Thread by @A4Horg

⚖️ LEGAL LOOKOUT 1: We’ve read with interest the amicus brief below filed by 24 health policy experts in the @texmed v. @HHSGov lawsuit, as we filed one, too.

Without any further digging, though, we can see off the bat that a majority of the so-called experts who signed

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onto this brief are funded by the #insurance industry.

We respect and cherish the fact that everyone party to a significant #policy debate like this one over #regulatory implementation of the #NoSurprisesAct has a voice.

But, a question to @RonaldKlain, @SecBecerra, and

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@BrooksLaSureCMS: How can you reconcile the fact that the administration’s #regulations rely on these bankrolled academics and experts while also claiming that these regulations help #patients and our #healthcare system? This is an alternative reality.

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Their research, studies, and reports — and indeed this amicus brief — serve only to benefit #BigInsurance. Not to beat a dead horse, but really: the oft-cited research of signatories @LorenAdler and @ben_ippolito, for example, comes from an institute — @SchaefferCenter —

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named and underwritten by the founding chair and CEO of WellPoint, which is now mega insurer @AnthemInc.

Patients, #hospitals, #doctors, and facilities will be crushed under these regulations as written. We would love to see how, if these regulations are not amended —

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by the courts or otherwise — to reflect #Congress’ intent respective to the #IDR, this plays out in #midterms2022.

You claim you’re standing up for communities of color, those less fortunate, and people battling #COVID. These regulations completely contradict that.

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Perhaps you’re thinking these regulations will work in the #metaverse? We’re not sure. Time, once again, for a wake up call.

We found a bright spot in all of this, however. Unlike @zackcooperYale who still refuses to admit how his #SMB work @Yale is wildly conflicted

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with @UHC, kudos to Prof. Andrew Ryan for having the dignity to sign this brief with his "actual" affiliation with @UMich: UnitedHealth Professor of Health Management and Policy. 😅

As Francis Bacon said, "If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."

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