Scott Saxe

Entrepreneur & consultant. Board Member & Advisor for several charities. Passionate Volunteer. Health Advocate. Public Speaker. Former CIO. Changing the world.

[Scott Saxe @scottsaxe]

We are in DC to help protect Federal investment in research.

Not only does this save countless lives, but it spurs positive economic growth, as well.

#AdvocatesInAction
@BloodCancerUtd
@bcutd_advocacy

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Observations From The Munich Security Conference - 

It took a World War and eight decades to build the strongest alliance that this world had ever seen. It took less than a year to practically destroy it. When Secretary Rubio said the “old world order was dead” during his speech in Munich he was right. It’s dead because Donald Trump blew it up. 

It wasn’t perfect, and there were opportunities missed to improve it, but Donald Trump only knows how to break things, not fix them. 

He thinks this somehow benefits us. He is wrong. Our allies no longer trust us. It was obvious in the more than a dozen meetings I had with Presidents, Prime Ministers and Defense and Foreign Ministers. And if you’re Denmark and Greenland, a “loss of trust” is a generous characterization of our new relationship. China is now more popular in Denmark than the United States. In Poland, the U.S. is 21 percent less popular than it used to be.

This means these countries are looking elsewhere for trade and security — that makes you poorer and less safe.

It will be incredibly hard to build what comes next, but we have to figure out a better path forward. Make no mistake, China is rising. Our ability to keep up with them and prevent a conflict depends on trusted, reliable alliances. So does ending the war in Ukraine in a way that keeps Putin from moving on to his next target. And so does growing our economy and protecting American workers in the age of AI. 

I know there was celebration at the end of the Munich Security Conference. Unfortunately the champagne corks were popping in Beijing and Moscow.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Epstein survivors are sharing the most important ad you’ll see today. Please watch. Trump and his administration are trying to cover up this scandal, but we are not moving on from it.

[𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙊𝙆𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙀 GAZETTE🇺🇸🇺🇦 @FrancisWegner]

Here’s a rude awakening for all the “unwoke”.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

History is calling... Can't escape the parallels, they are self-imposed. When you think a viral image of a Trump official or social account using Nazi phrases and images is so bad, so obvious, it might be fake, it's real. It's also intentional, which is just as ominous.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Anne Frank was forced into hiding in Nazi Germany because armed soldiers were going door to door demanding papers, and if your papers said you were Jewish, they captured you and sent you to a camp.

Today Anne would've been 99 years old. This was not that long ago.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Cancer patients who got a COVID shot lived significantly longer.

No, that’s not a typo.

A new study found that a simple mRNA vaccine - originally made for COVID - nearly doubled survival in patients with advanced lung and skin cancer.

Let’s break it down 👇 🧵 1/

[Draft Jon Stewart 2028 @Stewart_2028]

He's so freaking right.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

So the Republicans are threatening shutdown if Democrats don’t help them cut health care more

I SAY NO DEAL!

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

There are only 3 real questions in health care.
1. How much does it cost ?
2. Can the patient afford it ?
3. Who pays what the patient can't ?

Most ins comps, do all they can to
A. Make it tough for people to afford their deductible/OOP. (Has there ever been a credit check ?)
B. Reduce their payment risk any way they can
C. Financial engineer their relationship with providers through deductibles, auth denials/delays/, underpaying their contracts with providers
D. Use intercompany transfers to game legal requirements

This leads to providers (hospitals) having to do their own version of financial engineering to compensate. So they :
A. Create Facility Fees
B. Abuse 340B
C. Underpay doctors
D. Jerry rig in patient vs out patient charges (they wouldn't let me mom, with cancer, get her CT scan while she was in the hospital. She had to leave and come back )
E. Some other things I'm still figuring out

And don't get me started on PBMs.

Which leads to the question of why can taxpayers guarantee 10s of billions in loans (usually not 100pct ) for homes, college, SBA, farms and more.

But we cant find a way to guarantee the cost of healthcare, on a means tested basis , with constraints like limiting the amount charged by the provider to the local Medicare rates , and possibly a little higher.

the problem with healthcare is that the biggest payers control the flow of cash through the entire system

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The sound you hear is Stephen Miller screaming in agony because there are brown people he can’t kick out of the country now

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

250 years later…

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Exactly.

[Scott Saxe @scottsaxe]

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost” -Thomas Jefferson, 1786

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

A group of DC-based journalists, the White House Correspondents' Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States.

Not anymore.

Today, I was proud to announce that we are giving the power back to the people.

Moving forward, the ‘White House Press Pool,’ will be determined by the White House Press Team.

Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join – but we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.

[Scott Saxe @scottsaxe]

It is an unconscionable betrayal of our most vulnerable, including millions of children, elderly, and ill.

Shame on all who voted to give tax breaks to those who need it least by cutting from those who need it most.

This is a failure of character and community.We can do better.

[Blood Cancer United Advocacy @bcutd_advocacy]

Tonight, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a budget bill that will require disastrous cuts to #Medicaid, posing a direct threat to cancer patients and millions of others who rely on #Medicaid for essential healthcare. @LLSusa strongly condemns this action.

[Scott Saxe @scottsaxe]

Pretty sure the board and shareholders of @tesla would love to know what Elon did for them last week, too.

I doubt he’d respond, so maybe they should accept his resignation, as well.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.

Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.