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Hunstville's the what now?
totally understand and appreciate :)
ROLLS EYES SO HARD
I say $10 monthlies because if 10 people do that, we can offer to pay for a once a month counseling session for someone with a therapist, which is one of our biggest requests.
oh god what happened now?
Finishing up August numbers and our trans health patients nearly doubled in Dr. Kennedy's first month. And that was the first month. So, if you want to help with trans health service support in Alabama, here's a link. All donations are welcome but $10 monthly recurring are ESPECIALLY so
The Crone Zone by @slackmistress.bsky.social (with illustrations by @pamwishbow.bsky.social) is out in the world today! Perfect for all the aspiring bog witches, swamp hags, and Baba Yagas in your life (and anyone trying to age under patriarchy). Featuring every crone pun I could think of
*trans service members need not apply
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
He made it!!! So proud of @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social!! This man just walked 104 miles in support of public transit in his state. He put his own body/health on the line to fight for what he believes in. He is also the vice chair of the DNC.
We did alright. I couldn’t get away fro the kids anyway. Although I did make it to Roots 101 and woooowwww
Love ya, babe
Decided to do a fast re read of The Dead Zone this weekend and wow that Greg Stillson stuff all hit way different today than when I read it in high school…
To be clear make a cheese sauce of 3 cups then mixed it, put half the Mac in, put another cup and a half, added the rest of the Mac, then added ANOTHER cup and a half…
Wait what’s that?
Yall I don’t think I’ve ever actually managed a bechamel sauce before…
Speaking of which I don’t know if you’ve gotten to meet Dr. Kennedy yet but you will LOVE them.
Yuuup. But my favorite are the progressive finders who only want to do abortion and birth control down here but tell me other maternal health isn’t in their scope
I get that and also I get SO many foundations saying they don't want to give to services like ours because "the need never ends." Like they are mad their dollars don't completely solve a problem and make it go away.
I remember when the kids were tiny and we'd give them the freeze dried yogurt bits. They loved them but yeah, not a great texture.
Oh maybe I can do that. I tried to drill down when we were asking the city of Tuscaloosa for funding but I guess they weren't very impressed...
For those who are curious, this is what an end of month breakdown looks like for me patient appointments: 182 total patient revenue (oop and insurance): $2749.00 $/patient: $15 so for services patient services provided: 419 $/service: $6.65 per service (grants/donations were $61,000 this month)
I am confused by the freeze drying of yogurt since for me yogurt is a powder culture you add to milk and let set so is this just taking it back to the culture?
Where do such magical powders come from? I want to brew potions too
No you are totally right. I keep a running tally of what we would be earning if insurance were a thing. We're at about $2.5 mil in uncompensated care since Dobbs.
Good thing public health stops at borders and DEFINITELY has no ability to spread across city or state boundaries if left untreated...
Our story is usually in number of uninsured cared for, as well as birth outcomes (mother and child). It's difficult to track much more of a community health improvement without in house research and attempts to get funding with a UA component have been ... terrible.
I'm usually targeting foundations. But I'm trying to make a leap over into trying to build relationships with individuals because foundations are drying up and not interested in Alabama.
I originally did per service but got shamed out of it because that's what crisis pregnancy centers do to make themselves look more impactful than they are. But also if you were a for profit clinic, you bill per service, so it really is more precise.
Donors. Always ALWAYS donors.
I ask because I track both and I usually break down our impact by number of patients divided by income coming directly from patients (out of pocket or reimbursement), but our patient number is starting to level out but the services per patient is exploding.
If you were looking at a nonprofit clinic's numbers, which do you think is more representative: number of individual patient appointments (patient may be seen more than once in a time period so not completely specific) or number of services provided, knowing patients often receive multiple per appt?
Exactly. And red state public health is utterly dependent on resources for capacity. We don’t “ban” things as much as underfund them so they can’t be accessible. A sister city project would help that exponentially.
Please don’t cut red states out of the solution. Especially if it’s a gathering of resources. Don’t make us start checking driving distances and hotels just to get a vaccine. Most of us did not vote for this, and we are still here…
On this glorious long weekend I’ve spent most of it trying to figure out whether we can be an access point for vaccines - either on site or with prescriptions. A thing we’ve already been working on for HPV (still a crisis) and birth control (so difficult to get). But we need resources to do it.
We CANT do this again with public health. There has to be a way to do an AND/BOTH that supports red state folk who deserve healthcare too and already had the least access, because this is going to decimate us.
Stockpiling mife while red states had complete bans. Paying for travel while letting red clinics close, regardless of the other health care we could provide. Offering shield protections to blue providers while red recipients were left with most of the immediate legal risk.
Because as soon as abortion was “sent back to the states” the end result was a coalition of blue states protecting their own, with the resources primarily pouring into them and then being divvied out to red staters who tapped into those networks.
I agree with everything here AND I really hope that red state people don’t become political cannon fodder because we just watched this happen three years ago with Dobbs and we can’t make the same mistake again…
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
I’m gonna to go patreon now… www.patreon.com/pizzacakecomic
THANK YOU!!!
(Also please let me know if this is your cartoon so I can credit you. My husband sent it to me with no name)
Ouch…
I mean if he saw it he would have been horrified. But I bet no one let him know it happened
“Oh no, we got weave in the cake?”
“I’m gonna give this guy some ears. Not that he’ll use them to listen to anything….”
