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Carl Selfe's avatar

We are being played for fools, the only country in the world where heathcare is not a human right. You are scammed day-in and day-out by insurance companies and big pharma. Insurance premiums paid monthly only for you to see Claim Denied. Drug costs that are 2-3 times the cost for the same drug in the next country. It is carnage on the American stage. You accept all that. ?????? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity?r=3m1bs

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David A Pitock's avatar

Health care through insurance is a joke , they literally have people's lives in their hands and only care about profits 📈.

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christopher wilson's avatar

These are the consequences of having a for profit health care system instead of universal healthcare for all. It’s a recipe for suffering and death for profit in a country where the majority eat horrible chemical and GMO tainted food in horrendous amounts, where medication commercials are constantly shoved down their throats,(banned from the airwaves in Europe and most of the rest of the world, and this country until George HW Bush removed the ban in the early 90s) and the worst eating habits on the planet. The great reapers of benefits of this? The insurance companies and Funeral directors.

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christopher wilson's avatar

And now we have a Brainworm addled antivax science denier and a snake oil huckster running the Health Service and Medicaid! God help Americans survive this new dark age.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Agreed

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Ellen CW's avatar

Sadly yes

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Becky's avatar

Agree 💯%

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Charronne Johnston's avatar

This is not just a maga plan to save taxpayer dollars. I believe it is part of the Project 2025 to reduce the population of poor people and old folks, or anyone not in good health. If they can’t actively kill them off, they can withdraw the necessities of life and let them die of ‘natural causes’, as set up by what Miller and friends see as ‘superior’ citizens. It is a deliberate population reduction plan, countered by offers to pay faithful white christian families with cash for producing more appropriate children. It needs to be called out as such.

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Shelley Montgomery's avatar

Unfortunately it's so true!! It does need to be called out.

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

ABSOLUTELY

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Mary Phillpotts's avatar

shades of "Atlas Shrugged"

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

What has happened to so many Americans’ inability to understand the importance of science based research and policy decisions based on efficacy of findings? Has critical thinking been eroded to the point that we as a society trust conspiracy theorists and pseudoscience more than researchers? I am dumbfounded that we have a number of incredibly stupid people (or willfully stupid) in elected office who propose harmful legislation and policies that will result in deaths of children and elderly simply to cash in on insurance companies, pharmaceutical, and medical devices stocks at the expense of saving lives. It’s an atrocity that these evil, malevolent government officials are making these policy decisions based on the ultimate goal to privatize everything in healthcare from clinics, to hospitals, to ambulances, pharmacy and other services. Everything has a price to pay in their evil greedy hands, pay up or die quickly.

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Kebbie Cannon's avatar

Not dumb, just deliberately led down a path of distrusting science over storytelling. We need to counteract this with our own stories, starting with me, I am alive BECAUSE I got the 1st dose of measles vaccine in the year of my birth, 1963 in the form of a sugar cube! I was 3 months old, but my parents had seen and lived through the illnesses and deaths that occurred before vaccines were available! I predict once the deaths rise to widespread levels we will once again appreciate vaccine prevention. But RFK,Jr is teeing up for the government to stop funding vaccines forcing poor people to either pay up or not vaccinate!!

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

Donald John Nazi weaponized Airborne Blood Clotting Virus SARS2 wORF8. He deliberately caused confusion, lied, and buried vital information. Stephen Miller withheld PPE and machinery. deSantis had all homeless people rounded up and put together, knowing the virus would kill them. Joe Biden ran on Science and then threw the country to the wolves because the Delta Airlines CEO needed more money in his piggy bank. He also murdered people flying SARS2 around the world. People are dying still from Covid-19. Waste water shows a rise trend on the east coast, especially in the southern states. NJ just reported its first measles case. Measles is more contagious than SARS2. An N95 respirator traps measles virus, too. 😷

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Kebbie Cannon's avatar

The majority of those dying from COVID-19 are still unvaccinated. Unless you are part of the unlucky clot cohort (subset of susceptible people) to the vaccine (which is still a low #) the vaccine is still saving far more lives than it has disrupted! I got COVID-19 very early. The vaccine didn't CAUSE my problems, Long Covid caused the nose bleeding and anemia. The vaccine temporarily aggravated it, but now I have to rely on masking and herd immunity since I can't take the vaccine until (or when) I recover from Long Covid, I WILL resume taking it if my CFS and LC specialist and hematologist agrees it is safe to resume it. Visit the Solve ME/CFS and Long Covid website for up to date info on Long Covid ! This nonprofit was started in 1987 by a really great guy in Charlotte, NC. I no longer personally know most of the people on the board, but I am very proud of all that's been accomplished up to now and the work going forward today on CFS and Long Covid!

