Jeri

[Clyr Health @ClyrHealth]

Low-dose naltrexone, 4.5mg. A licensed provider reviews your intake. 90 capsules for $169, billed once. Compounded, not FDA-approved.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@PaulHFlowersJr @YourDailyCentss The cheapest bronze plan for me is 1,400 per month with a 9,500 deductible.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@Jessica_SFlo @BruceHunterJr https://t.co/CZ2neAaFb7

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@Jessica_SFlo @BruceHunterJr That’s not true, unfortunately. They most definitely can make you pay it and WILL and it does go on your credit report. That was only stopped for a short period of time. Look it up.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@traaim19 @BruceHunterJr That’s a myth. You’ll get turned into collections within a few months.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@BruceHunterJr Mine went up 40% for the second year in arow. I’m out.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@spencerpratt It’s pretty clear that they are all on the same side.

[Phil Johnson @Phil_Johnson_]

He’s not wrong.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@jdavies313 @unusual_whales The cheapest plan for a 54 year old in WV is $1400 a month with a $9500 deductible. It covers NOTHING until the deductible is met. This is for ONE person!

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I am not here to tell you that Republicans have done a wonderful job. I am here to tell you that the Democrat Party has been fully captured by communists who want you dead and seek to destroy western civilization itself. Go vote against them. It’s the only choice.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Look, if you wanted to make healthcare more expensive, you would pay non-profit hospitals to buy competitors and make it harder to build new ones.

The United States Government does both.

Our government rewards acquisitions and restricts new entrants, incumbent hospitals gain bargaining power.

Employers and patients have fewer alternatives, making higher prices easier to sustain.

The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family coverage has reached $28,303.

Employers and employees pay that together, before deductibles and copays.

Medicare encourages consolidation. A hospital acquires an independent physician practice, qualifies it for hospital outpatient billing, and collects higher payments. The physician can remain in the same examination room. The acquisition creates a financial return without requiring better care.

As the system acquires more practices, insurers have fewer alternatives. Rejecting its prices becomes harder when excluding it means excluding much of the care local employees need.

Congress restricts the physicians who could compete with it.

Section 6001 of the Affordable Care Act largely closed the Medicare pathway for new physician-owned hospitals and restricted expansion at existing ones.

An independent surgeon can recruit colleagues, raise capital, and design a better facility. Congress still stands between that investment and the Medicare participation needed to make it viable.

The hospital buying his practice gets a growth opportunity. The physician building a competing hospital gets a federal restriction.

Certificate-of-need laws add another obstacle. Opening or expanding certain facilities requires state permission, and incumbent hospitals use that process to oppose competitors.

The business collecting the money gets to argue that the community has no need for another business offering the same service.

Governors and legislators who preserve those laws protect incumbent hospitals from competition. Employers and families finance that protection, even though it never appears in the state budget.

Many protected institutions also receive substantial public support through tax exemption. With little competitive pressure, scrutiny of that support becomes more important.

State attorneys general oversee charitable organizations, including tax-exempt health systems. Their authority varies, but protecting charitable assets and enforcing charitable obligations are part of the job.

AGs have ignored those responsibilities for too long. Academic medical centers and tax-exempt health systems operate with far too little accountability for the public benefits they receive.

A nonprofit designation does not establish that prices are reasonable, financial assistance is adequate, or acquisitions benefit patients. A hospital’s annual report is no substitute for an attorney general examining its conduct.

Federal oversight has failed, too.

GAO and the Treasury Inspector General have documented weaknesses in how the IRS evaluates hospital community benefits and the standards used to justify tax exemption.

Employers absorb higher costs, charge employees more, reduce benefits, or cut elsewhere. Healthcare consumes money otherwise available for wages, hiring, and investment.

Congress can repeal physician-owned hospital restrictions and expand site-neutral payments. Governors and legislators can repeal certificate-of-need barriers. Attorneys general and federal tax officials can enforce the obligations attached to charitable status and tax exemption.

Premiums would be lower if lawmakers removed the payment advantages and entry restrictions protecting incumbent hospitals.

The bill arrives with an insurance company’s logo. The lawmakers’ names belong on it, too.

Can I watch football now? My team is losing, maybe il keep posting…

[Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉) @m_goes_distance]

this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical

i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs

but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.

it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them

the last 6 months alone:

- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave

we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday

stick around, it's going to get weird

bio/acc

[VelorHealth @velorhealthusa]

Tight calves, stiff ankles, and limited lower-body movement can quietly change how you squat, bend, and walk.

Most people don’t notice until everyday movement starts feeling harder.

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@shiestynurse @AnneSpaceCoast Thank you for being an awesome person and nurse!

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@Naomi_D_Harvey I have this too!

[Jeri @jerikurre]

@ThePOTSPostman I have been dealing with severe fatigue for 20 years and I will never get used to it. It steals your life.

[Jack | amatica health @JackHadfield14]

Muscle biopsy studies in ME/CFS and Long COVID have found oxidative muscle stress, altered glucose use, mitochondrial changes, capillary injury, nerve-muscle damage and worse muscle pathology after PEM. Let's break down what the findings mean.

[Doge Tipping @Dogetothemoon]

@ZeekArkham Spread this meme please!

[Genuis Health 💊 @GenuisHealth]

The last one is the very best