#NewOnKHN: After Izzy had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in her knee, her father, Steve, noticed that a surgical assistant had billed their insurance plan for $1,167.
Even before any other medical bills showed up, Izzy received a notice: “I’m writing this letter as a courtesy to remind you of my presence during your surgery,” the letter read.
Steve Benasso says he was perplexed after receiving a letter from the surgical assistant who was in the operating room during daughter Izzy Benasso’s knee surgery. "We had never read or heard of anything like that before,” Steve says.
📷: Rachel Woolf
College student Izzy Benasso sits outside her family’s home in Englewood, Colorado, on July 14. The charges for her outpatient knee surgery totaled $96,377.
📷: Rachel Woolf
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1/8 History holds lessons for why low vaccination rates for children are so risky and why officials should strongly consider school mandates for the covid vaccine.
2/8 When explorers brought diseases like measles to Native populations of the New World, they killed up to an estimated 80% to 95% of the Indigenous population in repeated outbreaks over the ensuing 100 to 150 years.
3/8 Measles came back to Hawaii in 1848 and started an epidemic that killed one-quarter of the Native population, by one estimate.
Daniel Prude’s family knew he needed psychiatric care and tried to get it for him. Instead, his encounter with police hours after he was released from Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, proved deadly.
Police would find Daniel minutes later ― naked, acting irrationally. Because he spat in the direction of officers and allegedly said he had the novel #coronavirus, officers placed a white hood, called a “spit hood,” over his head.
When he started trying to stand up, despite being restrained by handcuffs, an officer placed much of his body weight over Daniel’s head and pushed it into the pavement.
Daniel died a week later when his family took him off life support.
Matthew Fentress was just 25 when he passed out while stuffing cannolis as a cook for a senior living community six years ago. Doctors diagnosed him with viral cardiomyopathy, #heartdisease that developed after a bout of the flu. #BilloftheMonth
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It may take years after these coronavirus controversies for the CDC to restore its credibility with the public, no matter who is elected president. Here's a quote from @leonardkl. 👇
The #AffordableCareAct has become a political vulnerability for Republican officials, who have no interest in reopening the debate on it during this campaign. Here's a quote from @JoanneKenen. 👇 #Election2020
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