Health Care

[Psy-Fi]

Watchout fellas, in case you haven't noticed, better check your particulars. US health secretary RFK Jr. now says circumcision and Tylenol will give ya autism.

I guess he thought his comment about a Tylenol connection to autism didn't sound outrageous enough, so he decided to up the ante with the circumcision one.

[Jwb]

Pretty sure the only reason he's even bringing up circumcision is because they use Tylenol on the baby.

[Buck_Mulligan]

Yiz are not gettin off that easily. There's more trouble coming down the pike. Big trouble...

The weekly "MAHA Action Media Hub" call, hosted by top RFK ally and publisher Tony Lyons. His nonprofit is called MAHA Action and bills itself as "a vital resource for our core MAHA Warriors and grassroots activists." Around 5,000 people logged in recently through an open registration portal.
What they sound like: "Fluoride disconnects one from God," a listener with the username "Peter & Melissa BioHacking Stem Cells" wrote during one call.

[Buck_Mulligan]

It's not just the kooks... or maybe there are more kooks than I expected...

A majority of Republican parents support the MAHA movement.
The poll: A Washington Post-KFF poll found 62% of Republican parents align with RFK Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement.
Also: Only 38% of parents overall expressed support for MAHA, with Democratic parents (17%) and independent/other parents (34%) far lower than Republicans

[Psy-Fi]

This toddler's medical expenses can hit $3,000 a month. Her family says nearly every insurance claim is a battle.

[Psy-Fi]

German nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients to reduce his workload

[Psy-Fi]

Insurance denied an $800,000 drug twice. A state-run outside panel helped a North Carolina teen get it.

That $800,000.00 (USD) price tag is the cost per year of that drug.

As obscene as it is unbelievable.

[Psy-Fi]

Cannabis reclassification could 'open the floodgates' for research, scientists say

A long-awaited change in drug policy could bring scientists one step closer to understanding the harms and benefits of marijuana, the most commonly used federally illegal substance.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that moved to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III substance, following through on a regulatory shift first pushed during the Biden administration.

"Decades of federal drug control policy have neglected marijuana's medical uses," the order says. "That oversight has limited the ability of scientists and manufacturers to complete the necessary research on safety and efficacy to inform doctors and patients."

[Psy-Fi]

CDC overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark in unprecedented move

[Psy-Fi]

State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today

[Key]

As much as I love working in health care, shits crazy right now yall

[Psy-Fi]

Health insurance CEOs grilled on high costs of care in back-to-back House hearings

Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for soaring health care costs at the hearings.

The usual finger-pointing at each other and nothing will change.

[Psy-Fi]

A two-fer from California...

California Revokes 280 Hospice Licenses in Fraud Fight; Congressional Hearing Set

California man pleads guilty in $54M radiology and hospice care fraud scheme

[Psy-Fi]

The shameless money-grubbers in the U.S. healthcare system have created yet another way to screw patients out of even more money...

Patients are being hit with this surprise fee just for seeing their doc

Patients who visit hospital-owned doctors' offices are discovering something that could make them feel sick to their stomach: a surprise "facility fee" unrelated to the medical treatment they receive.

The charges — which can range from $25 to thousands of dollars — are typically showing up on patients' medical bills following an annual physical exam, strep throat test or telehealth appointment, according to a report from U.S. PIRG.

"They're being charged for overhead costs that are entirely unrelated to the care they received," U.S. PIRG said in the report.