Anthony Hansen

Red tape. Low reimbursement rates. Delayed payments. We heard from more than 500 psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists who each faced a moment when they decided they had to leave their insurance network. (Published Aug. 2024)

I'm not embarrassed to say that one of my BlueSky pastimes is immediately blocking accounts that post lazy political memes. My timeline is much cleaner, and the experience is so much better because of it. As a side note do block lists have a cap? Asking for a friend.

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

Proudly. I will never abandon my trans/gnc/queer brothers, sisters, and siblings. I am happy to see the APA stand up against this absolute madness.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

If one guy holds most of the tech people rely on, it is a vulnerability, but also it's one guy: as a global population we should be able to easily just take it from him, so it seems to me the real vulnerability is an internalized belief that private ownership is more sacrosanct than human thriving.

A 60 hour in-office workweek will kill life satisfaction, romantic partnerships, and lower birth rates. I haven’t seen one shred of evidence to support longer work weeks as a factor to improve productivity levels. I’ve only seen the opposite.

There is light in darkness. Please uplift and support the light.

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

This man and his unelected, unappointed posse will not stop until he is stopped. I'm not convinced anyone will stop him.

The last 10 years have exhausted my own expectations of rules, norms, and ethics. What’s even more sinister is that now I continue to question whether humanity is inherently good or evil. Recently, I don’t even question if evil, obviously wrong things will go unchallenged and eventually win.

“Growing holes” Call it what it is. It’s greed fueled by the everlasting push for more profits and privatization at the expense of safety and the health/well-being of others. Capitalism must end. At the very least be reigned in more than ever before. This is madness.

Therapy. These men need therapy. These men normalize clearly defined traits of anxiety as “masculine instincts” and it’s clearly impacting their mood states and close relationships.

Endorsed wholeheartedly by a licensed psychologist and practicing psychotherapist. Please read.

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

Happy new years to everyone EXCEPT all the doctors and therapists that work for insurance companies to help to deny coverage for people in need. You can all eat shit and I hope your 2025 sucks worse than all the other years combined.

NEW: “You have made progress.” “You are not a danger to yourself or others.” The denial letter from Geneva Moore’s insurer directly contradicted her therapist’s words. Cut off from her treatment program, Moore slid into a monthslong downward spiral. propub.li/40iZlPO

United Healthcare’s approach, the judge said, essentially boiled down to “We’ll just gamble with her life.”

Wow big news here that a Billionaire owner of a large media outlet is not benevolent and may, in fact, just prefer to censor and control news and opinion at said outlet. Shocking.

The same forces that enable a slew of executives to deny healthcare to citizens with no penalty also encourage the courts to punish the woman for nothing more than a whisper of a “threat” with prison. Compassion is dead. Only punishment and greed remain. Talk about toxic for the soul.

I’m somewhat embarrassed to say, “Protein Bar, checking in”.

"In June 2024, Elevance Health, the corporate name for Anthem, reported a 24.12% increase in its year-over-year net income to $2.3 billion and a 24.29% increase in its year-over-year net profit margin." This is lunacy. Absolute sociopaths in charge of these corporations.

Everyone wants to scream regulations, but IMO executives don’t get nearly enough scrutiny historically for the almost inhuman decay of ethics that has permeated business culture. Anything, and I mean ANYTHING to increase their bottom line. This isn’t sustainable for a functioning society.

Why is it so hard to find a therapist who takes insurance? We heard from more than 500 mental health care providers who left their networks because of red tape, low reimbursement rates, delayed payments and more. 📽️ @carissaqmb.bsky.social

Hear me out but maybe we stop thinking billionaires will save anybody and focus on organizing to elect people who will pass laws based on policy that benefits people from the bottom up. Crazy? #genius

"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world: Transgender: 1 percent Muslim: 1 percent Jewish: 2 percent Black: 12 percent Live in New York City: 2 percent Gay or lesbian: 3 percent" If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn

One of the best parts of Blue Sky is that I don’t actually see dipshits like Matt Yglesias on my feed, just people I follow dunking on him. I don’t need to even block him. He’s just not in my feed. This is what I wanted out of a social media site. My feed is mostly scientists and Mina Kimes.

Ravi bought insurance thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health care providers. After 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist. “I don’t want to die,” he told his mom.

Sen. Bernie Sanders goes scorched earth, saying "The Democrats ran a campaign protecting the status quo and tinkering around the edges" and that its leadership "are much too wedded to the billionaires and corporate interests that fund their campaigns."

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Everyone has an opinion on echo chambers and I’m seeing a lot of fear of Blue Sky being “ruined” when “certain groups” venture over here. I understand that sentiment, but at the same time I also welcome them here to repeatedly get dunked on and mercilessly mocked and ridiculed for their views.

Starter packs are the best thing to happen to social media in some time. I’m getting access to leading researchers in a couple of clicks, and my feed is slowly becoming unlike any social media feed I’ve ever seen. #psychsky #academia

Jake Paul looks like if Cooper Kupp had a Wario

Young people will truly never understand what 58 years old feels like. Say what you will but I’m in shock Tyson is tanking shots and dancing around in round 8. Shock.

I am overwhelmed with joy at the sheer number of academics I see on my feed. From so many different fields and areas of expertise. I cannot believe the difference in what I get to see here versus that other place.

Officially deactivated Twitter. Eat shit, Elon. Fuck off, Heritage Foundation.