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@dantypo Because business close during school hours?

Am I the only one who still views minimum wage as gas money for your car and movie tickets for you and your date while you gain work experience in high school or at the bookstore in college? When did it become a career wage?

@GmOrr9000 @mcuban Incorrect. It's Shareholder Value over human rights.

@mcuban Rationing It’s called rationing

Unfortunately one of the great lies of US HC. Ask anyone with a serious illness that has been denied care by an insurance company that subcontracted out the denial process to a company owned by overseas private equity firms. Or how about this one. The heart transplant got approved. But the rejection meds were not. You can’t get care if you cant afford it or if your insurance company denies it. Which is just as bad as your government limiting it for budget reasons. Same issue. Different budget Anyone else got stories like these ?

@johnrgraham @Joseph09123923 @mcuban That literally doesn't work in any modern industrial country in the world. Although I do agree it's so complicated the United States is the last country in the world to figure it out.

@Joseph09123923 @mcuban It needs to go the other direction: Less "insurance" and more patient control of payments and prices directly.

Most insurers aren’t insurers. They are holding companies that arbitrage capitated systems and self insured employers, looking for weaknesses and lack of contract enforcement in state, federal and commercial organizations

@BernieDainton @No_Longer_Me @zackbeauchamp No law has a chance until it gets done. Congress finds a way when they have no way out. Cowards always do.

@avincent78 @No_Longer_Me @zackbeauchamp What chance is there of passing a Constitutional Amendment in today's polarised conditions? An Amendment requires 2/3 agreement in both Houses of Congress plus ratification by 38 states. There hasn't been a successful new Amendment since 1972.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders. But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

@No_Longer_Me @zackbeauchamp That's LITERALLY why you create an Amendment to the Constitution you numb jabroni.

@zackbeauchamp The can literally NOT be a national ban on partisan gerrymandering, for the simple reason that congressional districts are the responsibility of the states, as is written in the US Constitution.

@RichRichg99 @realdocspeaks Prescription Benefits Management. An excel spreadsheet vetos medical providers.

@realdocspeaks PBM?

PBM customers are payers such as insurance companies. How can a PBM work for an insurance company if they are owned by the insurance company? The rebates from the pharmaceutical companies should be discounts and they should be paid to the patient at the pharmacy counter. Insurance companies shouldn’t own PBMs, and PBMs shouldn’t own pharmacies.

@Gaiajourney @kevinmyoung That's an incomplete and oversimplification of ancient Greek for the comfort of contemporary American Christians. The original word is Logos and it doesn't mean "the Word".

@kevinmyoung In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God A word begins with the will to speak, and then sound is created by vibrations, which is basically the Big Bang theory On earth as it is in heaven

Artemis II just sent four humans around the moon, farther from Earth than any human beings in history. And it raised a question most Christians reflexively panic about: WHAT IF THERE IS LIFE OUT THERE? ... What does that do to the Bible? What does it do to Jesus? But I think that's the wrong question entirely. The folks at BioLogos make a compelling case that a robust theology of God as Creator of all things can accommodate extraterrestrial life without crisis, without contradiction, and without abandoning the Gospel. The Bible is remarkably quiet on the subject, and silence is not prohibition. A God who created 93 billion light-years of universe and limited redemptive love to one pale blue dot? That is a very small god. But C.S. Lewis, writing in 1958, wasn't even asking that question. He had already moved past it to something far more unsettling. He wasn't afraid of what might be out there. He was afraid of what we would do to it. "We know what our race does to strangers. Man destroys or enslaves every species he can. Civilized man murders, enslaves, cheats, and corrupts savage man. Even inanimate nature he turns into dust bowls and slag-heaps. There are individuals who don't. But they are not the sort who are likely to be our pioneers in space. Our ambassador to new worlds will be the needy and greedy adventurer or the ruthless technical expert." In Lewis's fictional cosmology, Earth isn't called home. It's called "the Silent Planet," quarantined from the rest of the solar system's intelligent life, not to protect us from what's out there, but to protect what's out there from us. The villains in his Space Trilogy aren't monsters from Mars. They're the two humans who make it there: a physicist consumed by the ideology of expansion at any cost, and a greedy opportunist looking for profit. Sound familiar? We are the aliens to be feared. THAT is the direct application of the Christian doctrine of sin: Our fallenness has a track record. It shows up in every colonial expansion in human history. Every time humanity has met a stranger, the stranger has paid the price. So before we go any further into the cosmos, a few things worth sitting with... *** What is your theology of "the stranger?" Because Lewis's lament connects directly to what the Hebrew Bible calls the ger, the foreigner, the alien in your midst. If your theology of space exploration doesn't connect to your theology of immigration, refugees, and racial justice, that is problematic, because the connection is there and it is not subtle. *** What motivates your excitement about space? Wonder, the sacred pull of curiosity? Or expansion, the always-hungry assumption that more territory and more dominion is the goal? Those two motivations lead to very different futures. *** And honestly... do you think humanity has earned the right to make first contact?

@andruyaps @DemetriusRO6 *the USA has hundreds of thousands of qualified professionals" and yet, they choose to send two people with no authority and no training.

Iran’s lead negotiator Has a PhD from the University of Kent Wrote the book on Iranian diplomacy Spent 30 years at the table Trump sent his son-in-law, A real estate developer, and JD Vance.

