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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June 27, 2024 by V Leigh

Vaccine specialist Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 people in Samoa, most of whom were young children, due to his role in depressing vaccination rates on the island.

Vaccine specialist Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 people in Samoa, most of whom were young children, due to his role in depressing vaccination rates on the island. @DecodingFoxNews pic.twitter.com/QICzTnBYIS
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) June 16, 2024

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US pentagon doing straight evil during Covid in 2020-2021https://t.co/Bh3Yy3B68e via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) June 20, 2024

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During a January 18 Senate hearing on the effects of long COVID, epidemiologist Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, told senators that long COVID affects 20 million Americans and is ‘on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease.’ pic.twitter.com/UenBJWrKra
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) January 21, 2024

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Fauci & Trump initially had a rapport—but it soured when Fauci told him COVID wasn’t going away “like magic”. Trump also didn’t like Fauci telling him that “No, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work, no matter what Laura Ingram is telling you”

HT @therecount pic.twitter.com/J4ExifXkkM
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 20, 2024

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The U.S. military ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign in the Philippines and other nations in an effort to sow doubt about COVID vaccines made by China, according to an investigation by journalist @joel_schectman. pic.twitter.com/NKrZLkXM5S
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 20, 2024

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May 24, 2024 by V Leigh

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.https://t.co/vUiM1tjjTr
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 19, 2024

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Don’t tell me we can’t fund healthcare for everyone when we can fund a genocide.

If we’ve got money for bombs, we’ve got money for people.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) May 17, 2024

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3M poisoned you and every other person on earth. The company should be dismantled and every executive involved in the coverup should be subjected to a swim in a PFAS plunge pool.

My fucking god. What is the point of regulations if we cannot hold these people accountable? pic.twitter.com/XJ5ZOvTUZF
— Tom Winter (@WinterForMT) May 21, 2024

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Republicans: Diabetes could be 100% solved with healthier eating (not true btw)

Also Republicans: No healthy food on our watch—your options are to eat processed canned food…or starvation

Here are the GOP’s proposed SNAP (food stamp) restrictions. Cruel & dangerous. pic.twitter.com/gXXw2ue57a
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) January 21, 2023

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Nearly 14,000 Black Americans will move up the kidney transplant list after an unfair test was discovered to misrepresent kidney function among Black patients. Now, the formula for this test is being changed, bringing us closer to #healthequity. https://t.co/QfpcQRpNvX
— Robert F. Smith (@RFS_Vista) May 21, 2024

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Poor levels of preventive care because of racism.
Poor levels of access to medical trials because of racism.
Poor support systems because of racism.
The answer is…racism https://t.co/Pc9wUgRsDm
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) May 9, 2024

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The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago https://t.co/Tf1bjAfgIP
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 21, 2024

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April 9, 2024 by V Leigh

Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in BAND-AIDS where they can get directly into blood through open wounds, report warns https://trib.al/EVGNc6d

Actions speak louder than words. https://t.co/Y2sab6uYpR pic.twitter.com/fqL0EHeof0
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 27, 2024

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Your periodic reminder that Medicare For All would save $450 billion in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 26, 2024

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So long as our healthcare system is for-profit, only those who have the money to afford it will have the privilege of having it.

Single-payer NOW.
Medicare for All NOW. https://t.co/zeXTydLHYJ
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 24, 2024

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I can’t emphasize it enough: Healthcare prices are fake. Never, ever pay the first bill in full. Make a good-faith effort and call the provider to get on the record a request for a reduced bill. This was for an urgent care visit while I was uninsured: from $420 to $102. pic.twitter.com/5QgG7M0sFe
— 🇵🇸 timothy 🍉 faust (@crulge) March 24, 2024

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https://t.co/n27VxE4BsN pic.twitter.com/2Zu8KusncG
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) March 24, 2024

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Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in BAND-AIDS where they can get directly into blood through open wounds, report warns https://t.co/Y3UGyoHDZW pic.twitter.com/Ky6QZVp3Ru
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 3, 2024

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December 21, 2023 by V Leigh

@ all unions, covid is a labor issue

@ all unions, covid is a labor issue https://t.co/e2PeAyHJN2 pic.twitter.com/qlxmwRiHN6
— ëma says wear a mask and free p@lestine!! 😷 🎭🍉 (@emskens) December 9, 2023

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This is unethical. Bosses are forcing employees to come into work sick with active COVID. This is why labor organizers need to incorporate public health into their demands. pic.twitter.com/882uR1ZFMV
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) December 8, 2023

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Damn that’s wild, I wonder if there was any kind of collective life changing, traumatic event that happened that made them this way? https://t.co/mMSSIE9LyA
— Ryan (@ImRyanBlue) November 27, 2023

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November 5, 2023 by V Leigh

“Over the coming months, more than 100,000 Americans will likely die, mostly unnecessarily, from respiratory infections. …Most of these Americans will be our most vulnerable.” IF ANYONE NEEDS A REMINDER WHY SOME OF US ARE ANGRY, OUR DEATHS ARE SHRUGGED OFF BEFORE WE EVEN DIE.

“Over the coming months, more than 100,000 Americans will likely die, mostly unnecessarily, from respiratory infections. …Most of these Americans will be our most vulnerable.”

IF ANYONE NEEDS A REMINDER WHY SOME OF US ARE ANGRY, OUR DEATHS ARE SHRUGGED OFF BEFORE WE EVEN DIE. https://t.co/OTSe8sbz7R
— Katie Klocksin, by the wayside (@KatieKlocksin) September 26, 2023

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Literally, when it started being reported in the earlier days of the pandemic that Black people were the hardest hit, that was the exact point I knew it was a wrap on it being taken seriously.

