LarryBenz
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LarryBenz
@PhysicalTherapy
Physical Therapist, Founder of Confluent Health. CEO Dental Care Alliance
I don’t think people realize how much healthcare costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire. It costs them $30k per family, per year for premiums and care. Most of that goes to the massive, vertically integrated insurance companies that send weekly bills that no one reviews in details. And it doesn’t include the company overhead to deal with it all. It’s usually the 2nd largest expense after payroll. Which is insane It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame Healthcare costs. Want to increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for every American ? Break up the biggest insurance companies. Make divest non insurance companies. They don’t need thousands of subsidiaries. That’s how they game and abuse the system and increase costs for all of us. Call your senator and tell them to support the BreakUp Big Medicine Bill by @HawleyMO and @SenWarren.
@Genetics56 Already did in the dismantling article. Media rights for football are 2-3x than aggregate of all conferences right now. Creating competition for all media elevates the number plus now there are more competitors w streaming. Ask NFL and NBA if "the math" works.
Thanks. Agree that many of the proposals need additional vetting and input-but of major importance is the optionality on SBA as it raises revenue for all, a key ingredient. It is obvious when the SEC and media companies are actively campaigning against something that it is the right thing to do!
Did @finebaum ask @GregSankey the size of the budget deficits his athletic departments ran in 2025, especially when excluding student fees, taxpayer money, and tuition dollars diverted to subsidize sports? Are these deficits sustainable? Was he asked about the dire financial straits of those conferences that receive less TV revenue than the @SEC, and how sustainable their financial situations may be? Will these conferences be able to afford to maintain their women’s and Olympic sports? Does he care about the plight of these other conferences and does he care about preserving the institution of college athletics, as a whole? The current financial situation is equally (if not more) threatening as any other issue facing college sports. This is a plain fact.
I need everyone to stop saying Wild West.
More Saving College Sports: 🧵 Three articles. Three structural indictments of how college athletics got here. Article IV is about the people the whole enterprise is supposed to be for. Not the quarterback making $2M. Not the five-star with 40 offers by breakfast.The other 99%. 31% of D-I athletes who entered the transfer portal last year never found a new school at the same level.That's the NCAA's own data.That's 17,000 people per year — scholarship gone, eligibility clock still running, often without a degree. In FBS football? 40% of portal entrants don't land a comparable scholarship. Men's basketball? 2,400 players entered the spring portal. 30-40% found nothing. We didn't build a free market for student-athletes.We built a buyer's market. And the sellers carry all the risk. Article IV: Student. Athlete. In That Order — Or So We Were Told.The reform window is open. Here's what Congress must add to its mandate. Read: app.box.com/s/ctuh2x207ss1…
Notable Congressional news: For the first time, a Republican and Democrat, Sens. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wa), have agreed on legislation to amend the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to permit conferences to pool media rights, their staffs tell @YahooSports.