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Today is @elonmusk's 55th birthday.
In those 55 years, he has only:
• Founded or co-founded 7 multi-billion- or trillion-dollar companies
• Made EVs mainstream
• Pioneered reusable rockets, reducing the cost of access to space
• Created 600,000 jobs (direct+supply-chain)
• Paid out more than $100B in salaries
• Restored astronaut launches to American soil
• Built a global satellite internet constellation used by millions and that connects schools in remote areas, hospitals in isolated regions, supports emergency responders after natural disasters, and more
• Created trillions of dollars in wealth for his company's shareholders & employees
• Enabled paralyzed/disabled people to control computers using thought, bringing more independence
• Created the most productive automotive factory in the U.S. (Tesla's Fremont factory)
• Created the Model Y, which become the #1 bestselling car in the world (first EV to do so)
• Created the first private company to dock with the International Space Station and send astronauts to orbit
• Became NASA's primary commercial launch provider
• Developed the first point-to-point self-driving system (FSD), improving road safety
• Built some of the world's largest and most advanced factories
• Built the world's largest fast-charging network for EVs
• Built one of the world's largest AI supercomputers
• Built operational underground transportation tunnels under Las Vegas
• Helped build what became PayPal and transformed online payments
• Done more than any single individual to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy
• Became the world's greatest entrepreneur
Maybe one day Elon will actually accomplish something 😉 Happy Birthday!
I love 340B.
As a nonprofit hospital administrator, I consider it one of the great miracles of American healthcare.
It started as a program to help vulnerable patients access medicine.
Then I found the spread.
I buy the drug at the 340B discount.
I bill the commercial plan at the regular rate.
I keep the difference.
The patient still has a deductible.
The employer still gets the renewal increase.
The manufacturer still gets blamed.
I get a new tower and a bonus!
That is called fulfilling the mission
And the best part?
I do not have to pass the savings to the patient.
I do not have to pass the savings to the employer.
I do not have to lower premiums.
I do not have to prove the vulnerable patient ever saw the benefit.
I just say “access,” put “community benefit” in the annual report, and everyone nods like I am running a soup kitchen with oncology margins.
That is the business model.
Rural when I want the subsidy.
Urban when I want the commercial rates.
Nonprofit when I want the tax exemption.
Monopoly when I negotiate with employers.
Charity when Congress asks questions.
Private equity when I buy physician practices.
Mission when the reporter calls.
Manufacturer gives the discount.
Employer pays full freight.
Patient pays out of pocket.
Hospital keeps the arbitrage.
Then I build a cancer tower and call it hope.
And when Congress gets too curious, my lobbyist calls it protecting access…
-Rojas out.
⚠️ Hospital Stories: Part 3 of 4
Last week I showed up at the hospital for a cancer surgery, a bilateral mastectomy with tissue expander placement.
When I asked the team if they had the expanders ready, they told me they only had one. I had ordered three sizes, because that’s typical. Every patient is different, and we don’t know which size will be the safest and best fit until we’re in surgery.
This patient deserved to have all the options available. Instead, we were forced to move forward without the full set of choices.
We scrambled and found a second, but the third—the size I needed most—wasn’t there. I had to sit down with my patient before her mastectomy and explain the options: close flat, place something that wasn’t my first choice, or move forward with what was available. She bravely said, “I’m here for my surgery, just do your best.”
So I did. But it wasn’t the expander I would have chosen for her. It wasn’t what I ordered. And it wasn’t good enough.
Hospitals make so much money on these cases. Patients should never be shortchanged because the right supplies “weren’t there.”
This is why RedBud exists. At my own surgery center, my patients have everything they need, every time.
➡️ Stay tuned for Part 4, the story that shocked me most: a patient put under anesthesia before I even left my first surgery.
“Getting a COVID-19 booster is now reserved for the mentally ill”
John Leake, co-author with @P_McCulloughMD of Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality, did not hold back:
“There is nothing in the COVID-19 vaccine program, starting with the fact they don’t work, they don’t prevent infection and transmission. The entire program is a fraud.”
@johnsearsleake argues Big Pharma buys advertising not to sell products, but to control the media narrative and silence dissenting voices.
HOLEE SHIZZLES‼️
BIG PHARMA now has to list ALL side effects on Pharma Ads — RFK Jr says this will Now FORCE Pharma companies to decide if they want to run a 4 minute ads or not.
This is Mission accomplished!
This is the NEXT BEST thing next to banning them completely from Television, which RFK Jr has said he’s working to do, but will require the Supreme Court
In 1976, there was a Supreme Court case that effectively protected pharmaceutical advertisements on TV as free speech is ‘Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council’ 1976).
This case established a precedent for protecting pharmaceutical ads as a form of commercial speech, provided they are truthful and not misleading.
Until there is a new established ruling, what RFK Jr just did is monumental!
PROMISE MADE. PROMISE
KEPT!
https://t.co/3hIPs2dXMQ
Here it is:
One minute and forty-nine seconds of treasonous conspiracy captured on videotape:
The Director of National Intelligence: @DNIGabbard
The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly points to Barack Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact: Barack Hussein Obama attempted to overthrow the United States government in 2016, overthrew it in 2020 to cover it up—and now he’s been caught.
Just think about one thing—this is only the tip of the iceberg. 2016 was just the attempt; 2020 was the overthrow.
GIVE THIS HERO A MEDAL 🏅
“I’d like to have accountability for the ‘Covid Era’ and I’d like to have accountability for the FACT that the CDC HAS KNOWN since 1999 that vaccines cause AUTISM and they’ve covered it up for 26 YEARS…
HOLY: RFK Jr. ignites Democrat firestorm—calls out Rep. Pallone for flipping on vaccines after $2M in Big Pharma cash contributions.
This is so epic. Wow.
During the HHS budget hearing, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped a WARHEAD on Dem Rep. Frank Pallone, setting the room ablaze.
🔥 Secretary Kennedy:
“If I can take a minute to respond to something that Congressman Pallone said, and I’ll ask you, Congressman Pallone.”
“15 years ago, you and I met. You were at that time a champion for people who had suffered injuries from vaccines.”
“You were very adamant about it. You were the leading member of Congress on that issue.”
“Since then you’ve accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical companies in contributions—more than any other member of this committee.”
“And your enthusiasm for supporting the old ACIP committee, which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.”
Cue the firestorm!
Democrats on the subcommittee erupted, trying to shout him down.
The tension was so high that Chairman Buddy Carter had to step in and ask Kennedy to retract the comment to restore order.
Kennedy smiled and coolly replied: “They’re retracted.”
But it was too late. The cat was already out of the bag.
Oh my God!
RFK Jr. just called out Congressman Pallone to his face for being owned by Big Pharma.
“15 years ago you and I met, and you were at that time a champion for people who had suffered injuries from vaccines.”
“Since then, you've accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical companies, more than any other member of this committee.”
“Your enthusiasm for supporting the old ACIP committee, which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.”