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A must-read, hard-hitting piece from Anthony DiGiorgio @DrDiGiorgio on the economics of nonprofit hospitals and the growing gap between their public mission and financial reality.
He lays out the extensive subsidy ecosystem supporting hospitals:
• Property and sales tax exemptions
• Public funding (DSH payments, GME, research support)
• 340B Drug Discount Program revenues
• Market power–driven pricing from consolidated health systems
…among others
Then comes the key question:
"After all of those subsidy streams, what exactly is still unfunded"?
As he puts it, hospitals should provide a true accounting:
• What is the net Medicaid shortfall after supplemental payments?
• What is the real value of tax exemptions?
• Where does 340B revenue actually go?
• How are funds allocated across executive pay, administration, expansion, reserves, M&A, and lobbying?
Until we see that level of transparency, claims about underfunding deserve more scrutiny.
Strong, provocative piece.
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JD Vance is still in Washington DC and taking part in additional policy meetings at the White House, according to Axios.
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Reddit Investors calling for Webull CEO to resign before earnings. Stock down 40% since October.
[10:39]Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 10:39
“Webull CEO, Anthony Denier, must be fired.
The stock has been in absolute decline, and he’s nowhere to be seen.
This stock should be trading higher. Webull is a good app, and the company is growing, but the stock seems to not want to cooperate, and it absolutely does not help that the CEO is basically ghosting investors.
"As the CEO of a public company, he has a duty to create shareholder value. Compared to Robinhood’s Vlad, who is always out there in the public ruthlessly promoting his product, Anthony sits back and is content seeing shareholder value erode. We each own a piece of the company, and we can say “enough of this.” It’s time we apply pressure to the company to make some changes to its PR strategy, and that would start by getting a competent CEO who is able to convey to the public the true value of the product he’s selling.”
“Q2 ER simply revealed that they had been selling shares at a discount to insiders who were just immediately dumping them on the open market. That is why the price has been straight down 50% since last ER. Next ER will just show more of the same (granted it will no longer be a surprise they were selling all along). No one is judging Webull's leadership on today's index drop -- just all of their inside dealings with equity sale agreements and warrants -- all of which came at the expense of common shareholders.
“He (Denier) issued a stand-by equity agreement and then executed it to sell shares at a discount to insiders who just immediately dumped it keeping the discount premium. The fact they sold shares before ER is the defacto proof they didn't believe the stock could go any higher. Their peers have been outperforming Webull and now their platform messaging board is rife with people worried if their money is safe at the brokerage given its lost 50% of its value in just a few months. That kind of talk just results in a downward spiral while the company does nothing to stem the bleeding or instill confidence. Then the company doubles down on the fact their officers are immune any US legal civil actions or shareholder protections because they operate as a foreign entity with foreign officers. This company could easily be at $30 a share, but not without new leadership and a relinquishment of being exempt from US shareholder protections (meaning they need to reincorporate in the US).”
Webull announced they will release third quarter results on November 20th at 5:00 pm ET.
According to Wikipedia, Webull has received controversy owing to its ties to Chinese companies, with Anthony Denier, Webull's U.S. CEO, describing Webull as "both a U.S. and Chinese company" in 2019. Webull has additionally received criticism from U.S. lawmakers and states attorneys general over those ties. In 2024, a coalition of state attorneys general launched a probe into Webull over user privacy issues and concerns about the company's links to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interests. Webull was founded in 2016 under Hunan Fumi Information Technology, a chinese holding company, by Wang Anquan, a former employee of Chinese technology companies Alibaba Group and Xiaomi. On May 24, 2017, Webull Financial LLC was established as a Delaware limited liability company. Wang hired Anthony Denier as CEO of the U.S. brokerage that year and the two mapped out their strategy on napkins at a Mexican restaurant in New York City.