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Tim Miller's take from The Bulwark.
If he's right, I would surmise one thing: When the folks receiving subsidies for Healthcare receive the resulting massive increase - if it's made clear to them what happened - they'll vote their pocketbook.
#shutdown #healthcare

If only this comic wasn't a documentary...
#healthcare

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quality
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quality

Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider

🎤 Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stethoscope-ai-doctors-hidden-disease.html

Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they're a clinician. This medical device has been around for more than 200 years and remains a staple in the clinic despite significant advances in medical diagnostics and technologies.

Florida, the state w/ the largest number of Affordable Care Act subscribers, is going to find #Healthcare totally unaffordable in 2026.
#Trump is killing #ObamaCare simply by making it too exp…

Today alone, I've:
* received a message confirming an "upcoming" appointment for 12/12 that I actually attended -- without a time machine -- last Friday
* tried to access my healthcare insurance provider (attached image)
#US #healthcare is so terribly lost.

Good news for WCGH in #PortAlberni! Hoping the ICU can open again in a few months once the hiring is complete!
“The three nurses are expected to begin working at WCGH early this year, with start dates between January and March,” wrote Island Health in an email to Ha-Shilth-Sa. “Recruitment activity remains strong, with four candidates completed interviews and five more in the interview stage. We are also seeing diverse interest, with candidates from the United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.”
#BCPoli #Healthcare #Nurses #ICU #Health #recruitment

While most Americans are trying to pay rising #energy bills, struggling with obvious #EconomicBubble real estate pricing & basic food costs while trying to preserve their existing #healthcare options, if they even still h…

Nononono... unlike the last 17 Ttimes Trump has lied about having a Healthcare plan, THIS time it'll totally be different.
"He'll have something in a 2 weeks."
#trump #healthcare #lies

Good Morning #Canada
This has been quite the roller-coaster year for my wife and I. If there was one thing that I would be thankful for it would be our much maligned #Healthcare system. Through early testing, in April 2025, both our daughters were diagnosed with a genetic defect that significantly increases risk of cancer. Breast cancer was found in our oldest daughter and her treatment included surgery, chemo, and radiation. The prognosis for a longer life is now excellent. The youngest is facing potential preventative surgery to reduce her risk. After diagnosis the medical response was immediate and both daughters have numerous stories about caring individuals that have provided treatment, counseling, and empathy.
One man had a huge impact on Canada’s status as an important centre for genetics research - Dr. Lou Siminovitch. Here is his story about how he helped establish 4 different research organizations in Toronto.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dr-lou-siminovitch-the-force-behind-early-genetics-research-in-canada-dies-at-age-100-1.5981522

Update: the insurance person figured out that it was the family deductible that was still $1,000 which is why insurance didn’t take more off.
But she was lovely and found me a way to get a co-pay card for Paxlovid through the manufacturer - I used it and it made the medication FREE. From $1,000 to $0.
Link for anyone else in my predicament (you gotta have private insurance to be eligible): #COVID #US #USPol #healthcare #insurance #medicine

Christmas Eve morning MRI at West Coast General. We were 30min early. They came for us within a couple minutes of sitting down. So we might be done before the scheduled appointment was scheduled. 😝
A good omen hopefully.
Then we’ll be packing up for a potentially snowy drive to Victoria.
#healthcare #portalberni #mri #wcgh #bcpoli #christmas

Every #Republican in the House Rules Committee looked down at their phones as they voted AGAINST an amendment by Democrats to redirect the $40 BILLION President #Trump gave to Argentina without Congressional approval and use it to fund

#Oakland's Rockridge Improvement Club is a cozy bar on a mission to cure #musicians’ #healthcare blues ...
Operated by some local #music

RIC Bar in Rockridge is hosting private shows to cure musicians’ blues
The owner, a member of the band The Lovemakers, teamed up with Sofaburn Inc. an organization that provides health subsidies for fellow musicians.

Poked vaccine 💉 💉 arm is a little tender today but not too bad. Lying on it last night wasn’t great.
I am still getting used to the fact we have access to all our health records online.
It’s really cool to be able to see everything from yesterday’s jabs to an X-ray report (though no actual image), to general doc visits and prescriptions going all the way back to 2003. Some Dr notes are visible in reports, but not much.
Oct 21 is the earliest I’ve got a flu or COVID shot since 2022 when I got COVID jabbed on Oct 15 and Flu on the 24th.
The first entries are actually HepB and Tetanus shots I got before backpacking around Europe in summer 2003.
Good times!
#healthcare #digitization #vaccines #getvaxed #covid19