Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 7, 2025
Mayors, doctor groups sue over Trump's efforts to restrict Obamacare enrollment
Thứ Tư, 2 tháng 7, 2025
NPR News: The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
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Amazon Pay-Per-Visit Warning
At least in June, 2025, Amazon Pay-Per-Visit providers do not work with insurance at all, including issuing prior-authorizations for medications. This means that you will be paying out of pocket if the prescribed medication is not on the formulary.
I wanted to make a post about this as I paid for a visit for motion sickness patches and ended up not being able to use my insurance because of this.
Hope it helps prevent the same from happening to anyone else.
Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 7, 2025
another example of why people despise health insurance companies
I will start by saying I work WITH health insurance but I don’t work FOR a health insurance company. I spoke to a lady today who was confused on why she had to pay for a medical bill when her family had already met her out of pocket max for the year. She informed me she knows for a fact that they met it because before her husband passed away within the last 2 months and they were getting bills covered at 100%. I was also able to verify this info based off her account. She told me the reason she had to go to the hospital recently was because she thought she was having a heart attack with everything that has been going on and she needed to get emergency services. I had to tell a woman who just recently lost her husband that in the eyes of the health insurance world because her husband was taken off the account (because of death) everything that he personally contributed to their out of pocket max doesn’t matter anymore. It’s monstrous behavior to also add insult to injury to a grieving widow and make her pay for a bill that SHOULD be covered at 100%.
Health insurance companies are basically like “we understand he died. We understand he caused you to meet your OOP. We understand you already paid thousands and thousands of dollars for his medical expenses but….sorry please now also pay us for YOUR medical expenses.”
This is just vile behavior
My only option is to try and plead to the manager of the health facility to see if they can write this bill off for the grieving woman. I don’t even think that’s going to be an option.
BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL vote is TONIGHT! Here is how you can help stop it:
Call your SENATORS TO OPPOSE THE BILL! VOTE TONIGHT! 202-224-3121 or look up their office numbers here.
Three Senators will be particularly important for this vote: Johnson (WI), Collins (ME) and Murkowski (AK). If you live in Maine, Wisconsin or Alaska, please find their contact numbers below as well as a script that you can write or leave on their voicemail.
- REPUBLICAN SENATOR LISA MARKOWSKI - ALASKA
- PHONE NUMBER: (202) 224-6665
- EMAIL: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/email
These are LISA MARKOWSKIs company donors listed in order of donation amount (high to low). Contact these donors to tell Murkowski to VOTE NO. A threat to boycott their products always works best!: Trident Seafoods| |Van Ness Feldman| |Lynden Inc.| |General Communication Inc.| |KKR & CO.|
- REPUBLICAN SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS - MAINE
- PHONE NUMBER: (202) 224-2523
- EMAIL: https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact/email-senator-collins
These are SUSAN COLLINS’s company donors listed in order of donation amount (high to low). Contact these donors to tell Collins to VOTE NO. A threat to boycott their products always works best! |Hammond Lumber| |L.L. Bean| |Southwest Airlines| |Bath Iron Works / General Dynamics|
- REPUBLICAN SENATOR RON JOHNSON - WISCONSIN
- PHONE: (202) 224-5323
- EMAIL: https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/email-the-senator
These are RON JOHNSON’s company donors listed in order of donation amount (high to low). Contact these donors to tell Johnson’s to VOTE NO. A threat to boycott their products always works best! |Johnsonville Sausage| |Klondike Cheese| |RDV Corp| |Oral Surgery Clinic of La Crosse| |Abc Supply| |Michels Corp|
PHONE AND EMAIL SCRIPTS
[If Republican:]
Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______. I’m calling to demand that the Senator vote no on the budget bill. We all know it’s awful. We know it’ll cost lives, force children to go to bed hungry, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, increase prices on pretty much everything, and destroy our healthcare system—especially in rural areas. We also know that Republicans will pay dearly at the ballot box for passing it. I know the Senator is afraid to stand up to Trump but s/he can and s/he must—in fact s/he will be regarded as a hero for doing so. Please ask him/her to protect American lives and vote no. Thanks.
[If Democrat:]
Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______. I’m calling to thank the Senator for committing to opposing the awful Republican reconciliation bill. I know Democrats worked through the weekend to drag this process out and get as much bad stuff out of the bill as possible and I really appreciate it. I know you’re still working to slow it down. THANK YOU! Please keep holding Republicans’ feet to the fire. Do all you can. We’re counting on you to leave it all on the field, and we have your back in return. Thanks.
You can also send this Resistbot letter opposing the bill by texting SIGN PPWCSD to 50409