#healthcare is a human right

[tatersgonnatate]

This is Healthcare in America, Tumblr. And this? This needs to have changed YESTERDAY

#healthcare #health and wellness #health insurance #health & fitness #health #healthcare industry #healthcare in america #healthcare is a human right #Healthcare should be free #medicine #doctors #politics #political #political issues

[reggie-gayflx]

#healthcare is a human right #fuck the gun lobby #fuck trump #fuck republicans #fuck the gop #fuck the nra

[monestary-fruitcake]

some posters i made

#sketchbook #abortion #abortion is a right #healthcare is a human right #abolish the supreme court

[existennialmemes]

We can't afford

✨ Therapy ✨

we just make memes, so we can scream into the Void and the Void can respond

"BIG MOOD"

#shitpost #shitposting #healthcare is a human right #mental health memes #mental illness memes

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Oregon voters have narrowly passed measures that would strengthen gun laws and mandate healthcare as a human right.

Measure 114 requires residents to obtain a permit to purchase a gun, bans large-capacity magazines of more than 10 rounds except in some circumstances and creates a statewide firearms database. It is one of the nation’s strictest gun-control measures.

To qualify for a permit, an applicant would need to complete an approved, in-person firearm safety course, pay a fee, provide personal information, submit to fingerprinting and photographing and pass a federal criminal background check. The permits would be processed by local police chiefs, county sheriffs or their designees.

The ban on large-capacity magazines would not apply to current owners, law enforcement or the military.

Proponents of the measure say it would reduce suicides — which account for 82% of gun deaths in the state — mass shootings and other gun violence.

Opponents, including the left-wing Socialist Rifle Assn., say it would infringe on constitutionally protected rights and could reduce gun access among marginalized communities and people of color if law-enforcement agencies are the arbiters of the permitting process. They say permitting fees and the cost of the firearms course could also be barriers to access.

The healthcare proposal, Measure 111, makes Oregon the first state in the nation to change its constitution to explicitly declare affordable healthcare a fundamental human right.

The amendment reads: “It is the obligation of the state to ensure that every resident of Oregon has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.”

It does not define “cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable,” nor does it say who would foot the bill.

The Oregon Health Authority says 94% of Oregonians currently have insurance coverage and more are eligible for the Oregon Medicaid plan or a subsidy to reduce the cost of commercial insurance.

Opponents said the amendment could trigger legal and political challenges if it passed.

#us politics #news #the los angeles times #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #oregon #Measure 114 #gun control #gun rights #gun violence #2nd amendment #Measure 111 #affordable healthcare #us healthcare #healthcare is a human right #healthcare for all #Oregon Health Authority #Socialist Rifle Assn.

[darkaviarymc]

I'm not going to dignify the post I just saw with attention or a response, so I'm just going to say this:

Everyone deserves access to healthcare. Everyone.

Is this the most alt-right MAGA evangelical extremist to ever hold a Trump rally in the Waffle House parking lot? Yeah? Do they have cancer? Yeah? They deserve chemo/radiation.

Is this the TERFiest TERF of TERFdom who still calls herself a political lesbian and has "no hogwarts house in bio dni?" Yeah? Does she have diabetes? Yeah? She deserves insulin.

Is this the king of all incels who tells people he perceives as "females" in CoD lobbies to make him a sandwich and thinks women who wear spaghetti straps "deserve it?" Yeah? Can he walk? No? He deserves a wheelchair.

If your activism begins and ends with the people you like, it's not activism. It's fascism with a gay hat.

#disability #rant #political rant #healthcare is a human right

[commiepinkofag]

IF?

The government will give the public 60 days to comment on the new proposal before attempting to finalize it.

^^^ COMMENT vvv

#capitalism #healthcare is a human right #drug lobby #big pharma #drug manufacturers #economics #healthcare #public health #medicine #health care #patents #us politics

[poeticnorth]

Eir is pro-abortion and pro-vaccine because she's pro-healthcare.

