I don’t have anything clever to say. Not when it is this horrible. TW (blurred and at the links): some babies make it, some don’t.
‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
HOUSTON — The call came in on the fire truck’s radio on a blazing hot summer afternoon: “Baby in a dumpster.”
“It didn’t specify alive or dead,” Patrick Pequet remembers.
He and fellow firefighters arrived within minutes, pulling into the rear parking lot of an apartment complex in the southwest quadrant of this sprawling city. Police were already there, as were the several residents who had frantically summoned them, standing near a blue dumpster crowded by discarded boxes, scattered trash and garbage bags.
In one of those bags, a baby had been crying. Now, only silence.
“They didn’t want to touch it,” Pequet says. “It was very still.”
A quarter century ago, prompted by a spate of abandoned babies in Houston, this state became the first in the country to pass a safe haven law allowing parents to relinquish newborns at designated places — without questions or risk of prosecution. Yet “Baby Moses” surrenders remain rare in Texas, and another series of abandoned infants since spring in the Houston area has prompted much soul-searching.
In June, a baby boy was left next to a clothing donation bin on the city’s southeast side and a baby girl in some bushes in Katy, a western suburb. Both were saved. …
Doesn’t matter if you can give a healthy baby away at this or that location on a Tuesday when some one from the church is there between 2 and 7 if there is nowhere safe to give birth in the first place.
People are going to hide and try to run away. This is what life looks like when the only point of life existing in one’s ideology is to make a woman suffer.
The fact that TX has a Safe Harbor law for turning newborns over but the Republicans running things refuse any funds to educate the public about that option surely could not be a contributing factor, right? Gods, they suck!
Your basic statement is correct, but where baby hatches exist, such as outside hospitals, they are monitored 24/7. Regarding your main point, in France women can give birth anonymously in a hospital and give up the baby immediately.
The US “Welcome to A&E please give me your insurer and/or credit card before we can treat you” systems dictates against that being even remotely a possibility.
… Neeley said in an email that educational materials like pamphlets only accounted for 12% of the money reimbursed in this category last year, or roughly $2.4 million out of $20 million. She did not respond to questions from ProPublica and CBS News about evidence that would corroborate that number.
The way subcontractors are paid, and what they’re allowed to do with that money, raised questions among charity experts consulted for this investigation. …
Another angle, another grift, zero accountability, MAGAs toying with people’s lives.
Fewer than half of people with limb loss have been prescribed a prosthesis, according to a report by the AHRQ. Plans may deny coverage for prosthetic limbs by claiming they aren’t medically necessary or are experimental devices, even though microprocessor-controlled knees like Adams’ have been in use for decades.
Insurance companies should not wonder why they are held in contempt by so many people. It is not a mystery.
As this case gained national attention, the Henrico Police Department dispelled rumors that the alleged victims were targeted based on their racial identity, telling ABC News in a statement on Tuesday those allegations are “not factual” based on the “preliminary investigation.”
The specificity of this “clarification” does not reassure me at all. But holy hell, what a piece of shit if she actually did this!
9: Baby tongue-tie cutting procedures are “being touted as a cure for everything from breastfeeding difficulties to sleep apnea, scoliosis, and even constipation”—despite any conclusive evidence that the procedure is effective.
This one hits close to home. And the “lip tie” is even worse, considering that at least there actually are tongue ties that need treatment. Lip ties are completely made up for profit and the “treatment” has yet to be shown to have any benefit at all.
(Doing a literature search for lip tie is tough, because they almost all lump lip- and tongue-tie together. This one at least separates them out.)
only 5.8% of all infants receiving any intervention required a maxillary frenulum release for successful feeding, calling into question the relative necessity of performing maxillary frenulum releases for breastfeeding difficulties.
Let me just add to this, “required” is a questionable call as well, since it is usually predicated on “it hurts to breastfeed.” Most moms, especially first-time moms, will have some pain initially as the ligaments stretch out. And for the vast majority, they will come to me and complain, after the fact (of having the “lip tie” lasered), that “it still hurts” and what to do. Sigh. It gets better, but it does take some time.
I was going to post a link to the Lown Institute’s website for the awards, but it had a picture of a tongue-tie cutting in progress. In case the description wasn’t infuriating enough, I guess.
Good afternoon,
I have received a few calls from employees who during a visit to their provider (or a family member) in the last 24-hours, their Anthem insurance is coming up during their check in as invalid. Each time when the employee has alerted me I have been able to verify on the Anthem portal, and by calling into Anthem, that the insurance is indeed active. To me, there seems to be an issue with the Anthem provider portal side, but that is just my best guess.
As we dig further into this potential issue with Anthem, Anthem has suggested if you get denied during a visit, to have the provider’s office call into the provider line they have on file with Anthem, and verify insurance that way. My contact said the provider could also simply just have the bill processed as usual, as the insurance is showing as active on their side of the system, and there shouldn’t be an issue. Not quite the answer I was looking for from Anthem, but I wanted to give employees a heads up that this may happen at an upcoming visit and to not just walk away from their appointment.
This might be helpful for anybody with Anthem facing this kind of shit who doesn’t have a helpful HR rep. It is (nice is not the right word, “comforting”, maybe?) that the corporate folks who deal with them professionally are also frustrated with the nonsense.
