#UniversalHealthcare

The White House is reportedly weighing a plan for President Trump to issue 250 pardons during the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations this summer, per WSJ

Vice President JD Vance is planning to deliver an ultimatum to all 50 states: fully comply with antifraud statutes or run the risk of losing federal Medicaid funding, per WSJ

Let's do some math that nobody in healthcare policy wants you to do. Nonprofit hospitals receive an estimated $28 billion per year in tax exemptions. Federal, state, local, property, sales. All of it. In exchange, the IRS requires them to provide "community benefit." That term is self-defined. Hospitals count bad debt, Medicaid shortfalls, and medical education as community benefit. In other words, they count the cost of doing business as charity. The median nonprofit hospital spends less on actual charity care than it receives in tax breaks. That's not a nonprofit. That's a tax play with a mission statement.

@KatiePhang greatest stain? It's a very significant stain, no doubt, but slavery, nuclear weapons dropped on Japan, what we've done to the world's environment, and Native Americans genocide aren't in contention?

It’s time to eliminate the Pharmacy Benefit Manager industry. PBMs don’t manufacture prescription drugs. They don’t dispense prescription drugs. They just extract profit from patients. Let me explain.

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 ?

American foods are cleverly changing their names because they no longer qualify as that legal food - Pringles used to be potato chips, now they’re labeled as “potato crisps” per FDA rules - McDonald’s Shakes are now called “shakes” (not legally milkshakes in some states) - Klondike Bar is no longer a chocolate shell, it’s a Chocolatey shell (not real chocolate) - Dairy Queen: All items are “treats” (no “ice cream” on the menu) - Oreo changed the spelling to “creme” (alternative spelling, not real cream) - Tyson changed spelling to “Wyngz” (It’s a processed chicken labeling trick) - Costco Blueberry Bagels labels as Imitation blueberry bagels (no actual blueberries) - Pearl Milling Company Syrup (formerly Aunt Jemima) Now ‘Original syrup’ not maple syrup. The first ingredients is corn syrup Our food is a science experiment Make America Healthy Again

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@JoannaColes it's an ad which mentions pc: youtu.be/gotFktDAdhg?si…

@JoannaColes hope for the future of others beginning to take shape at link. My grandmother had pancreatic cancer in 2001, I still feel it like yesterday. scitechdaily.com/ai-detects-inv…

An American works full time SAVING lives: $32 an hour. After taxes and insurance, she brings home $3,200 a MONTH. Rent, utilities, and childcare eat $2,800 — BEFORE food or basics. This isn’t the cost of living — it’s a system designed to keep you one emergency from collapse.

America health insurance is a scam “So you're telling me I've been paying a $75 co-pay for physical therapy with my insurance, but if I do self-pay, it's $60 a session” Keep in mind, this is on top of monthly premiums The real kicker is if you have health insurance then doctors offices won’t allow you to pay the cheaper cash price The reason for this is, if they let you pay the cheaper cash price the insurance companies will actually remove them from being an in-network provider. They’ll void their contracts It’s a racket

A new Lyme disease vaccine is seeking FDA approval. Pfizer and Valneva, a French specialty vaccine company, say a Lyme disease vaccine they are developing has reduced infections by around 70% in clinical trials compared to placebo shots. The new vaccine differs from most other vaccines, said Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific communicator. “It actually works inside the tick. This vaccine trains our body to make antibodies and when a tick bites us, it drinks our blood, it drinks those antibodies and those antibodies then neutralize the bacteria in the tick's gut, stopping it from ever reaching or getting to you," she said. The big question now: Whether the FDA has enough confidence in the shot to approve it for the general public, Jetelina said. "Regulators like the FDA require a certain level of confidence before approving a vaccine," she said, and the trial just barely cleared the bar on a secondary measure. As a result, more study may be needed. More than 475,000 people are treated for Lyme disease each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The disease generally causes mild flu-like symptoms, but up to 10 percent of cases can also come with neurological and cardiac issues. The latest development from Pfizer and Valneva would mark the first Lyme disease vaccine available for humans since LYMErix was pulled off the market in 2002.

Thank you, Saugatuck. 🙏 This movement will not stop until we get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

American proves Amazon is robbing you The more you look at the price of items, the more the price increases (just like airline tickets were caught doing) She has 2 items she was looking at last night, she left the screen open In the morning she clicks refresh. The price updates and now the same items cost 28% more There were no ending sales to account for the change. This is just a system jacking up prices because you showed interest $45.98 -> $58.98 This is exactly what airlines were caught doing

Today I want to focus on the human side of the prior authorization data we have been discussing this week. On February 11, 2026, the Senate Special Committee on Aging convened a hearing titled "The Doctor is Out: How Washington's Rules Drove Physicians Out of Medicine." Prior authorization was a central topic. Members of both parties and every witness who testified agreed that administrative burden, with prior authorization at the top of the list, is a primary driver of physician burnout and a direct threat to the quality of patient care. The underlying data supports that conclusion. 89% of physicians report that prior authorization often or sometimes leads to delays in patient care. More than one in four physicians say that a prior authorization issue led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care, including hospitalization or permanent damage. A federal investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services found that 13% of Medicare Advantage prior authorization denials were for requests that actually met Medicare's own coverage criteria. For independent practices, this is not an abstract policy problem. These are physicians who have treated the same patients for years, sometimes for decades. When a prior authorization delay holds up a cancer treatment, a surgical procedure, or a skilled nursing placement, the physician on the other end of that denial knows exactly what it means for that specific patient. The peer-to-peer review that follows takes that physician out of the exam room, away from other patients, to argue for care that should not require an argument. Every hour spent on prior authorization administration is an hour that does not go to patient care. Every denial that goes unchallenged because a small practice cannot absorb another round of appeals represents a patient who received less care than they were entitled to. Tomorrow I will outline the specific legislative steps that can address this. The February Senate hearing demonstrated genuine bipartisan interest in reform. The policy solutions exist. What has been missing is the will to move them forward.

An American grabbed a simple meal at Park MGM Las Vegas. Just a bowl of pasta and a water. Then came the bill: $52.95. This is what unchecked corporate greed has done to Vegas.

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“I’m only living to work. There is no enjoyment.” She says both her and her husband work nonstop, yet there’s never enough left over to actually enjoy life. Their paychecks don’t create freedom — they only keep the bills paid. America has turned LIVING into mere survival.