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Capitalism is the solution in healthcare. But, there is a reason we have anti-trust laws. There are reasons why we have the @FTC We are at a point in time where the big vertically integrated carriers and providers are abusing their market positions. Neither agency has done shit to stop them over the past decade There is a bill, the Break Up Big Medicine Bill from @HawleyMO and @SenWarren. I have talked to democratic senators who have said they will support it if more republican senators do. They want to match 1 dem to 1 rep. Totally dumb shit. So they say nothing. Other than Josh, not a single republican senator I have talked to has the guts to stand up for it. Period. They won’t give a reason. They just won’t do it. If you want less government in healthcare, it can’t happen until these conglomerates are broken up If you want single payer or M4A , it can’t happen until these conglomerates are broken up Quit bitching and call your senator and tell them to grow a spine and support this bill

@darwintojesus Tell you didn't read it without telling me

The lengths people will go to tell themselves God doesn’t exist never ceases to amaze me.

@DrNeilStone 0.18 percent give or take

15 million unvaccinated dead never got their certificate

This may be the song of the summer.

In Oregon? No, AI will not crush the middle class here. The reason: Salem will crush the middle class first.

@drterrysimpson Most importantly he understands the context

Oh and now an anti-vax lawyer is telling a surgeon why we wear a mask - of course, they do know all as they sue vaccine manufactures - scum

@MetamateDaz Yeah, fire that guy and give each of the 380000 people working there the 255 bucks he stole.

The Starbucks CEO made $97 million in 2024. The median Starbucks barista made $14,674. That's a 6,666/1 ratio. a barista would have to have started working 4,643 years before Jesus was born to earn what the CEO made in a single year.

Are you kidding me?!?! Senator @ChristineDrazan and State Rep. @DarceyEdwardsOR tried to pass SB 1573 to stop needle distribution within 2,000 feet of schools and childcare centers… and Democrats killed it in Salem. Now, Multnomah County commissioners suddenly want “guardrails” around syringe programs? So it was “too extreme” when Republicans proposed it, but now county leaders want to lead the charge? The optics game is unreal. They just can’t let the Republicans get a W in a blue county.

The interviewer makes the mistake of calling Spencer Pratt “relatively wealthy” and Spencer GOES OFF.

@DrNeilStone Very creative wording. You are paid if the vaccine is administered.

I make the same amount of money if I recommend a thousand patients to get vaccinated or none at all.

@schticknic @drterrysimpson The cobra effect is real.

@Fr3domSp33ch @drterrysimpson You're a fucking imbecile. Dude explained EXTREMELY CLEARLY how it works, and this is your fucking takeaway. Cuz you're a fucking ideologically driven pos moron. Muted. With prejudice.

This is a fine example of how to turn routine quality metrics into a conspiracy. What he calls a “bribe” is a performance incentive tied to public health benchmarks—the same structure used across medicine for things like cancer screening, blood pressure control, and diabetes management. The goal is not to “pay doctors to inject babies.” The goal is to ensure children actually receive recommended preventive care—care that prevents measles, meningitis, and hospitalizations. In other words, outcomes. If this is corruption, then so is: Paying doctors more when fewer of their patients have uncontrolled diabetes Rewarding clinics that improve cancer screening rates Incentivizing hospitals to reduce infections Apparently, in this worldview, the only ethical system is one where no one is rewarded for doing things that work. But notice the sleight of hand. He lists programs—many of which include patient rewards, population health targets, and broad quality measures—and rebrands them all as “bribes,” as though a pediatrician is twirling a mustache while cashing a check for each syringe. That is not how this works. Pediatricians don’t get rich off vaccines. In many cases, after storage, staffing, and reimbursement headaches, vaccines are barely profitable or even a net burden. What these incentives do is offset the friction of delivering preventive care in a system that otherwise rewards treating disease more than preventing it. And then comes the darker insinuation—that this somehow corrupts the doctor-parent relationship. No. What actually corrupts that relationship is telling parents that decades of data, millions of lives saved, and global consensus are all a façade maintained by a $2,500 bonus. That is not skepticism. That is narrative-building. Yes—question incentives. You should. Yes—ask what benefits your child. You must. But if your argument requires redefining preventing disease as profiteering, then you are no longer analyzing the system—you are attacking the very idea of prevention itself.

@drterrysimpson Uh, that stat cited is literally hospitalizations

Wrong metric. Covid Vaccines weren’t meant to erase waves—they were meant to decouple infection from hospitalization and death. They did.

@drterrysimpson Large trials with an issue rate higher than would normally be acceptable

Ah yes, the Nuremberg Code—dragged in like a stage prop whenever the argument can’t stand on its own. Kelly Victory is making a grave accusation, but it dissolves on contact with reality. The COVID mRNA vaccines were not “experimental” in the conspiratorial sense. They went through large trials and were authorized, then approved, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That is not a secret. That is the standard process. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not violate the Nuremberg Code. That code addresses forced human experimentation without consent. School and workplace vaccine requirements are longstanding public health policy, not war crimes. “Knew the risks” is not a revelation. Of course they did. Every intervention has risks. The question is whether benefits outweigh them. By 2022, the answer was already clear in reduced hospitalizations and deaths. And when Drew Pinsky amplifies this, it is less a contribution to medicine and more the familiar clickbait reflex—turn complexity into outrage and call it insight. If everything is Nuremberg, then nothing is.

@NeilFlochMD High probability this will eventually become a reality

Ok. Please call a robot at 3 am when you have appendicitis. It will be nice to sleep.

@EFF Your move is entirely political and unhelpful.

@subramanipalni @hyderabaddoctor @BradC_84 Take a week or two off, lower volume and check your form. Are you over striding?

@hyderabaddoctor @BradC_84 Im 44, restarted running after a 5yr break. Currently running 6 days/week + 2 leg strengthening sessions. I warm up, stretch, use good shoes, but still getting knee soreness What’s the best way to prevent this? Reduce frequency, adjust volume/ focus on specific strength/mobility?

Unpopular opinion: Most runners are training wrong. If every run you do feels “hard”… you are not training, you are just exhausting yourself. The obsession with speed is overrated. High heart rates, fast paces, screens full of “personal bests"- these look impressive. But physiologically, they are not optimal. The real performance gains come from running slower. ✅Zone 2–3 running improves mitochondrial efficiency (your true endurance engine), lowers resting heart rate, builds a bigger aerobic base and lets you run longer, more consistently, with fewer injuries. 🔴Meanwhile, constantly pushing fast runs spikes fatigue, increases injury risk and plateaus your progress. This is not theory, this is how elite athletes train. 70–80% of their runs are EASY. ✅Hard truth: If you can’t hold a conversation while running, you are probably going too fast for most of your training. Speed feels good, but slow running makes you good. Train your heart and not your ego. Dr Sudhir Kumar @hyderabaddoctor

@AtTheVoidsEdge @DailyMail Hmm, how would you explain gays against groomers?

@DailyMail I am once again reminding you all that anti-gay & -trans “groomer” panic is 5012% a PSYOP to protect the real predators

Professor of Christian 'sexual ethics' at Midwest university, and father of TEN, arrested on counts of rape and sexual battery, including minors trib.al/tREcTjn

@BernieSanders How much does the average 401k drop?

Ok, Jamie: Let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted you’d owe $135 million more in taxes & a family of 4 making $150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you’d still be worth more than $2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me.

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