Tonny Lee

Cardiologist in Training, Internist, Biohack, Sauna-holic, Runner, Biker, and Gymrat

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@curmudgeoncard Unfortunately, this is very common in medicine. Everyone thinks they are god!

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@SenWarren Not on your watch, so how long have you been a senator?

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@plasticboss EKG nearly 500 bucks 🤣

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@BladeoftheS This is what happened to Vietnam after 1975. We wished we took all the capital and redistributed. Jailed all millionaires/billionares. Guess what? the whole country went dirt poor and collapsed within 1 year. Your idea is not old.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Socialized medicine never runs out of admins. It runs out of machines.

Canada has 432 MRI machines. Ten US states each have more.

The MRI wait time in Canada is ~4 months.
The MRI wait time in the US is ~4 hours.

Canada's solution: More MAID

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@TheDemocrats @BarackObama Nice talk, terrible jobs done. Career politician! A viewpoint from an immigrant who used to be fooled by him.

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@noahkaufmanmd This income might be equal to a hospital-employed interventional cardiologist working from 8 am to 8 pm like a slave. 100 usd per month is equal to a phone line bill with AT&T maybe but get unlimited care.

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@noahkaufmanmd Let's do a simple math to see how doctors are riped off.

With direct primary care, we have a panel of 600 patients per day. Each one pay 100 usd per month (mid-low end with current market). It is 720,000 usd per year.

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@SenSanders Oligarchy
Oligarchy
Oli...gar...chy....

We must create a signature song for you, "Oligarchy"

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@Prebens @ajlamesa I heard the opposite story in Norway...

https://t.co/9wqtQ9D0qq

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@ajlamesa https://t.co/WKT5hITt1O

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@ajlamesa Better well informed, especially when you are not working in medical field.

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@ajlamesa https://t.co/a6mJSkJEA8

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@ajlamesa https://t.co/WZDkEE61qt

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@ajlamesa Lol, look at UK and Canada...or even Northern European countries. You broke your bone, you may not see doctor till your bone heals itself lol

[Ross Prager @ross_prager]

Unfortunately, another example of academic virtue signaling.

If AI is disclosed transparently and can help researchers more clearly communicate their science, how is it a negative?

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to determine what are the economics for someone, who is currently healthy , to go to a HDHP with a 10k plus deductible.

The question I asked is “I dont trust insurance companies. What happens if I have a million dollar emergency and they won’t pay “. All I can say is WTF

If they don’t pay, there are Independent Review Organizations, who are supposed to be independent, and their decision to pay or not is final. I asked for examples of companies. One was ExamWorks. That rang a bell.

These motherfuckers are the same company that issued a ridiculous denial for a patient I was trying to help. So I knew the Too Big To Care, vertically integrated insurance companies hired them to do DENIALS !!! WTF.

The biggest customers of the companies that are the final decision makers for insurance carrier denials, are the biggest insurance companies.

That is beyond fucked up. It’s the definition of conflict of interest. How do state insurance commissioners allow this ?

The high deductible plans that many people say is the solution to fixing how we do insurance, may be effectively compromised

If you are looking at a HDHP, BE CAREFUL

It might just be rigged against you

[Bilal Farooqui @bilalfarooqui]

doctor owns the imaging center:

“conflict of interest”

“health system” owns the doctor, imaging center, lab, surgery center, pharmacy and urgent care in a pure fee for service arrangement:

“integrated care”

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@SenSanders I trust AI 1000 times more than Bernie !

[Tonny Lee @TonnyLee_]

@tjparker Ok, so I smoke 2 packs per day, I do not discipline myself so my BMI is 40, I eat all crappy food...at one point, I get all heart diseases, cancers...with the expectation that I will be the post powerful participant regardless lol