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Twla Archer's avatar

Trump has an empty space where his heart should be. That is why he chooses people who will help him destroy our country. What Trump doesn't realize it doesn't matter how many people say "Sir" (a figment of his imagination" or bow to him he will never be accepted in a normal society. He is loved by no one and has no friends. He has caused millions of deaths starting with Covid and now he watches children die whether it is from no healthcare, no vaccines, floods or starving them to death. He only cares about green paper. WE THE PEOPLE will overcome this evil monster.

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Catherine Maltby's avatar

Death is his game. Does he really think we don’t see it in everything he touches.

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Kebbie Cannon's avatar

Amen 🙏🙌!

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Jayne Morehouse's avatar

Love this division so much! Thank you!

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Helen le Vann's avatar

This is horrifying. Children are not just smaller adults, they need doctors who have specialised in their problems. Seriously ill children are beyond the care of doctors who care for adults and the closing of specialist hospital pediatric units will result in death. A majority of children in the US receive their medical care under medicaid - the $trillion cut in funding is insane. Americans deserve universal health care comparable to other civilised countries.

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Kebbie Cannon's avatar

Please speak up if you have experienced watching your child suffer from the erosion of hospitals caring for kids when they are seriously ill and got erroneous or delayed care due to this situation! That's the best way to call attention to the problem! Trump is an evil genius at marketing (because he makes his stories up)! Let's counter with our own TRUE stories now!!

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Mary Koslap-Petraco's avatar

This was wonderful but honestly I think there should also be nurses invited to discuss vaccines and other health care issues. Nurses own vaccines and educate about and administer vaccines more often than physicians. There are a number of nurses on the national level who are vaccine experts and have spent their careers advocating for universal vaccines. Please consider including nurses who are the most trusted health care professionals in these podcasts

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David A Pitock's avatar

We are one of the richest countries in the world 🌎 and are the worst at taking care of our people, for profit health care is not working. Mental health care for ours vets should be automatic it is ridiculous we have so many homeless vets on the streets of our city's and homelessness in general. tRump is making it worse.

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M Franco's avatar

Meidas Health is such a valuable addition and asset to the MTN network. Thank you for the outstanding medica professionals you interview. The information is so important and enlightening at this dangerous time when RFK, Jr. is trashing and burning so much we frankly took for granted before now!

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Lucky Lieberman's avatar

🇺🇸WE THE PEOPLE DECLARE THAT; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE 🇺🇸

We are the rightful owners. The government is our employee. And justice is long overdue.

We, the People of the United States of America, hereby declare that:

· WE WILL IMPEACH AND CONVICT TRUMP & VANCE!

· The government is not our ruler, but our employee — hired, funded, and directed by us, the sovereign citizens of America.

· For far too long, that employee has acted against our will, against our interests, and in service to corporate and financial masters who have bought the law, corrupted the courts, and captured our democracy.

· The fruits of our labor have been stolen, our families buried in debt, our bodies broken by stress, and our dreams deferred — all the while; a corrupted government, protected by corrupted attorneys, enriched its donors, protected its cronies, and silenced its critics.

· We have been denied the most basic human guarantees: Free health, Free education, housing, and dignity — not because we can’t afford them, but because greed & corruption has stood in the way.

Today, We the People Say:

✅ We are the owners of this nation — not banks, not billionaires, not politicians and not the corrupted attorneys.

✅ The American government is our employee, and our Public Servants will serve us, or be fired, or indicted, convicted and imprisoned.

✅ We grant ourselves the bonus we were always owed.

• Free health Medicare for all, free total dental care, & all prescriptions are 100% free. No more Insurance companies, no more HMO’s, no more PPO’s, no more deductibles, no more co-pays. No Insurance company employee will lose their jobs; they can all work for the free Medicare Health system.

• Free education for all from preschool through 12th grade, including universities and technical schools, but no private or religious childcare, preschool, K -12th grades, shall be paid with government funds. Government funds will pay for Childcare for those needing financial assistance, especially the poorest families from birth until 18 years of age, and open 24/7.

• No more Income Taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000.00. No I.R.S. agent will lose their job.

• Unconscionable Debt-free lives.

• A stable home and no property taxes on our personal residences.

• A living wage for a reasonable decent life. We support Unions 100%.

• Time to raise and care for our children, to care for our elders, to care for the children, to care for the poor, to care for the middle class, to protect the rich as well, to care for our sick, and to care for our Great Veterans.

• Equal rights for everyone. We are a secular Nation. You have the Right to worship your religion, or not believe in a religion, this is a must for America to Prevail as a Democratic Country, with a Democratic Government.

