Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks

[quigley 1556]

19 minutes ago, royiv said:

And that’s fair. It was hyperbole on the margin side, but it’s not false that a single health insurance company has the largest profits of any company in the healthcare space. I’m never going to see eye to eye with you on insurance companies. I’ve spent 25+ years battling them and have never dealt with one that worked in good faith. There is a spectrum of super shitty to pretty shitty and, unfortunately the biggest one out there throws its weight around to make things super shitty for provider groups.
 

Getting back to Oz, if he really wants to make a dent he will continue the Biden administration’s program of negotiating drug prices with pharma companies and extend the pricing to the all Americans. That would be a huge benefit.

The other thing is, health insurers NEVER LOSE MONEY. It's like is a utility...but of course it's not.

And you're right about negotiating drug prices. I've commented IRL that I think this is going to be rolled back to because pharma will throw some coins Trumps away.

[StassneyHorn 6573]

Trump joins Kamala and everyone else in the under 50% club. Man date? With men

[quigley 1556]

2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

I am not a huge fan of PA per se and I have personally published peer reviewed research on the topic. Utilization management has a place though. It is part of traditional medicare. It is part of MA. It is part of every socialized medicine system in the world. You are rolling out simple talking points. 

You say you don't like it, but then it's ok cause everyone does it. Spoken like someone that's never had to have care denied or delayed.

And bullshit quoting op-eds written by a FRAUD. OpEd was co-written by the CEO of Kaiser, someone who would directly benefit from expansion of Medicare Advantage. Oz is a snake oil salesman of the highest order. Did you buy his diet pills too?

 

17 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The single biggest obstacle to overcome will always be the lobbyists. 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/industry-rfk-donald-trump-hhs-00189674

And more bullshit. You think the lobbyists are the ones who don't want RFK?  The lobbyists LOVE THE GRIFTERS. The grifters will take their money and do their bidding.

You think you're this contrarian thinker when you're the one who's been blinded.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13507]

The leaked Venmo payment chart from Gaetz to his underage women. Perhaps there are a few adults in there as well. The main spider web on the right is Gaetz’s friend who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of a minor and fraud. 11 years in federal prison.

 

 

[Captainant 27619]

7 hours ago, quigley said:

You say you don't like it, but then it's ok cause everyone does it. Spoken like someone that's never had to have care denied or delayed.

Who do you think is delaying and denying care? Dude lives for that shit to keep profits up and their customers sick and desperate so they don't move to a new """provider"""

[Mo Horn 8817]

I don't get all the stories and outage regrading picks that have been accused of sexual assault. Two and a half weeks ago the majority of Americans picked someone who was actually found civilly liable of sexual assault to be President. If we're gonna have issues with that kind of thing, why didn't we have it before the election. We are a country of fucking idiots. 

[SubliminalHorn 6779]

I can only speak from the rehab side when it comes to Medicare Advantage plans. We are told to keep visits as low as possible for many of the MA plans because of the terrible reimbursement rates. Sometimes as low as $40 per visit. Which is ridiculous. So the patient will get maybe 5 visits or so because the agency is losing money every time they see them. 
 

Some insurance companies like Aetna, will only approve 2-3 visits max. Doesn’t matter what’s going on with the patient. That’s it. The patient is pretty screwed there. Even if they just had a knee replacement. 2-3 visits. But hey, at least their plan might cover some groceries.