John “CZ” Czwartacki

Public policy vet, patient advocate, AbEx oil painter. NOT Binance.

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

Many of you know my career, some know about my 30+ yr fight w/ my MS, still others know how I have used this to advocate for patients. Few know about my recent passion for oil painting. You can read the story about how this happened, read why the studio name, “Fives,” and see some of my paintings. https://t.co/gqAlBRVffd.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Many of life’s greatest transformations begin when we move beyond self-will and into a life of purpose and service.

@TonyRobbins joins me to discuss spirituality, recovery, human connection, and why helping others is often the key to healing ourselves.

Full episode out now: https://t.co/1ltD6lBPOF

#TheSecretaryKennedyPodcast

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 Sec. Rubio gives his take on communism:

"The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it's the opposite.

One of the criticisms you hear about communism is that it sounds good in theory, but never works in practice.

That's not true; communism does NOT sound good in theory.

The world it envisons for all of us is small, flat, grey, leveled of all exception.

The world it envisions is a world without creativity or ambition, or great causes to strive towards.

A world without miracles."

Writers: Mhedi, Michael

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

I am not aligned with any particular political party. But I am aligned with being an American and defending the kind of government we have here that has made this country possible.
The DSA platform is treason.

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

Wabi-sabi is on my mind.

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[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

X customer support deserves mega props. @elonmusk they saw an overseas attempt to login and get my pw. They called me and proactively mitigated the problem with a rep, common sense, and compassion (for my disability and bad voice). Wow. Mr N. Miller. Thank you.

[Brian Blase @brian_blase]

Observations:
1) Medicaid is full of waste & fraud. Medicaid should not be paying for any of this.
2) New York's Medicaid industrial complex is a politically powerful machine. Medicaid waste and fraud in New York is the highest in the country - probably >$25 billion a year.
3) Nick Shirley is proving how lazy most mainstream reporters are. The fraud and corruption are so easy to expose.
4) Medicaid is ruining souls. Patients are asking to get kickbacks. Businesses know that they are stealing. Most businesses want to talk about what they do. Not these guys.
5) The narrative from the Left on "Medicaid cuts" is just ridiculous and harmful. It benefits the fraudsters and crooks.

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

@DutchRojas Boom!

[Trad West @trad_west_]

In a recent interview, the President of El Salvador said: “There is a spiritual war and there is a physical war, if you win the spiritual war it will reflect into the physical. Our victory is because we won the spiritual war”

To the question on how he changed El Salvador, he answered: “We pray”

El Salvador is now one of the safest country in the western hemisphere.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Mike Rowe is a great American.

The lie I was told in the 1990s was this:

“Dutch, why would you enlist in the Marine Corps? If you’re going to serve, become an officer.”

Because I wanted to learn the job before I ever led the people doing it.

Years later I heard the same thing.

“Dutch, why would you greet patients at our ambulatory surgery center? Why work scheduling? Why learn billing? Why start at the bottom?”

Because that’s where the business actually lives.

The front desk teaches service.
Scheduling teaches operations.
Billing teaches incentives.
The floor teaches reality.

For thirty years we told an entire generation that success meant skipping the work that makes everything else possible.

Then we acted surprised when nobody wanted to do it.

Entry-level work isn’t something to escape.

It’s where competence begins.

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

Instead, some want to pull up the ladder of medical innovation behind us, like the IRA does.

[Joe Grogan @RealJoeGrogan]

We should be doing everything possible to protect the system that makes those breakthroughs possible.

Hear CZ's story at:
https://t.co/oPApscd83m

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

It’s hard to watch this video because it’s easy to disbelieve. But I lived it. This might inform people about why I’m so passionate about innovation and living your best life. Like I’m retelling in my oil painting at https://t.co/z8k0m5vsyP https://t.co/YAYrL4dC4j

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

Because of this life-altering drug, I was able to get married, start a family, and raise four brilliant sons.

Yet, drug price-setting policies — which disincentivize medical innovation — threaten the very medicines that have transformed my life.

https://t.co/mi3HFPJ1FB

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

When I was 23, I was diagnosed with MS.

At the time, there was not a single approved treatment available to slow the progression of my disease.

Then, five years later, a groundbreaking treatment for MS was approved by the FDA, and it saved my life.

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

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[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1982, Robin Williams did a routine as the American Flag for the Norman Lear produced tv special "I Love Liberty" created to bridge political divides - and it's one of the greatest pieces you'll see 🇺🇸

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Turn the volume up.
Stand for the nation.
Sing every word.

For the 250th time…
Happy Birthday America. 🇺🇸

[Joe Grogan @RealJoeGrogan]

The Trump Admin is taking on wasteful spending and putting patients first.

Reining in hospitals’ abuse of the 340B program is exactly the kind of common-sense reform Medicare needs: stop overpaying hospital giants and start protecting taxpayers and beneficiaries.

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

Just posted: a replay of one of the most insightful conversations about presidential coverage over the last 50 years, as well as how the SOTU is built. Download DCEKG while it’s hot. https://t.co/jQuh25j0xQ

[John “CZ” Czwartacki @CZ]

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