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Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board." (bsky.app)
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MAGA maximum cruelty at work once again.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

“Dr.” Oz

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    He's a doctor the same way Dr. Phil or MLK became doctors: he got a degree that grants him the right to tack on "doctor" to his name. That don't mean he's any good at it, or even that it adds anything of value to him at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    From all accounts, like Dr Ben Carson, he is/was an actually-good cardiothoracic surgeon, like Ben Carson was an excellent neurosurgeon. Like, world-class. He just has a deep, gnawing pit of inadequacy that means he can't be satisfied with just being good in that field. We can talk shit on the guy while also acknowledging that actually educated people, people who are very very good in their fields, are also susceptible to fascist thought in the same manner as anyone else.

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    [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    Little Johnny needs a prosthetic leg.

    Well, fuck him. Just let him just use crutches for a while.

    Oh, wait...crutches count as "supplies" too?

    Well, fuck him again then. Just let him crawl. It serves him right for losing a leg in the 1st place.

    Right MAGA? That's how we make this country great again...right?

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's already difficult enough for my useless ass to stay alive as it is. Then there's these assholes trying to make it harder. I'm so close to just giving up. (I'll be losing the Medicaid I JUST finally got in 2028, anyway.) This broken body was not made for this world. Ugh. I'm so done.

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    • [–] 11 points 8 months ago*

    Medicare-covered DME includes, but isn't limited to: Canes
    Commode chairs
    Continuous passive motion machines, devices & accessories
    Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines
    Crutches
    Diabetes supplies
    Blood sugar monitors
    Blood sugar test strips
    Blood sugar control solutions
    Lancets & lancet holders
    Hospital beds
    Infusion pumps & supplies
    Nebulizers & nebulizer medications
    Oxygen equipment & accessories
    Patient lifts
    Pressure-reducing support surfaces
    Suction pumps
    Traction equipment
    Walkers
    Wheelchairs & scooters

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Why? Is there some backstory I'm missing here?

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    The backstory is a made-up accusation scapegoating immigrants, Reichstag-fire-stylee.

    That's what fascist regimes looking for an excuse to go full dictatorship do.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I’ll add: the cruelty is the point.

    Similar to Trump’s first term, when they separated families at the border as an intimidation tactic or “punishment” for people crossing the border.

    If it wasn’t cruel, they wouldn’t be doing it.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    To add to this, the bigortry is only to mollify a third of the country who are fanatically adhered to the idea thatthe ruling class is perfect and everyone else is bad. The real reason they're doing it is so they can create a racket themselves like the one they're describing. My small business got nailed when they claimed there was a bunch of fraud and handed off VA payment processing from the VA themselves to an unregulated mafia called "Triwest." Triwest's job is to lose invoices and keep the money the VA gave them to give to service providers. They have friends who want this business and want to run a con while the feds look the other way.

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    • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This is insane.

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    • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Such a Republican approach to a problem. Don't fix it, just burn it to the ground. That'll so something.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago

    That's beyond Republican.

    Traditional Republicans are callous and uncaring: they don't give a shit about weaker people and they don't want to pay for shit people need.

    MAGA are actively and purposedly cruel: they go out of their way to hurt people even when there is no point in doing so, or no money to be made. With MAGA, the cruelty is the point.

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    • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Surely the same applies to active military, right? Because that seems like an equally good idea here. Which is to say this is idiotic af.

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Nazi party.

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    “Dr.” Oz

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