#eir #heathenry #upg #i will not be taking criticisms or arguments at this time #pro-choice #healthcare #healthcare is a human right #and that includes abortion

[just-a-turtleduck]

Call To Action Now:

Tell Johnson & Johnson to not renew their patent on bedaquiline

Medical-capitalist eldritch horror, The One With Ten Million Brands, Johnson & Johnson is planning to renew their patent on bedaquiline, a tuberculosis drug, next week, July 18th. Rather than allow the world's deadliest infectious disease which kills mostly the very poor to have treatment options most patients can actually afford, J&J wants to keep a monopoly on what should be a human right.

Tell them that's beyond fucked up and also it violates their credo.

File a report by phone or by typing: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/28704/report.html (most important please do this! the company is Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and the country is wherever you are) Good reddit thread full of useful templates: https://www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighters/comments/14wv93v/nerdfighter_call_to_action/

Keep the pressure on their social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en

Further: If you're contacting them maybe even bring up that they promised to help end TB by 2030! Price comparison between J&J* and generics *Not sure if this reduced price is even still happening or if that was just for the pandemic! Will update once I can clarify. I called! It took ~20 minutes and the person on the line was very nice.

#anti capitalism #tuberculosis #healthcare #important #call to action #vlogbrothers #john green #partners in health #healthcare is a human right

[jomiddlemarch]

Urge Your Senators to Support the Women’s Health Protection Act Now!

The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing its response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Senate has responded by re-introducing the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) for a potential vote next week. WHPA would prohibit states from passing medically unjustified restrictions on reproductive health care, which are proliferating across the country. It passed in the House September of 2021 and was blocked through the filibuster in the Senate February of this year. 

We need your help in urging your United States Senators to support the Women’s Health Protection Act.

The final decision from SCOTUS could be devastating for all physicians and their patients. We are already seeing physicians criminalized for providing care and counseling patients, resulting in grave access inequities.

Contact your Senators TODAY and urge them to support the Women’s Health Protection Act when it is introduced in the upcoming days.

Tagging @broadwaybaggins @artielu @qqueenofhades @fericita-s @tortoisesshells @orlissa @amarguerite @dxmedstudent  @emjee  for signal boosting

#abortion is healthcare #stand with physicians #us politics #action item #contact your senators #reproductive healthcare #healthcare is a human right #please reblog

[existennialmemes]

"If we gave people homes, and food, and healthcare society would collapse!"

Ok but have you considered that this society sucks and it collapsing is a good thing, actually

#shitpost #shitposting #Ancom #fuck capitalism #anti capitalism #housing is a human right #healthcare is a human right #we produce enough food to more than feed the world #letting people starve is a choice

[aunti-christ-ine]

#singlepayer sunday #universal healthcare #medicare for all #singlepayer #healthcare is a human right

[mittenwonders]

A moment to vent about our US healthcare system and why insurance is a joke.

I think we all already feel this way. I have had to go through some of my fair share of insurance approvals for medications and tests I need, etc. All of them get eventually approved. I do go through a private insurance provided through my work, but I want to discuss Medicare and the Medicare subsidies offered.

Most adults 65+ begin Medicare coverage and what is offered is a complete joke. It almost makes you seriously believe it is the government killing off the weak. I’ve recently had to go through all kinds of hoops last year as my dad proceeded to get worse with his health.

He’s oxygen dependent. It was a fight and a half making sure he could keep his concentrator at home because some of the tests showed “improvement.” The next was proving why he needed a bipap machine at night. We had to go through 3 different sleep studies with him before Medicare finally deemed it was okay to cover. This took an additional 7 months of fighting - all the while he would get more sick as he didn’t have the machine he desperately needed. His blood gas builds up over time as cO2 does not exit his body with an exhale like a normal person. This causes severe drowsiness, memory loss, not being alert and in some cases, totally unresponsive as the cO2 continues to build and poisons his own body.

Because he has something called BOOP (Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia), when he gets a cold or even remotely sick, pneumonia can come on quicker overnight. It was always recommended he has a nebulizer on hand along with the albuterol solution. Guess what?? The insurance refused to cover and pay for the albuterol once he turned 65. Even after his doctor (of the last 30 years) and his pulmonary specialist have sent reports after reports of why he needs this treatment, the insurance continued to deny. They said we could appeal it a 4th time in which my dad replied “I’ll be dead by then.” Guess what?!? He’s been in the hospital ever since Jan 1.

