Sanjay S. Dhall

Breaking 🚨: The American Medical Association publicly announced it is "GOING TO WAR" with Secretary Kennedy and the HHS. And doctors wonder why trust is collapsing. Families wanted humility. They got a battlefield. Medicine had a chance to choose dialogue, common ground, and transparency. Instead, it chose the same arrogant playbook that destroyed public trust in the first place. Medicine keeps proving it would rather fight for control than sit at the table and help make America healthier. I’m embarrassed for my profession.

Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year. ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.” One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year. Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year. P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’” “The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.” “A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.” “It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.” “Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”

Yes, the veil is being lifted!

Hospital care hit $1.635T in 2024 (31% of total NHE), but that undercounts the real footprint ✨significantly✨ With hospitals & health systems now owning/employing ~47% of U.S. physicians, they control a massive slice of the additional $1.11T in physician & clinical services too - pushing their total influence on healthcare spending well beyond the $1.6T headline. Note that’s just the physicians and clinical services category. They own in every NHE category - that spend is never quantified correctly. Vertical integration changes the math.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Hospitals and health systems control ~49% of the total healthcare spend. It’s enormous.

Yes, the veil is being lifted!

Safetyism works in the airline industry because they have competitive pressure to be fast as well. If they can’t safety turn around a flight faster than their competitors, they go out of business. In healthcare, there’s no competition. Safetyism adds extra steps without and motivation for them to go faster. For example, the pre op time out went from simply verifying the correct patient and correct surgical site, to a minutes long ordeal with team introductions, verifying patient pronouns, the third and fourth confirmation of instruments, etc. And there’s now also a pre-op huddle before the mandatory time out where all that information was reviewed already. So it’s no wonder that operating room turnover times went from 20 minutes to several hours. And when room turnover increases, that means fewer patients get surgery, wait times for procedures balloon, and doctors end up operating into the night instead of going home to their families. All because hospitals simply face no pressure to be efficient.

I try to be a pretty “live and let live” person, but kids ripping 40 MPH through suburban traffic on their e-bikes is terrifying

Thunderstorms are currently forecasted for Trump’s birthday in Washington, DC this Sunday when the UFC fight is set to take place on the White House lawn.

This the basic difference. Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous. Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.

Breaking 🚨: The American Medical Association publicly announced it is "GOING TO WAR" with Secretary Kennedy and the HHS. And doctors wonder why trust is collapsing. Families wanted humility. They got a battlefield. Medicine had a chance to choose dialogue, common ground, and transparency. Instead, it chose the same arrogant playbook that destroyed public trust in the first place. Medicine keeps proving it would rather fight for control than sit at the table and help make America healthier. I’m embarrassed for my profession.

🚨 The healthcare establishment is getting nervous. This week, the American Medical Association elected a new president who has pledged to aggressively oppose many of the reforms being advanced by RFK Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement. Why? Because MAHA isn't protecting the status quo. It's challenging it. For decades, the same institutions, committees, and bureaucracies have controlled healthcare policy while costs soared and chronic disease exploded. Now that Americans are demanding transparency, affordability, prevention, and patient control, the gatekeepers are fighting to protect their turf. That should tell you something. As a founding member of the Great American Health Alliance, I've been working alongside healthcare reform leaders from across the country to advance a patient first healthcare agenda. Our plan expands Health Savings Accounts for all Americans, increases price transparency, lowers prescription drug costs, and allows healthcare dollars to be spent on prevention, fitness, nutrition, wellness services, and other tools that help people stay healthy in the first place. The cheapest healthcare is the healthcare you never need. Instead of rewarding a sick care system, we should be empowering Americans to take ownership of their health and their healthcare dollars. When powerful institutions start pushing back this hard, it's worth asking why. The status quo is working for someone. It just isn't working for the American people. Rhode Island families deserve affordable healthcare, transparent pricing, and a system focused on prevention, not just prescriptions. Rhode Island First. 🇺🇸 — Vic Mellor

Discussing mind boggling administrative incompetence in healthcare.