Pulmonary/Critical Care physician specializing in advanced lung disease including ILD, transplant, sleep, vascular disease and hospice. Clinical professor.
@mcuban@NetworkHealthWI@costplusdrugs Need more of this, great work! I've been prescribing to your pharmacy for a couple of years now, seamless and easy. Only wished it was a bit easier for elderly patients who are not necessarily computer friendly.
@mcuban If they have equity and the ability to do so. Otherwise direct path to abject poverty. I work in an underserviced area hospital, the BBB is going to make state and charity care worse.
@mcuban "Or we trust the doctor but we get to decide on care." I have about 10 more years as a physician, I'm ready to bail out now. Not because I have financial security but how demoralizing this system is for the patient’s and physicians.
@mcuban Its bullshit. For a procedure I perform inside the lungs, millimeters from major blood vessels, where a mistake could cost a patient’s life, I’m paid $560 while the hospital bills about $19,000. The math never adds up.
AGREE! Doctors create compounding value every time they treat a patient—saving lives, preventing death & disability. Yet what they get paid drops every year while U.S. healthcare costs skyrocket hitting $5.6T in 2025. Admins now outnumber physicians, 10:1. The system has been DESIGNED to be overly complex in order to siphon money from sick people— it’s intentionally exploitative, and it needs to end.