“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 elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

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‘They Continue to Abuse Our Country for Immense Profit’: Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto Leaks Online

I mean, he’s not wrong.

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this is probably going around here like several times, but you can order 4 more free covid tests starting today. if you didn't order any back in september/october (I hadn't heard about it, so I hadn't gotten more tests), you might be able to get up to 8. it just told me 'hey you can get more' and let me do it again, it was very easy to do.

if you're like 'well, I should leave that for people who need it!' don't. order them. stockpile them. the more the program is used, the more likely it is that it will remain a funded program and send the message that covid-19 is still a concern. use the program. there's no needs testing, no nothing, just put in your name and address. if nothing else, you can give a couple to a friend who has a larger family, since it's a per household thing and some people might need more or less, or a mutual aid group in your area, or something. the more people who do this, the more likely they are to keep reupping this program.

post from november 20th 2023!

I did not order any when they first became available, and when I finished ordering from the above link (today, Nov. 22, 2023), there was a banner on the confirmation page telling me that my household was eligible for a second order.

It then let me click through a link and order a second set of 4 tests.

still current as of nov 26 2023!! get y'all some tests besties

So this went live on Nov 20, so if you had gotten tests before then, this is a new set. If you didn’t get any tests during the Fall/Autumn, then you can get 2 orders in and get a total of 8 tests.

it’s really quite worrying how some queer people really want to look for and find Queer Genes and i think people are assuming there that if it is discovered then society at large will treat the people who have it with more respect and more legal rights and if that is a thing you genuinely believe then you probably have not spent a lot of time talking to, for e.g., people with genetic learning disabilities

trans people in particular ought to know better honestly, if you think the state of trans healthcare now is dire then wait until it pivots from “gender dysphoria is a medical condition that can be mitigated with gender-affirming care” to “gender dysphoria was a genetic defect that required a lifetime of medication and multiple surgeries to mitigate, but thankfully we can now screen for it during pregnancy”

A timely reminder that we are truly all in this together. I am not safe until everyone is safe. My healthcare is incomplete until everyone has healthcare.

Healthcare is a human right.

It’s wild to me, the people who are willing to stan things like big pharma and health insurance companies in the US like somehow the cost of things isn’t arbitrary and absolutely made for profit.

Just saw a comment that said “I don’t think people realize how expensive health care actually is, it’s not like pill companies are out to make a profit” like, I’m sorry, my migraine meds which I can get for free or for a significantly lower cost in nearly every other country in the world, would cost me $120 per month in the US if I chose to fill the prescription. And yes, that’s generic. And yes, that’s with health insurance. My health insurance doesn’t cover them.

My epi pens, a literal life saving rescue med, if I can’t get a generic non auto-injector or if I don’t have a coupon, can cost me $600 per pen. And you’re supposed to carry two and replace them yearly.

For that price I can literally fly home to the UK for two weeks and have them replaced for free (I’m a UK citizen before anyone gets their knickers in a bunch about freeloading scroungers), and still have an extra $100-400 to play with depending on the time of year I fly out.

I literally plan trips home based around when my meds need refilled, because it’s works out cheaper than trying to get a pharmacy in the US that takes my insurance and provides generic non automated adrenaline pens.

That’s fucked up.

And it is absolutely because health insurance companies and “big pharma” are in cahoots over how much profit they want to make from tragic events and debilitating illnesses. Meanwhile people die cause it’s a choice between food for their kids or insulin for their diabetes.

But go off I guess.

Another thing that ticks me off is people who go “oh just get new insurance if yours is too expensive” like I didn’t already think of that, and am also not restricted with who will cover me because I’m an immigrant.

Cause oh yeah, that’s a thing.

Anyone that says “well immigrants come here to get free healthcare” are absolutely talking out of their asses.

“Oh but we meant the illegals…” except you cannot get Medicaid or state equivalent without an official alien green card number??? So that’s false???

“But I heard…” well ya heard wrong.

It’s like existing in some Victorian novel where the doctor has to be sent for but is always sent for too late because the family doesn’t have enough money until little Gemima sells her hair to the wig maker, except the aesthetic is an over idealized 50s nostalgia mixed with modern ingenuity.

So Fallout, basically. Except even in Fallout medication is accessible and easily come by. So y'know. #Dystopian Goals.

One thing that people mistake is that they see the “cost” on their medical bills, and assume that is the actual cost of it.  If you look at the “disallowed” or “not covered” or anything worded like that, that is the amount taken off by insurance because it doesn’t really cost that much.

A $2,000 ER visit drops down to just a couple of hundred, because the rest of that is not cost, but padding to help cover the times it doesn’t get paid, and to keep people thinking that healthcare is really expensive so universal health care is not realistic.