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Congratulations Illinois and to the PUTT members who've been fighting for it alongside IPhA! We know who you are! Congrats Lauren Colee Young 🎉🥳🍾 PUTT

Frank S. Wright wants 100,000 birthday cards from people around the country to celebrate his 100th birthday. Anyone interested can send a postcard or letter to: Frank S. Wright, Stockton Marine Corps Club, PO Box 691045, Stockton, CA 95269. cbsnews.com/sacramento/new…

“Healthcare” is a top employer in over half the states now. However the employees gained since the 1990s aren’t creating health. They are middling administrators who extract funds from the federal government and make the lives of doctors and nurses worse.

Just a reminder that the healthcare costs that are hitting most people’s pockets are not from independent physicians. It’s from insurers and healthcare systems buying up physicians who can’t make it in today’s economic environment. Physicians are down 35+% in the last decade as

It's wild. I worked with David Balat and others via Free2Care on this report free2care.org/wp-content/upl… to try to explain where the 💰 is going. It's unbelievable that for such a huge expenditure its so hard to know where the money is going as we point out in the paper

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This is a powerful image that shows the real culprit in the rise in healthcare costs. The great news is that we can easily cut the administrators and it won't affect patient care at all. A few ideas to get this started are: • Allow physicians to own hospitals, we hate

Taxpayers are subsidizing those insurance premiums. Seven big ones run most of Medicaid managed care, Medicare and commercial insurance. We pay for this with little transparncy as to where the money is flowing

Over $300 billion per year would be saved by removing requirements to utilize middlemen for your healthcare. By doing so, the $4.5 trillion healthcare sector would be controlled by patients. Healthcare would then follow general market inflation instead of the current

A good one to bookmark

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Went to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy and with my prescription card it was $467…. Cash price $63.40. Our healthcare and insurance system, and the Pharmacy benefit managers have created the biggest fraud machine I’ve ever seen.

DEAR ECONOMISTS, Please follow Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits and learn about the pharmacy benefit managers (PBM’s) and the group purchasing organizations (GPO’s) and how they collude with hospitals and price fix in order to justify their “rebates” (ahem…. legal kickbacks sanctioned through a

And then, a year later, David Balat and I wrote about the GPO kickbacks as the root cause of shortages when we had the 3rd major shortage of sterile saline in the US You would think someone would get the memo that large corporations (PBM and GPO) being allowed to legally

Leah Houston MD Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits Same concept applies to the GPOs, group purchasing organizations like Vizient.

Former PCMA CEO Mark Merritt has got some new heat on his fastball. "Yet Washington continues to ignore billions in potential savings by allowing insurers and middlemen to keep drug company discounts and rebates instead of passing them to patients." realclearhealth.com/2025/07/04/let…

It’s such a pleasure to pick a bunch of flowers.

This is Dutch's best post since 2/2024! Every physician needs to do the following: • Read and bookmark the post • Share this post with every physician colleague • Share this with your spouse/significant other • Show this to any employer you know • Share with your medical

Great thread!

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