Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026"The institution is freaking out about rising costs and poor employee health and wants to know what the EWC can do to help!" Meanwhile anytime I raise the issue of COVID and ongoing repeated infections: 🦗🦗🦗. 100
Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026We just held our most recent meeting, and were told the institution had a "catastrophic month" for healthcare claims in Dec. A normal month is apparently $500-600k, and a "normal" catastrophic month is ~$750k. This Dec. was $1.3million. 100
Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Strokes, heart attacks, cancers and rising behavioral health costs including prescription medication costs for anxiety and depression, which are "somehow even higher than they were this time 3 years ago." 110
