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Rheumatology Team| Satire

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

Thank U 4 carrying the message of Insurance DENIALS bc everyone is a patient & everyone has been delayed/denied by the insurance thugs #UHC #Cigna #Aetna #Anthem The Cartels are 4 profit over patient care.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Social media account dedicated to raising awareness of American Health Insurance Companies denying patients is being threatened by major insurance companies. They do not want everyone to see this

“Cigna sent us the cease and desist letter”

“I have emails from Etna saying, get off TikTok”

This video contains the denials being posted and the actual letters being sent from US Healthcare companies trying to silence people speaking up about their denials scam

“Health insurance companies in the US deny 850 million claims each year”

“The biggest barriers for me are straight up the insurance companies and their pharmacy benefit managers. These are interlopers that are standing in between the physician and the patients. They have no business making clinical decisions”

“It's not uncommon for me to spend 100 hours trying to get a case overturned”

“The health insurance in the United States of America is the biggest scam in the history of the United States of America. That's got to change. It's got to change.”

Americans are actually being threatened for talking about this and the proof is in this video

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@mcuban @wendellpotter Congress is Paying the WRONG people, United Health Cartel, instead of the people doing the actual work. @realDonaldTrump fix this, NO on ACA subsidies. @UHC

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@realDonaldTrump do NOT give #Cigna another dime of we, the peoples, tax dollars.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

Cigna proudly unveiled a "game-changing" new benefit: the option to simply pay cash instead of using your insurance.

In yet another comedic blunder from Express Scripts and Cigna, they tried dressing up a flawed system, only to accidentally reveal that their own processes inflate drug costs. And their big selling point? Paying cash as a fresh, innovative "feature" of your coverage.

Right there in their official press release, they provided a glowing example of the program's value by comparing:
Their negotiated rate
The required copay
The manufacturer discount price
...every single one higher than the plain cash price.Yes, you read that right: Cigna's own document proves cash is cheaper than going through them.

This is the exact kind of damning evidence I typically have to scour through obscure drug pricing reports to uncover. Now? They’ve broadcast it themselves, front and center in the news.

I’m genuinely baffled how they thought framing bypassing insurance entirely as a shiny new insurance perk would land well, but somehow, that’s exactly what they did.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

Thoughts @UHC make this make sense.

[The Doc @real_dr_mudgil]

Yup!

The fundamental issue is the Obamacare subsidies are a total scam.

Think about it. They create the illusion of a reduced premium on the front end and @UHC, @Cigna, @Aetna, or @AnthemBCBS get paid off on the backend to make up the difference in cost using our tax payer dollars!

Meanwhile, these vile companies serve up plans that have $10,000 deductibles, betting on the premise that the folks they “insure” will seldom ever meet that threshold. That way, these spineless insurance companies rarely ever have to shell out even a penny for patient care! It all falls back on the patient!

So the insurers are eating twice - the “insured” pays their monthly premium AND “we the people” pay the balance owed with our tax payer dollars, AND, via their diabolical deductible scheme, they essentially keep all that moolah for themselves!

What a racket!

That’s Obamacare, folks!

It made health care more expensive.

It made health care less accessible.

It used our tax payer dollars to make private health insurers rich, filthy rich.

More of this bullsh*t is not the answer; it never was.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

#UHC United Health Cartel wins, taxpayers, patients, physicians & pharmds lose. @askUHC

[The Doc @real_dr_mudgil]

So you’re saying we’re wiring @UHC et al $23,760 (funded by our tax payer dollars) who in turn will offer this Minnesota family a plan that costs them $7224/year and has a $9,000 deductible.

Chances are, they’ve never even come close to hitting that deductible, but may hit $5000 of it.

So, they’re paying $12,224 out of their own pocket for an insurance plan that paid zero of their health care expenses, while @UHC made a total of $30,984 for doing absolutely nothing and paying out $0 in claims.

And that’s just one family! Multiply that by millions and you’ll see why @UHC et al are more profitable than ever.

Obamacare has been an absolute boon for insurers, but done NOTHING to make healthcare more affordable.

Makes perfect sense. 🤯

@SpeakerJohnson @mtgreenee @TheDemocrats @GOP

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@RepChipRoy 2 Bad Congress gave all the power 2 middlemen insurance companies United Health Cartel, Cigna, Aetna and the thugs at Anthem. Get rid of middlemen. Direct pay 2 the folks doing the actual work. Congress is the problem NOT the solution.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@Eligabiff Record profits for the middlemen insurance companies & their corrupt #PBMs #Optum #CVS #ExpressScripts cancel them all. Cash pay with direct care.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@rossiadam #Anthem doesn’t give a rats behind about patient care. The middlemen insurance companies get rich doing NONE of the actual work. #CancelAnthem

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

United Health Cartel @UHC wins, while patients & taxpayers file for bankruptcy.

[Real Doc Speaks @realdocspeaks]

That chart certainly seems to suggest that UNH was the big winner from the ACA! I wonder how much money they spent on lobbying for the law.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@realdocspeaks Middlemen #BCBS doing NONE of the actual work & siphoning billions away from direct patient care. @BCBSAssociation @AnthemBCBS

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

#CVS takes care of CVS

[Angry Dad @angrydadwi]

Here we go again another lawsuit filed on the top PBM‘s the vertically integrated Health companies all need to be stopped plain and simple. #PBMReform #Truth #fyp

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@realdocspeaks Yes indeed!

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

Health insurance is a scam-O-Rama. Middlemen #PBM & insurance companies siphon direct patient care dollars 2 themselves & make patients pay more premiums each year all while delaying & denying care.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is HUGE ‼️ A group of American doctors has created a network to finally fight back against the health insurance industry

It’s called Direct Primary Care, for a small monthly fee you get

- No copays
- Unlimited Visits
- Free procedures
- Wholesale Meds
- Wholesale Labs
- Los Cost Imaging
- Doctor Cell Number

“This is a new movement. Now we have several thousands of physicians and clinics doing this across across the US and why are we doing it, right? Because physicians, the reason why is because physicians got tired of running up against insurance. So they don't take it anymore”

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

@DrugChannels @ElevanceHealth #Elevance Wins. Patients lose. Working as designed.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

#Anthem doing Anthem right & patients wrong.

[HealthCareDenied @CareDenied]

"As I continued to fight with Anthem, they did something very interesting. They changed their bill from being under my name to being under baby boy Gonzalves, which was his alias in the hospital. And I thought the only reason they could be doing that was that they could essentially charge me for an out-of-pocket maximum for my son," she said.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

2025 private practice patient advocate of the YEAR! #ClaudiaHolley

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

#ClaudiaHolley 2025 private practice advocate of the year. Well done!

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

#LasVegas Vegas is awful. We pay $50 per day per person up-charge at our expensive hotel and then all the pool chairs have signs that say ‘Rent Me’.

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

#Cole

[Angry Dad @angrydadwi]

Cole was just 22 when he lost his life after being denied the asthma medication he needed. No one should face this. Visit https://t.co/JAUv2L0czt and use code cole10 to fight denials and get covered. Breathing isn’t optional. #PBMReform #truth #HASummit @GetClaimable

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

Go Mark Go. Bring the thugs #PBMs down. Love, we, the people. @mcuban

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

Mark Cuban's war on America's $5 trillion healthcare machine: 'They can't react as quickly' | TechCrunch https://t.co/XNnApH4bBg

[ArthritisCenterSTL @ArthritisSTL]

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