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The Medicare DIS-Advantage Plans...
Many seniors are being lured into Medicare Advantage Plans due to the added benefits of hearing, dental, and gym membership coverage. Image
These plans are actually run by private insurers and actually quite profitable for insurance companies with profit margins of 5% or greater (industry average is 4%) khn.org/.../medicare-a…
Further these plans have the added problems of:
1) Narrow Networks - in fact, many of the most prestigious cancer centers in the country are excluded from these plans. Oddly enough 60% of Cancer diagnoses are in Medicare aged individuals... cancer.gov/about.../cause…
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People and Corporations show you who they are... We choose to believe them!

Ohhhh the irony, two of the bad actors (insurance companies and private equity) that are inflating medical costs and harming patients and healers are suing each other and exposing to us all just a
glimpse of the deception/exploitation/greed that these corps have been using to put profits >>> patients.

United is suing Team Health (owned by the private equity Blackstone group) for over coding and thus overcharging patients by $100 million.
Fremont Emergency Medicine (an affiliate of Team Health) is suing United for their gross underpayment of frontline clinicians.

It's likely that to some extent both are true...

Private Equity is harmful to patient care because they often boost their own profits by
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No, no thanks, no gracias, not in a million years, never ever…

No Optum I do not want to be apart of your racketeering swamp of vertical integration.

Let’s talk about some Optum facts:
Optum is now the single largest owner of Physicians.
Optum is a subsidiary of United Health Group.

In Q2 of 2021 UHG made $4.3 billion in profits and $71.3 billion in revenue.

UHG stock share prices have grown 2200% (from $20.02 to $460.47) since Nov 2008.
Two of the main ways UHG makes such massive profits is to deny payments to physicians for services rendered (I hear from physicians everyday that this happens to) and because their PBM OptumRx uses spread pricing to inflate the cost of medications their members purchase
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"The Healthcare System breed passivity and dependence..." ~ Steve Forbes
The main ways that the hospitals and insurance companies do this is to:
1) Hide their prices
2) Make it complex to understand
3) Build rapport to enlist trust in patients that they will be taken care of
However what we see everyday is that these folks use deception, complexity, narrow networks and many more tactics to make it difficult and complex for patients to get any benefit from their health insurance.
Where health insurance is difficult and complex, Medical Cost Sharing
is simple and easy.
You make a monthly contribution, you have an initial unsharable amount, and you can choose any doctor you want! #simple #easy
Check out our website selfdirectedmedical.com for more information about how you too may be able to find your Checkmate
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If #HealthCare positions itself as public priority number one during a #pandemic, then it goes without saying #nurses in fact perform a critical and central role in delivering said #health care. #NursesWeek2021 #NursesWeek #NursesDay #NursesMonth #Nursing #NurseTwitter #Nurse
By not only advocating for #HealthPromotion in general, but by also educating #patients directly and the public at large of the preventive measures necessary to avoid illness and injury, it's not an exaggeration to call #nurses out as #noble..
...or, at the very least their selfless #professional #nursing pursuits can be considered as such. Conjoined with providing actual #MedicalCare AND assisting with #rehabilitation AND providing emotional & psychological #support AND...
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But for every other country on earth, the #UnitedStates is the absolute worst country on earth.
We cherish #liberty but not enough to hang politicians for their every #encroachment on it.

(Remember, according to #ThomasJefferson (and all the natural rights philosophers who preceded him), the purpose of the government is to #securetheseliberties among men.)
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#FinalVote #SaveOregon #HERC #Oregon #Meeting #JoinTogether #teamwork #CivilRights #Pain #medicalcare If you are in Oregon and care about the path Oregon officials have been taking against pain patient rights, PLEASE attend this meeting. This is not just about medicaid. Image
oregon.gov/oha/HPA/DSI-HE…
March 14th HERC Oregon Health Authority public meeting. Chronic Pain Task Force proposal.
Meeting materials: oregon.gov/oha/HPA/DSI-HE…
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