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[David Healthcare, Marketing & AI @ppcguru]

What Congress could actually fix:

✅ Vertical integration limits (can't own insurance + providers)
✅ Real MLR enforcement (audit clawbacks don't count as "spending")
✅ Price transparency that shows REAL negotiated rates ✅ Medicare rates as pricing benchmark
✅ Stop gaming "non-profit" status

These aren't radical. They're common sense being blocked by lobby dollars.

[David Healthcare, Marketing & AI @ppcguru]

This is why the subsidy fight matters—but not how you think:

Congress is arguing over WHO pays inflated premiums (you or taxpayers).

Nobody's asking WHY premiums are inflated in the first place.

Because answering that question threatens a $400B behemoths and their shareholders.

[Tiago @riseintheword1]

@WallStreetApes America in a nutshell: paying cash is cheaper than using the insurance you’re forced to buy.

We don’t have a healthcare system, we have a shakedown operation with paperwork.

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@girdley How profound

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@IRIran_Military I’m not 100% for DEI policies but increased female leadership in Iran/Israel would remove the need for lethality. Not as just health/edu. ministers - but in positions with actual foreign affairs, decision-making capacities.
Your wives would have these conflicts solved overnight.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Pope Francis was the rare leader who made us want to be better people. In his humility and his gestures at once simple and profound – embracing the sick, ministering to the homeless, washing the feet of young prisoners – he shook us out of our complacency and reminded us that we are all bound by moral obligations to God and one another.

Today, Michelle and I mourn with everyone around the world – Catholic and non-Catholic alike – who drew strength and inspiration from the Pope’s example. May we continue to heed his call to “never remain on the sidelines of this march of living hope.”

[Johannes Hock @HockJohannes]

Culturally, buying a small business is now squarely in the same category as flipping houses, multi-level marketing, and crypto. Portrayed as a secret shortcut that will make you rich because you're smart enough to know it.

If you're serious about buying a small business, you need to ask yourself why is there an opportunity to make millions with little money or experience? What does that mean I am actually getting paid for? And why is buying a small business kind of like buying an 18th century cargo ship? (1/x)

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@HockJohannes Please just 5 minutes. Is something wrong?

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@HockJohannes Couldn’t have said it better myself

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@HockJohannes I concur please call me back

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@VirginAtlantic is your booking site down? I am trying to book a flight from your site and the site keeps giving me errors. I also can’t login to my account

[Johannes Hock @HockJohannes]

Before getting into the search fund world, I had never heard of the term "Step-Up", but now I love it as a quick way to estimate returns on search fund deals.

Forget the excel models. Here's a quick approach to evaluate deal economics as an investor and a searcher 👇

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@CryptoEmy_ Yes, with no FDIC insurance.

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@Cobratate God such facile metaphors to instill fervor in the ignorant.

[du @thedulab]

I love asking people to explain stuff not even because I want to learn. I just want to hear them geek out on a topic. Ask a fitness guy about nutrition. You already eat healthy food, but watching him effortlessly articulate wisdom from years of experience is always insanely cool.

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

Best ratio of my life, so far.

[Johannes Hock @HockJohannes]

Why valuations for SMBs (almost) irrelevant:
Accurately valuing their target tends to be a high priority for searchers. That time is largely wasted since 1) the realistic multiple range is pretty tight and 2) the entry multiple is almost irrelevant to the outcome.

A thread (1/n)

[jessie wicker @jessiewicker1]

@RWApodcast Would you be open to a phone, FaceTime or zoom interview/open conversation?

[Johannes Hock @HockJohannes]

Hi #SMBtwitter. Long time reader, first time poster. We just bought a small business after a 5 months search and here is every tool or service we used along the way.

Special shoutout to @guessworkinvest @girdley @steveressler and @NickHaschka
https://t.co/0ukaHgTnGY