Jon Ward, MD 🇮🇱 💪

It was a great honor to be present at the bill signing and receive a signing pen for SB1580, ensuring physicians in Florida always have the right to speak out! Thank you to @GovRonDeSantis @jaytrumbull @doc_rudman @ADFLegal @AaronDiPietro for all your work getting this done! #FreeState

Just a reminder, car seats drove fertility rates down. Most people have no idea how engineered this effort was. Our 2026 low fertility rate, causing hundreds of elementary schools to close, was designed. Designers bought into the "over population" nonsense and designed us down.

@NickADobos I’m in the 80% using Claude, absolutely love it. Life changing productivity upgrade.

Claude is winning because rich people are providing the training data Poor meta has to train AI with the peasants of the internet Long term this will have fascinating outcomes and personality style differences as people put feedback into the system

I’m sending my 13 year old to an athletic boarding school next year just so he can focus on training with parents out of the equation. The phenomenon you see is not just limited to athletes - parents aren’t letting their adult children function independently. It will harm their professional development.

Flying home with a DI team and I swear half the roster had a parent on the same flight. As we deplaned, parents were right there waiting for their kids as they stepped off. This is wild.

@mcuban I’m a physician and a hospital executive. We simply could not survive the cashflow disruption caused by your suggestion. I agree that your path is far better than the current state but there’s no way to make those changes and survive.

The greatest problem in healthcare ? Hospitals, even market dominant hospitals, won’t walk away from the big ins companies that underpay, late pay, clawback, deny claims, waste their time in denial appeals, and require them to pay up to 8 pct of revenue to RCM consultants so they think they are getting what they are owed. Here is the crazy part. The ins companies ARE NOT THE ONES ACTUALLY PAYING THEM on commercial plans. Employers are. 60 pct of employees get their insurance from their self insured employers. The ins carrier is just a middleman that pretends to add value. All the clinical “value” they add, the hospital could do better, for both medical and pharmacy. Most hospitals have no idea whether they make or lose money with their big ins contracts. They are just afraid to lose patient flow. But. They actually know which companies their patients are coming from. They actually know or can find out, how much more the employers are paying the ins company, than what the ins company pays them (the spread, just like in pharmacy ) And to make it worse, those ins companies negotiate their rates as a discount from the “charge master “, which is like WAC in pharmacy. Just a made up list price. Because the hospitals are afraid or too uninformed to walk away from these deals, the hospitals use the inflated charge master prices as the basis to charge uninsured , or out of network , or insured but not covered for their care, at charge master rates. Which of course the patients can’t afford. And it crushes their finances or they go without care I’ll summarize. Employers , and their members , are paying far more than they should to companies they don’t like working with , that effectively rip off both the employer and hospital , and they could eliminate the middlemen if they went directly to to the employer. It’s so simple. Sell your services to the employers that use your services at a price that is less than what nine companies charge for your services and you will make MORE money and employers will save a ton And if they did this, they could dump the chargemaster and reduce the price they bill patients when they are at their most vulnerable But they don’t want to change. And don’t get me started on how much hospitals over pay for drugs and devices because of the GPO deals they do. It’s just stupid. Which in turn leads to the hospital being a bad actor with 340b , facilities fees and afraid of their doctors who demand they pay more for things like glue and implants so they can get vacations. If you are a politician and reading this. Now you know why this is so fucked up and it’s not about capping rates. The insurance companies are smarter than you. They will just move the money to other places. It’s not about giving money to patients. You can’t shop for care from hospitals that are too gutless to walk away from the ins companies that distort all of healthcare economics Go to your local hospitals , particularly those at risk of closing and ask for their profitability by carrier. Fully burdened. Ask how much they spend on RCM and consultants. In many cases they could survive if they ran like a real business and hired execs that could do the work rather than just manage consultants. They could work out contracts in their communities rather than with ins companies and benefit everyone. The middlemen are not needed. Get rid of them

@Wendi_Irlbeck Don’t forget about sleep! Just as important as nutrition for recovery and growth. So many young athletes are chronically sleep deprived - a cause of poor performance and injury. I’d be incredibly interested to see if Tommy John surgery is correlated to good sleep habits.

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I cannot overstate how harmful lack of sleep is on developing brains and bodies. Especially as it relates to growth and muscle development for athletes. Lack of sleep not only leads to poorer mental performance, but significantly lower physical performance as well.

@AskDrDrew @drdrew Thank you for taking my call. I was able to use the threat from ABD to get legislation passed here in FL to protect doctors in FL from having their licenses or certifications threatened for protected free speech.

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Sounds like @nextlevelbb has a personal beef with a certain JUCO program or a current MLB scout affiliated with the academy. Unsurprised to see Former MLB Scout and Former JUCO recruiting coordinator in his bio. Can add current bridge burner 🔥

Tomorrow is a big day for skin cancer patients. The FDA rules on RP1 - an oncolytic virus therapy for melanoma that’s already failed PD1 inhibitors. A 33% response rate in people who had run out of options. Hope is real!

This is a business in a box. Claude just made it possible to build and deploy AI agents at scale with managed infrastructure. Here's how to sell it: 1. Pick a niche (real estate, e-com, coaching, agencies) 2. Build one agent that solves their #1 repetitive problem 3. Deploy it on Claude's managed platform (they handle the infrastructure) 4. Charge $1,500-3,000 setup + $500/month per client 5. The agent runs 24/7. You maintain it for an hour a month. 10 clients = $5,000/month recurring before you even think about scaling. The "prototype to launch in days" part is key. You can have a client's agent live before the second sales call.

New study finds no relationship between abortion bans and maternal mortality

As a physician I take measles seriously. But the people saying mandates are the answer are the same ones who spent 3 years destroying public trust in health agencies. You don’t rebuild trust with mandates. You rebuilt it with honesty. Start there!

Definitely not #MAHA approved!

@DonaldJTrumpJr @RealDeanCain Is this her confession that killing her sister wasn’t an accident?

You can’t make this shit up.

@liz_churchill10 Somehow the panel that isn’t bought and paid for by big pharma is qualified and the independent doctors on the new panel were uniquely unqualified…

The Vaccine Cartel and the disgraced AAP fights back using an Activist Judge… An Activist Judge believes that he’s the vaccine expert…not HHS RFK Jr. and his chosen ACIP Panel. He’s allowing the Big Pharma AAP Whores to amend their lawsuit 4 TIMES.

The federal judge said RFK Jr.’s ACIP picks were “unqualified.” The panel they replaced? Every single member were bought and paid for by the vaccine makers they were supposed to be evaluating independently. But sure… the problem is the new people. #MAHA #ACIP

@RiedellAndrew Who else in America has rolled off 4 straight top 5 wins with none of those games at home?

You’ve dropped a home nonconference series to High Point and swept by Alabama. Just be happy you’re ranked.

A Reminder that Novak Djokovic was banned longer in Tennis and forced to miss 3 Grand Slams and multiple Masters for not taking a brand new drug, then Jannik Sinner was banned for failing 2 drug tests, Sinner didn't have to miss a single slam. Make of that what you will.

Fixed it!