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This is crossposted from my Petition to President Biden. The CDC floated the idea in WaPo, and to state health officials, of removing the guidelines workers and doctors rely upon, that allow people to recover and safely isolate themselves with C-19 to...
by watermelonpunch
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 11:58 AM PST
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There have been many posts here about the advantages and dangers of Medicare Advantage (MA) for the average consumer. They are extremely appealing with low or no cost policies, and more benefits than standard Medicare. But if you choose MA, beware that...
by zman1527
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:10 PM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Lisa Edwards begged for her life. But instead of helping the 60-year-old disabled Knoxville, Tennessee, woman, police arrested her for trespassing after she refused to leave the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center when the doctors discharged her....
by Rebekah Sager
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 07:19 AM PST
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HealthcareDive.com 4 Feb 2023: Federal regulators likely will claw back billions of dollars [paid to] Medicare Advantage plans [calculated from] 2018, backtracking from an earlier proposal that … had proposed to [reach as far as 2011 on overpayments...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 02:13 PM PST
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Looking back over the year, obviously the big news was the Supreme Court’s destruction of Roe v. Wade in June, and the subsequent laws restricting women’s reproductive choices in red states (and ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Dec 31, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
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Reposting In case you missed it last time. ShelterBox links at the end. Also ShelterBox is on the ground in the Ukraine helping with the poor people of the Ukraine. You can look at the links and see things you can gift to people and send to help where...
by TexMex
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on Thu Dec 22, 2022 at 06:19 AM PST
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A few weeks ago my daughter took me to see this production as a birthday present. This young man in a big chair presented the Christmas Carol and did all the characters and voices! He was most excellent. Here is the San Antonio Express News article...
by TexMex
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on Sun Dec 18, 2022 at 05:08 AM PST
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Advantage plans took an estimated $11.4 billion in fraudulent & erroneous payments from Medicare in 2022, only the most recent of nearly a decade of growing annual figures involving one of the most profitable of American insurance industry sectors....
by mettle fatigue
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on Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 04:29 PM PST
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 · 5:41:41 AM +00:00 · mettle fatigue iNTERNATIONAL EXPERTS RECOMMEND Actions to End the Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 still moves among us, requiring continued efforts and resources to save lives. This is the first of six themes...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 26, 2022 at 07:08 PM PST
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As hate crimes continue to rapidly increase across the country, convictions are also on the rise. Every week, more and more individuals are being convicted for hate crime charges whether that be against a religion, race, or community. Most recently, a...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 09:32 AM PDT
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by Vilissa Thompson
This story was originally published at Prism .
Over the past two years of the pandemic, we have witnessed the rise of telehealth services, but now that popularity is waning ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Thu Apr 14, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Here at Daily Kos, we’re making an ongoing effort to cover the Republican assault on trans rights. Conservatives are doing their best to try various routes to isolate and discriminate against trans folks, whether it comes down to denying them safe,...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Mar 29, 2022 at 10:51 AM PDT
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Retirement center ‘left to rot, with its elderly, disabled tenants captive,’ class-action suit reads “They should be paying us to live here, with all the stuff going on,” Linda Smith tells The Kansas City Star. “Bed bugs, cockroaches, water running all the time. Sometimes you walk out the door you got a whole floor from here almost down to the corner...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Tue Mar 29, 2022 at 08:14 AM PDT
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Male LVN gets prison for raping SanCarlos Apache woman patient subjected to decades of medical abuse This male nurse faces about seven more years of incarceration for his crimes against an incapacitated San Carlos Apache patient —who was found giving birth to the child of rape before anyone at the healthcare facility even realized she was pregnant....
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Dec 16, 2021 at 02:19 PM PST
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I recently read Keah Brown’s Superhero Issue which can be found here. It’s not a bad article, but I do have problems with it. As a long time, comic reader, it is not the first time I have had an issue with an article. I should start with my dog in this...
by Elixa
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on Tue Nov 09, 2021 at 11:34 AM PST
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Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 5.9 percent in 2022, the Social Security Administration announced today.
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Oct 26, 2021 at 04:16 PM PDT
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I sent this info to Becky Ogle who is a great warrior for the ADA and I met in Washington. We are friends on Facebook. We are also known to one another. I hope it gets major air play but only if people know about it. This was filed IN THE UNITED STATES...
by Vetwife
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on Fri Aug 06, 2021 at 06:25 PM PDT
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For years, disability advocates have worked to try and change a long-standing policy that allowed the employment of disabled workers at sub-minimum wages. The use of sub-minimum wages was offensive on many grounds, not the least of which is that it in...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 08:51 AM PDT
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Some 18 years ago, when I was approaching retirement at 62, I needed a part-time job to bring in income until my SS check began appearing in my checking account. Since I had a chauffeur's license, I applied for a job with an Adult Day Care...
by nailkeg
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on Mon Jun 28, 2021 at 12:07 PM PDT
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