American Healthcare continues to go backward

[Donnyboy]

Corporate greed has destroyed the U.S. The only way out of this is to nationalize industries such as healthcare.

Just for giggles what makes you think this when you look at a govt with failing infrastructure, declining schools, two parties that can only agree on getting rid of TikTok (because you can actually see what they say there), has an increasingly unhealthy populous following the guide lines of eat all the carbs you can, we don't even win wars anymore......and we are 35 T in debt. The more the govt touches it the worse it works......so why does one think it will help. Especially when the VA isn't exactly killing it on the healthcare side.

 

[Pokey]

I swear @Donnyboy, your perspective on the state of affairs in this country makes me want to just roll over and die. Can you find nothing that brings you joy?

 

[Donnyboy]

I swear @Donnyboy, your perspective on the state of affairs in this country makes me want to just roll over and die. Can you find nothing that brings you joy?

Small govts with balanced budgets.....

 

[Pokey]

Small govts with balanced budgets.....

Don’t hold your breath till it happens.

 

[Polds4OSU]

Doctors grapple with how to save women's lives amid 'confusion and angst' over new Louisiana law • Louisiana Illuminator

Under a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most widely used life-saving medications for pregnant women.

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A lifesaving drug used to stop postpartum hemorrhaging will be pulled off emergency response carts once it becomes a ‘controlled dangerous substance.’ Louisiana

 

[Llcoolw]

This is why I was never a fan of the ACA. All it did was insure the insurers profit more. Now I will say there were a couple of things that got cut/struck down that were supposed to help curb that. I don’t think it would have made that much of a difference though. Insurance all forms has always come of as a legalized protection racket.

Except they can’t turn down anyone

Corporate greed has destroyed the U.S. The only way out of this is to nationalize industries such as healthcare.

It sure messed up the veterinarian profession.

 

[Vakarian74]

Except they can’t turn down anyone

It sure messed up the veterinarian profession.

As someone that’s been around that profession for 30 years the venture capitalists buying practices and places like Banfield have certainly. I will say vets have been overall very dumb business people of those years also.

 

[Llcoolw]

As someone that’s been around that profession for 30 years the venture capitalists buying practices and places like Banfield have certainly. I will say vets have been overall very dumb business people of those years also.

It was already a high stress career. I think it used to have the 2nd or 3rd highest suicide rate at one time. VCA is the one that made me mad. The Dr even said, “I know what the problem is, but the procedure is to check off these other possibilities just to make sure”. He was nice about it and really didn’t want to do his practice that way. So he finished his term of the buyout and retired.

VCA gets to keep his name too, so people will think it’s a mom and pop shop. And to do it to the one profession where they must bend to the economic realities of the owner and instead, raise prices, more tests and more products. It’s just like the jerk raising prices on pharmaceutical's

That part you quoted me on where it says they can’t turn you down. That’s was supposed to be deleted. Was wondering if ACA can’t turn you down for any reason. Sorry for any confusion. If any.

 

[Polds4OSU]

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[mugatu]

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For-profit healthcare of any kind is never good. They will always cut corners in care for money.

 

[steross]

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Hospice care has become a joke in this country.

We get patients sent to the ER all the time from hospice which really should not happen. But, they don't get the meds, the meds are underdosed, the nurse doesn't show up, the family is "too stressed and difficult" for the hospice to deal with, etc, etc.

The nation's emergency departments are the "easy button" when crappy for-profit health care doesn't do what it is mandated to do.

Another example. I had a patient sent BY AMBULANCE from a nursing home because his ears were plugged with wax. Yes, sent by a nurse. Yes, there are doctors that are supposed to cover nursing homes. Yes, this was an elderly person on VA/Medicare so all of us paid >$1200 for his ear drop prescription by ambulance.

 

[steross]

Some friends of mine worked very hard to try to get this bill through, and Gov Newsome vetoed it.

It would have required Attorney General oversight of PE ownership of health care entities.

Powerful lobbies are powerful. There is no good side in politics.

California Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Private Healthcare Acquisitions

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On September 28, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 3129. As discussed in our prior alert, AB 3129 would have required California Attorney General approval of healthcare transactions involving private equity groups and hedge funds and would have had a significant impact on changes of control and acquisitions of healthcare facilities and provider groups by such entities.


