Kevin Feehily

•Interested in financial planning and technology to empower people to make better choices

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Never forget this brave American citizen that turned down getting a Covid vaccine and called out Fauci right to his face on camera.

I still want to buy this man a beer!

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

While you were forced to let your grandparents and loved ones die alone in hospitals and nursing homes — or be away from your wife while she gave birth — members of the media were dining with Dr. Fauci.

While your local salon was padlocked and your small business destroyed, mayors and speakers of the House got their hair done.

While you were told to sacrifice Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every normal human gathering, governors ate maskless at $500-a-plate restaurants with lobbyists… and Fauci’s own diaries show he was having “relaxed, good time” dinners with CNN anchors.

While your kids’ schools stayed closed and your wedding was banned, the same people cheering lockdowns praised and joined massive street protests.

They knew there was a double standard the entire time.

They just didn’t care. Rules for thee. Never for them.

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

Vincent Capodanno did not carry a rifle. He carried a Bible and a box of St. Christopher medals. He was a Catholic priest, a Maryknoll missionary from Staten Island, and when he joined the Navy as a chaplain in 1965 he asked for the one assignment most men would have run from. He wanted to be with the Marines in the field. They called men like him the Grunt Padre, and he earned it. He lived the way his Marines lived, ate what they ate, slept in the same mud, and spent his hours hearing confessions, writing letters home for scared kids, and sitting with the grieving and the dying.

On September 4, 1967, during Operation Swift in the Que Son Valley, the same mountains where Marines would still be fighting years later, a company of the 5th Marines was hit by a massive North Vietnamese force, around 2,500 men. When Father Capodanno heard that a platoon was about to be overrun, he did not stay in any safe place, because there was no safe place and he would not have gone to it anyway. He ran across open ground under fire to reach the Marines who were being cut apart.

Then he just moved through the battle doing his work. He went from man to man, giving last rites to the dying and pulling the wounded to cover, praying over kids as they bled out, telling terrified Marines that God was with them right there in that field. A mortar round shredded his arms and legs and tore off part of his right hand. He refused medical aid and kept going, one hand mangled, still crawling to the next wounded man.

He saw a wounded corpsman lying out in the open, close to an enemy machine gun, and went to him. As Father Capodanno knelt over that Marine to comfort him and give him last rites, the machine gun found them both. The priest was shot more than 27 times. He died there in the field with his Marines, doing exactly what he had come to do.

He received the Medal of Honor in 1969. The Catholic Church later opened his cause for sainthood, and he now carries the title Servant of God. To the men of the 5th Marines he was already something close to a saint long before any of that, the padre who ran toward the fire empty handed so that no man in that valley would have to die alone.

[Kevin Feehily @AdvisorAdvice]

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[SpaceX @SpaceX]

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[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

The city of Denver signed a pharmacy contract with UnitedHealth and got absolutely taken to the cleaners. To United, it was candy from a baby. And the wild part is Denver posted the whole thing online, so you can watch exactly how it happened.

The contract is 131 pages of traps, and Denver stepped right into them. It is a reminder that the people choosing our health plans are often completely outmatched by the companies on the other side of the table. They are the sucker in the room. We are the ones who pay for it.

Here is the clearest example. Denver based the entire drug-pricing formula on something called AWP, average wholesale price. Denver fell for it because "average wholesale price" sounds fair and official. It is not. AWP is a number they buy from a firm called Medispan, and it is completely fictional. It has no real connection to what a drug actually costs.

How fictional? In the contract, generic drugs are priced at AWP less 87 percent. Think about that. If your real price is 87 percent below the number you are building everything on, some alarm bells should be going off. A couple of examples: dofetilide actually costs about $5.65, but its AWP is $584. Rosuvastatin costs about $28, but its AWP is $8,944. Why would anyone build a pricing system on numbers this detached from reality?

Because someone wants it that way. The party on the other side of the contract. UnitedHealth. AWP is the Trojan horse. Once that fake number is inside the walls, they can wreak havoc. United also steers Denver's members to United's own pharmacy, so they actually want the AWP higher than the rate Denver signed. They keep the spread, and Denver cannot complain, because it is right there in the contract.

And drug manufacturers are happy to play along. They are basically required to. If a manufacturer lists a low, honest AWP, United can drop them from the plan. Zero sales. So every maker faces the same choice: inflate the fake price and make a fortune, or list the real price and sell nothing.

Denver got embarrassed here, but they are not special. Almost anyone using a major insurer is running on these same fake numbers, quietly inflating what you pay in premiums. You never see the fake price. You just feel it.

So how do you fix it? Fire the middleman. They cannot be trusted. Step out of the teeth of the monster entirely. That is exactly what we did, and it is why we can price on the real, actual cost of the medication.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft.

He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient numbers and enroll them in hospice.

Then they would proceed to bill Medicaid "$6,000 a month FOREVER."

RFK JR: "We shut down 800 hospices. You know what a hospice is? Where you're going to die. Typically, if you go to a hospice, you leave within 18 days because your dying is terminal."