• A Woman’s body belongs to the Woman; The Woman, and only the Woman makes every decision about her body.

• Control of our own future & spread our happiness and prosperity to the World!

• Like China, America will print our money with No National Debt = No Deficit & we will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act. America will print all the money necessary to keep our Democracy free and prosperous and keep the U.S. dollar valuable and dependable worldwide.

• If an Immigrant is in the USA illegally, and if they have no weapons or violence in their history, we must allow them to apply for asylum or citizenship. For over 70 years our Government allowed and caused the immigration issue to become uncontrollable. Humanely & practicable, this is our best solution. Get caught coming over the border illegally now, means 1 year detention, then immediate deportation and no hearing.

✅ And we say never again will we be ruled by fear, trapped by excessive debt, or sold off to the highest bidder.

This is not revolution — this is our reward for developing a great Democracy and our hard work.

This is not utopia — this is justice.

This is not theory — this is what happens when the people remember they are the sovereign power in a free nation.

We are not asking.

We are not pleading.

We are restoring what is ours.

And we will never give it back.

AMERICA; FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE…..

FOR OUR PEOPLE, BY OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR PEOPLE…..

I’m becoming a Podcaster on substack.com to give my point of views about solutions to all the ills of our American civilization as I recognize them today. My plan is to enroll every American voter by explaining to them in that together we can elect leaders that will make the laws that we as American citizens want equally for all, and to stop printing money and creating a stupid and unnecessary National Debt which = a National Deficit, approaching 40 trillion dollars, that benefited and still benefits the corrupted Federal Reserve Bankers of America and their co-conspirators in the biggest fraud the world has ever known, our National Debt / National Deficit!

We need everyone to just believe in that our new path is possible and doable for Liberty, Equality, Justice, Freedom and Prosperity for all! Just America as little as 10 minutes a day doing something to explain to other Americans that Our United States of America will truly be equal and prosperous for everyone. Your vote is our heartbeat that keeps America alive, so we all benefit, thrive and reach the top of the mountain together…….

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Lucky Lieberman's avatar

MY PODCAST NEEDS ARE THESE AND MORE….

What do we need? I say we, because I’m not in charge, I’m just laying the groundwork for how we accomplish having Our American People Take Back Our America. We the people to be in charge of running America.…..It is obvious that most of our elected officials have robbed us to fill their bank accounts and neglected us Americans in their lust for money and power.

We need to establish operation centers in every city in America. We need votes to take back America from these thieving bandits.

We need to find both volunteers and paid staff to handle all the working parts of our operation centers.

We need to enroll as many Americans to give even as little as 10 minutes a day to do anything on our list of procedures and chores to find and vote in honest Elected Leaders in every Government body in America.

Money, we need money, our goal is to get have at least 50 million American to give at least $10 a week to fund us to Take Back America. That’s 26 billion dollars a year, plus all the volunteer hours and we all will be in the land of milk and honey, and we will be able to spread it all worldwide; safety, happiness and freedom at last.

We need a central clearing house to manage this enormous undertaking. It will need a website, who will volunteer to build it, and manage it, that is really like us, and can be trusted, and it will take a staff with many heads in charge.

And we all must get along and this must start with agreeing with our basic Mandate, and one will have to agree to every line-item goal in it, that is spelled out. If you can agree to all our initial line item goals, then you are suitable in my mind to become involved.

DO YOU AGREE WITH WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN SO FAR?

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

HUZZAH!!!

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Joan Bosworth's avatar

Darn it. This Republican chaos to our health system is inhumane. And due to this upheaval, I’m learning, thanks to MTM, how incredibly thorough our medical oversight agencies were. The republicans believe, if it’s not broken, let’s break it! Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

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christopher wilson's avatar

But surely if you have a sane primary care provider who knows you and your children, they know what vaccines your child needs and will have access to them? I don’t know. I’m happy to say my daughter and my grandchildren live in France where they have been well taken care of, if not cherished by the French health care system and their long time family physician. I am so glad I decided that my daughter should live in France with her mother and family, rather than ever come to this insane, benighted shithole.

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Carolyn Nafziger's avatar

Meidas Health is an imperative! But how to spread this information to those who are unaware or misinformed? That seems to be the problem that no one manages to solve. I'm sharing to FB public, but it probably won't reach many who aren't already convinced.

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PAT SAVACOOL's avatar

Thank you

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Jo Burns's avatar

We are the only well developed country that does not offer universal care. It is so wrong. Instead of bowing and rewarding ultra rich, those tax monies should be applied to caring for our citizens. Waste and fraud can be found in the top 3%.

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Kristin Bradshaw's avatar

MTN and its partners are a godsend.

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