I little folk song about Untied Health. I love these. Catchy.

https://youtu.be/_TBH9EZcLpo?si=f2cALd5YjxTWwszo

CNN amuses and confuses me.

They’re having a misinformation report coming out on Sunday that covers January 6th and what they call a “Luigi Mangione fan club”

Based on the interview with the reporter, he has made a few questionable assumptions:

1. Luigi support comes from the left exclusively
2. The sympathy for Luigi is equal to support for January 6 insurrection, and hypocritical.

I don’t think those are correct assumptions, frankly.

We have predicted for some time that if we don’t stop health insurance from bankrupting Americans when they’re most vulnerable, we will see vigilantism.

I think the desperation of the sick and poor supersedes the delusion of people who think our system of voting is bullshit just because they lost.

I cannot agree with the implied equal sign that reporter put between these two groups.

I think they’ve been told to do journalism in a certain way that is almost more abstractly mathematical than fact based. Kind of more “let’s cut that baby in half, cuz that’s fair.”

According to that school of journalism, It’s always balanced, it’s always half, and if it isn’t, then we shall make it so.

What a world.

Sharing to @tellcongress

Tell Congress who protect access to healthcare for immigrants, LGBTQ+ communities, and working-class families!

https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/114309537497487613

h/t @indivisibleteam

Californians see undocumented immigrants as essential to economy, poll finds https://www.byteseu.com/905569/ #access #California #CaliforniaVoter #californians #economy #HealthInsurance #ImmigrationStatus #part #poll #respondent #state #survey #TrumpAdministration #UnauthorizedImmigrant #UndocumentedImmigrant

When I called, I was shocked to learn that I was actually ineligible for coverage. My insurance had cut me off, leaving me without support for essential treatments.
https://buff.ly/Qk0jKej

Why I called Bob Herman a "master bluster-buster" a few weeks ago:

He doesn't mince words in reminding us where the money the government gives insurance companies comes from: Our pockets.

"Health insurers that sell Medicare Advantage plans are going to get billions more in taxpayer money next year."

via @STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/07/medicare-advantage-payment-rate-2026-cms-trump

I don't care what company you are contracted with for health insurance, keep a copy of every Explanation of Benefits (EOB) & get a receipt even when you use a credit card.

I'm "fighting" with another medical provider about how much I owe them. This time it's a radiology company.

I spent 20 years working in the med field, including med billing, which includes deciphering EOBs to determine who owes what. It drives me insane when companies hire ppl & don't train them properly

I'm sitting here trying to force myself to do my Medicaid paperwork for the year and finding it really hard to get going.

There is so much fucking paperwork involved with being poor, you have no idea.

The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/luigi-mangione-death-penalty-jury-unitedhealthcare-ceo #BrianThompsonshooting #Capitalpunishment #Healthinsurance #Guncrime #NewYork #UScrime #USnews

@-@ anyone here work in health insurance especially in Arizona? A mental health facility is threatening my wife who’s very vulnerable right now with balance billing if they do not pay money we do not have up front before they leave the facility. As far as I am aware, balance billing is illegal in Arizona.

They were transferred from the CRC in Tucson to this facility

Boosts super appreciated

For people outside the US, here's a demonstration of American health insurance. Do not let your country adopt our stupid model. I'm currently in the process of getting signed up with an insurance company that can deny people with health conditions coverage (Tennessee Farm Bureau, it was grandfathered in when the ACA passed). I had to fill out a long form with my medical history and have to supply blood test results to prove I'm not diabetic and don't have sky high cholesterol. They don't pay for any existing health issues for one year, and charge higher premiums if you have existing health issues. Why am I applying for this instead of the Affordable Care Act? Because look at these prices for people in their 50s in a rural area. Monthly premiums AS LOW AS $782 a month! Wow! The last image shows the cheapest plan I can buy. $782 a month, with a $9200 deductible, which means my insurance would pay literally nothing until I paid $9200 for health care and medications, and that does not include premiums. The plan I'm applying for through my state is $330/month with a $3000 deductible . What a bargain. Our healthcare industry is a legal mafia. #Healthcare #Healthinsurance #LegalMafia

Un-fucking-believable

Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans

TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.

Thinking today about all my #patients who tell me they can’t take even one day off work after they’re diagnosed with #cancer

Reflecting on how often the treatment plan has to accommodate the patient’s need to continue to work (in the U.S.)

And this was before the intentional #dismantling of the minimal services available to help

Worried about what’s to come

This is what I got this morning when I tried to log into my (previous) #healthInsurance company's website (which uses #Optum's "Healthsafe ID" for authentication) after 9am to submit a claim from last month (before we switched to new insurance).
It's of course a -show that Optum can't keep a mission-critical website up during business hours, and a double -show when they've got a bogus "test" email address displayed in the error message.
Par for the course for Optum, eh?
#changeHealthcare

I just went to pick up a prescription at #CVS and I went to give them my new insurance info and they already have it. I am _certain_ no one in my family gave it to them. That is… disturbing.
Most people would probably be like, "Oh, how convenient," but I'm like, "Wow, there are all sorts of privacy issues here."
#privacy #healthInsurance

Trump administration to pursue death sentence for Luigi Mangione
By Brad Ryan

Donald Trump's attorney-general orders prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering of a health insurance boss on a New York street last year.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/luigi-mangione-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-health-ceo-murder/105125220

Via Reuters

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson in New York last year.

I think that's a "good" reason to use AI. Especially in the USA, whose system the tool is aimed at, this will certainly encourage more people to have rejected applications re-examined.

The fact that the page has pretty nasty mobile contrasts and is therefore difficult to read makes me crazy, even when only intended as a joke.

Upload your Health Insurance Denial
https://fighthealthinsurance.com

#HealthInsurance #US aprilFools

Luigi Mangione Act targets insurers who deny medical care
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/calif-luigi-mangione-act-targets-insurers/

Health minister to investigate price gouging by private insurers
By Rachel Clayton

The Department of Health has been told to investigate price gouging practices by health insurers after one fund ignored a warning from the Health minister to stop exploiting a loophole to increase prices above the government-approved cap.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/investigation-into-private-health-insurance-pricing-tactics/105102776