Practical Patriot 🇺🇸

Practical healthcare reform. Real prices before care. Site-neutral payments. Independent review, Anti-Monopoly Healthcare Markets

[HealthCareDenied @CareDenied]

"You're not in charge of the economics of your healthcare. ... Until you break them up, there is no chance we will improve the quality and cost of care in this country." Big Healthcare owns the PBMs that process 80% of prescription drugs in this country. They own the data processing, the clinics, it goes on and on.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

@grok can you answer this? If OKLO and other sector companies end up achieving similar results in the next 6 months, how many new reactors do you estimate the sector will create over the next year? And what other companies in their supply chain (development, operation) will increase in value?

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Wildly off base if you think the magic trick is just:

“Take the premium money, dump it into an HSA, buy a cheap catastrophic plan, and everyone retires with a healthcare 401(k).”

That is healthcare fiction.

An HSA only works if the patient can act like a buyer. And a buyer needs prices, choices, competition, and protection from catastrophe.

Right now, American healthcare gives patients none of that.

We have hospitals posting fake “transparency” files that look like they were designed by a hostage negotiator, insurer-negotiated rates that can be 10x or 20x Medicare, facility fees attached to routine care because the building got a hospital logo slapped on it, pharmacy middlemen hiding spreads, and patients getting bills months later like they accidentally financed a used Lexus.

And into that mess, the solution is supposedly:

“Here, have an HSA.”

Great.

That is like giving someone a grocery gift card in a store with no price tags, one supplier, five middlemen, and a cashier who refuses to tell you the total until Thanksgiving.

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Oh, dear god...

[Adam J. Fein @DrugChannels]

Congratulations to @GeBaiDC on her nomination to be Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ge is exceptionally knowledgeable, thoughtful, and dedicated to improving healthcare. She would be a tremendous asset in this important leadership position.

https://t.co/EQKgdLa1aJ

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Arkansas tested this mechanism, and 18,000 lost coverage, but employment did not increase. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects the federal requirement will leave 5.3 million more people uninsured in 2034.

[Phil Kerpen @kerpen]

https://t.co/PNBwLG0eMK

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Nothing says “free market healthcare” like competing insurers allegedly using the same data, the same algorithm, and the same middleman to decide how little to pay doctors. Arizona says that is exactly what happened.

[Association of American Physicians & Surgeons @AAPSonline]

"Arizona's attorney general is accusing major health insurance companies of engaging in illegal price fixing that profited the companies at the expense of patients and their doctors." https://t.co/sKfxCvai6g

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Healthcare does not need every hospital to compete like a restaurant. It needs essential hospitals to be financed like essential infrastructure, while preventing the system that coordinates them from becoming a private monopoly that extracts whatever it wants from patients and taxpayers.

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Take a Census estimate, subtract it from ACA sign-ups, call the difference “improper enrollment.” Ignore that 1095-A subsidies are reconciled on tax returns and admit your model cannot identify fraud.

Congratulations. You discovered subtraction, not 6.2 million criminals.

[Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz]

The @Paragon_Inst is out with it's latest estimate of improper ACA enrollment--6.2m people in 2025, or around a quarter of everyone enrolled. Past installments have been influential in Congress and the administration in thinking about Obamacare policy. https://t.co/hRLJad5AdY

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen: a standing ovation for the full Daraxonrasib results

I feel inspired and energised, to put it mildly — we have a targeted therapy for pancreatic cancer now, and nothing is undruggable anymore

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Apparently, every private doctor who sees a Medicare patient has been a federal employee this whole time. Who knew?

The real issue is not whether public insurance pays the bill. It is whether doctors are paid fairly, patients can get care, and insurers and hospital monopolies stop skimming the system.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Talking to independent physicians, it's obvious that the big insurance carriers are doing to them, what their PBMs are doing to independent pharmacies.

They deny, underpay, slow pay, clawback, and create administrative mazes, knowing their victims don't have the time or resources to fight.

Why ? By putting financial pressures on physicians and pharmacies, it makes them more likely to sell their businesses to them , close their doors, or refer the business to their captive pharmacy or provider. All benefitting the biggest insurance companies

We need to ditch the concept of "claims" and make every delivery of medications or care as a billable event that must, by law, be paid on a timely basis , with interest charges for any delays. If the physician or pharmacy doesn't deliver , the carrier has plenty of legal options already. As does the patient.

This is not an efficient market. This is the big guy abusing the little guy. It needs to change to better the care we get in this country

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Call your senator and ask them to support this. Unless of course you think healthcare and insurance in this country are perfect

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

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[Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @GovMLG]

To every medical resident and physician looking for a place to plant roots: New Mexico is calling. Free child care. Tuition-free college for your kids. And now up to $300,000 in student loan repayment for physicians. We’re working to make New Mexico The best place in America to practice medicine and build a life.

Applications for student loan forgiveness open June 1. Link in the first comment.

#NewMexico #Physicians #LoanForgiveness #NMHealth

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Olah reveals that his research team at Anthropic keeps finding unsettling and mysterious structures inside AI systems. These include internal states that functionally mimic emotions like joy, fear, and grief

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas."

Read the full text of his remarks: https://t.co/CoBfkVOVcy

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

Facebook rebranded to Meta and poured $70B into the metaverse starting in 2021. Four years later, they’re backing off and going all-in on AI. They made a giant bet, saw the results, and changed course.

With the ACA, we did the opposite. We cut the uninsured rate and protected people with pre-existing conditions, but we also locked in sky-high prices, massive consolidation, and an administrative obstacle course for patients and clinicians. Fifteen years later, instead of admitting those structural failures, D.C. keeps layering on new subsidies and tweaks to prop up the same chassis.

The lesson from Zuck isn’t “never try.” It’s: when the world tells you a design is broken, you pivot. We should protect what the ACA got right like basic coverage protections and dare to replace its financing and market structure with something that actually disciplines prices and respects clinicians’ time.

[Practical Patriot 🇺🇸 @InternetCPA]

@mcuban Bad actors do not magically become good actors under Medicare for All

[Mr.KELLY @mr_kelly10]

Told my daughter if she beats me in the race she can start dating before turns 18

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

So with Ebola you die from complete organ failure and bleeding out from your eyeballs. Thanks to @elonmusk and @DOGE for eliminating the programs we had in place to contain this plague. 👍 here we go again.