@ProLifeBigTex @aknockingmormon @NoFilterSkin The Trial of the Bitter Water documented in the Book of Numbers disagrees with you.

The Mosaic Law of Jealousy, as outlined in the Bible, Torah, Septuagint, Vulgate, Mishnah, and Talmud, had no connection to abortion. It did not address pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, or abortifacients, nor did a guilty verdict cause the death of an unborn child, as the law did not include fetal death. Neither Mosaic Law nor Rabbinic tradition prescribed abortion as a punishment for adultery.

IF YOU BELIEVE LIFE STARTS AT CONCEPTION, CONSIDER THIS: IDENTICAL TWINS CAN SPLIT FROM A SINGLE EMBRYO UP TO DAY 14. SO DID THE ORIGINAL EMBRYO HAVE TWO SOULS? OR DOES THE SECOND SOUL ARRIVE LATE? THE IDEA THAT LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION SOUNDS PROFOUND-UNTIL YOU RECOGNIZE IT AS A THEOLOGICAL ASSUMPTION WITH NO BASIS IN BIOLOGY.

@aknockingmormon @NoFilterSkin Numbers 5:11-31 and Hosea 13:16

@avincent78 @NoFilterSkin Drop the scripture or else youre just talking.

@aknockingmormon @NoFilterSkin The Bible literally provides instructions for an abortion as punishment for adultery and Yahweh murders lots of babies.

@NoFilterSkin If the embryo is growing and healthy, the abortion denies it the right to life, even if you dont believe it has life at conception. That is akin to murder in both morality and the eyes of the law. Everyone has the right to life, even the unborn. Who are you to take that?

@SurfingPikachu1 @BrynnTannehill @ryanburge Eat Shit with your fake question.

@BrynnTannehill @ryanburge Can you even define Fascism in your own words?

Black Protestants hold views on social issues that rival evangelicals. "Acceptance of Transgender People is a Positive Change" Among moderate Black Protestants, 30% agree. It's 29% of moderate evangelicals.

@IAMannabe11e @mcuban @real_doc_speaks Reimbursement doesn't include labor

@mcuban @real_doc_speaks Wouldn't it make sense to price all procedures according to Medicaid reimbursement?

Because the GPOs share costs with the C-suite, they pass on the higher costs to customers. You and I would fire the GPO and negotiate the prices ourselves, and demand discounts and not rebates!

@mcuban Federal Medicare and Medicaid are underfunded by the Federal Government and the difference is supposed to be filled by the States. States with "less taxes conservatives" refuse to fill in the gap.

Most hospitals don't know their costs. Things I've asked for that made them roll their eyes : A BOM for surgeries P&L for each insurance carrier P&L for Medicaid or Medicare business Why do they need consultants for everything. Why doesn't their CSuite know how to do any of it Why do they use GPOs when prices are insane Why do they work with carriers that underpay, late pay, deny everything, waste docs time with denial committees run by 97 yr old pediatricians. Why do they make no effort to sell direct to employers (excluding those on costpluswellness.com to avoid all the carrier abuse , and avoid being sub prime lenders for patient OOP Why do they abuse 340b Why do facilities fees exist Why do they abuse site neutrality Why do they abuse patients with charge master based bills Why do they not push for standard contract templates to reduce admin. Why do they accept so many different ins plans Anyone want to add more And for context, remember I think the biggest insurance companies are worse

@AYMEL69 @mcuban @xVexity @grok how many states are in the United States?

@avincent78 @mcuban @xVexity Ask mommie for you child "thinking cap", and listen. x.com/newstart_2024/…

Why aren’t any of these at risk hospitals publishing their full accounting so everyone can see where they spend their money ? All but one group of hospitals that I have looked at potentially investing in, spend so much on consultants and fees that it’s no wonder they are at risk Plus, I have NEVER seen an industry that is worse than hospitals when it comes to buying medications and items like implants, screws, other devices. They overpay for everything. And then when you show them how to save money, their “supply chain” employees resist any change. They are so set in their ways, it’s a shock more don’t go out of business. Prove me wrong.

@TheChoochNation @AAC0519 @mcuban @xVexity If the non-working lower class was Democrats, Trump would not have won either election. Your troll game is from the 1970s. Such a clown.

@avincent78 @AAC0519 @mcuban @xVexity No, this is 2026 where the American working middle class has lost their healthcare to the non-working lower class, the democrat voter base.

@AngelaBelcamino It's not common sense because it violates the Constitution. The founders of the Constitution did not forget to mention the parents. They agreed that the parents didn't matter.

A common sense Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling: If you have legal presence in the U.S. and your child is born here → citizen. If you’re not here legally → not a citizen. It won’t happen because it’s common sense.

@AYMEL69 @mcuban @xVexity There are 50 States and you just shit the bed over Fox News talking points.

@avincent78 @mcuban @xVexity I just stated facts about fraud in those states, and you threw Putin at me STFU Don Lemon!

@TheChoochNation @AAC0519 @mcuban @xVexity Obamacare? Is this the 1990s? What the fuck decade are you living in? Update your orders robot.

@AAC0519 @mcuban @xVexity The effects of obamacare are getting too real.

@AAC0519 @mcuban @xVexity Incorrect. The Federal Government gives money to the State Governments to distribute. The problem is State governments that are run by "less taxes conservatives".

@mcuban @xVexity The elephant in the room is the federal government. Hospitals are just extensions of insurance companies and governments.