Craig Gottwals

Free Market Solutions for Employee Benefits | Healthcare Attorney | Regular on @AandGShow | Social Distancing since 1973

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Who’s the Biggest Bond Villain in the U.S. Healthcare Cost Crisis?

There is no shortage of candidates: insurers, brokers, big pharma/PBMs, private equity, and monopolistic hospital chains.

With all I’ve seen, I’d say it is monopolistic hospital chains & hospital pricing.

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Davis / Sacramento / El Dorado Hills

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The next time some well-intentioned advocate warns you about the dangers of a government takeover of medicine, do me a favor and show them these numbers. American taxpayers are already funding roughly seventy percent of every medical dollar that moves through this system.

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The fact that Jennifer Newsom has killed more people with a golf cart than Tiger Woods is mind blowing 🤯

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Which Patriots power couple did it best?

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

Peak technology

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Jack @AandGShow as a cat.

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THEM: Healthcare waste can't be *that* bad can it?

ME: We literally lose $20 BILLION a year in fraudulent & wasteful spending on *skin substitutes* for wounds.

Yup, you read that right. & Skin Substitutes is my new Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.

https://t.co/HKJSk3ZFAR

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Happy Valentine’s Day Weekend #BillsMafia

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Want to know just how bad hospitals can be? Welp, to give you an idea, I'm actually rooting for the insurer in this one! [Waiting for lightening to srike me.]

https://t.co/giElcTaAFM

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2026 Will Bring “Steepest” Healthcare Cost Increases in 15 Years

(1) Large employers up 9%
(2) Small employers 11%
(3) PPACA “Obamacare” plans are proposing a median increase of 26%.

https://t.co/7s7be3Ral4

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Phnemenal Read: THE MIDDLEMEN OF MEDICINE

"Drug manufacturers pay rebates directly to PBMs and PBM Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) to ensure their drugs are included on health plan formularies - meaning that their drugs are covered by insurance."

https://t.co/lhD0hoUznH

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BP EVERYWHERE: Federal Employees Look Toward Reference-Based Pricing

A new policy proposal suggests that the Fed's healthplan should adopt reference-based pricing to manage its 50 billion dollar annual spend. By capping payments at 200% of Medicare.

https://t.co/6m7Cp7LjoC

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Michelangelo watching for Jack or Joe to forget Clips of the Week on Friday morning @AandGShow

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Me reviewing a health insurer's financial disclosures so I can decode precisely how badly they're robbing policyholders.