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Kick a few bucks to Luigi who shone a light. He needs a lawyer to tell his story. (I didn't set this up Saw it reported on newsweek) Small dollar donations flooding in www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ce...

The school district the LA family was in was also horrible and should be sued. All of the Medicaid MCOs use assessment tools and algorithms that are utterly divorced from reality and put enrollees at risk.

And people wonder why the CEO was tapped out…

Insurers' avarice is no different than this fucktardery: www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-p...

Oh no they're cutting back coverage of abusive conversion therapy. It's... not the opposite of a milkshake duck, so much as one in reverse, I guess?

Disgusting

These kinds of medical denials will increase exponentially once the oligarchs take charge.

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Yall…you should delete this article. This isn’t the take.

we do so love our children here in murka

Missing the issue of problems with ABA, especially as providers try to extend the treatment beyond what it is capable of doing. Don’t hide the issues of ABA & how they tell parents they are the only solution while taking kids out of education to do ABA. Health fund hate shouldn’t be invoked here.

Bless alllll the leakers of internal documents 👏👏👏👏

The true healthcare situation,or not in the US

We know UHC would come up with reasons to deny a therapy that actually helped autistic kids, but that therapy is not ABA. thinkingautismguide.com/2020/10/why-...

To be honest I am not a fan of this type of therapy. It wasn't right for my kids but others have told me it was essential for theirs. In any event, an insurance company bureaucrat should not be making medical decisions about a patient they have never seen. They are not qualified.

It’s a strategically ideal solution for people who don’t care about kids and only care about money, and we have way too many of those people running everything these days 😢

Denying therapy is more expensive for taxpayers in the long run, but United Health Group only cares about its profits in the short run. CEO needs a new $20 million mansion!

Perhaps next time the reporter will check in with an autistic person about whether they—the actual people who receive the treatment—find that treatment helpful or its withdrawal problematic. Do better.

Let's start fighting back hard on this. If we can't help undo this outrage, we should all just go into hibernation. Thoughts on what we can do? youtu.be/319iasGcUtc?...

Yup. More need to die on the rich end of things.

We need an overhaul of the government that put us here. This all started with Ronnie.

Hmm… thinkingautismguide.com/2020/10/why-... states “They don’t realize that ABA “manifests systematic violations of the fundamental tenets of bioethics,” nor are they aware that Association for Behavior Analysis International openly endorses techniques UN and the FDA consider to be torture.”

why are all your sources for this Autism Speaks and Autism Speaks front groups like ALRC?

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Not gonna get upset at United for this. ABA is bs coercion to make autistic people make allistic people feel more comfortable. It's immensely painful and harmful to autistics. And Autism Speaks is messed up hate group.

Go Luigi!

Are you going to respond to the many, many #actuallyautistic people pointing out this article is deeply problematic and dangerously misleading? I love y’all and you usually do great work. Please treat this as a learning opportunity.

Disgraceful.

Yeah… ABA is just anti-autistic conversion therapy. And most autistic adults (in my experience) consider Autism Speaks a hate group.

Those ultimately responsible are the selfish and cruel 51% of American voters. Need to convince them to change how they vote. Hate the game, not the playa

No wonder he got it...big profits but they can't afford care for Autism...my ass. Profits over humans

It’s not medically necessary. It doesn’t help any autistic people and it harms many. We know this from two massive studies sponsored by the Pentagon, and from personal accounts from autistic people who were subjected to it (all forms of it).