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  • Illegal Immigrants Leave US Hospitals With Billions In Unpaid Bills

    03/15/2024 9:10:16 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/15/2024 | Autumn Spredemann
    Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding into U.S. hospitals for treatment and leaving billions in uncompensated health care costs in their wake. The House Committee on Homeland Security recently released a report illustrating that from the estimated $451 billion in annual costs stemming from the U.S. border crisis, a significant portion is going to health care for illegal immigrants.With the majority of the illegal immigrant population lacking any kind of medical insurance, hospitals and government welfare programs such as Medicaid are feeling the weight of these unanticipated costs.Apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the U.S. border have jumped 48...
  • HHS Secretary Refuses To Explain Why ‘Hardworking Americans’ Should Pay For Illegals’ Healthcare

    03/15/2024 7:57:25 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 03/15/2024 | BRIANNA LYMAN
    Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra refused to explain Thursday why “hardworking Americans should pay” for foreign lawbreakers’ healthcare when grilled by Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso. Barrasso detailed how cities are being overwhelmed by illegal immigrants draining their resources and putting a massive strain on health funds and infrastructure, noting Denver Health saw more than 20,000 illegally present foreigners seeking medical care in 2023. Denver Health is “at a critical, critical point” as costs pile up, CEO Donna Lynne said, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. “Can you please explain why it is the responsibility of hard-working American...
  • ‘We’re hemorrhaging money’: US health clinics try to stay open after unprecedented cyberattack

    03/10/2024 8:20:12 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 63 replies
    cnn ^ | 3-9-24 | Sean Lyngaas
    For more than two weeks, a cyberattack has disrupted business at health care providers across the United States, forcing small clinics to scramble to stay in business and exposing the fragility of the billing system that underpins American health care. “We’re hemorrhaging money,” said Catherine Reinheimer, practice manager at the Foot and Ankle Specialty Center in the suburbs of Philadelphia. “This will probably be the last week that we can keep everybody on full-time without having to do something,” she told CNN. The center is considering taking out a loan to keep the lights on. The cyberattack disrupted the computer...
  • America faces a shortage of primary care doctors–and they’re drowning in work. Here’s how AI can solve the physician burnout crisis

    03/05/2024 2:30:05 AM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 42 replies
    Fortune via msn ^ | 2/24/24 | Sunita Mishra • 2w
    he United States could save $67 billion each year in health care costs if every person used a primary care provider as their main source of care, according to one estimate. Yet 30% of Americans don't have a primary care doctor due to a shortage of providers, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). The Association of American Medical Colleges projects we'll be short as many as 124,000 physicians by 2034, more than a third of them primary care providers. According to a recent survey from Athenahealth, 80% of physicians already report talent shortages within their practices.
  • Iowa House Votes To Cap Pay For Traveling Nurses

    03/03/2024 2:53:49 PM PST · by NobleFree · 33 replies
    KIWA Radio ^ | February 29, 2024 | scottv@kiwaradio.com
    Des Moines, Iowa — The Iowa House has voted to set limits for the pay of temporary nursing staff working in Iowa hospitals and nursing homes. A traveling nurse could be paid no more than 150 percent of the statewide average wage being paid to full-time healthcare staff who provide nursing services. The bill is a priority for House Republicans, who contend temp agencies are reaping too much of the extra money the legislature has provided nursing homes. Representative Timi Brown-Powers, a Democrat from Waterloo, is a therapist at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, She says the bill addresses a...
  • Rx for Reality: Clinicians Confront Medical Gaslighting

    03/01/2024 5:30:08 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    MEDPAGE TODAY ^ | March 1, 2024 | Gillian Booth
    — Three healthcare professionals describe when they were gaslit by their peersAmy Ho: Hey everyone and welcome back to Anamnesis by MedPage. I'm Amy Ho -- ER doctor and your humble podcast host. Now for those of you new to the program, welcome. And for those of you joining us again -- thanks for coming back! By way of introduction, here at Anamnesis -- this is a medical podcast, but its one that isn't about the pure medicine. Because sometimes medicine -- the practice of medicine -- is actually kind of simple. There's drugs, there's labs, there's imaging, there's research...
  • DEI in NC medical schools and hospitals spark concerns over patient safety (Health care quality based on race and gender)

    03/01/2024 12:29:07 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 8 replies
    Carolina Journal ^ | 02 29 2024 | Theresa Opeka
    Reports this week of a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s impending graduation drew questions not only about why she was being allowed to graduate, but also about how the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement is affecting medical school students and the patients for which they will ultimately care. In April 2022, Kychelle Del Rosario was placed on extended leave after she posted a tweet on Twitter that implied she “missed” the vein of a patient on purpose while doing a blood draw because they laughed about a pronoun pin that she was wearing that...
  • Beautiful woman GRABS the mic from Trump, what happens next is unbelievable