"We started looking at these hospices in Los Angeles, and the people never died. Two or three years later they were there, and we're paying $6,000 a month."

"We found a hotel room with 29 hospices in it. I mean a hotel, every room was a hospice, and none of them had any patients. They were just addresses."

"The guys who own them, they were Estonians and Armenians and people from Eastern Europe who were getting the patient numbers. They were stealing them from doctors' offices."

"They were also going into poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles and they'd say to the people, 'We'll give you this $375 flat-screen TV. You give us your patient number and we're going to enroll you in this hospice. You don't ever have to go. We're just going to enroll you,' and then we'll charge Medicaid $6,000 a month forever. And the guy never dies, of course, because he was never sick."

"We didn't get a single call from a congressman or from a business owner saying, 'Oh, you shut down my hospice and all these patients are on the street.' None of them, because they were all crooked and they knew they were crooked."

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Audie Murphy was rejected by the Marines for being too small. At just 5'5" and 112 pounds, he eventually made it into the Army and became the most decorated American soldier in history, earning 28 medals, including the Medal of Honor.

@dailystoic

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 More Americans Died on One British Prison Ship Than in Every Battle of the Revolution Combined. The Empire Called It “Policy.” ☠️

They don’t teach this.

11,500+ American prisoners died on British prison ships during the Revolutionary War.

6,800 died in combat.

Let that math settle in.

The HMS Jersey — nicknamed “Hell” — held 1,000+ men in a space built for 400. Hatches battened down at night. No air. No latrines. Men died in their sleep and lay among the living for days. Dysentery. Typhus. Smallpox.

Rations: worm-infested meat. Moldy bread. Water so foul men drank their own urine.

The British Commissary embezzled the food meant for prisoners. Guards pocketed the difference. Every morning the cry went up: “Rebels, bring out your dead.” Bodies stripped naked, dumped in shallow sandbar graves. For decades after the war, bones washed up on Brooklyn’s shore.

And the choice they offered?

Switch sides. Enlist for the Crown. Get fed. Get freed.

Thousands chose starvation and death instead.
The British refused to classify Americans as POWs — because that would mean recognizing America as a nation. So they called them “rebels in arms.” Criminals.

No protections. No exchanges. Washington begged for prisoner swaps. The British said no. Because starving prisoners was strategic.

This wasn’t collateral damage. This wasn’t the fog of war. This was policy.

The Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument in Brooklyn holds the bones of ~11,500 of these men. It’s one of the tallest Doric columns on earth. More American dead than Gettysburg, sitting in a crypt in Fort Greene Park.

Nobody visits it. Nobody teaches it.

Because the story of men rotting in floating dungeons, eating their shoes, refusing to betray their country — that’s harder to package than Bunker Hill.

But it’s the truer story.

Remember the ships. Remember what empire actually looks like.

Want video links? Search “HMS Jersey prison ship” or “Prison Ship Martyrs Monument” on X and YouTube — several excellent documentaries and historical breakdowns are available. The History Guy and American Battlefield Trust both have solid pieces on it.

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

Someone asked the other day about the definition of socialism, communism, and Marxism. Ann Landers years ago explained it well! Enjoy!

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

CVS just settled its latest fraud case, and for once the fine was big enough to actually hurt. It cost them $440 million, and as a bonus it bankrupted the guilty subsidiary and forced CVS to sell it off.

The company was Omnicare, a pharmacy that supplies medications to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. CVS bought it in 2015. That same year, a former Omnicare pharmacist filed a whistleblower lawsuit, and the Justice Department joined the case in 2019.

The scheme was simple and it ran for years. Omnicare kept dispensing drugs on stale, expired prescriptions and billing the government for them over and over. From 2010 to 2018 that added up to more than 3.3 million false claims and about $135.6 million in overpayments from taxpayers. A federal jury reached its verdict in April 2025. The judge did not mince words, calling it deliberate, egregious, and a very big fraud on the government.

Then came the math that made it sting. Under the False Claims Act, damages get tripled. So that $135.6 million ballooned to $406.8 million, and the government asked for another $542 million in penalties on top. The court entered a total judgment of about $948.8 million. CVS ultimately agreed to pay $440 million to resolve it, with the first chunk due almost immediately.

Here is the part that makes this different from every other settlement. The penalty was not a rounding error the company could shrug off as the cost of doing business. It broke the unit that did the fraud. Omnicare filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2025, and earlier this year CVS announced it is selling Omnicare to a company called GenieRx. So a business CVS bought in 2015 is now being sold off in the wreckage of its own fraud case.

That is the lesson. It is actually possible to make a fine big enough to change behavior instead of just becoming a line item. Now we just have to scale that up.

But honestly, why wait on fines at all? There is already a faster tool sitting right there. When an individual violates the False Claims Act, they can lose the privilege of participating in federal programs like Medicare.

Imagine how quickly the fraud would vanish if that same exclusion got applied to the giant repeat offenders who keep doing this. Kick them off the program and watch how fast the behavior changes.

