The influencer telling you to distrust your doctor has no liability if they are wrong.
Your physician does.
That asymmetry matters. It should factor into who you listen to.
If corporations allow you to sign up with one click, you should be able to cancel with one click too.
Subscription traps, whether from an app or gym membership, are just another way corporations take advantage of working people.
We've already put hundreds of companies on notice. This week, we proposed a rule that would make NYC a national leader in cracking down on abusive practices that nickel-and-dime New Yorkers.
#Project2025 literally outlines a plan to privatize TSA.
But they can’t do that while TSA is unionized.
Defund DHS → TSA agents miss paychecks → people quit → airports spiral → step in with “emergency” fixes → suddenly ICE shows up in airports as the privatized “solution”
A lawyer can own a law firm. A chef can own a restaurant. Apparently anybody in Los Angeles can own a hospice facility.
Yet doctors can’t own hospitals.
This is pure protectionism.
I forgot about this stupid shit but imagine if they poured $80 billion into feeding the hungry instead of this failed cartoon universe that nobody wanted
Medicare pays a CT surgeon $1,700 and change for a CABG and the hospital receives $50K.
The patient sees to $50,000 bill and thinks it all went to the surgeon.
In reality the surgeon received under 4% of the total charge.
It takes 17 years to become a CT surgeon after high school.
Someone explained to me why it’s worth it!
I love a challenge.
We get some really smart DIY docs who come to us for confirmation that their plan is in working order.
And we still find ways to save them money and optimize to their values.
Not a knock on them.
This stuff is complex.