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Medicare Advantage insurers like UnitedHealth Group are making a lot of money from the government by making patients appear sicker, at least on paper, by piling on medical codes.
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Approximately 100,000 Americans have sickle cell disease, and some 90% of them are Black. Many are treated as if their pain isn’t real when they arrive at the emergency room.
A new STAT investigation examines how women with sickle cell disease have been pressured by doctors into sterilizations that they didn't necessarily want or fully understand.
In a way, the pattern of tubal ligations and hysterectomies with questionable consent is just an extreme version of something much more common: a kind of verbal sterilization, when doctors express the pernicious belief that people with sickle cell disease cannot or should not have kids.
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