American Healthcare continues to go backward

steross said:
Wait, you mean none of you play pickleball shirtless wearing jeans in a weird cave-like workout area with your bros?
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Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate

EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain
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Story about a kid with measles encephalitis. Man, the comments section was not the least bit kind to the mother:

Ethan’s parents decided not to immunize him against measles as they did with his three brothers. Three out of four of them contracted measles. Still, despite Ethan’s ordeal, his mom stands by their decision. “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

“And we wouldn't change it any other way,” the mom continued. “If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.”

I'm not a religious person, but this "We're not blaming God.............................God has chosen..." nonsense is a poor excuse. We have free will. As a parent, YOU chose to not give a very safe vaccine to your children. God did not do this.
 
steross said:
www.independent.co.uk

Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate

EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Story about a kid with measles encephalitis. Man, the comments section was not the least bit kind to the mother:

Ethan’s parents decided not to immunize him against measles as they did with his three brothers. Three out of four of them contracted measles. Still, despite Ethan’s ordeal, his mom stands by their decision. “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

“And we wouldn't change it any other way,” the mom continued. “If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.”

I'm not a religious person, but this "We're not blaming God.............................God has chosen..." nonsense is a poor excuse. We have free will. As a parent, YOU chose to not give a very safe vaccine to your children. God did not do this.
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Yes, “God has chosen” is nonsense. It’s cognitive dissonance. She chose. She chose to not vaccinate her children. Now she is living with the consequences. And she’s blaming God while saying she doesn’t blame God.

It’s like I was talking about in the other thread, “thy rod and staff they comfort me” thinking the rod is for whacking sheep and not predators.
 

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A​

Recent policy changes and economic shifts have slashed 12 years off the projected life span of the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A, according to a newly updated report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is now slated to be entirely exhausted by 2040, even though the balance generally increases through 2031, as spending will begin to outstrip income in the following year.


This rapid deterioration of Medicare’s financial solvency represents a stark drop from the CBO’s previous estimate, which was published just last year, in March 2025. The dramatically shortened timeline means future retirees could face significant cuts to vital health care services far sooner than previously anticipated. As required by the Deficit Control Act, CBO Director Phillip Swagel noted the projections reflect the assumption benefits would be paid as scheduled even after the HI trust fund was exhausted.

The primary culprit for this accelerated depletion is a sharp reduction in the fund’s projected income, heavily driven by legislation passed over the last year. Specifically, the 2025 reconciliation act (Public Law 119-21, more commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) significantly reduced the revenues the trust fund normally receives from taxing Social Security benefits. This legislation lowered tax rates and established a temporary deduction for taxpayers age 65 or older. Consequently, this major policy shift enacted during the Trump administration has directly contributed to starving the Medicare safety net of critical future funding.

 
NASHVILLE — Rep. @aftynbehn4tn : “An ethics committee stepped in and canceled her surgery, citing a duty to protect her ‘sacred fertility’.”

A Tennessee woman says Ascension St. Thomas Midtown canceled her scheduled surgery hours after she was admitted.https://www.threads.com/@thetnholler/post/DVJ_z-XAbNo?xmt=AQF0akrpdMF1AqK6y6pFTz-mHIY3ut5V2ddrwEfoSCabziOFPytp-j67Z-_060n7okZ9z2GV&slof=1
 
Polds4OSU said:

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A​

Recent policy changes and economic shifts have slashed 12 years off the projected life span of the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A, according to a newly updated report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is now slated to be entirely exhausted by 2040, even though the balance generally increases through 2031, as spending will begin to outstrip income in the following year.


This rapid deterioration of Medicare’s financial solvency represents a stark drop from the CBO’s previous estimate, which was published just last year, in March 2025. The dramatically shortened timeline means future retirees could face significant cuts to vital health care services far sooner than previously anticipated. As required by the Deficit Control Act, CBO Director Phillip Swagel noted the projections reflect the assumption benefits would be paid as scheduled even after the HI trust fund was exhausted.

The primary culprit for this accelerated depletion is a sharp reduction in the fund’s projected income, heavily driven by legislation passed over the last year. Specifically, the 2025 reconciliation act (Public Law 119-21, more commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) significantly reduced the revenues the trust fund normally receives from taxing Social Security benefits. This legislation lowered tax rates and established a temporary deduction for taxpayers age 65 or older. Consequently, this major policy shift enacted during the Trump administration has directly contributed to starving the Medicare safety net of critical future funding.

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Taxing seniors less on the Social Security, money they supposedly paid into a trust fund during their working lives (but is in reality a Ponzi scheme) will cause the health care trust fund for seniors to go under a little faster than it was slated to go under in the first place. Do I have that right?
 
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