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[–] grue@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just in case anybody thinks "it's just a recommendation, that's not so bad," remember that the "recommendations" determine what insurers are willing to cover. No recommendation == pay full price out of pocket. On top of that, paying full price out of pocket leads to way fewer people getting it, which in turn leads to that price going up even more due to lack of economies of scale.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

luckily my state passed a law requiring the recommendations of the states office to be covered by insurance.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good luck with that. I just lost an argument with my HR because apparently they provide insurance under federal laws, not under the laws of my state

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

call your states attorney. they generally have an office specificall for health insurance.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it’s legal

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

yeah if you talked to them and they said they can't enforce state law or whatnot cool. alls you can do in any situation is due dilegence. once you have exhausted your resources your pretty much done.

[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They might do the calculation and come to the conclusion that vaccination is cheaper than infection.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying Trump and his people are going to use actual numbers for number things?

[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Oh no, certainly not. But the insurances might.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The dim ~~reaper~~ raper

FTFY

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Implementing that recommendation would mean removing vaccines for these diseases from the recommended schedule:
hepatitis A
hepatitis B
....

No one can live without a Liver, which is exactly what hepatitis attacks and kills. Tweakers will steal your catalytic converter off your car for $40. When a market exists with a $20,000 street value for a liver, and there's a liver in every jerk walking around in public, random kidnapping and organ theft is going to be a thing regular thing in about 20 years in the USA.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is no backyard surgeon way of transplanting a liver - these people will just die.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's an international organ black market and plenty of people with medical training willing to participate in it if the pay is good enough, though.

The people will likely still die, but misery profiteers probably WILL still step up organ theft as a result of this awful decision from the kakistocracy.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There might be some heroic backyard surgeons who try, but mostly this is done in normal hospitals, it's just that no one is asking where the organ comes from.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to kill someone and take their liver, I'm not sure why we're acting like the black market organ trade gives a shit whether the people they steal organs from live or die. You could easily harvest a person for parts on a table the way you would a deer or any other animal.

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyone else initially read “halve” without the “L” and have a weird moment of trying to process a reasonable headline?

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

If King Solomon can halve a baby, then surely RFKJr can halve our babies!