R.Block,MD

Husband to one, father to two, physician and friend to many. Proud 🇺🇸 Vet. Tweets are my own. /Me/Myself/I/ Race neutral. 🌊

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

If you are a physician and don’t realize our profession is dead, you haven’t been paying attention.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@jl_penguin1 @jalexa1218 There for the grace of God go any of us.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@allenanalysis The acceptance rate for Veterans to Harvard is less than 1%. But for foreign nationals almost 30%. For shame.
Shame on Harvard.
Shame on YOU supporting this

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@MSNBC @PabloTorre did you really say that students should pay through the nose to get a college education because in the end it’s worth it.
Harvard takes almost 30% of studs for other countries. Why? $$$$
American Univ should put Americans first. Bigger than Trump’s issues.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@Bubblebathgirl @trackingdonald Just pay Qatar for the plane. Have the Americans own it. Period

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@golfmom_3 @MargauxPeckLaw @Jules31415 @LiquidData She is calling us out. Get it.
Another democracy telling the US we aren’t acting like one.

Sad.
What a disappointment!!!!

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@BillAckman @realDonaldTrump Another question:
How did we get to place where we were trading with countries imposing unfair tariffs on the USA?
Who benefited to allow this?

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@LighthouseDPC @txsportsdoc @SurgeryCenterOK Bo

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@LighthouseDPC @txsportsdoc @SurgeryCenterOK We go to medical school and are required to do CME. No one teaches this or requires it. The blaming the doctor for everything has to stop.
Physicians can’t be responsible if we aren’t educated in it.
Jeez they make me take narcotic education every two year
This doc is fine

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

Who knows who contributes to the Competitive Enterprise Institute who defend PBM as 'free Market'?
As you can see on their tax forms, they have contributors who give $2.8 million, $1.6 million, and 9 other contributors in the six figures (there are 2 pages of unidentified contributors) https://t.co/bP0mRPijqS 4/5 🧵

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

I know about PCMA, the lobby group for PBM, but I did not know about The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), who are also defending PBM as 'free market' so I did some looking. They are a non profit who has lobbied with $2million over the last several years and collects $10 million in revenue each year, from what I could find 100% is from contributors.
Who contributes? 3/5🧵.....
https://t.co/bP0mRPijqS

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

It's tough for me to see PCMA, CEI and Sen Toomey calling PBM 'market based', when they help themselves to medicaid money, through something called the 'spread', collect kickbacks (also non transparent) which creates a monospony ... a series of monopoies among pharmaceutical products, and cause the shutdown of independent pharmacies.
Last time I checked in the Bible of free market capitalism, monopolies, kickbacks and anticompetitive behavior were not Included 2/5 🧵
Here is article in #BucksCounty Courier Times where pic is from https://t.co/FX07xhnmLk

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@calvinisasmith Bottom line it doesn’t work. Makes profits from cancer victims.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@JamiePollo56820 I don’t. I wish he turn in his MD and leave my profession. Disgrace.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@VPrasadMDMPH Set in stone. My ass.
So you admit UHC made “profits” on people with cancer facing bankruptcy.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@GaryGol88424403 @BehizyTweets Let’s just throw out the Constitution. Jeez
Is this the admin game plan. Circumvent the checks and balances
For shame

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@realdocspeaks @Jikkyleaks Not the issue. USA treats MDs like 💩
Docs won’t stay not matter how many graduate.
No respect
High burnout rate
High suicide rate
Don’t get sick.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@BuzzPatterson @DefiyantlyFree Sounds like a Democracy. 😂

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@DutchRojas The GOP had the both houses and the Pres. They didn’t repeal it.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@elonmusk “They found” meaning it is being monitored and regulated.

[R.Block,MD @RBlockMD]

@Out5p0ken How about the wealthy South Americans and Europeans who get the same tax breaks as Americans when buying priorities raising the cost for all of us? The wealthy “undocumented” that no one discusses. Why? &$$$. But hurts the middle class