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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,936 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 07:52 PM Sep 2020

Trump fans who took hydroxychloroquine could be denied health insurance if SCOTUS kills Obamacare

One of the bizarre reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic was President Donald Trump continually pushing supporters to take Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate.

While there never evidence the drug could successfully treat coronavirus, Trump began pushing it regardless — even after his own agencies issued warnings the drug could harm patients.

The people who took the drug, including the president himself, could be denied health insurance.

Larry Levitt, the executive vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, noted that patients who had taken Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate used to receive automatic "medication denials" before Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fans-took-hydroxychloroquine-could-103201799.html

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Trump fans who took hydroxychloroquine could be denied health insurance if SCOTUS kills Obamacare (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
As would those who take it for other mrs_p Sep 2020 #1
This could be a sticky situation since hydroxychloroqoine sulfate is the second-most used abqtommy Sep 2020 #2

abqtommy

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2. This could be a sticky situation since hydroxychloroqoine sulfate is the second-most used
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 08:24 PM
Sep 2020

medication to prevent/treat malaria. Chloroquine phosphate (which is another medication totally)
is the most desired med used for those purposes.

link:

Chloroquine phosphate shows efficacy in treating covid-19:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213032549

I searched for an earlier op I wrote that provided dosage information for the use of the above-
mentioned drugs to prevent and treat malaria. I couldn't find it. But in all cases the dosages were very low and administered only once, one or two days week.

Yes, there have been deaths due to people refusing to follow a doctor's orders but then what can
you do with people who will also drink bleach?

So will a person who used the above-mentioned drugs to prevent/treat malaria be denied health
insurance? (rhetorical question)

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