Itsmevicki
@itsmevicki.bsky.social
I've worn too many hats to list. 👩🔬
Married with big children and small pets. 👩🌾👩🍳🐈
Surrounded by MAGA, so my circle has gotten a lot smaller and I now spend way too much time here.
Cover by Bill Schorr From '16 and it's now even more relevant.
Married with big children and small pets. 👩🌾👩🍳🐈
Surrounded by MAGA, so my circle has gotten a lot smaller and I now spend way too much time here.
Cover by Bill Schorr From '16 and it's now even more relevant.
Good grief. This is crazy.
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Good grief. This is crazy.
Paxton went from as many as 12 seizures an hour to about eight a day, she said, and he’s regaining skills he had started to lose, like holding conversations and telling them what he’s reading in school
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Paxton went from as many as 12 seizures an hour to about eight a day, she said, and he’s regaining skills he had started to lose, like holding conversations and telling them what he’s reading in school
A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by health insurance providers.
In the few months since then, access to the drug has already transformed the 13-year-old’s life, according to his mother, Maggie Pope.
In the few months since then, access to the drug has already transformed the 13-year-old’s life, according to his mother, Maggie Pope.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by health insurance providers.
In the few months since then, access to the drug has already transformed the 13-year-old’s life, according to his mother, Maggie Pope.
In the few months since then, access to the drug has already transformed the 13-year-old’s life, according to his mother, Maggie Pope.
Be careful. We have had two of those and one of them puffed up like it was going to explode.
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Be careful. We have had two of those and one of them puffed up like it was going to explode.
That was fabulous!
December 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
That was fabulous!
Is there a reason why they look like zombies though?
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Is there a reason why they look like zombies though?
We have hospitalists who are salaried doctors paid by hospitals now. They are often some of the best doctors.
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
We have hospitalists who are salaried doctors paid by hospitals now. They are often some of the best doctors.
It's almost cheaper, even as a non-citizen to fly to one of these countries for care.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It's almost cheaper, even as a non-citizen to fly to one of these countries for care.
To have a good standard of living. He owned a second home in London, which is not exactly a cheap place to live.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
To have a good standard of living. He owned a second home in London, which is not exactly a cheap place to live.
I remember during the debate over ACA listening to a woman talk about her experience breaking her arm in Europe (Italy I think). Even as a non-citizen she paid $50 to have her arm set. She said she talked to the doctor, who was US trained btw, about the system and he said he made enough ...
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I remember during the debate over ACA listening to a woman talk about her experience breaking her arm in Europe (Italy I think). Even as a non-citizen she paid $50 to have her arm set. She said she talked to the doctor, who was US trained btw, about the system and he said he made enough ...
These can't be his deepest thoughts though. I certainly hope not.
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
These can't be his deepest thoughts though. I certainly hope not.
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See, what’s happening here is that your wealth has so completely insulated you from the truth of the average American experience in health care that you’re literally describing the way things are now as if it would be a dystopian outcome of reform. We already live here, Mark.
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
See, what’s happening here is that your wealth has so completely insulated you from the truth of the average American experience in health care that you’re literally describing the way things are now as if it would be a dystopian outcome of reform. We already live here, Mark.
I love how they all ignore marginal tax rates. I just wish they would make some of these people pay what they OWE.
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I love how they all ignore marginal tax rates. I just wish they would make some of these people pay what they OWE.
I thought he knew more about how healthcare and insurance works than he is showing here ...
December 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I thought he knew more about how healthcare and insurance works than he is showing here ...
Not to mention the government is already paying for research into cures for rare diseases that the pharmaceutical companies wouldn't find profitable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Not to mention the government is already paying for research into cures for rare diseases that the pharmaceutical companies wouldn't find profitable.
Doesn't the government run an orphan drug program now for curative medications pharmaceutical companies don't find profitable enough?
I hate to say it but you aren't making a lot of sense here.
I hate to say it but you aren't making a lot of sense here.
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Doesn't the government run an orphan drug program now for curative medications pharmaceutical companies don't find profitable enough?
I hate to say it but you aren't making a lot of sense here.
I hate to say it but you aren't making a lot of sense here.
Don't insurance companies determine how much doctors get reimbursed now? Do you think the government will call doctors out of surgery to have them justify what they ordered like insurance companies do now? Maybe you should talk to doctors, both here and in countries where they have universal health
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Don't insurance companies determine how much doctors get reimbursed now? Do you think the government will call doctors out of surgery to have them justify what they ordered like insurance companies do now? Maybe you should talk to doctors, both here and in countries where they have universal health
He gets a raise but anyone else would be fired.
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
He gets a raise but anyone else would be fired.
That level of dishonesty LOL
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
That level of dishonesty LOL
That must mean going to make something up.
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
That must mean going to make something up.
Just like he pardoned the "Democrats" who rioted on J6.
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just like he pardoned the "Democrats" who rioted on J6.