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Now do the MATH for #directprimarycare with LOW overhead, 1 doc, and 1 nurse in a 1,000 sq ft office. 300 to 400 NEW #DPC docs open yearly. now over 3K in US. It can be done just NOT using insurance. DPC Alliance Dutch Rojas dpcnews AAFP



It was the new CMSGov that padded the insurers in the medicare advantage space. Not congress. One GOP congressman, a physician, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. has been refreshingly outspoken against this. Thank you, Dr. Murphy. The insurer that inflated sickness codes in order to collect



Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits Pretty obscene! They certainly arenāt putting people first - unless youāre talking about themselves! Hey Donald J. Trump being a government program there should be guidelines and limits related to compensation packages for employees managing these programs

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits When big money donors and Congress allow the healthcare business to consolidate into a few stakeholders per segmentāinsurance, GPOs, PBMs, manufacturers, pharmaciesāchoice becomes an illusion, and market pressure to reduce costs vanishes.








Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits Centenes CEO made $21M last year - almost an 11% pay bump. Their covered lives dropped almost 15% during that time. (And Iāve heard you might make too much money to have an opinion on this topic.) š¤Ŗ

If you are against going after the upcoding done by the Medicare advantage insurers, then you, Bernie Sanders are for allowing the big corporate insurers to continue committing fraudulent activity that takes money from taxpayer pockets


Americans will read a LOT of 'fear porn' headlines about Medicare in coming days. What Dr. Mehmet Oz , Senate Republicans members like U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. + Dr. Roger Marshall and Senator Jeff Merkley are doing is making Medicare more solvent by āstop unscrupulous people from stealing from vulnerable


DEAR ECONOMISTS, Please follow Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits and learn about the pharmacy benefit managers (PBMās) and the group purchasing organizations (GPOās) and how they collude with hospitals and price fix in order to justify their ārebatesā (ahemā¦. legal kickbacks sanctioned through a