Even as rates fall nationwide, teen pregnancies are up in #Texas for the first time in 15 years. Researchers point to one major cause: the end of Roe v. Wade, and they expect the trend to continue to worsen. Senior Writer and Editor Lise Olsen shares the findings of a new report from the University of Houston's Institute for Research on #Women, Gender & Sexuality. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-teen-birth-rate-after-roe?utm_campaign=mastodon
Americans are fully responsible for the absolute joke of a "healthcare" system we endure.
But I can't help but think about this:
The backsliding of healthcare systems into an American model of profitcare, which we're currently seeing in Canada and the UK, result from lawmakers in those countries seeing American lawmakers and corporations get away with it.
These profitcare systems deserve public ridicule with the force of a thousand suns.
Americans should be ashamed that we are leading the way in the international deterioration of public healthcare. We should be ashamed that we are exporting inhumane and cruel systems.
I stand with the people of Canada and the UK, and I will do what I can to help them fight healthcare profiteering as I continue to fight it here in the US.
Last week, William Young, an 82 year old federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan, blocked the merger of #SpiritAirlines and #Jetblue. It was a seismic event:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
US aviation is deeply cursed. But Boeing's self-disassembling aircraft show us why we can't fix it by allowing mergers: private monopolies, shorn of the discipline of competition and regulation, are extraction machines that turn viable businesses into debt-wracked zombies.
This is a subject that's beautifully illustrated in Dayen's 2020 book Monopolized, in the chapter on #HealthCare:
Another 10 down. Now only 40 to go for kitty medication + 50 for phone & 20 for actual hot meal. I believe in the power of free drinks. And Santo Expedito [who helps grant our immediate needs today].
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American medical care = Copay for everything. Every test, med, + doctor. Just can't w/o #MutualAid help. Tests tomorrow for seizure/TBI breathing & swallowing problems.