Pankaj Patel

[Public Policy Solutions @Policy_Solution]

.@RepJasonSmith SLAMS tax-exempt hospitals that rake in taxpayer subsidies to finance luxurious projects:

“Tax-exempt hospitals look less like hospitals and more like hedge funds... If all this money is being spent on items unrelated to healthcare, Americans deserve to know how much charity care a tax-exempt hospital provides to vulnerable patients.”

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Healthcare is the only industry where the provider says they are transparent, will show you a price, but then not show you the receipt for what you paid.

Obviously, so you never know if what you paid is what they said they would charge you.

H/T Chris Deacon

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

UHC Billed for Daily Nurses 9 in 10 Never Got https://t.co/NnxxlHOKnp

[Pankaj Patel @jumpn04]

@mcuban It’s simple only buy from small business only. Don’t buy from big corporations. USA citizens just do this and they will get their constitution back.

[श्री @shree_2_2]

GOD VS SCIENTIST

When Gita asks one question, science goes silent:

“What do you actually control in this universe?” 🔱📖

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Those who knew must go to prison for a long time

[This is not okay | Independent Provider @MakeHCFairAgain]

🚨 CMS basically admitted in their May 2026 report:

“Insurance companies' MA plans submit such messy, duplicative, and inconsistent home health data that we can’t use it… so we’re just excluding it from public reporting.”

Meanwhile, if independent providers make a small formatting error, payments get cut off.

Look at this Texas data from Humana-owned Centerwell agencies: [screenshot]

Centerwell dominates Humana MA patients in county after county.

Yet they only do 2-4 visits per Humana MA patient vs ~25 visits for traditional Medicare patients — that’s 525% to over 1,000% more care.

They get paid upfront (capitation) for Humana MA patients, so the fewer visits they deliver = more profit for them.

You can see they do far more visits for UHC MA patients (avg ~17) and traditional Medicare patients (avg ~25). Why? Because on those plans, more visits = more money. On Humana MA, it’s the opposite: fewer visits = more profit.
Or are we supposed to believe that every Humana MA patient is miraculously so much healthier that they need 500–1,000% fewer visits than everyone else?

This is the “vertical integration” they sold as better care. It’s a lie.

It’s steering patients in, then giving them the bare minimum while squeezing independents out with low rates and network exclusions.

CMS refuses to demand clear and accurate data from the big insurance companies on Medicare Advantage.
Instead, they accept years of messy, duplicative data and then say “it’s too messy” — so they just exclude Medicare Advantage home health data from all public reports.

Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage plans get a free pass on real price transparency. Network adequacy data is a complete joke — rarely audited, hidden from the public, and so inaccurate that even FOIA requests can’t get reliable information. This allows them to operate “ghost networks” that exclude as many independent providers as possible.

Why the ridiculous double standard?

Patients get less or no care.
Providers get destroyed.
Taxpayers lose.

This is straight from the official CMS report: "Medicare Advantage Encounter Data Methodological Approach for Analyzing Institutional and Non-Institutional Services" (May 2026)
Public link (current version hosted by CMS is dated Sept 2025, but content is the same as the May/June 2026 version I’m referencing): https://t.co/3fUlzrIo4M

@CMSGov @DrOzCMS @VP @AFergusonFTC @MattShaheen @KenPaxtonTX @mcuban @GregAbbott_TX @nickshirleyy @FBIDirectorKash

[Angry Dad @angrydadwi]

They told us PBMs lower costs.

My son Cole paid the price when he lost access to the medication that helped keep him alive.

Patients should come before profits.

#PBMReform #PatientsOverProfits

[Pankaj Patel @jumpn04]

@RepJasonSmith @joerogan And still nothing

[Rep. Jason Smith @RepJasonSmith]

Yes @joerogan, you heard that right: so-called nonprofit hospital systems are driving up costs for patients while operating more like hedge funds with hospital beds.

That's exactly why I brought the CEOs of the largest hospital systems in the country before the Ways and Means Committee. These CEOs are putting profits over patients, leading to skyrocketing costs of care and worse outcomes for patients.

The Ways and Means Committee isn’t done holding these health care empires accountable because Americans deserve better.

[Pankaj Patel @jumpn04]

Ask Your Federal Legislator to Support the Pharmacists Fight Back Act https://t.co/kGaku3Agek

[Freddie MercuryTM @fredDMercD]

@elonmusk She should do the Epstein Files instead

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Healthcare is the most lobbied sector in America.

Not one of the most.
The most.

The health sector has been the number one federal lobbying spender every year since 1999.

In 2024, it spent roughly $ 757 million.