Many older people who are on Medicare are not in the best financial position to buy their medications out of pocket as well. It really does become a matter of life/death in most cases.

He became hospitalized in which after a week, was discharged because Medicare would not continue to pay for his stay because his charts proved he was improving on paper. However, my dad still has an AWFUL cough in which he has trouble breathing. He was sent to a rehabilitation center for physical therapy to gain strength before coming home. A doctor never once came to see him about his cough, his PT was ignored completely because him being on dialysis interfered. Essentially in short, this facility knew he would not improve due to their lack of communication and coordination and would keep him longer to milk the insurance while he continued to get worse. I hate to say it but the godsend was that he fell & hit his head which prompted him back in the ER. No concussion but they did recognize that his cough was horrible. So away he goes back in the hospital again. So bad, he has a mild heart attack and ends up in ICU on a ventilator.

The worst part of both these incidents is that no staff once called to inform the family of the fall or the ventilator portion. I was able to visit my dad in ICU yesterday and spend several hours with him. He is improving slowly but my fear is the hospital will kick him out early again before he is actually better. I was able to talk to a nurse to make sure the contact info is up to date since we received no call & while she apologized and did not want to make an excuse for the lack of accountability, she did inform us that everywhere in the US, the healthcare system is crumbling. The short staff issue following COVID has never recovered and only continues to get worse.

Nurses and doctors are the angels who keep the system afloat. However, they are running ragged in a thankless job. They have too many patients per nurse and cannot get to all timely. They do not mean it but it causes neglect overall with patient care. Hospitals here in the US are simply another corporation that has fallen to the greed of capitalism. I cannot go to my local doctors office and ask them to fill out a form for my insurance without being charged $10 now. It’s a business and everyone must abide by the rules for the bottom dollar. Some of the rules put in place for nurses does not allow them to take the best care of action for their patients. She explained that if she gives a med through an IV per doctors order & the patient has a reaction, she must go through a 3 step process to get permission to take that patient off the med, whereas in the past, she could easily see a reaction was taking place & could stop it immediately. This is why nurses go through years or rigorous study and pass board exams to make these calls in emergency situations. Yes it’s to cover a hospital from a potential lawsuit but it can still cause more damage in the long run to the patient themself.

This is why there is a shortage and many are leaving the healthcare system as a career altogether. Our family doctor of 31 years retired unexpectedly a couple months ago. He admitted it’s because of the way it’s going and fighting insurance companies. He admitted if he continued, he’d have a stroke himself. How someone with only a high school diploma at a insurance company desk can make a decision on whether or not a patient needs a medication fighting the very doctors with years of schooling in their respective fields; it’s exhausting and maddening. There’s no respect for the actual physicians and medical experts anymore. It’s all a big business. Meanwhile, innocent Americans suffer and possibly face declining health or even death - all because insurance companies do not want to pay up.

Everyone praises politicians for putting a cap on insulin to $35 but the reality is insulin only costs $2-4 per vile to produce. $2-4!!! These big pharma companies continue to make bank while innocent citizens continue to struggle on whether or not they can afford medications to keep them alive. Some insurances are not even willing to cover any of it. The root cause is the lobbyists at the end of the day. Do not even get me started on our FDA and what a joke they are. I could go on an entire separate rant about that alone.

The nurse I had the pleasure of discussing this with begged me to please write local law makers, state legislators and Congress about the struggles I have seen firsthand with how our healthcare system is crumbling in real time. Many of these medical experts went into the field not to make money but because they wanted to help people. But how can they do that when it’s all about money nonstop? I implore others to please do the same and write, write, write! I have already written 27 emails today to different elected officials within our state and at the federal level. But it takes more people to really drive the point that we are tired!

Asking for healthcare is a fundamental human right, not a luxury afforded to a few.