While we wait for that day, here is my pitch. We built a pharmacy where it is literally impossible to pull this kind of thing, because you see the price before you pay it. No hidden claims, no secret markups, no middleman in a position to overbill anyone. Just the real number, up front. Imagine that.

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

When I was a child, my grandfather would sometimes solemnly intone at the dinner table: "The purpose of socialism is to organize scarcity."

As a kid it sort-of didn't register in my brain as meaning anything beyond "socialism bad", but eventually when I was 12 or something, I did ask what he meant by those specific words.

And he said: socialists establish control of valuable resources and then create an artificial scarcity of these resources, so that they can then use them as a tool of control by deciding who gets and doesn't get those resources.

And I thought that was wrong. I mean, are socialists misguided? Sure. But to claim that they deliberately create scarcity as a means of political control? That seemed far-fetched.

But, of course, he was entirely correct.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The communist doesn’t think to increase the quality of the grid. The communist demands that you decrease the quality of your life.

They make you ration the things that every other American gets to enjoy. Every single time.

[Shaun Terhune @Shaun_Terhune]

New Hampshire crosswalks gussied up for America’s 250th!! This one is in Wolfboro. How awesome would it be if every small town in America did this for the rest of the year? Let’s get on this! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Stetson Doggett @stetsondoggett]

Mint Mobile just dropped all its plans to $15/mo.

Even its unlimited plan.

Perfect option if you're looking to ditch T-Mobile (but keep T-Mobile coverage) and lower your monthly bill.

Hard to beat $15/mo for unlimited high-speed data.

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[Boston Sports Throwback @BOSthrowback]

On July 1, 2011, the Red Sox made the first of 16 annual deferred compensation payments to Manny Ramirez. Every July 1 from 2011–2026, Boston paid Manny $2 million+. Today marks the final payment

[Commonwealth Unity PAC @CWUnityPAC]

8 to 10 million gallons of raw sewage still pouring into the Merrimack River every day. Crane Beach closed. Salisbury closed. Newburyport closed. Gloucester shellfish beds shut down. New Hampshire beaches at risk. Governor Healey says she hopes to save the Fourth of July. The same governor who spent years and billions on windmills that fall into the ocean while our water infrastructure has been crumbling. Hope is not a plan.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

AstraZeneca just paid Texas $34 million to make a fraud lawsuit go away.

The exact number was $33,998,000. Big Pharma rounds down when it's their money.

Here's what they got caught doing. 👇

You can't pay a doctor to write your prescriptions. That's a kickback. It's illegal. Everybody knows the rule.

So AstraZeneca got creative.

Instead of handing over cash, they handed over people. Free nurses. Free reimbursement support. Free administrative help — deployed straight into prescriber offices under the label of "non-branded counseling."

They put their own staff inside doctors' offices, dressed it up as patient education, and used it to steer scripts toward AstraZeneca drugs. They even paid outside third parties to do the steering for them.

It's a kickback with a stethoscope.

And here's the part that got Texas involved: a lot of those prescriptions were paid for by Medicaid. So this wasn't just AstraZeneca padding its own numbers — it was taxpayer dollars funding prescriptions that were tainted from the start.

This isn't a one-off, either. Texas has already sued Eli Lilly and Sanofi over the same "free nurse" playbook. A decade ago Lilly and Novo Nordisk faced nearly identical "white coat" allegations tied to insulin. Old tactic. New lawsuits. Expect more settlements coming.

Ken Paxton put it plainly: "I will not allow Big Pharma to misuse taxpayer dollars to put profit ahead of Texans' health."

Great line. One problem.

There's an entire industry that's allowed to put profit ahead of your health — legally.

The PBMs.

Drugmakers get sued into the ground for kickbacks. Meanwhile the middlemen sitting between you and your medicine got a federal exemption from that exact same Anti-Kickback Statute. Same behavior. Legal for them, illegal for everyone else.

So do the math. Your insurer and its PBM make more money when your prescription costs more. Why on earth would the price ever come down?

Somehow Congress got convinced that legalizing kickbacks would lower drug prices. It did the exact opposite. That's not a side effect of the system. That IS the system. It's most of the reason your drugs cost what they cost.

While we wait on Congress to undo the damage it caused, we did the obvious thing.

We fired the middleman.

No PBM. No legal kickbacks baked into your price. Just transparent, cost-plus cash pricing — which is how we hit the lowest-price generics you'll find anywhere.

[Senator Jessica de la Cruz @JessicaforRI]

This is Rhode Island’s contribution to America’s 250th birthday - an empty booth at the National Mall.

The state that demanded a Bill of Rights couldn’t show up to celebrate. Other states found a way, ours didn’t.

[Rob Burke @RBurke4Congress]

“Forced to take my American flag down on Boston City Hall Plaza — on America’s 250th birthday. Meanwhile, the city proudly raises the Somali flag with Mayor Wu’s official blessing. Naturalized citizens celebrating foreign independence while an American flag gets removed. Unbelievable double standard.”
#America250 #Boston #AmericanFlag