April 10, 2025 by V Leigh

Private health insurers stole $33B in revenue by defrauding Medicare, with UnitedHealth alone taking $13.9B. Instead of their CEOs getting prison, their companies get tax breaks. Elon isn’t targeting this fraud & waste because it helps oligarchs and holds down the working class

How much has changed in the medical field since #ER began in 1994? #ThePitt star Noah Wyle: “The biggest difference is in 1994, there were about 40 million Americans without health insurance who were using ERs as their primary source of healthcare. That’s doubled now. We have a… pic.twitter.com/FOzfWwjEdQ
— Variety (@Variety) April 9, 2025

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Don’t tell me we can’t have universal healthcare when the US can approve a military budget of damn near $1 TRILLION DOLLARS.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 9, 2025

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68,000 Americans die each year because they can’t access or afford healthcare — and Trump is going to make sure that number gets a lot higher. https://t.co/qqoWZWAC4E
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 9, 2025

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Private health insurers stole $33B in revenue by defrauding Medicare, with UnitedHealth alone taking $13.9B.

Instead of their CEOs getting prison, their companies get tax breaks.

Elon isn’t targeting this fraud & waste because it helps oligarchs and holds down the working class pic.twitter.com/4A3XxsFFfi
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 8, 2025

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THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️

Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.

He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted. pic.twitter.com/bsNo7uLwjp
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) April 5, 2025

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A decline in funding for #HIV response could result in millions of preventable new infections and deaths, with up to 120 000 of these deaths affecting children.

International cooperation is essential to sustain the advances we’ve made in HIV prevention, testing, and treatment.… pic.twitter.com/MtTuaCPWWf
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 27, 2025

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Exactly pic.twitter.com/cMgcf1K1oB
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) March 31, 2025

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April 5, 2025 by V Leigh

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right.

The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.

We must end that international embarrassment.

Yes. We need Medicare for All. pic.twitter.com/2RTKYLK2bV
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 21, 2025

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Our for-profit health care system is not only broken & cruel, it’s extremely wasteful.

While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let’s get it done. pic.twitter.com/U0T5kvtKwM
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 25, 2025

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March 15, 2025 by V Leigh

My latest for @TeenVogue explores the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it was tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

My latest for @TeenVogue explores the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.

Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it was tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars pic.twitter.com/1xPPtwJx2P
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) March 3, 2025

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February 14, 2025 by V Leigh

The media has failed the public on a crucial matter: the derangement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Lawrence O’Donnell “The most important thing to know about Robert Kennedy Jr. Is that there are probably people dead tonight because of him. Thousands of people who followed his medical advise on vaccines in the middle of a deadly pandemic.” pic.twitter.com/vf4xMwbezY
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 15, 2024

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. claims COVID-19 was genetically engineered to spare “Jews and Chinese people”. (2023)
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— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 12, 2024

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Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks was not playing around when she questioned Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald Trump‘s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after confronting him on his past statements about vaccines and Black Americans: pic.twitter.com/Y72MZuYHT0
— theGrio.com (@theGrio) January 31, 2025

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In yesterday’s exchange with @Sen_Alsobrooks, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suggested that Black people have different immunity than White people. As I write in a @KFF QuickTake, the idea of biological differences by race is disproven & has harmful consequences https://t.co/knr4vpGiyR pic.twitter.com/bErWSf2WSA
— Samantha Artiga (@SArtiga2) January 31, 2025

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s record of promoting misinformation will put the health and safety of our children at risk.

I was a NO on his nomination today. pic.twitter.com/axeEkqRu81
— Sen. Maggie Hassan (@SenatorHassan) February 13, 2025

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You cannot overstate how crazy RFK Jr. is when it comes to pushing all sorts of completely bonkers conspiracy theories. Now the GOP Senate has put this vaccine opponent in charge of our public health system. They don’t care about public health safety.https://t.co/hzY1GxVdP5
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 13, 2025

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The media has failed the public on a crucial matter: the derangement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. https://t.co/oUF33n8vSy
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) February 4, 2025

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Last month, @ClareMalone wrote about the threat that Kennedy, a skeptic of medical research, poses to public health.https://t.co/g2jpRH7GSe
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) February 13, 2025

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December 19, 2024 by V Leigh

THE ONLY MINORITY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY ARE THE BILLIONAIRES.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on…

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) December 15, 2024

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Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2024: $447 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2024: $249 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2024: $224 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25 an hour
2024: $7.25 an hour

5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) December 12, 2024

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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000…
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) December 11, 2024

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THE ONLY MINORITY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY ARE THE BILLIONAIRES. pic.twitter.com/f7unuW3ZEk
— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) December 12, 2024

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Denied: ProPublica Exposes UnitedHealth Profiteering Off Limiting Care for Children with Autism https://t.co/kayNP6zYnN
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 16, 2024

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December 11, 2024 by V Leigh

Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto REAVEALED

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto — the real one, not the fake one circulating online.

Here it is:https://t.co/bnlcbLxIuL
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s alleged manifesto published by @kenklippenstein:

“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some… pic.twitter.com/EJqh8DdT4g
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 10, 2024

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Luigi Mangione on his way to his extradition hearing shouts: “This is completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people” pic.twitter.com/GXSEGBuGpn
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024

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Hitting the last three words in the headline https://t.co/X8Uvk58FkM pic.twitter.com/pHIqxtuzPC
— Tom Badgerlock (@NBABabySecret) December 10, 2024

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Collins: People are reaching out to you and offering to help pay for his legal bills

Mangione’s Attorney: That’s correct.

