Today marks the sixth year I think after discovering this forum. Up until that day I had received only fake TRT for several decades from men masquerading as medical doctors. With the information gained here I'm doing fairly well under self-managed TRT care. I'd love to have labs to share. I have a tele-med doc who is awesome but at a loss to treat me without labs. My Medicare medical doc writes labs on his computer and I get a "to do list" which is of course not a valid lab order. The system is broken, obviously on purpose.
Not a public health issue when we're talking about hormone care but what about infectious disease like TB or HIV? I'm not exactly a conspiracy theorist but who or what is behind the decision to remove access to care for individuals who will now become vectors for disease to an unsuspecting general public?
Let's take Stanford, a well respected institution. Fake MD: "I don't think an ordinary lab can perform these tests, I can't order them" ( HIV viral load and t-cell counts).
Drug therapy, continuity of care, have long been the keystones to ending both TB and HIV transmission. My pharmacy gets no response to requests for ARV refills. I don't have TB. For all I know county public health nurses are still following TB patients. Point being: Any marginal interest in ending or containing HIV has evaporated from the public conscience.
Lets look at a few peculiarities codified in to law. Persons experiencing access issues to entitlements can ask for a State Fair Hearing and take it to an ALJ administrative law judge with no need to hire a lawyer. With one glaring exception: The Ryan White Program which has paid billions to counties to insure access to treatment is entirely excluded from the State Fair Hearing process.
Numerous state and federal laws dictate equal access to RW and forbid discrimination. Yet, as any minority person will quickly point out, such legal protections are meaningless in the absence of legal advocacy and access to the courts.
Medicare and Medicaid coverage look great on paper for alternative care from the private sector but are merely providing windfall profits to the medical-pharma complex which in the absence of regulation and oversight need not provide any actual care whatsoever.
Underhanded tactics like these are vaporizing all support for the low income and disadvantaged in a great war to dismantle not merely reform the "welfare state".
Like discounted Lifeline telephone service. "We're sorry your annual recert can not be processed because your telephone number ( on file for ten years) is not recognized." "Unless you photocopy 15 documents and mail them in to the Lifeline office within 72 hours your lifeline discount will be permanently terminated" "No, we do not have a fax number or an email or a web site where you can submit them electronically".
"If you have any money throw it away"
This was the notorious advice given by HICAP, the government funded information agency in 2001 as Medicare Part D drug coverage was introduced in the first Republican effort to wipe out Medicaid. In short, make no effort whatsoever to provide for your future or you will not receive help today buying your $100 per pill medicine.
Good people are disappearing. Few take notice while many more are saying "good riddance" as they double dip in in their government subsidies such as low interest mortgages to become slum lords charging the federal Sect 8 housing program $3k a month for dumps with mold, leaking roofs and doors that don't lock.
Like all of you, as a former business person and consumer I understand the importance of competition in a free market to encourage efficient delivery of goods and services. Mis-communications that result in the involvement of dozens of highly paid individuals ordinarily are rare not daily occurrences. Unless Americans demand accountability and reform from this industry and the politicians they have in their pocket no one can be assured of continued access to quality health care except for the cash paying uber-wealthy.
Not a public health issue when we're talking about hormone care but what about infectious disease like TB or HIV? I'm not exactly a conspiracy theorist but who or what is behind the decision to remove access to care for individuals who will now become vectors for disease to an unsuspecting general public?
Let's take Stanford, a well respected institution. Fake MD: "I don't think an ordinary lab can perform these tests, I can't order them" ( HIV viral load and t-cell counts).
Drug therapy, continuity of care, have long been the keystones to ending both TB and HIV transmission. My pharmacy gets no response to requests for ARV refills. I don't have TB. For all I know county public health nurses are still following TB patients. Point being: Any marginal interest in ending or containing HIV has evaporated from the public conscience.
Lets look at a few peculiarities codified in to law. Persons experiencing access issues to entitlements can ask for a State Fair Hearing and take it to an ALJ administrative law judge with no need to hire a lawyer. With one glaring exception: The Ryan White Program which has paid billions to counties to insure access to treatment is entirely excluded from the State Fair Hearing process.
Numerous state and federal laws dictate equal access to RW and forbid discrimination. Yet, as any minority person will quickly point out, such legal protections are meaningless in the absence of legal advocacy and access to the courts.
Medicare and Medicaid coverage look great on paper for alternative care from the private sector but are merely providing windfall profits to the medical-pharma complex which in the absence of regulation and oversight need not provide any actual care whatsoever.
Underhanded tactics like these are vaporizing all support for the low income and disadvantaged in a great war to dismantle not merely reform the "welfare state".
Like discounted Lifeline telephone service. "We're sorry your annual recert can not be processed because your telephone number ( on file for ten years) is not recognized." "Unless you photocopy 15 documents and mail them in to the Lifeline office within 72 hours your lifeline discount will be permanently terminated" "No, we do not have a fax number or an email or a web site where you can submit them electronically".
"If you have any money throw it away"
This was the notorious advice given by HICAP, the government funded information agency in 2001 as Medicare Part D drug coverage was introduced in the first Republican effort to wipe out Medicaid. In short, make no effort whatsoever to provide for your future or you will not receive help today buying your $100 per pill medicine.
Good people are disappearing. Few take notice while many more are saying "good riddance" as they double dip in in their government subsidies such as low interest mortgages to become slum lords charging the federal Sect 8 housing program $3k a month for dumps with mold, leaking roofs and doors that don't lock.
Like all of you, as a former business person and consumer I understand the importance of competition in a free market to encourage efficient delivery of goods and services. Mis-communications that result in the involvement of dozens of highly paid individuals ordinarily are rare not daily occurrences. Unless Americans demand accountability and reform from this industry and the politicians they have in their pocket no one can be assured of continued access to quality health care except for the cash paying uber-wealthy.