    02/22/2024 7:34:26 PM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 74 replies
    PolitiBrawl ^ | 2-22-2024 10:00 a.m. EST | Brian
    TRANSCRIPT Hey y'all and welcome. MY name is Brian and this video shows how Trump cuts through all of the BS in politics. I was watching and I heard the story of an incredible unbelievable young woman who was battling rare bone cancer. They made a mistake. A doctor or Hospital made a mistake she called it a it was a medical error her name is Natalie Harp. She lit up the television screen like very few people I've ever seen do. And, she talked about how they were preparing her for death. However, because of "right to try" she's...
  • 70% of largest U.S. cities lack funds to cover costs; pensions and healthcare are majority of debt

    02/20/2024 3:02:32 PM PST · by Twotone · 34 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 20, 2024 | Bethany Blankley
    In fiscal 2022, 70 percent of the largest cities in the U.S. did not have enough money to pay their bills. In the latest comprehensive analysis of the fiscal health of the 75 most populous cities in the U.S., 53 did not have enough money to pay all of their bills, according to a Truth in Accounting analysis of the latest annual comprehensive financial reports from 2022. In its eighth annual Financial State of the Cities report, TIA found that the 75 largest cities in the U.S. had $307.4 billion worth of assets available to pay bills but their debt,...
  • MURDOCK: Biden Turns Vets into P.O.W.s Under Kafkaesque VA System...'Every time we think this administration has reached a grotesque low, they dig deeper...'

    02/18/2024 9:26:27 PM PST · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    Headline USA ^ | February 18, 2024 | Staff
    (Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Democrats constantly crow about their faith in “the right to choose.” But this applies to little beyond abortion. Any woman who chooses to buy a gun or send her child to a charter school should expect “pro-choice” Democrats to stand in her way. Democrats crave control and uniformity, even when it comes to medical care for America’s veterans. Democrats want vets in the Department of Veterans Affairs, not getting cured in the private sector. Obama–Biden’s VA waitlist scandal found veterans dying before they could see their doctors. Donald J. Trump promised to fix this lethal mess....
  • REGULATORS ALARMED BY DOCTORS ALREADY USING AI TO DIAGNOSE PATIENTS

    02/18/2024 6:02:04 PM PST · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    Futurism ^ | 18 February 2024 | JON CHRISTIAN
    "THE CART IS SO FAR AHEAD OF THE HORSE, IT’S LIKE HOW DO WE REIN IT BACK IN WITHOUT CAREENING OVER THE RAVINE?" You may remember a series of lawyers who have attempted to use AI tools in court — and were subsequently embarrassed and sanctioned when the chatbots screwed up, sometimes even inventing plausible-sounding cases that didn't actually exist. So consider this: how would you feel if your doctor did the same thing, feeding your symptoms into an AI system to diagnose what's wrong with you? That's a looming question, Politico reports in a fascinating story, that's currently stressing...
  • Biden’s brother used his name to promote a hospital chain. Then it collapsed.

    02/18/2024 4:42:08 PM PST · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    Politico ^ | 02/18/2024 07:00 AM EST | By BEN SCHRECKINGER
    Jim Biden played a major role in a company called Americore, which the government has accused of massive Medicare fraud. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 2017, a hospital operator set out to build a rural health care empire with the help of a Philadelphia-area consultant. The consultant, Jim Biden, had no experience running hospitals. But he did understand the federal government and had ties to labor unions. Perhaps more important, he was the younger brother of Joe Biden. The final years of the Obama administration had cemented the former vice president’s towering stature in the world of health care, where he had made...
  • Navy Whistleblower Exposes ‘937% Surge in Heart Failure’ Among Vaxxed Pilots

    11/29/2023 11:39:00 AM PST · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    SLAY News ^ | November 29, 2023 - 12:57 pm | Frank Bergman
    A U.S. Navy medical officer has blown the whistle and gone public with explosive internal data regarding surges of serious health issues among vaccinated military personnel. Lieutenant Ted Macie has selflessly waived anonymity in order to raise the alarm about the startling number of troops suffering potentially fatal heart-related problems. Macie is currently serving as an officer in the Navy Medical Service Corps. He has now bravely come forward as a whistleblower and disclosed Department of Defense (DOD) data that suggests a notable increase in heart-related problems among military pilots after receiving the COVID-19 mRNA injections. Lieutenant Macie, who also...
  • Report: At Least 769 Recently Vaxxed Athletes Collapsed Last Year During Competition

