Des and Nurses are underpaid. Independent doctors are getting ripped off to the point of barely getting paid after fees The biggest insurance companies are awful for beneficiaries and for employers. One example ? What good is insurance if patients can't afford their deductible?
If you have a deal with the biggest PBMs you are getting ripped off A simple way to realize this is to take both your insurance and PBM contracts and out them in @claudeai and just ask the following "How...
An article from the 90s explaining how in the 1980s, personal computers changed the dynamic of college vs high school workers. College grads learned how to use PCs and grew wages faster Mind you, this was when interest...
No. I’m saying in 10 years , this is how new houses will be built. Less acreage. Less internal square footage. More actual human living space. Far easier to maintain and lower maintenance costs. Less cost to...
Will outdoor AI use cases, particularly when we get to “world view” based AI, overwhelm 5G ? Satellite uplinks ? And make many of those use cases, unusable ? Is the bottleneck going to be bandwidth ?
Congressional advisers call to rein in Medicare Advantage spending amid industry pressure I’ll summarize for you. EVERY SINGLE FAMILY IN THE USA IS PAYING $800 A YEAR to the big insurance companies because taxpayers pay them more than it...
If big pharma sold to big 3 distributors at net prices rather than list prices, patients would save on average 40pct on their specialty and brand medications. This isn't hard. @BernieSanders @HawleyMO @SenTedCruz @SenateGOP @SenWarren @AOC https://t.co/COdRaMJPgq
Don't let your company get ripped off by PBM fees. Paying per employee for services is insane. There are plenty that will charge you per claim and let you manage your own formulary and pay lower costs. ....
No. Companies would understand pricing better and wouldn’t sign up for rapacious health plans that they force their employees into https://t.co/oSzKYa5915
Will today's leading foundational LLMs be the DEC,Cray, Wang, Radio Shack, Sun, Data General, Compaq, etc of tomorrow ? GenAI LLMs want to be the operating systems of today and tomorrow. It's possible they will be the CP/M, DOS,...
How concentrated do you think the wealth generation will be ? What do you see as second order social implications of productivity hyper-acceleration? If we don’t address the issues you anticipate now, before it happens, I don’t know that it’s...
It used to be people laughed at streaming. First it was only low quality audio. The. When video came along it was the size of a postage stamp. Then there wasn’t enough bandwidth to scale. To everyone...
There will be 2 types of companies in the future. Those that are great at AI, and those that used to be in business
How @costplusdrugs would have saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars ! https://t.co/mTdgPM3SyW
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Thank you ! Some thoughts. @costplusdrugs has the ability to manufacture generics here in the USA. Doesn’t matter whether they are OTC or prescription. The ingredients, their cost and the cost to manufacture, are exactly the...
AI geeks. What's the best way to create agents to do this manual work for independent physicians and clinics with BCBS ?
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Many, if not most of the cell and gene therapies are lazered out of plans. You aren't seeing those prices fall. You are seeing some of the companies that released them have to be acquired What is happening is...
No. Scale allows for regulatory capture. You get big enough you can buy enough companies and generate enough profits to set the rules We need efficient markets. There is zero efficiency about healthcare markets.
Curious what healthcare geeks think about the idea of a short-term response to the ACA premium subsidies discussions: put $100 per month into an HSA that can only be used for a Direct Primary Care monthly subscription, and the balance...
Has there even been an effort by independent physicians to create their own network , using a standardized contract , so that any employer can use it nationwide? Each physician would be able to set their own pricing. But...
Nothing says more about an industry than the number of companies in the industry that change their name
The economics of health care are very simple. There are 3 questions: 1. What is the Price 2. Who Pays for It 3. Who Takes the Financial Risk When the Patient Can’t Pay We know that insurance companies don’t...
When 3 vertically integrated insurance companies control 90 pct of every insurance and provider market , what happens then ?
Trust = transparency/self interest
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