

Dan McCoy, MD
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@docdano
Storyteller + Artificial Intelligence + Healthcare https://t.co/3SikRPHaLN






High hospital prices are the reason your insurance is expensive. They’re the reason you haven’t gotten a raise. They’re almost entirely driven by government policy. We can fix this.







My Claude Code sub expires tomorrow. I barely use it, but I still had it installed on my Windows PC so I used it to debug some crashing earlier. They hard cut me off over 24 hours early.




This is such a clear-eyed breakdown, Mark especially #6 on hospitals having zero clue what procedures actually cost them (that derivative accounting point is brutal). You’re for universal coverage but you’re not sugarcoating the execution nightmare, which makes total sense coming from someone who actually fixed pricing opacity with Cost Plus. Real question: what’s one practical first step you’d take to force real cost transparency across the system before going full M4A?


Insurance companies’ ownership of pharmacies and hospitals is raising consumer costs, but economic competition can counter inflating expenses, according to bipartisan legislation from Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts. “We need more competition. We need protections for patients. We need better and cheaper health care,” Hawley told The Lion in an exclusive interview Thursday. Hawley and Warren reintroduced The Patients Before Monopolies Act last week to counter the monopolized medical field, in step with their second bipartisan bill, The Break Up Big Medicine Act. The Patients Before Monopolies Act prohibits pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen between pharmacies and insurance companies, from owning pharmacies and hospitals, Hawley explained. “What’s happening is more and more of these insurance companies are buying up everything,” Hawley told The Lion. “They’re buying up the pharmacies. They’re buying up the doctor’s offices. They’re buying up the hospitals.” @HawleyMO Read full story: bit.ly/4vglY42








