Bucket Man From – @Christyprn
This video demonstrates how private healthcare insurance companies take your money.
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In South L.A., the battle to stay ahead of the mental health turnstile never ends
Mental Illness under AB1400 would be a giant asset in the process of eradicating homelessness. That is what makes a a. supper bill. It would address the healthcare dessert problem. This article will address the problem.
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California’s Separate and Unequal Healthcare System and How Sacramento May Only Be Making It Worse.
Article by Paul Y. Song, MD Over the past two years, there have been countless tragic stories about the separate and unequal nature of Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid system). These reports have highlighted numerous disadvantages, overall difficulties, financial hardships, and outrageous delays that far too many Californians and especially those from communites of color face. From
Shining a light on murky hospital markups
By: DAVID LAZARUS Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world. But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital’s computer system
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California once had mobile hospitals and a ventilator stockpile. But it dismantled them.
A ventilator on display. California built a stockpile of ventilators and other medical equipment in preparation for an emergency, such as a pandemic, but dismantled it years ago.(Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)
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Medical Debt Is Crushing Black Americans
Billing tactics are inflicting financial harm on patients—and sometimes health-care companies aren’t even aware of their own practices.
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Save Our Seniors Network Rebuttal to Newsom’s veto of AB 279
Sobering lessons for the AB 1400 fight can be drawn from the campaign as well as the case made for AB 1400, as currently it is legal for private operators to endanger seniors, particularly oppressed nationality seniors, disproportionately. Save Our Seniors Network (SOSN) is an all-volunteer network of individuals and organizations working to secure the
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She was billed $809 for a boot for her broken foot. Amazon charges $80
BY DAVID LAZARUSBUSINESS COLUMNIST NOV. 16, 2021 6 AM PT Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch recently broke her foot while horseback riding. She got treated at a UCLA-affiliated orthopedic facility in Thousand Oaks and has no complaints about the quality of care. “My doctors were fantastic,” Drachkovitch told me. “This isn’t about them.” What this is about,
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Stranded by the pandemic, he had only travel insurance. It left him with a $38,000 bill
BY ARTHUR ALLEN KAISER HEALTH NEWS NOV. 16, 2021 5 AM PT Duy Hoa Tran, a retired Vietnamese schoolteacher, arrived in Los Angeles in February 2020 to visit his daughter and 2-month-old grandson. Two weeks later, the door closed behind him. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, Vietnam shut its borders. No commercial flights would be allowed
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