I was also just on a forum, last night with bipartisan colleagues here on X, discussing healthcare reform. One major concern with Rick Scott is his questionable history of healthcare waste and alleged fraud. There is FAR too much financial power given to insurance, pharma,

I’m for banning pharma industry TV ads no matter who does it. 👍

Elon is spot on. Here’s why: Medicare’s incentive structure rewards more administrators and data manipulation over actual quality of care. Payment schemes like DRG and quality metrics favor institutions adept at number massaging, not patient care. A neurosurgery study

How about we look at the role of the AARP in collecting profiteering royalties off of selling United Medicare advantage plans? When you bring this up publicly as I did in 2021, the AARP attacks as they did to me. Attack in pic. Piece I wrote that triggered attack in GoErie

Boeing failed because business people dictated how engineers should build airplanes Legacy media failed because business people dictated how journalists should report the news Healthcare in 🇺🇸 is failing because business people are dictating how physicians should practice

I felt like writing a post in defense of physicians. We seem to be getting a lot of crap recently. But I don’t know really where to start or what say. There is so much cynicism and bad faith and really plain unhidden contempt these days. But why? Because we can’t fix you?

It’s been my most engaging, non-squirrel related post ever on 𝕏. 👇 I must have touched something. I think it did because I got responses from both physicians, working hard and doing their best, as well as the disgruntled. I’d like to summarize some of what I think most of

Insurance exists to cover events that are random, infrequent, catastrophic, & outside the control of the individual. That’s Econ 101. But here’s the rub: only 30% of medical events meet these criteria, yet >70% of healthcare costs are borne by insurance. A hard question about

The healthcare system in this country is irretrievably broken. Look around you: We are sick, overweight, unhealthy and mentally unwell. We have the best doctors and medical experts in the world. But the insurance lobby, big food and pharma, and other special interests have

I am a pharmacist and a pharmacy owner. The FTC has done nothing for my industry except watch 3 PBM monopolies decimate independent pharmacies while allowing them god like powers to overcharge 100s of Billions and to steal our patients. We begged for over a decade & got Zip.

The ACA was the greatest piece of legislation ever passed? Spare me. Such a claim is not merely hyperbolic, it is historically illiterate. The Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, was not a triumph of reform but a masterpiece of political theatre and economic distortion. It did

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” —Plato Physicians didn’t lose control of healthcare overnight. They gave it away—incrementally, quietly, and with the best of intentions. They trusted the system. They assumed someone else

𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖, 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝟖𝟐.𝟏%. Medicare’s physician payment formula (the Conversion Factor)? Down 9.9%. That’s not

60 hours. That’s how much administrative work is generated per U.S. physician, every single week. Roughly 9 hours by the doctor, and 50+ hours by staff — just to keep up with the bureaucracy. That’s 60 hours not directed toward patient care. No other developed country comes

Dear Everyone, You’ve been lied to. Exploited. Abused by Washington, D.C. You knew something was broken, but couldn’t put your finger on it. Here’s the evidence: The ACA effectively outlawed catastrophic insurance coverage. That’s the single biggest lie. Because true

The U.S. government treats its doctors like highly educated fast food workers. Except instead of flipping burgers, you're flipping your circadian rhythm every three days for less than a tech bro's signing bonus. They say: 👉 Go to medical school. 👉 Take out six-figure loans.

The biggest thing that negatively affected healthcare in the United States, was when doctors went from owning their own private practices, to being controlled employees of corporations. People don’t realize how much this changed the game. A total surrender by doctors.

This. Republicans should confidently run on driving down the cost of healthcare! We can choose #HealthcareFreedom - with expansive HSA’s, health sharing, Direct Primary Care… doctors & patients over insurance companies & big hospitals.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 Easy off ramp: 1. Repeal ACA and all remaining components 2. Pass site neutral payments for doctors 3. Fix the Medicare Conversion factor ie double it to match inflation 4. Repeal ban on physician owned hospitals 5. Once ACA repealed INS co offer catastrophic plans again 6.

I’m really sick of hearing this - the government is not subsidizing people. They’re subsidizing insurance companies. The American people are paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for a product that is - for all intents and purposes - useless. United Healthcare, whose