RAMEN HAIR
Also HOW DID I NOT KKOW THERE WAS A DONALD TRUMP CAKE BUST EPISODE OF NAILED IT?!?
Just on here to see what the administration tries to dump into the news for the long weekend…
You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.
Or better yet, think of it as physical electoral college style manipulation...
Nation. And not just rail. For those who have been following my anti abortion work for decades, this is the equivalent of the "Which are the best clinics to protest and monitor for biggest returns" campaign.
I hope it's also a lesson for her that it doesn't matter how many times you say on the news that you're not a sanctuary state or how many refugee and migrant families you push out of emergency shelter, you're still the Governor of Massachusetts and you can't appease fascists.
The hell was I thinking booking a meeting at 9 on a friday with the clinic closed for a long weekend?
I still have amazingly large chunks of Light and Sidewalk committed to memory - much to the annoyance of my children…
Yall know that there’s a map, right? Of major traffic points to best create checkpoints in liberal areas, and that they will be used to create federal power where local and state government is resisting? This one is for Maura Healy and because of the repro shield law they just implemented.
This thread is terrifying and so very Very real…
Florida taxpayers may have lost, but I bet some of GOPs big donors in construction and security and such got to bank some serious dollars www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Wasn’t this literally what got UHG in trouble?
I said back in February that "civil war" would basically be about segregation based off which state governments offer services, and which states moderate and block pieces of the internet.
Most Minnesotan post ever. I can smell the hot dish from here
If I didn’t have the clinic this would be my dream job (and pays as well)
I would argue CPCs and abstinence only ed are the supplement/wellness of the anti-abortion industry and they've just managed it better because they go straight to government and churches as the client rather than individuals.
or we could just ban men? (runs away to finish grant application so she never has to see the replies)
oh that is so real
This is MY Alabama...
I had 4. How many did you get?
100%
See y’all there?
Not only highest costs, but UPFRONT costs. In our city, if you have private insurance you are expected to pay your deductible to the OB at 20 weeks or your care is cut off. We end up with a number of patients coming to us later in pregnancy because they can’t pay to continue.
So, not that it does any real world good, but I’d like to point out that Medicaid has at least $200k in reimbursements we haven’t received in the last 3 years because they won’t pay us for prenatal care because no local doctor will agree to deliver our patients. There is your real Medicaid fraud.
Anyway I’ve seen this government turn a blind eye to all sorts of corruption. So this is about trying to paint Medicaid as a system ripe with abuse. And as a Medicaid provider this couldn’t be further from the truth, trust me.
Obviously I don’t know more about her background. I do know that based on the utterly regressive tax system here that $45k is not a lot to live on if you are alone, much less supporting family. If you follow me much you’ve heard me rant about the 10% sales tax on EVERYTHING
This woman defrauded Medicaid out of approximately $20,000 a year. She most likely made around $45,000 per year. She was clearly supporting her disabled child (likely an adult based in age). And she did this via $60 ride vouchers. Which would be about 160 round trips per year.
I don’t justify stealing, but I can’t help but doing some math with this article…
I have friends in McCook - they are NOT happy
I….
My mother was in a school shooting in 2011 - the student killed two teachers including one who was her good friend. She was never okay after. She took an early retirement buy out in 2013 and died two years after. I still blame much of her mental and physical decline on that event.
Not to mention just because they are in a mass at a catholic school doesn’t mean they are Christian. My kids spent a total of 6 years in Catholic pre K in Minneapolis because it was the cheapest schooling we could access
Evergreen reminder that my book “The New Handbook for a Post Roe America” is available in print copies wherever you buy books, explains in depth the many ways to manage an abortion in or out of clinic, and will not be blocked by internet age verification if this keeps spreading…
I want to take down all the names for when the leopard/face eating starts
JOKES ON THEM WE DONT HAVE SEX ED IN ALABAMA lolsob
This gives me so much joy - they didn’t even have ballots before this.
Did you know that if you are pregnant in Alabama and need a diagnostic ultrasound - say for an ectopic or to check bleeding - and your Medicaid hasn’t been approved yet, you have to pay out of pocket? So, yeah, there goes another $250 out of our patient support fund….
I mean there is never ANY situation where the answer is “maybe we should give people less access to healthcare.”
just read that "MAGA Gays" article in the NYT and really hate myself for it...
Only helping because I adore you :*
CALLOUT: I'm looking for people to talk to about their experiences with receiving any kind of care at Planned Parenthood, especially those who needed low-cost options. Can be any clinic anywhere, but bonus points if it's Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Washington or Indiana.
Their WATCHES?
Or not enough? :)
Doulas empower mothers in New York City, but struggle with finances & burnout, Gaea Cabico reports. In the face of a growing maternal mortality crisis, doulas are seen as a critical form of support for low-income & marginalized pregnant people. But the field has many barriers to entry.
:) Yep - we do family planning, OB, STIs, gender affirming healthcare, gyn, and mental health all in one clinic and will be adding substance issues and a birth suite by the end of the year.
It's almost like making for-profit pharmacies the gatekeeper for public health access was a bad idea or something...
This is why you are my favorite.
There are actually three lower income population dense buildings surrounding it, with at least 500 people in total. So, healthcare in walking distance is our new motto :)
That back space with the long tables near the end is going to be our birth room!!!
