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Vaccines were never “settled science.”

Not in Jenner’s day.
Not in Pasteur’s.
Not today.

But in America, questioning them has become heresy.

That’s not science, it’s religion.

A Dutch thread…🧵
The establishment, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, NIH, and CDC treats vaccines as sacred.

Not delivery mechanisms.
Not tools.
Sacred relics.

In their world, no vaccine should ever be questioned or abandoned.

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But perfection belongs to theology, not medicine.

Athletes fail.
Leaders stumble.
Every human institution corrodes.

The only perfect being ever described is G-d Almighty,
the Alpha and the Omega.

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The dissenters, RFK Jr., independent scientists, and mothers saying “enough”, refuse blind obedience.

They aren’t anti-science.
They’re anti-naïveté.

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Here’s the irony: no one serious is anti-pharma.

Some drugs save lives.
Some vaccines prevent catastrophe. GLP-1s clearly help people lose weight.

But to insist every drug,
every vaccine, always works as promoted by the “scientists”.

Come on, that’s zealotry.

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And yet the propaganda machine keeps selling exactly that.

Doctors are told with a straight face: “No one in history has ever lost weight without a GLP-1.”

It’s absurdity weaponized by repetition.

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Yesterday, RFK Jr. took this fight to the U.S. Senate.

He accused senators of protecting pharma’s profits.

They, flanked by lobbyists,
fired back with outrage.

It wasn’t science on trial, it was the money trail.

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So the real fight isn’t over whether pharma has a role.

Everyone concedes it does.

The fight is over proportion.

How much of life ought to be medicalized?

Where does healing end and empire-building begin?

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Behind it all: money.

Lobbyist money.
Dark money.
Taxpayer money recycled through pharma balance sheets.

Science provides the narrative.

Money provides the script.

8/
Our Founders wouldn’t recognize this republic.

Corruption isn’t the bug in the system,
it is the system.

And most of us would have made the same compromises.

Hindsight makes excellent quarterbacks.

9/
This fight,
about science,
money, and the limits of medicine,
is no longer abstract.

It’s happening in the Senate,
in your exam rooms,
in every policy draft.

The gloves are finally off.

Rojas out.Image

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More from @DutchRojas

Aug 31
My favorite race of the year? The Dutch Grand Prix. 🇳🇱🏎️

But here’s what most people don’t realize:
Formula 1 didn’t just change racing.

It changed how healthcare save lives.
A quick story on how F1 reinvented healthcare 🧵.... Image
🏎️ Telemetry → Remote Patient Monitoring

McLaren’s live car+driver telemetry became NICU + ICU monitoring tech.
The same systems used to win races now keep premature babies alive.

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⏱️ Pit Stops → Safer Surgeries

Ferrari pit crews created the blue print for for surgical handovers in some of the top health systems in the world.

Result?
Errors reduced, lives saved.
All learned from pit stops.

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Aug 27
America’s health insurance cartel is hiding in plain sight.
Eight companies now control OVER HALF the market.

And they’ve turned your premiums into Wall Street gold.

(Thread) 🧵...
Since 2009, the seven public insurers that survived the last crash returned between 93% and 1,076%.

You read that right: 1,076%.

2/ Image
Bookmark this thread.

You’ll need these numbers the next time someone tells you insurance companies are ‘barely scraping by.’

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Aug 17
Free money.
Fake valuations.
Fantasy startups.

Bill Gurley just rang the bell:

The party’s over.
Welcome back to capitalism.

Here’s the macro reset every founder, LP, and partner needs to hear.

And for those of you who run an independent medical practice this is essential knowledge.

A thread… 🧵
Between 2008 and 2021,
capital lost its mind.

Cheap money was everywhere.

The Fed flooded the system,
rates plummeted,
and venture firms raised faster than they could Google “due diligence.”

What followed?
Delusion.

Valuations broke from gravity.
Growth eclipsed margins.

Narratives outpaced actual numbers.

1/
Startups stayed private too long.
Late-stage VCs stopped assessing risk and started crafting mythology.

Founders built oversized teams and called it “strategy.”

Burn wasn’t a problem, it was the pitch.

But public markets didn’t buy the story.

Then the music cut mid-song.

2/
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Aug 14
Warren Buffett just put $1.6 BILLION into UnitedHealth.

Not to fix healthcare.
Not to make it cheaper.

But to profit from the system exactly as it is, broken, bloated, and impossible to escape.

This is anti-American behavior.

1/
2/ UnitedHealth isn’t just an insurer.
It’s a vertical empire:

Insurance
Clinics
Data analytics
Pharmacy benefit management.

They bill everyone… and they bill big.
3/ In a real free market, UnitedHealth’s moat would be a puddle.

But in America’s cartel-like system, it’s a fortress , reinforced by regulation that keeps competitors out.

Thanks @CMSGov @DrOzCMS @SecKennedy
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Aug 10
THE MAGNIFICENT FOLLY OF KNEECAPPING YOUR OWN DOCTORS

Lets call it “An accidental masterclass in bad policy”.

A 🧵….

Riddle me this:

How do you drive up healthcare expenses while making it harder to see a doctor?

Simple.

Just copy U.S. health policy for the past three decades.

It’s the bureaucratic version of setting your own house on fire and congratulating yourself on the warmth.

1/
Step one:

Make it a illegal for doctors to own the tools of their own trade.

The “Anti-Kickback Statute” , it sounds noble, right?

A crusade against corruption.

In reality?

Physicians may not own hospitals.

However,
Hospitals owned by universities, private equity, MBAs, and insurance companies may own everything in sight.

Funny coincidence.

2/
Step two:

Reduce reimbursements into oblivion.

Medicare reimbursements to physicians have dropped about 25% in real terms over the past twenty years.

Meanwhile, hospital and health system facility fees keep climbing like they’ve found a ladder to the moon.

The American Hospital Association and its supporters, academic and large non profit health systems, lobby, aka bribes to lawmakers each and every year.

It’s the equivalent of slashing your chef’s paycheck while raising the price of dinner.

3/
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Jul 26
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BREAKING: The Medicaid-insurer model is collapsing in real time.

Centene: down 61%
Molina: down 55%
Humana: lost $300/share
UnitedHealth: down 46% YTD and under federal investigation

This isn’t just a sell-off.

It’s the end of the myth.

🧵 Let’s go. Image
2/
Centene (CNC):
Down from $80 to $28.
That’s a 61% implosion.

This was Medicaid’s golden goose.

Now?
They’re promising “profitability by 2026.”

Translation:
They were never actually profitable without political cover. Image
2.5/
Bookmark this thread.

Follow @DutchRojas if you’re tired of pretending high premiums are normal.

We don’t just explain the collapse.
We built the replacement.
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