    01/03/2023 9:47:58 AM PST · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 73 replies
    bigleaguepolitics.com ^ | 1/2/22 | Bo Banks
    Report: At Least 769 Recently Vaxxed Athletes Collapsed Last Year During Competition One of the underlying stories of 2022 is the enormous number of professional athletes – primarily men with an average age of 23 – collapsing during competition. Though many of these instances have been documented in singular reports. Mainstream media outlets appear reluctant to link this unprecedented surge in collapses to the Covid-19 jab. Or to even bother asking follow up questions as to why or how this is happening. This is especially suspicious considering the majority of these collapsing instances involved recently vaccinated and or boosted athletes....
  • Dozens of Vaxxed Athletes Are Suddenly Collapsing and Nobody’s Allowed to Ask Why

    11/26/2021 8:34:54 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 76 replies
    NOQ Report ^ | November 26, 2021 | JD Rucker
    There’s an extremely inconvenient truth for vaxx-nannies that is quietly surfacing across the globe. Professional athletes, who are among the healthiest people on the planet, are collapsing with inexplicable and sudden heart conditions, often while in the middle of playing their games. The only common thread among them is that they were all recently injected with the Covid-19 jabs. Unfortunately, this truth is being kept under wraps. Nobody’s allowed to state the obvious or ask questions that could expose the reality of great harm being caused by the vaccines. Just yesterday, stories emerged, including video, of professional soccer star Adama...
  • Sudden Deaths of Vaxxed Athletes, Students, Pilots, Military, but Why No Politicians?

    02/14/2024 8:14:34 PM PST · by george76 · 75 replies
    California Globe ^ | February 14, 2024 | Katy Grimes
    Members of the California Assembly and Senate were exempted from COVID vaccine mandates – so was Congress and Biden’s Executive Branch... Isn’t it extraordinary that we see daily reports of young athletes, high school and college students, college athletes, pilots, members of the military and others dropping dead suddenly? Yet we aren’t seeing this same “died suddenly” phenomenon, as it is now called, in elected politicians – members of Congress, Governors, or State Legislatures. ... Before the vaccine rollout of 2021, these kinds of collapses were never seen before, and if they did happen, they were extremely rare. Now, it’s...
  • A Junior Scientist. A Prominent Oncologist. Now, a Clash at MD Anderson Over Who Gets Research Credit

    02/14/2024 1:01:01 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 37 replies
    STAT ^ | Feb. 8, 2024 | Angus Chen and Jonathan Wosen
    hree years ago, Jamie Lin, an early-career nephrologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, made findings that could potentially help both save the kidneys of cancer patients and propel her career as a physician-scientist hoping to one day run her own lab. It was a promising start, but that’s when Lin says one of the Texas institute’s most powerful researchers interfered. Lin alleges in a lawsuit that prominent oncologist Padmanee Sharma derailed the publication of papers based on Lin’s work, threatened to undermine her fledgling career, and made defamatory comments about her in retaliation for resisting making Sharma an author on...
  • Denver Health at “Critical Point” as 8,000 Migrants Make 20,000 Emergency Visits

    01/26/2024 9:55:34 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 101 replies
    https://mishtalk.com ^ | Jan 24, 2024
    The Denver hospital system is turning away local residents because it is flooded with migrant visits. Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne warned the center is in a crucial moment due to unexpected costs associated with immigrant visits. What I think is not being said is that Denver Health is at a critical, critical point and that we need to take this up in 2024,” Lynne told the Denver City Council, according to the Denver Post. Eight-thousand migrants from Central America accounted for approximately 20,000 visits in 2023. Denver Health asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide funds for immigrants’...
  • Where is the best (and worst) state to retire in 2024? Fascinating study looks not just at health care and taxes but quality of golf courses too

    01/24/2024 12:18:25 PM PST · by george76 · 49 replies
    DAILY MAIL ^ | 24 January 2024 | TILLY ARMSTRONG
    Florida earned its reputation as the retirement capital of the US.. A fixed income in retirement can go a lot further in some states than others .. ... To make the most of your retirement savings, you should retire in a state where the cost of living and tax rates are friendly to retirees, if you have the resources to. You should also consider factors like the quality of the state's healthcare system and the abundance of activities that you enjoy.' Colorado, which ranked second for the best state to retire in 2024, offers similarly taxpayer-friendly conditions, with no estate...
  • FDA’s New Rule Allows for Medical Research Without Informed Consent

    01/23/2024 7:17:41 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 60 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 1/23/2024 | Amie Dahnke
    Studies cannot pose more than minimal risk to humans and must include appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of those involved.In an effort to encourage the discovery of more treatment and diagnostic options in the medical field, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a rule allowing certain clinical trials to operate without obtaining informed consent from participants. The hitch? The study cannot pose more than minimal risk to humans and must include appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of those involved. The rule was issued in late December 2023 and went...