In his decision to veto the bill, Governor Newsom stated that he supported efforts to increase oversight over California’s health care system to ensure consumers receive affordable and quality health care, but that “it would be more appropriate for the [Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA)] to oversee these consolidation issues as it is already doing much of this work.” Currently, the OHCA is tasked with conducting cost and market impact reviews of transactions that are likely to significantly impact competition in the healthcare marketplace as well as the affordability of healthcare services for consumers in the state.

 

[steross]

Newsome must have gotten some pretty nice meals paid for at the French Laundry from the people sucking all the money out of health care. He vetoed this bill too.

Newsom sides with health care industry in rejecting rules for prescription drug middlemen, hedge funds

Hedge funds can burden a health care company in debt, threatening services. Gov. Newsom rejected a bill to regulate those deals.

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Newsom sides with health care industry in rejecting rules for prescription drug middlemen, hedge funds​

More than two dozen states regulate the pharmaceutical middlemen that advocates and economists say drive up the price of prescription drugs, but California will not be joining their ranks. Gov. Gavin Newsom today vetoed legislation designed to curb their influence.


The bill, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, would have required the state insurance department to license pharmacy benefit managers. It would also have required pharmacy benefit managers to disclose prices paid to drug manufacturers and mandated 100% of any discounts negotiated be passed down to consumers.


It was one of two bills intended to crack down on the health care industry that Newsom vetoed today.


He also rejected a hotly contested measure by Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood of Ukiah that would have given the state more power to block the sale of health care companies to for-profit investors, such as hedge funds and private equity firms.

 

[mugatu]

Newsome must have gotten some pretty nice meals paid for at the French Laundry from the people sucking all the money out of health care. He vetoed this bill too.

Newsom sides with health care industry in rejecting rules for prescription drug middlemen, hedge funds

Hedge funds can burden a health care company in debt, threatening services. Gov. Newsom rejected a bill to regulate those deals.

calmatters.org

Newsom sides with health care industry in rejecting rules for prescription drug middlemen, hedge funds​

More than two dozen states regulate the pharmaceutical middlemen that advocates and economists say drive up the price of prescription drugs, but California will not be joining their ranks. Gov. Gavin Newsom today vetoed legislation designed to curb their influence.


The bill, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, would have required the state insurance department to license pharmacy benefit managers. It would also have required pharmacy benefit managers to disclose prices paid to drug manufacturers and mandated 100% of any discounts negotiated be passed down to consumers.


It was one of two bills intended to crack down on the health care industry that Newsom vetoed today.


He also rejected a hotly contested measure by Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood of Ukiah that would have given the state more power to block the sale of health care companies to for-profit investors, such as hedge funds and private equity firms.

Yeah... seems like he's been paid for by someone. For a "progressive" democratic governor that's supposedly all about helping people, unless there is something strange in the bills, those shouldn't be hard to support.

 

[cowboyinexile]

Yeah... seems like he's been paid for by someone. For a "progressive" democratic governor that's supposedly all about helping people, unless there is something strange in the bills, those shouldn't be hard to support.

Dude is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's considered future presidential material and yeah, please no.

 

[GOGETUMPOKE]

Dude is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's considered future presidential material and yeah, please no.

He's a wolf in wolf's clothing. I never see anything good about him in the press and everybody I know from California hates him. How does he keep getting elected?

 

[steross]

He's a wolf in wolf's clothing. I never see anything good about him in the press and everybody I know from California hates him. How does he keep getting elected?

My best guess is your answer is in my posts. Seems he is willing to do the bidding of the powerful. In a partisan state like California, let the powerful $$ push you through the primary and unless there is a unicorn on the other side (Arnold) you have it won.

This is the worst of politics in my opinion. I'd rather have someone that I disagree with but is honest with their values than someone that pays lip service then acts selfishly. This guy is a never-vote for me.

 

[Vakarian74]

My best guess is your answer is in my posts. Seems he is willing to do the bidding of the powerful. In a partisan state like California, let the powerful $$ push you through the primary and unless there is a unicorn on the other side (Arnold) you have it won.

This is the worst of politics in my opinion. I'd rather have someone that I disagree with but is honest with their values than someone that pays lip service then acts selfishly. This guy is a never-vote for me.

Oklahoma and California are the same just for different sides.

 

[steross]

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[steross]

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