A Pregnant Woman In Labor Fined For Being Homeless

A pregnant woman in Kentucky was fined for street camping while she was in labor. 

The Guardian reports:

Body camera footage obtained by Kentucky Public Radio from the city police force showed Lt Caleb Stewart walking up to a pregnant woman under an overpass in the city’s downtown area.

The visibly pregnant woman, whom the radio station is not naming, told the officer that her water had broken. “I might be going into labor, is that OK?”

“I’m leaking out,” she added.

She was walking to meet an ambulance. Ignoring the woman's medical condition the officer, Lt Caleb Stewart, made her walk to his vehicle so he could usher her a ticket. He then had the mattress that she had been using taken away.

The Guardian also reports the camera shortage recorded Lt Stewart state, "So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor.”

The woman gave birth shortly afterward and is now living in a shelter with her family.

The unhoused woman was cited due to the state's new law that bans street camping. 

It's unlikely to resolve the housing crisis in Kentucky.

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Elon Musk States 'Recycling Is Useless'

 

Elon Musk is the world's richest man, but that doesn't mean he's a great communicator even when he's making a good-faith effort to do so. 

Recently he went on X and stated that "recycling is useless."

This statement launched a fierce debate on the merits of recycling. And part of that debate was on Reddit, of course.

Is Musk being serious? It's hard to tell when the man is trying to make a fact-based point and when he's spreading propaganda.

DW.com reported just some of Musk's problematic statements in the article Fact check: Elon Musk spreads US election lies.

"Since Elon Musk took over X, the platform has devolved into a hellscape of hate and disinformation — much of which comes from Mr. Musk himself," Imran Ahmed, head of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told DW.

Unlike most tech billionaires and political donors, Musk's political involvement is highly visible and has intensified ahead of the US presidential election on November 5. A recent CCDH report found that Musk's false or misleading claims about the US election got 1.2 billion views between January and July 2024 on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), which he owns.

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UnitedHealth's CEO Fights "Unnecessary" Care

Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth's CEO, is rededicating the company's vow to keep healthcare out of subscriber's reach.

"Our role is a critical role, and we make sure that care is safe, appropriate, and is delivered when people need it," United Health CEO Andrew Witty said in the video address to the company's employees following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was leaked to journalist Ken Klippenstein. - Fox News Business

United Health is the parent company of United Healthcare. United Healthcare's CEO Brian Thompson was recently assassinated in broad daylight in New York City. 

The internet is awash with subscriber's stories of how the insurance company withheld medical necessary treatment like this one.

Justine, 51, a UnitedHealthcare customer who works at a nonprofit in New York City, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and underwent a double mastectomy in 2018. She asked that her last name be withheld for privacy reasons. 

A year after surgery, she developed lymphedema, in which fluid builds up in her arm that can lead to infections and is treated by being fitted with custom-made compression sleeves.
Her employer-based insurance from UnitedHealthcare approved the sleeves, which cost $4,000 for a night sleeve, and several hundred dollars for a daytime sleeve replaced every three or four months. 

But the company that made them said UnitedHealthcare failed to pay, citing various paperwork issues. "That continued for a long time," said Justine. "I kept feeling like, is this a run out the clock situation?" -Reuters