[Rep. Scott Perry @RepScottPerry]

The 4th Amendment has no expiration date - but Section 702 of FISA does. Congress wants to rubber-stamp the “Surveillance State” without reform.

Americans are sick of Big Brother freely snooping through their data. Get a warrant.

DON’T SPY ON ME.

[Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. @RepGregMurphy]

As a physician who has served patients for 35 years, I am sickened by the unconscionable practices of health insurance companies that continually place profits above patient care.

Prior authorization, in particular, is being abused to prop up profits and deny care to those who need it.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 1879, JP Morgan paid a man to invent the lie that is the foundation of modern economics.

A billionaire who helped start Amazon just exposed the whole thing on Diary of a CEO, and once you hear it you will never look at paychecks the same way again:

146 years ago, a guy named Henry George wrote a book called Progress and Poverty.

It was the first mainstream book about the rich systematically stealing from the poor, and It literally became the bestselling book in the history of the United States at the time.

The working class was reading it everywhere, and the people at the top of the economy completely lost their minds.

So JP Morgan personally brought a man named John Bates Clark to Columbia University, which was essentially the intellectual headquarters of Wall Street, and told him to fix the problem.

Clark wrote a book called The Distribution of Wealth. In it, he invented something called the "theory of marginal productivity," which claims that because markets are perfectly efficient, the amount of money you earn reflects EXACTLY the value you contribute to the economy.

If you make $15,000 a year, that's because you're providing $15,000 of value. If a hedge fund manager makes $500 million a year moving money around, that's an accurate reflection of the value he creates in the world.

And Clark literally said the quiet part out loud IN HIS OWN BOOK.

He wrote that they had to prove to working people that no matter how much they make, whether it's a little or a lot, it accurately reflects their value, because if workers ever concluded that their labor was worth more than they were being paid, they would revolt and destroy the entire system.

That was the whole point. The theory was built to prevent a revolution.

And it worked so well that it got absorbed into mainstream economics and is STILL taught as a foundational principle to this day.

Every time a CEO tells you "the market decides your salary," they're repeating a framework that was literally commissioned by JP Morgan in the 1800s to convince you not to ask for more.

Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who told this story, also shared the numbers that prove why it matters right now:

The median full-time worker in America earns about $60,000 a year. If that same worker had maintained the same share of GDP they held in 1975, they wouldn't be making $60,000. They'd be making $120,000. That gap goes all the way up to the 90th percentile. If you earn $180,000 today, you'd be earning $250,000 under the old distribution.

The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years of economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. That is trillions of dollars every single year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.

This happened because of policy. Tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else, all justified by an economic theory that was invented specifically to make you believe you deserve exactly what you're getting.

And the craziest part is that GDP growth rates in America were 4 to 4.5% for decades when workers were included in prosperity. As soon as the neoliberals took over in the mid-1970s and implemented these policies, GDP growth fell to 3% and eventually to 2%.

Including people in the economy doesn't slow growth down. It's literally the thing that CREATES growth. And the theory that convinced the world otherwise was a hit job paid for by one of the richest men in history to keep workers quiet.

What do you think?

[Steve Moore @SteveMooreRx]

PBM math when it comes to opposing increases in “professional dispensing fees”:

1. Find the difference in the proposed dispensing fee and the current average “fee”.

2. Multiply that amount by the total number of prescriptions filled in a given period regardless of whether or not the law will actually apply to all of those prescriptions.

3. Completely ignore the change in benchmark from AWP to NADAC (or whatever will be used) and the impact that will have on costs.

4. Threaten healthplans, payers, and patients with higher costs.

5. Report record profits.

The big 3 are moving to cost plus models, they’re just dragging their feet as long as possible.

[TwizzleTwilaSouth @TwizzleTwila]

@WallStreetApes 🇺🇸MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE 🇺🇸☠️🤬

🇺🇸SHUT THEM DOWN GET THEM OUT🇺🇸🤬
ITS THEIR JOB TO INVESTIGATE EACH PROGRAM
IF THEY CANT?

☠️🇺🇸SHUT THE DOWN🇺🇸🤬GET THEM OUT🇺🇸🤬

[Pankaj Patel @jumpn04]

@DrOzCMS How about the fraud the insurance companies are doing? Billions in illegal profits while USA citizens suffer? When will they be prosecuted? Let me guess put the common people in jail and the CEO and their politician puppets pay some petty fine? Please correct the narrative!!!

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

Our Founding Fathers did not take up arms over taxes alone. They overthrew a tyrannical government that planted spies in their communities and violated their liberties.

Those men would be appalled by what is happening to our Constitutional freedoms today.

The fight against government surveillance is the fight to preserve the very liberties they risked everything to secure.