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I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.
January 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.
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NOPE, we are not going to make UHC restricting ABA "therapy" a scandal. Autistic adults who survived it as children describe it as torture. It should be illegal and I don't give a fuck if they're only doing it to save money, it's an unambiguous good to reduce the hours we torture autistic kids.
NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 3:51 PM
NOPE, we are not going to make UHC restricting ABA "therapy" a scandal. Autistic adults who survived it as children describe it as torture. It should be illegal and I don't give a fuck if they're only doing it to save money, it's an unambiguous good to reduce the hours we torture autistic kids.
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Greenhouse gas emissions from tourism grew at double the rate of the global economy over 2000-19, according to a new study
#ClimateCrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateCrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions - Nature Communications
The tourism carbon footprint grew 2.3 times faster than the rest of the economy, reaching nearly 9% of global emissions by 2019. Rapid tourism demand growth (3.8% per year) has outpaced energy efficie...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Greenhouse gas emissions from tourism grew at double the rate of the global economy over 2000-19, according to a new study
#ClimateCrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateCrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Instead of chastising the general public for not feeling bad for the murder of a health insurance executive, the public dialogue should be how do you harness this energy into activism, electoral politics to actually demand and obtain universal health care.
December 7, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Instead of chastising the general public for not feeling bad for the murder of a health insurance executive, the public dialogue should be how do you harness this energy into activism, electoral politics to actually demand and obtain universal health care.