Collins: Would you accept those offers?

Mangione’s Attorney: I probably wouldn’t

Collins: Why do you think they’re offering?

Mangione’s Attorney: The… pic.twitter.com/EVbBT29WGx
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 11, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto REAVEALED https://t.co/BXOUi9AOIR via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) December 11, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s manifesto refers to Michael Moore’s Sicko documentary on the for-profit US healthcare system. In one part of it Moore takes abandoned 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get healthcare there, to show just how sick and depraved the US is by comparison: pic.twitter.com/IfdYswtlyH
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) December 10, 2024

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December 11, 2024 by V Leigh

Last year the health insurance industry reported $70.7 billion in profits, while 41% of Americans are stuck with medical debt. Your medical debt is just a health insurance CEO’s profit. Pass Medicare for All.

Last year, the 7 largest private health insurers collected $1.39 trillion in profit.

It is absurd that Big Insurance is raking in trillions while Americans are pinching pennies to afford treatment.

We need Medicare for All now.
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) December 9, 2024

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Last year the health insurance industry reported $70.7 billion in profits, while 41% of Americans are stuck with medical debt.

Your medical debt is just a health insurance CEO’s profit.

Pass Medicare for All. pic.twitter.com/CwSZRF1iXU
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 9, 2024

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Overhead is 2-3% for Medicaid & Medicare & 20% for-profit health insurance, plus near unlimited on drug costs.

Both provide the exact same doctors & meds. The only reason for profit has massive markup is to pay for CEO bonuses & private jets.

We need universal healthcare now!
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 7, 2024

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For-profit healthcare will always fail us, as it’s not designed to heal us, it’s designed to extract our money.

It’s in the name: for-profit.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 10, 2024

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October 9, 2024 by V Leigh

Forced birth in a country with: —No universal healthcare —No universal childcare —No paid family & medical leave —One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations Again, the right’s agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Forced birth in a country with:

—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations

Again, the right’s agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 16, 2024

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Supreme Court won’t let Biden administration force Texas hospitals to provide emergency abortion carehttps://t.co/a3ThszrXdG
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) October 7, 2024

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Now, DeSantis is trying to keep a cancer patient named Caroline from sharing the story of her abortion, by threatening to criminally prosecute TV stations that carry the Amendment 4 ad featuring her story. https://t.co/7aMUxtzgaL
— Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) October 8, 2024

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A powerful moment from @ElissaSlotkin on abortion. #MISenateDebate #MISen

“It’s not a talking point to women. It is our lives. It’s whether we bleed to death in a parking lot. It’s who and when gets to decide how we have a family, do not trust him.” pic.twitter.com/JGzH6oNmMa
— Kelsie Taggart (@kelsientaggart) October 9, 2024

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October 4, 2024 by V Leigh

The only reason Americans can’t have free healthcare is the government doesn’t want black Americans to have it. Medical apartheid in the name of anti-blackness

The only reason Americans can’t have free healthcare is the government doesn’t want black Americans to have it.

Medical apartheid in the name of anti-blackness
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— Derenic Byrd (@DerenicByrd) September 27, 2024

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A new report found that the for-profit US healthcare system ranks last among peer nations.

We spend twice as much per capita on healthcare and have the worst health outcomes.

Reminder that Medicare For All would save $450B in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 20, 2024

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Pregnant Black Mom Loses Baby As Staff Eats Meal & Ignores Her During Cr… https://t.co/3cx2Pa50up via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) September 14, 2024

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Today 33,000 Boeing workers who are out on strike had their health care revoked by the company.

This is one more reason health care shouldn’t be tied to employment.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) October 1, 2024

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July 15, 2024 by V Leigh

Medical Debt

In America, 1 in 4 cancer patients declared bankruptcy or lost their homes to eviction or foreclosure in 2022, while 42% deplete their life savings within 2 years.

This is insane and unspeakable. Getting cancer should not cause bankruptcy. We must cancel medical debt.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 5, 2024

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I had a suicidal patient brought in against her will. She was suicidal because of financial issues. She asked me if she would get a bill for her forced hospitalization, which is the case. She will likely be billed thousands of dollars. That’s American healthcare for you.
— cabral (@doctor_cabral) July 11, 2024

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US healthcare is so bad you can die in the waiting room #HealthcareForProfit #CapitalismKills

Probe reveals Vallejo man died at Kaiser ER after long wait https://t.co/KdbDYyeBS4 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) July 12, 2024

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Private health insurers stole $33B in revenue by defrauding Medicare, with UnitedHealth alone taking $13.9B. Instead of their CEOs getting prison, their companies get tax breaks. Elon isn’t targeting this fraud & waste because it helps oligarchs and holds down the working class

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My latest for @TeenVogue explores the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it was tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

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Last year the health insurance industry reported $70.7 billion in profits, while 41% of Americans are stuck with medical debt. Your medical debt is just a health insurance CEO’s profit. Pass Medicare for All.

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Forced birth in a country with: —No universal healthcare —No universal childcare —No paid family & medical leave —One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations Again, the right’s agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

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