Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation

Dedicated to strangling what's working in health care and preserving what's not

[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

Only the rich, popular, and lucky deserve health care. Now that we have GoFundMe, our system is perfect and there is nothing left to do but continuously raise rates.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I swear insurance companies throw out the craziest bullshit just to see if anybody’s paying attention. Public shaming is good and productive sometimes.

[NBC Politics @NBCPolitics]

A Trump supporter who was among the first rioters to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of plotting to kill FBI special agents who investigated him over his crimes at the Capitol. https://t.co/3KfrSCPWSX

[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

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[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

@SarasCrazyLife It's an outrage that they are allowed to override the judgement of major corporations!

[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

@fuzzymittens Yes, but are they billing it expensively?

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated corporate nightmare we enjoy today.

The conflict of interest argument is absurd in a for profit healthcare system. Hospitals force their employed physicians to refer to other specialists within their own hospital system. Physicians recommend surgery then do the surgery themselves collecting both a clinic fee and a surgery fee. Optum forces patients to see their doctors, use their pharmacies, and be admitted to their own hospitals. If there is profit to be made in patient care, there will be a conflict of interest among the entities/people collecting that profit. The closest thing to a conflict of interest free system is one that is devoid of profit. Call me cynical, but that will not happen in the US.

So we can wring our hands about the potential corruption and malfeasance evil greedy doctors will inflict upon our great country if physicians owned hospitals, while ignoring the actual corruption and malfeasance already displayed by hospital corporations.

We can ignore data that shows POHs as a whole (~250 in the US, holdovers from pre-ACA times) have better outcomes at lower costs.

Or we can introduce some actual competition in the healthcare marketplace to give patients a chance for better care from people who actually got into this business to treat patients, care that is not dictated by a private equity company or insurance company.

Just give physicians a chance to show that we can do a better job. That’s all we’re asking. If we suck at it, we won’t get very far, right? Isn’t that what the free market is for?

Repeal the ban on physician owned hospital.

[Eli McCann @EliMcCann]

I keep seeing people on social media be like "finally FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER democrats picked a good VP!! Kamala really gets it! She's so good at this!" And, like, you guys do know she was the most recent VP pick before this one, right?

[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

@fuzzymittens @ChuckGartland1 So do we. It was great!

[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

@fuzzymittens This is the only kind of single-payer health care we could get behind.

[Parasites on America's Health Care Foundation @ParasiteAHCF]

@fuzzymittens Not us!

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

The most dangerous grift in ophthalmology right now is “glasses are harmful.” People that claim diet, exercise, and a 10 part instructional webinar can help you live spectacle free! No. Stop it.

It’s not a big deal for most adults. They will lose some money before realizing that no amount of exercise and bull testicle consumption will fix their presbyopia.

But those same adults have kids. If young kids don’t get the glasses they need, their brains won’t develop normal vision. I’m talking permanent vision loss. I have seen it happen. It’s awful and entirely preventable.

[Ferrariic, MD @ciirarref]

I got paid $1,969.27 for my biweekly paycheck. I put in 102 hours per week for 2 weeks (4 am to 9 pm, 204 hours in 2 weeks)

I get paid $9.65/hr to do surgery.

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

Called it. CDC is now recommending that all wastewater surveillance groups develop and implement protocols to specifically test for H5N1.
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[Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer]

After 70 yrs of marriage my grandma died and my grandpa, who wasn’t all there himself, immediately married a 95 year old woman with dementia, she died like 2 months later and he was like “well I better get back out there” and honestly this is the vibe I’m getting from Biden

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: The Project 25 group’s offices have reportedly been receiving used tampons in the mail after Gen Z started a TikTok trend to protest the sick perverts who are so obsessed with controlling women.