And probably like a week later, at most, the unmasking protests started popping up. 🙃 https://t.co/orcEyEft7i
— Toxic Poz-itivity (@angryblkhoemo) September 28, 2023

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August 19, 2023 by V Leigh

In 2022, Ashley was raped outside of her Mississippi home. Her closest abortion provider was in Chicago, a nine-hour drive away. Ashley is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade.

In 2022, Ashley was raped outside of her Mississippi home. Her closest abortion provider was in Chicago, a nine-hour drive away.

Ashley is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade. https://t.co/yzwywvMVb1
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 14, 2023

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64% of Americans disapprove of Roe v Wade being overturned, and it shows:

Abortion rights have won in every election since the decision — in states both red and blue.

The far-right SCOTUS can do its best to erode abortion rights.

But the people are going to fight it like hell.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 17, 2023

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Abortion Clinic Near California-Arizona Border Burns Down, a Major Blow to Regional Access https://t.co/Eu3BR1jtcu pic.twitter.com/izL4GY6YOl
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 17, 2023

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This is why I have very little respect for those who go around bleating that “but anti-abortion people will make sure THEIR daughters can abort after a rape!”

No. They won’t. Their cruelty & need for control don’t HAVE limits. Get it through your heads.

They have no empathy. https://t.co/f4jfbPj2Ej
— Jennie ⚢ Trott 🏳️‍🌈 (@nevergetfooled) August 18, 2023

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August 1, 2023 by V Leigh

This is the result of us being the only developed nation with a for-profit health system. This is why I support universal healthcare & hope you will too.

We found the greediest non-profit hospital in the country: UPMC in Pittsburgh.

Executives there raked in $225 million in one year alone, while putting patients and even their own employees into medical debt.

Their scheme is all funded by your tax dollars—and they’re not alone. pic.twitter.com/rgPtQR092I
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 11, 2023

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I’ve been suspecting shenanigans like this were at the root of the lack of universal US care, now a guy wrote a book on it confirming my suspicions.https://t.co/PvJAi8rjtN
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) July 21, 2023

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— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 25, 2023

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Last year, 42 Senate Republicans blocked a bill to provide healthcare to Veterans with cancer — and LAUGHED while doing it.

We will NEVER forget this. 2024 IS COMING!! https://t.co/eka4lhc4CP
— VoteVets (@votevets) July 31, 2023

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This is the result of us being the only developed nation with a for-profit health system.

This is why I support universal healthcare & hope you will too. pic.twitter.com/ORJeVai3vI
— Jen Perelman (@JenChangeFL) July 24, 2023

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May 3, 2023 by V Leigh

Doctors tell 60 Minutes that Louisiana’s abortion ban has impacted the treatment of miscarriages and reduced access to routine maternal medical care. https://cbsn.ws/44k3nHl

“Forced pregnancy was also a feature of American slavery,” Goodwin testified.https://t.co/8FUH9uRvdM
— The Black Wall Street Times (@TheBWSTimes) May 1, 2023

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A husband using a state abortion ban as a way to threaten his wife and her friends with legal liability if she leaves him is using the law exactly as it was meant to be used: as a state enforcement mechanism for men’s private control over women. https://t.co/IqrZmWZlOb
— Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) May 2, 2023

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A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no kidneys. Her son died in her arms shortly after he was born, just as her doctors had predicted he would. https://t.co/f9kwtQ4dBH
— CNN (@CNN) May 3, 2023

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Let us be clear: This is John Kennedy’s view on how Democrats should respond to the Dobbs decision ending the constitutional right to an abortion. https://t.co/s6lYqil7Sf
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) May 2, 2023

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This story is insane. A woman incarcerated in Texas (who’s a nurse) told other inmates correctly that partial birth abortion isn’t a thing. A guard overheard her, yelled that he is a result of a partial birth abortion, retaliated and put her in isolation https://t.co/gFRzjXabj7
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) May 2, 2023

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Doctors tell 60 Minutes that Louisiana’s abortion ban has impacted the treatment of miscarriages and reduced access to routine maternal medical care. https://t.co/K22m3Oyzej pic.twitter.com/JbhhKCOsNq
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 2, 2023

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May 1, 2023 by V Leigh

The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048. Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.

The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048.

Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all. pic.twitter.com/AntlVKC0o2
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 11, 2023

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Vaccine specialist Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 people in Samoa, most of whom were young children, due to his role in depressing vaccination rates on the island.

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.

Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in BAND-AIDS where they can get directly into blood through open wounds, report warns https://trib.al/EVGNc6d

@ all unions, covid is a labor issue

“Over the coming months, more than 100,000 Americans will likely die, mostly unnecessarily, from respiratory infections. …Most of these Americans will be our most vulnerable.” IF ANYONE NEEDS A REMINDER WHY SOME OF US ARE ANGRY, OUR DEATHS ARE SHRUGGED OFF BEFORE WE EVEN DIE.

In 2022, Ashley was raped outside of her Mississippi home. Her closest abortion provider was in Chicago, a nine-hour drive away. Ashley is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade.

This is the result of us being the only developed nation with a for-profit health system. This is why I support universal healthcare & hope you will too.

Doctors tell 60 Minutes that Louisiana’s abortion ban has impacted the treatment of miscarriages and reduced access to routine maternal medical care. https://cbsn.ws/44k3nHl

The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048. Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.