WOW, incredibly ONE-SIDED PR fluff piece
Who was Brian Thompson, #Greedy healthcare CEO gunned down in New York?
#UnitedHealthcare #Healthcare #HealthInsurance #GreedyBastard #CEO #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpl2qn7l5o
This is what happens when you try to provide healthcare to everyone via a privatized fee-for-care model instead of an unconditional universal single-payer system.
Oh, look, it's the #healthInsurance company I became a member of three weeks ago being grossly negligent about protecting PII and PHI. Charming.
Accidentally sharing data with Google Analytics is totally, 100% a known problem, and it really is grossly negligent for any company that handles PII and PHI not to account for it in its SSDLC.
#infosec #privacy #HIPAA #breach
h/t @zackwhittaker
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/blue-shield-of-california-shared-the-private-health-data-of-millions-with-google-for-years/
In Hobbs, #NewMexico, Sherif says about 85% of his patients are on #Medicaid, the federal & state #HealthInsurance program for #LowIncome Americans. His clinic orders about $50,000 worth of #measles, #chickenpox & other #vaccines per month through the program, he says, an amount of #money impossible for his small clinic to afford if not covered by the federal program.
“If I were to buy them by myself, I would not get enough for my patients,” he said.
Also if you consider studying in Austria, I want to stress that most students can get enrolled with Austria's biggest health insurance agency (ÖGK) for EUR 73,48 per month, so that's a pretty good deal.
source
(The website is only available in German 
): https://www.gesundheitskasse.at/cdscontent/?contentid=10007.868713&portal=oegkportal
ÖGK - Österreichische Gesundheitskasse
Wienerbergstraße 15-19
1100 Wien
Tel. +43 5 0766-0
HIPAA violation alert! 
Blue Shield of California discloses 3-year privacy breach: Google Analytics configuration sent protected health information directly to Google Ads for personalized advertising #PHI #HIPAA #DataPrivacy #DataBreach #HealthInsurance #healthcare 
https://www.netsec.news/disclosure-blue-shield-of-california-phi-google-ads/
@-@ anyone here work in health insurance especially in Arizona? A mental health facility is threatening my wife who’s very vulnerable right now with balance billing if they do not pay money we do not have up front before they leave the facility. As far as I am aware, balance billing is illegal in Arizona.
They were transferred from the CRC in Tucson to this facility
Boosts super appreciated
For people outside the US, here's a demonstration of American health insurance. Do not let your country adopt our stupid model. I'm currently in the process of getting signed up with an insurance company that can deny people with health conditions coverage (Tennessee Farm Bureau, it was grandfathered in when the ACA passed). I had to fill out a long form with my medical history and have to supply blood test results to prove I'm not diabetic and don't have sky high cholesterol. They don't pay for any existing health issues for one year, and charge higher premiums if you have existing health issues. Why am I applying for this instead of the Affordable Care Act? Because look at these prices for people in their 50s in a rural area. Monthly premiums AS LOW AS $782 a month! Wow! The last image shows the cheapest plan I can buy. $782 a month, with a $9200 deductible, which means my insurance would pay literally nothing until I paid $9200 for health insurance, which does not include premiums. The plan I'm applying for through my state is $330/month with a $3000 deductible . What a bargain. Our healthcare industry is a legal mafia. #Healthcare #Healthinsurance #LegalMafia
Un-fucking-believable
Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans
TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.
Thinking today about all my #patients who tell me they can’t take even one day off work after they’re diagnosed with #cancer
Reflecting on how often the treatment plan has to accommodate the patient’s need to continue to work (in the U.S.)
And this was before the intentional #dismantling of the minimal services available to help
Worried about what’s to come
I just went to pick up a prescription at #CVS and I went to give them my new insurance info and they already have it. I am _certain_ no one in my family gave it to them. That is… disturbing.
Most people would probably be like, "Oh, how convenient," but I'm like, "Wow, there are all sorts of privacy issues here."
#privacy #healthInsurance
Luigi Mangione-Inspired Ballot Initiative Targets Health Insurance Denials
In the latest action, employees were instructed to sign a 4-pg letter ordering them to return all #USIP property while agreeing to forgo all future claims against the institute. It ordered them not to disclose any terms of the agreement in exchange for 1 month of #HealthInsurance & a monthly stipend paid for an unspecified period. Those who refuse to sign, the letter said, will lose all #benefits as of Monday.
"One week after the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, an intelligence report compiled by a regional intelligence center made an admission that’s shocking in its simplicity: Rising health care costs are correlated to threats against executives and civil unrest.
The two-page document obtained by the Prospect and compiled by the Connecticut regional intelligence center—one of dozens of fusion centers across the country that communicate intelligence between federal agencies and state law enforcement—is uncharacteristically forthright in its language and assessment that health care costs lead to instability, and that the reaction to suspect Luigi Mangione’s alleged action was largely positive.
According to the dossier, “Healthcare expenditure in the United States increased from $2.75Trillion (T) in 2004, to $4.09T in 2018, in inflation adjusted dollars. 2019 and 2020, saw expenditures of $4.2T and $4.6T respectfully, which represents a 10.6% increase year over year and was largely influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, threats or actual acts of violence against those in the healthcare industry rose by more than 60% from 2011 to 2018.”
The dossier adds that the public “may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.”"
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-03-27-intelligence-dossier-compares-luigi-mangione-robin-hood/
If I could pass 1 law in the United States, it would be illegal for insurance companies to deny any valid claim.
The punishment for breaking this law would be a percentage of the company's profits, up to the imprisonment of those responsible, and the dissolvement of the corporation.
#Insurance #AutoInsurance #HealthInsurance #PetInsurance #HomeOwnersInsurance #RentalInsurance
The more I think about it, the more I talk to people, the more I think #healthinsurance should be outright banned.
Insurance is entirely the wrong vehicle for taking care of people's health.
My new doctor said she has to fight for her patients to get their medication at least 2/3 of the time. Great use of her time and energy. I'm sure that's exactly why she went to medical school. 
I'm mad about my medication being denied. My doctor said I should expect it, but I'm still mad. My Crohn's disease is well-controlled on #Stelara. Does my #HealthInsurance company want me sick?
Welp, my new health insurance denied my prescription for #Stelara, so that's fun.
(My new doctor said I should expect this.)
Amazing #HealthInsurance system we have here.
