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Strange land where insurance dictates whether you live or die
A 17-year-old boy in Los Angeles County, the first teen believed to have died from complications with covid-19 in the U.S., was denied treatment at an urgent care clinic because he didn’t have health insurance.https://gizmodo.com/teen-who-died-of-covid-19-was-denied-treatment-because-1842520539 …
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Or go bankrupt
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Buried in the article is a discussion of how this boy has been removed from the list of COVID-19 deaths by the CDC, because they're "investigating other causes." They're just fucking with the death record at this point to make things look better than they are.
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They did the same thing after Hurricane Maria. I don't understand how the Trump administration keeps getting away with these lies.
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nah, i’m from a third world country, we have public healthcare here.
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I'm not understanding this story at all. Under CHIP, an uninsured child under the age of 19 is eligible for Medicaid even if their parents income is too high to qualify. (Thank you
@HillaryClinton) https://www.medicaid.gov/chip/eligibility/index.html … -
I know a low income single mother who has to mail a $10 check in each month to keep her child on Medicaid. The child’s father is on SSI. They don’t even allow for online pmt or pmt by phone. She had to get a checking acct and buy checks to do this. Why?
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So basically The hospital told a child sick with COVID-19, to get out and refused to give him treatment. They sent him out into the world to not only die, but they willingly let him go infect more people! People should be going to jail for this...
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Urgent care clinics aren't technically hospitals.
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