@mcuban That is an important question seeing how the current administration unravel every element of Healthcare in real time.
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@larry_levitt It's the provider cash grab through winning 80% of massive amounts of arbitration cases that is creating a problem. First it was surprise billing and then the response. How about honest billing based on cost of goods?
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The ban on surprise medical bills seemed like it could be a twofer -- protect patients from surprise bills and reduce the prices paid to providers engaging in surprise billing. Patients are being protected, but the price savings haven't been realized.
Peter Sullivan@PeterSullivan4
CBO says that its original estimate that surprise billing law would lower premiums/prices might be wrong Providers are being paid amounts "much higher than expected" thru arbitration It calls for more research cbo.gov/publication/62…
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@SethBorman UH, I was actually pointing to the opposite when I used the term "management heavy" but do go on if you have something worthwhile to add.
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@WAHealthEnroll Adding an additional layer of management on top of hospitals isn't going to be the success story you hope for.
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If we want to drive down cost then how hospitals conduct business will have to be evaluated and possibly changed. Are they over using travel nurses? Are they upcharging private insurance? Are they management heavy? Are patients getting their money's worth?
Larry Levitt@larry_levitt
New federal data shows hospital revenues increased 7.6% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to 2025. Hospitals continue to be the biggest driver of health care cost growth.
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The thing about peasants is eventually they remember where they put their pitchforks and torches.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants. According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet: “These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”
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Those millionaires' second and third yachts didn't pay for themselves. It was the GOP tax cuts for their wealthy donors. The question are we going to let the boomers and Gen X get wiped out when Social Security finally craters?
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute
44% of Americans think Social Security’s shortfall is worse than they thought, according to a recent Cato Institute/YouGov poll. ow.ly/VBbz50ZaHtG
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@PattyMurray Those Epstein taxes on gas are a killer for consumers and cranks up the inflation. Feel bad for the next one as his bad deals will linger like they did before.
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Do my Republican colleagues also "love" inflation? I assume so since they continue to vote to protect Trump's tariffs and to continue Trump's war with Iran.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation numbers that came out this morning? TRUMP: No, I love it. I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over -- do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know? Iran until right now.
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@TopherSpiro Debt Shackles. They used it on Student Loans and now they are going to use it on Healthcare.
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You cannot make this shit up. Trump's solution to the health care affordability crisis: go get a loan from a health insurance company.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care. Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers. Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans. A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies. The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more. nytimes.com/2026/06/11/bus…
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I don't think that we are done with Insurers leaving the marketplace under Trump. We just entered the approval rating for Washington State and I would not be surprised to see some more exit before November 1st. Set your appointments early it is going to be a bumpy ride.
KFF@KFF
Six health insurers have announced that they will exit ACA Marketplaces across 18 states next year. Track which insurers are leaving with our new tool: on.kff.org/4vIzb5x
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This is taking a page out of student loan debt and applying it to Healthcare. This will keep more people trapped under debt forever. Why do you think that student loans were never forgiven by the GOP?
Jesse Ferguson@JesseFFerguson
🚨🚨🚨The Trump administration is secretly setting it up so SICK PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE OUT LOANS FROM THEIR INSURANCE COMPANIES in order to afford the rising costs of health care.
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NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS:
“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt."
nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/…
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@Acyn AOC is falling for the trap of attacking customer service of agents and brokers, who are not an Insurance Company employee. The real fun begins how Insurance companies will turn off channels to restrict access to plans.
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AOC on Medicare Advantage: In theory, agents and brokers work with everyday people enrolling in a plan and are there to help them pick the best plan for their health, right?
That’s how it’s supposed to be set up.
What gets complicated is that agents and brokers are paid by health insurers for enrolling individuals in specific plans.
And so you’re supposed to have agents and brokers talking to your mom or your grandparent, saying, “We’d like to enroll you. We think this plan is what’s best for you.”
But what that person doesn’t know is that UnitedHealthcare is saying, “We’ll give you a vacation if you enroll people in our plan,” or, “We’ll give you a couple of extra hundred dollars if you enroll someone in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, a United plan, or any number of other plans.”
And in your testimony, you stated that agents and brokers received $10 billion in this kind of compensation in 2022 alone, right?
That’s $10 billion in taxpayer money. A lot of it is being funneled through these corporations. And so that is money that is not going to care. It’s going to perks, trips to Boca, and financial incentives for brokers to enroll people out of traditional Medicare and into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans.
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Inflation has overtaken wages for the first time in 3 years.
That means Americans’ incomes are shrinking in real terms, largely because of the Iran war.
My @Morning_Joe Chart.
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@larry_levitt Yeah, they will collapse the system and then point fingers elsewhere.
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I'm going to make a guess now that any further health care changes Republicans propose will be described as going after fraud but will actually go well beyond that.
Peter Sullivan@PeterSullivan4
Scalise says GOP looking at "fraud fund" to go after health care fraud among recon 3.0 payfors Q's tho about how much savings CBO will give to fraud ideas especially if they are operational changes axios.com/2026/06/11/rep…
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Thank you everyone that turned out for a great Pride Night at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium. The AppleSox crushed the Drifters 11 to 1. Talking with the staff, we packed the stands with cheering fans. Weather was great and a perfect night to have made history. applesox.com/news/2026/6/10…
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Yup, Trump loves Inflation. I personally hate it as it means more people are going to struggle harder to put food on the table or get to their jobs this summer. Don't expect things to get better under the GOP. youtube.com/shorts/l7r1xAr…
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We are living in a Scooby Do timeline so be prepared for the sell off. Keep an eye on the triggers like inflation soaring. unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/the-tr…
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@mcuban Yes, the providers increasing prices is a major issue in increasing healthcare cost.
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Has anyone ever met a patient that price shopped for Healthcare , after they met their Max Out of Pocket ? Or after their deductible with a low copay or coinsurance ?
It’s hard enough for patients to price shop for care. After they hit their annual number, why would they ?
On the flip side, why wouldn’t providers raise all prices for people who have hit their number ? Or at least raise all prices late in the year ?
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@mcuban I have been working with Health Insurance for a few years. I have never met anyone willingly shopping for Health Insurance after they meet their out of pocket max. In fact I have seen more than one pay full retail price just because everything else was covered.
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