I believe in a fair universal healthcare system where everyone is treated equally no matter the person’s health condition or history. No one should be worrying how they will pay medical bills or if they have to pass on getting medication filled so they don’t lose their home. Absolutely no one, child or elderly to in-between should be turned away. We’re supposed to be one of the richest countries in the world yet our citizens are treated like a third world nation and suffering. All while the federal minimum wage stays stagnant, the cost of living continues to rise and the retirement age will most likely increase yet again.

Please write to your representatives and express your voices too! It’s the only way to invoke change.

#medicare for all #capitalism sucks #healthcare is a human right

[factoidfactory]

Random Fact #6,436

Universal healthcare is a right listed in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25).

#did you know #universal healthcare #healthcare is a human right #universal declaration of human rights #little known fact #random facts #random fact #healthcare #free healthcare

[tomfooleryprime]

I’ve seen a lot of op-eds talking about how the overturn of Roe v. Wade will have a chilling effect on reproductive healthcare. There’s this fear that providers will be hesitant to treat women suffering from miscarriages for fear of prosecution, since miscarriage and abortion are medically indistinguishable. If that’s your biggest fear, you're suffering from failure of imagination and an inability to pay attention, considering there are plenty of recent examples of prosecutors trying to pin charges on women for failing to carry a pregnancy to term. 

Most recent cases involve women being prosecuted after taking illegal drugs like methamphetamine or opioids and maybe it’s easy to think, “Well, illegal drugs are bad.” But all kinds of things have been linked to bad pregnancy outcomes that aren’t alcohol or hard drugs: soft cheese, undercooked meat, rollercoasters, hot tubs, deli meats, caffeine, litter boxes, hair dye...

If SCOTUS really thinks the decision to place “reasonable” restrictions on pregnant people’s rights for the sake of their fetuses truly belongs to the states, just wait and see what states consider reasonable in the inevitable wave of resulting lawsuits.

Many state courts have sided with pharmacists who refuse to fill kind of family planning prescriptions if they violate their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”  What’s going to happen when a pregnant woman tries to buy an energy drink and the devout Walgreen’s cashier is worried for the life of her unborn fetus?

And what about women who aren’t visibly pregnant? Can businesses refuse service on the off chance that they might be? What happens when amusement parks start insisting women of childbearing age take a pregnancy test prior to riding a rollercoaster because they’re afraid of felony murder charges for playing a role in potentially harming a fetus thanks to poorly-written and vague state laws? How will you feel when the manager at La Quinta asks you to get out of the hot tub until you can provide some kind of evidence you’re not cooking your fetus on their property?

What about literally any healthcare for any pregnant person that isn’t actually related to their pregnancy? There's a lot of overlap between the people cheering this decision and the people who reject Covid vaccines. What happens when those same people start whispering in the ears of state lawmakers and all of a sudden, pregnant women aren’t allowed to receive recommended vaccines anymore because there “may be concern” it will harm the baby? 

Nevermind the CDC recommends flu shots during pregnancy to protect mom and baby. Why would CDC recommendations matter to the same people who wrote laws requiring abortion providers to lie to patients and say abortion is more dangerous than childbirth and may lead to everything from breast cancer to future infertility? Will SCOTUS say that because flu shots aren’t explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, a pregnant woman’s right to make an informed decision about vaccines and avoid dying of the flu can be superseded by the state’s interest in “protecting” the fetus, even when that interest is based on junk science and a religious agenda?

Break a leg? Why would a doctor risk prison time by offering you x-rays and pain meds that could harm the fetus when you could just bite down on a strap and let the doctor do their best to set a bone they’re not even certain is broken? Suffer from migraines but someone found an inconclusive study that shows the medication you rely on might cause birth defects? Maybe you should just drink more water and pray about it. Need a root canal because pregnancy can play havoc on your oral flora? What happens when your dentist recommends pliers and a little bit of courage because there’s not enough research on how local anesthetic might affect a pregnancy and they’ll be damned if they’re gonna do time just because your teeth are rotting?

Your concern shouldn’t stop at the line of what might happen to women suffering a miscarriage: it should stop at the erosion of rights for all people capable of bearing a child to the point where they’re basically viewed as nothing but a uterus and a source of criminal liability.

#roe v wade #dobbs v. jackson women's health organization #abortion #abortion is healthcare #healthcare is a human right