adrian
@prayeryears.bsky.social
sicko, artist, writer. covid induced ME/LC. FUNCAP 2.3
reviewing things i wrote in 2023 and 2024 in awe, frustrated that my writing has felt so stalled recently. i pray it comes to me in waves again, like it did then.
January 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
reviewing things i wrote in 2023 and 2024 in awe, frustrated that my writing has felt so stalled recently. i pray it comes to me in waves again, like it did then.
OptumRx is the pharmacy benefits manager for my insurance. I use their home delivery pharmacy because I am mostly housebound. I did this to try to make my life easier, and it has been mostly a nightmare, and has taken more work to get my meds every month than any other pharmacy I've had before.
"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
fortune.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
OptumRx is the pharmacy benefits manager for my insurance. I use their home delivery pharmacy because I am mostly housebound. I did this to try to make my life easier, and it has been mostly a nightmare, and has taken more work to get my meds every month than any other pharmacy I've had before.
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Let this sink in: there’s not a single state, city, or county in America where someone with a disability who receives SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
About 7.4 mil Americans benefit from Supplemental Security Income (SSI), but 50% of SSI recipients live below the poverty line.
A stark reminder that the failure to keep pace with the cost of living is a policy choice. @socio-steve.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/50-year...
A stark reminder that the failure to keep pace with the cost of living is a policy choice. @socio-steve.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/50-year...
December 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Let this sink in: there’s not a single state, city, or county in America where someone with a disability who receives SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
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“Can’t you just rest more?”
“I wish I could lay in bed all day!”
“You’re so lucky I wish I didn’t have to work!”
“Why are you tired you don’t DO anything?”
These are the types of comments disabled people deal with every day.
Then there’s the harmful inner monologue 🧵/1
“I wish I could lay in bed all day!”
“You’re so lucky I wish I didn’t have to work!”
“Why are you tired you don’t DO anything?”
These are the types of comments disabled people deal with every day.
Then there’s the harmful inner monologue 🧵/1
November 27, 2024 at 3:30 AM
“Can’t you just rest more?”
“I wish I could lay in bed all day!”
“You’re so lucky I wish I didn’t have to work!”
“Why are you tired you don’t DO anything?”
These are the types of comments disabled people deal with every day.
Then there’s the harmful inner monologue 🧵/1
“I wish I could lay in bed all day!”
“You’re so lucky I wish I didn’t have to work!”
“Why are you tired you don’t DO anything?”
These are the types of comments disabled people deal with every day.
Then there’s the harmful inner monologue 🧵/1
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
So much of the fighting I do about disability accommodations involves non-disabled people telling me something that is untrue about the ADA or what is legal or available to me, and me citing the ADA or Fair Housing Act back to them.
November 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM
So much of the fighting I do about disability accommodations involves non-disabled people telling me something that is untrue about the ADA or what is legal or available to me, and me citing the ADA or Fair Housing Act back to them.
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And who will report your deviant illnesses to the government? Your doctor will.
I've stayed away from doctors for several years and work with a group of seniors and we help each other.
They can't report what they don't know, can they?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23040706/
I've stayed away from doctors for several years and work with a group of seniors and we help each other.
They can't report what they don't know, can they?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23040706/
Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early? - PubMed
During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. From...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 22, 2024 at 12:47 PM
And who will report your deviant illnesses to the government? Your doctor will.
I've stayed away from doctors for several years and work with a group of seniors and we help each other.
They can't report what they don't know, can they?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23040706/
I've stayed away from doctors for several years and work with a group of seniors and we help each other.
They can't report what they don't know, can they?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23040706/