a chuckle even if this is sooo sad.
Not to mention the children he kicked off food supplements (SNAP) and all his other cruelties !
Donny Wagging the DOG to get our minds off all the other things he has criminally done he now adds another abuse !
Current Economy Cartoon
Bob Rich for Hedgeye via Patriotic Millionaires
🚨 Emergency!! In Kansas, people who are trans are being denied:
- the right to drive!
- the right to vote!
- the right to *legally identify themselves*!
In addition, they're being denied the right to safely use a restroom in a govt bldg.
🚨 Violation of human rights, civil rights, and voting rights!
ICE shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old Texan and U.S. citizen, a year ago—during a traffic stop. Their involvement was only made public months later after a FOIA request.
I admit I am able to still be shocked when I read about this in H C Richardson this AM and then heard it on NPR. It again shows the utter cruelty of Border Patrol brownshirts of MAGA- people.com/blind-dad-of...
This shows what is undermining our democracy and attacking our values. (Thanks P. Krugman) Now we need to be superorganized to counter this corrosion.
Tax cuts via lower income and estate taxes on the wealthiest Americans have collectively drained at least $38 trillion out of the federal treasury.
Thirty-eight trillion dollars is roughly what it would cost to fund a Medicare-for-All-style universal health care system for a decade.(From T Hartmann)
The current overall inflation rate of roughly 3% is dwarfed by an annual rise of roughly 7% in spending nationally on health care and that comparison likely understates the affordability crisis for American families because Big Insurance has been shifting more of these costs onto patients.(W.Potter)
Trump and family have corruptly stuffed their own pockets and pardoned crypto currency criminals, given deals for high tech chips in the greatest display of self-dealing the country has ever experienced 3-4Billion dollars worth. We and small businesses are stuck paying for his tariff tantrums.
"Concentration camps on American soil, operated for profit, where children are suffering and some are dying. 'The Flores Settlement Agreement is being actively dismantled by this administration right now. (Paraphrased from below) substack.com/app-link/pos...
Neat trick- covering fewer folks but charging more so profits are up, and we pay twice our own out of pocket premiums/deductibles/copays, and then as taxpayers for their profitable public sector plans.
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This is a key week to CALL YOUR SENATOR Vote NO/Filibuster on the misnamed Save America Act. More explanation is here substack.com/app-link/pos...
We need to find ways to stop the maintaining of concentration camps in our country.
Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Actually Source: Gabriel Zucman
The issue is What are we going to do about it?
The Morbidly Ultra Wealthy getting more of the share of our nation's wealth. (From P. Krugman)
The Morbidly Ultra Wealthy getting more of the share of our nation's wealth. (From P. Krugman)
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social Walmart's lower prices are part of an illegal scheme. youtu.be/odhVF_xLIQA We pay more when laws meant to protect us are ignored. But this is the time of the master grifter. We will need to put a stop to it all.-
Sadly too true !
UnitedHealthcare has 2,964 subsidiaries. Break up this veridical monopoly ! Break up Big Medicine ! It adds cost but not good care.
