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[Me @Plaidsheep324]

This is like the 8th dumbest fucking shit I’ve seen come out of Team Trump today.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Turns out, the United States did send $50 million for STD prevention to Gaza ($83 million to be exact).

Just so happens, it was sent to the province of Gaza in Mozambique, the country located on the southeastern coast of Africa. Hamas in Gaza, Palestine, did not receive $50 million worth of U.S. condoms from that grant, like President Trump suggested earlier today.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Turns out, the United States did send $50 million for STD prevention to Gaza ($83 million to be exact).

Just so happens, it was sent to the province of Gaza in Mozambique, the country located on the southeastern coast of Africa. Hamas in Gaza, Palestine, did not receive $50 million worth of U.S. condoms from that grant, like President Trump suggested earlier today.

[Steph R. 🦋🇵🇷 @stephdizzle11]

Lol somebody pls check on Ilona’s teammate!!! #dwts

[Me @Plaidsheep324]

.@GregAbbott_TX please stop the execution of @innocence client #RobertRoberson on Oct. 17 for a crime that never occurred. https://t.co/E7Y8ptjbKl

[Me @Plaidsheep324]

.@GovParsonMO, please do not let Missouri execute
@innocence @the_MIP client #MarcellusWilliams, an innocent person — where there is overwhelming evidence that his trial was constitutionally unfair — on 9/24. https://t.co/T2Hisxwelb

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

every White House press briefing rn

[Me @Plaidsheep324]

@sunrisemvmt @RepDanielle FYI the phone number to call to annoy @SenFettermanPA is 202-224-4254.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

A lot of people are dragging this person. The knee jerk reaction of “92% coverage?! That’s amazing! Why are you complaining. Leave the country.” This shows how low the bar has been set for health insurance coverage in the US. Let’s put on our empathy hats for a moment.

Imagine paying a ~$1k per month premium for the privilege of having health insurance. It was $750 last year, but the company you work for had a lot of employees use their health insurance in 2023, so Blue Cross decided to hike up the premiums to defray the cost of actually paying for their customer’s healthcare. You’re annoyed but fortunately, are still able to pay the monthly premium.

Over the course of the year, you seek preventative medical care like you’re supposed to, paying a $20 co pay for every visit. Maybe you have a few extra visits to your PCP or the emergency room. These bills go entirely to your deductible, which means you pay for 100%. The high deductible plan was all you could afford due to the rising premiums. Again, you’re annoyed but you can manage.

Finally you reach your deductible, thinking “great, I won’t have to pay anything the rest of the year.” At least that’s what it sounded like from the intro pamphlet you received from HR at the beginning of the year. It was all pretty confusing.

With your deductible met, you finally schedule that procedure your doctor has been nagging you to get that will prevent further health care issues down the road. However, you didn’t realize co-insurance charges still apply until you reach your out of pocket maximum (~$12,000 for the plan you chose. Again, the only plan you could afford). You are frustrated, but fortunately still able to cover the estimated cost.

Then, while recovering from major surgery, you receive a bill for $4,457 that you can’t pay. This is more than you were quoted by your doctor’s medical office. Turns out Blue Cross thought some of the medication you received during the procedure was unneccesary, so they refused to pay for it.

You’re angry. You have done everything right. You paid your premiums, you did everything your doctors suggested to keep yourself as healthy as possible, and yet, you still end up with a bill that will take months, if not years, to pay off. If you don’t, you will be sent to collections, wrecking your credit, and making life an even harder uphill climb. Does all of this apply to the OP here? Maybe, maybe not. But it does apply to millions of other people in the US every year.

Does this person not have a right to be angry? Should we just be ok with a health care system that is death by a thousand cuts? Or should we strive for a system in which a person can access health care without risk of financial distress? Unfortunately, many people can’t understand this point of view until they are on the receiving end of those medical bills. Health insurance companies don’t care about you. They are evil. Don’t settle for slightly less evil.

[Me @Plaidsheep324]

Hey @SenFettermanPA, still seeing you continuously blowing off and disrespecting your own constituents. Reminder: Fuck you, you work for us.

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

Last week, Fetterman got on Fox News to criticize Biden's liquified gas export pause.

In 2018, he had joined Sunrise and @RepDanielle to rally against fracked gas pipelines.

When a constituent asked why he flipped, he mocked her, then walked into a member-only elevator.

[California Fast Food Workers Union @CAFastFoodUnion]

BREAKING: Today hundreds of fast food workers from across California are in LA to officially launch the California Fast Food Workers Union

We've won a Fast Food Council

We've won $20/hr

Now we're doing whatever it takes to win annual raises, just cause, and more

#UnionsForAll

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

LIVINGSTON: “If it wasn’t for that policy my dad would’ve never been in jail.”

TN jails folks with mental issues, lacking other resources. He died after 29 hours. 0 charges. Excessive force.

Not expanding Medicaid did this. Change our minds, @GovBillLee. https://t.co/K8bFHt13pO

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PSA: @GovBillLee keeps saying we’re the lowest taxed state… but that’s only when you group the rich in with the poor.

If anything Tennessee has gotten MORE regressive since this 👇🏽 (meaning lower income folks pay a higher % of their income in taxes) https://t.co/MgBDu2AIOU

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

You are lying, Ben. Men of any faith, and atheists too, could instantly reduce abortions by 99% simply by being careful with their own sperm and ejaculating responsibly. Yet men choose not to. Year after year, men choose not to.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

"Would you rather it cost a hundred million dollars to live forever or increase everyone's healthy lifespan by 10 years for free" is a question that perhaps every billionaire is incapable of answering correctly.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

In Massachusetts, a family making $130,125 a year with an infant and a 2-year-old has paid an average of $3,128 per month on child care.

Under my plan, they’d pay no more than $10 per day, or $200 per month.

[Imogene Cancellare, PhD @biologistimo]

@ATT Please RT. What company charges an account for 3 years with no card on file and never suspends service? @ATT this is what you did to my mom when her house was destroyed in the 2021 Texas freeze. Idk what got missed but charging for services not rendered is fraud.

[Diane Marie @Dee_Camacho]

For the record, the other possible dx’s were things like pulmonary embolism, acute coronary syndrome, and cardiomyopathy. In other words, what ChatGPT saw as most likely just anxiety for a woman, it saw as potentially life threatening conditions for a man. That’s… telling.

[Diane Marie @Dee_Camacho]

Bored in the hospital so I put all my symptoms into ChatGPT & asked it to list the most likely dx’s in order. Of course, anxiety was at the top of the list. So I ran it again but as a male pt, and to absolutely no ones surprise, anxiety wasn’t even ON the list of possible dx’s 🙃

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is Amy Hadley & her kids, Kayla & Noah. In June 2022, police tossed dozens of tear gas bombs into their home, smashed windows, punched holes in the wall & more.

A cop's error led them to Amy's home. She hadn't committed a crime.

The gov't won't pay her back. A thread.