@elonmusk hey Elon! About to have to teach my teenage daughter to drive, going to get a model 3 for her. Could Tesla add a student driver mode where I can engage self driving from the passenger side, enabled via App? If in a parking lot press a button to come to a safe stop?
@mcuban Also, the dirty little international secret is that other countries LOVE the high costs of our medical care as it funds massive R&D benefiting these other countries with 0 expense on their system.
Kinda unfair…
@mcuban 11: Streamline and automate pre authorization when it’s obviously medically necessary. Example: mammogram with confirmed suspicious findings, auto pre authorization for diagnostic sonogram and biopsy.
Leading to better care, less stress, and lower insurance staffing costs
@mcuban 10: for emergent care, charge no more than the average of the top 3 (in terms of procedures rendered) private insurance contracted rates for that code.
No more 150k appendectomies when a hospital would gladly accept 11k from BCBC, Aetna or United.
@michaeljburry I can confirm, as I have placed the insurance on numerous data center builds… they purchase the gpu’s and temporarily store them, build the buildings, and then unwrap them. A 120m building might have 300-400m of equipment in it, at least for the projects I saw.
@mcuban Lastly… should really just be using your HSA as a secondary 401k for the tax sheltering benefits… and post retirement age distribution chances, not healthcare spending… but I digress.
@mcuban Also they should make a law that emergent care for uninsured people can only be billed at the average of the providers top 3 private insurance contracted rates… no reason BCBS pays 10k for a appendectomy, but an uninsured person goes into collections on a 40k cash pay charge…
@mcuban And what if instead of bankrupting people with “emergent care already rendered” of a CABG, maybe they get on a statin and aren’t dying on that doorstep of a heart attack, and save the system money.
@mcuban People are missing that “free market” works when there is rational thought processes as part of the value proposition.
Unfortunately the life and health of a loved one has infinite value to most, and pricing is often reflected… especially when no generic is available.