If you own shares in a fund that owns any of the biggest insurance carriers, you are part of the cost of healthcare problem in this country.
Those companies put the share price over the health of you, your family, co-workers and friends. The worst part Is they will lie and mislead you to make more
Tell the funds you own that you will sell if they don’t divest their interests in the biggest insurance companies
61 pct of Americans own stocks directly or indirectly. You can make a difference
I’m looking at the cost of hip implants. The actual implant and accessories. I’m trying to compare the price the UK vs Canada vs prices here in the USA, which I know varies by hospital. Smaller hospitals pay more.
I’m guessing Medicare allocates about $24b for the actual implant in its coding.
I’m trying to figure out what we could save taxpayers if we negotiated a single price for all hospitals.
We hear that hospitals can’t afford Medicare/caid pricing. This could be a place to allow small/rural hospitals to “catch up” on margin.
Just as importantly, it would make far more sense if we could save money on implants (knees, etc too) , more money would be available to doctors
Anyone have info they can share ?
What am I missing ?
.@SecKennedy NUKES @DanaBashCNN:
"I'm not debating this with you."
"Of course you won't. All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say, 'Trust the experts!' That's what you did during Covid. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the 'expert,' was lying about everything... now, you're rolling out the 'experts' again to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of."
.@SecScottBessent on confronting Left-Wing terrorism: "We have spent decades developing the world's most sophisticated financial counterterrorism capabilities, and now, we are mobilizing some of the same tools that we have deployed against terrorists abroad to confront this emerging threat here at home...
We are examining where tax-exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence activity, and how those entrusted with stewardship of these organizations have instead enabled violence."
Big implication for datacenters on and off the Earth. Hopefully @SpaceXAI takes note. I wonder how this might change the size of radiator panels in space?
GOOD NEWS 📰 James Kim, Principal Engineer at Samsung Foundry, announced that Samsung has successfully converted the AI5 chip's blueprint into a physical, manufacturable layout for their fabrication line 🔥
For those unfamiliar, a foundry tape-out like Samsung's is a bit different from a design tape-out like Tesla's.
While both terms refer to the same overarching project, they represent two sequential phases of handing off the design from the creator (Tesla) to the manufacturer (Samsung).
Tesla's design tape-out happened first, back in April 2026. This means Tesla's engineers finalized the logic, architecture, and overall digital blueprint of the AI5 chip before handing those electronic files over to Samsung. Think of this like an R&D chef finalizing a master recipe in a test kitchen and handing it off to a commercial food manufacturer.
Once Samsung received those files, they ran them through rigorous design rule checks to ensure compatibility with their cutting-edge 2nm node. They added specific structures required for manufacturability and locked in the final layout for the photomasks.
To continue the parallel, this is the equivalent of the manufacturing plant taking that recipe, scaling the measurements for massive industrial mixers, fine-tuning the instructions for their specific automated processing equipment, and locking in the exact standard operating procedure to mass-produce it on the factory floor.
With this milestone cleared, Samsung is now positioned to produce the first physical engineering samples, keeping the AI5 chip on schedule for high-volume manufacturing in 2027 🆒
🚨 Good Morning to everyone who's fighting for The Save America Act 👍
Ro Khanna says the quiet part out loud.... there's not large numbers of illegals voting
Maria goes off.... there's been elections lost by (500) votes, (1K) votes
They're not even trying to hide it anymore