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    In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital

    https://nordot.app/1121021789270245928?c=592622757532812385 In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital 2024/01/19 McALESTER, Okla. — It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to dispense with the tall stack of debt collection lawsuits that...
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    The NIH’s ‘How to Become a Billionaire’ Program

    https://prospect.org/health/2023-10-18-nih-how-to-become-billionaire-program/ The NIH’s ‘How to Become a Billionaire’ Program An obscure company affiliated with a former NIH employee is offered the exclusive license for a government-funded cancer drug. BY DAVID DAYEN OCTOBER 18, 2023...
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    Study: More than half of rural Kansas hospitals at risk of closing

    https://www.ksn.com/news/health/these-are-the-rural-kansas-hospitals-at-risk-of-closure/ Study: More than half of rural Kansas hospitals at risk of closing by: Colter Robinson Posted: Aug 9, 2023 / 12:00 PM CDT Updated: Aug 10, 2023 / 08:51 AM CDT Editor’s Note: This article has been changed...
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    Vending machine providing free birth control and overdose prevention products debuts in Brooklyn

    https://gothamist.com/news/vending-machine-providing-free-birth-control-and-overdose-prevention-products-debuts-in-brooklyn By Brittany Kriegstein Published Jun 5, 2023 Brittany Kriegstein A new vending machine in Brownsville, Brooklyn is attracting lots of attention – but not because...
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    Thanks, Obama! The hilarious reason why a judge just blocked Wyoming’s abortion ban.

    https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/23/23653183/abortion-wyoming-obamacare-barack-obama-supreme-court-johnson Republicans just got a painful reminder that political stunts can backfire. By Ian Millhiser Mar 23, 2023, 4:20pm EDT President Barack Obama answers a question during his first...
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    “You Know What? I’m Not Doing This Anymore.”

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/texas-abortion-law-doctors-nurses-care-supreme-court.html There’s a quiet new crisis brewing in Texas following the abortion ban. It could get much worse. BY SOPHIE NOVACK MARCH 21, 20235:45 AM Illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Plus. For three...
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    Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies. One reason? ‘Bills that criminalize physicians’

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/idaho-hospital-stop-delivering-babies-013517082.html Kelcie Moseley-Morris Sat, March 18, 2023 at 5:35 AM GMT+4·3 min read Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, announced Friday that it will no longer provide obstetrical services to the city of more...
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    She secretly traveled 2,000 miles for her WA abortion. Why patients from the South are coming here

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/she-secretly-traveled-2000-miles-for-her-wa-abortion-why-patients-from-the-south-are-coming-here/ Feb. 26, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated Feb. 26, 2023 at 1:43 pm (Frank Mina / The Seattle Times) By Nina Shapiro Seattle Times staff reporter The Texas...
  9. CopiousX

    Convince me I'm wrong. Humans don't need fruits and veggies.

    Here is my proof. We all know these people haven't touch a single carrot or papaya in decades and they are still operating just fine. I'm convinced nutrition is a lie. If they can do it why can't we?:jbhmm: One of them ate a whole meal consisting of bacon and ham. :ohhh: The first one eats...
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    Now for sale: Data on your mental health

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/ https://archive.is/85XQy Capitalizing on the pandemic explosion in telehealth and therapy apps that collect details of your mental health needs, data brokers are packaging that information for resale, a new study...
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    US hospitals are so overloaded that one ER called 911 on itself

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/us-hospitals-are-so-overloaded-that-one-er-called-911-on-itself/ Patients are reporting crowded waiting rooms and hours-long wait times. BETH MOLE - Yesterday at undefined Enlarge / An isolation tent for an emergency department in Walnut Creek...
  12. Luken

    Girls really be getting pregnant like that?

    Listening to good ol' talk radio/npr and theyre talking about how the american women on the boarder states are going to collapse the Canadian healthcare system because they will now be crossing over into canada to now get their abortions:gucci: It sounds like some of these hoes are having...
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    They were charged more than $1,000 for an ER visit, even though they never saw a doctor

    They were charged more than $1,000 for an ER visit, even though they never saw a doctor JANUARY 25, 2022 / 10:49 AM / CBS NEWS A Missouri man says his family received an emergency room bill for more than $1,000 — even though a doctor never even saw his son. Dhaval Bhatt says his wife and...
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    ‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm Affecting Millions of People

    ‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm Affecting Millions of People A series of studies argue that by focusing on costs as a proxy for health, risk algorithms are ignoring the racial inequalities in healthcare access. by Edward Ongweso Jr Oct 25 2019, 8:00am Hero...
  15. Berniewood Hogan

    "When I lived in Iceland, I found a lump..."

  16. Berniewood Hogan

    Millions are FLOODING across the border!

    Millions.................................... of Americans........................... crossing the border into Mexico.................. to get affordable healthcare. Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care — The Human Caravan You Haven’t Heard About The Trump administration is...
  17. FAH1223

    $5,751 for an ICE PACK at the Emergency Room

  18. Black Panther

    Is This the Future of Healthcare? Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan-Chase Alliance

    :leon::bpohh: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care By NICK WINGFIELD and KATIE THOMASJAN. 30, 2018 Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Florence, N.J. The company will join forces with...
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    Humana, private equity firms buy Kindred Healthcare for $810 million

    (Reuters) - U.S. health insurer Humana Inc and two private equity firms agreed to buy home healthcare and long-term care operator Kindred Healthcare Inc on Tuesday for about $810 million, the latest expansion by an American health insurer into patient care. Humana, TPG Capital and Welsh...
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