Put in for 1 share each thru Fidelity today in each of my 1.5 and 3 year old grandchildren’s general investing account.
Feel like I just bought them a Mickey Mantle rookie card.
I’m not touching it, won’t live long enough to profit.
For all who are complaining about the @SpaceX valuation for its IPO, it’s a free market. Don’t buy it.
For those who believe in future and @elonmusk , it’s a free market, buy it.
RT If you are going to invest
Buffet is not out to fix healthcare, he’s not in healthcare, he never pretends to want to fix healthcare. His stated job is to deliver profits to his shareholders. There is no comparison between his pure profit driven goals and the totally impure bs of the so-called non-profits who profit from government protection that you highlight on an hourly basis.
@RoaringHammy Feel sorry for each of you but I get it.
Wife and I doing our things at late 60’s and aren’t considering retirement. Self employed makes a huge difference.
Nice cruise next week but back in tge saddle after.
No better time than now for doctors to summon the courage to start a direct care practice
Get a small business loan, establish your business, find a small location, notify your current patients...moonlight while you build it if you are worried about $$$
If I can do it, anyone can
My job is to make sure your surgery center never gets built.
Eleven years, and I have never lost.
The kid had it all lined up. Board-certified, two partners, a lease on a space where he could do the same procedures my client does across town. He showed up to the hearing with a slide deck and patient testimonials.
Adorable.
I did not bring a deck.
I brought one sentence.
“This facility is not necessary.”
That is the whole game.
In this town, you cannot pour a foundation until a board agrees the community “needs” the place. The people who get to argue that you are not needed are the incumbents who would lose the business.
My client gets a seat at the table where his own competition is approved or killed.
I have sat in that chair for eleven years.
I have never once said yes.
The kid drained himself dry to file.
The application alone is the moat: thick, slow, and expensive enough to stop most physicians before they ever reach a vote.
He cleared it anyway, which I respected, right up until I buried him in it.
We said “duplication of services.”
We said “protecting the safety net.”
Language that tested well in 1974 and continues to test well today.
The board tabled him for review.
Review became a year.
The year became a withdrawn lease, and three physicians quietly returned to working for the health system.
You want to know what we were actually protecting?
A physician down the street doing the same procedure for less. Medicare pays us more. Which means commercial pays more. I don’t share.
That is the threat.
Everything else on the record, the duplication, the waste, the safety net, we wrote for the transcript.
Patients kept paying more.
My client called it a win.
I bought a boat last spring.
I named her Certificate of Need.
@EdwardTWinz I'm not a war monger but these fuckheads running Iran gotta go. For to long they have gotten a pass. Actually rewarded. Precision bombing time.
@MartinB62445426@DutchRojas I was that person for 6 years in a small business until we turned the plan over to the PBGC. Never knew the liability until after. Fortunately ran it well for 5 of those years until business couldn’t support the min contributions.
@TheFrugalBanker Grok
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