Moocao

A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad. What the fight between Anthem and anesthesiologists was really about.

www.vox.com/policy/39003...

Fake news: Doctors are responsible for your healthcare bills.

My take: www.reddit.com/r/Healthcare...

Because Anesthesiologists have $6B in profit and have had their earning power adjusted for inflation! Oh wait...

If Walgreens Sells To Private Equity, Deal May Join Others Under Fire If Walgreens Boots Alliance follows through with a sale to private equity, the company might join other healthcare deals under scrutiny for selling out to such investors.

www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

Walgreens getting bought out by Private Equity, what can go wrong?

My take: www.reddit.com/r/Healthcare...

This is my personal opinion only.

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Cancer Treatment Vaccines - Immunotherapy Cancer treatment vaccines treat cancer by strengthening the body’s natural defenses against the cancer. Learn how cancer treatment vaccines work against cancer, cancers that are treated with them, and...

www.cancer.gov/about-cancer...

I wonder how our newly selected HHS nominee thinks about this vaccine? Since all vaccines are bad?

Sure! I have had the unfortunate pleasure on answering this question several times in the past 3 years 🤣

CVS Adds 4 New Board Members After Activist Push. The Stock Rises. Hedge fund Glenview Capital Management has been advocating for improvements at CVS Health, the pharmacy and healthcare company.

www.barrons.com/articles/cvs...

Because adding Board members REALLY helps the CVS rank and file - forget Aetna bleeding out because of bad population care, or pharmacists needing to unionize to fight "the man" for better working conditions. Adding Hedge Fund managers to the Board is the trick!

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.

www.wired.com/story/new-yo...

AI training logic - if the data is public it is ours to use, but use the AI you need to pay.

The FTC needs to go after this playbook - Data should be considered a public good and regulated. Gating data = bad for competition.

Allina Health dropping Humana Medicare Advantage health plans, impacting 17,000 Minneapolis-based health system becomes the fifth with operations in MN to say it’s going out-of-network with Humana for 2025.

www.startribune.com/allina-healt...

How is that healthcare privatization coming along? Any "efficiency of scale" coming along?

Those healthcare insurance companies who do not embrace AI for the intent of preventative care will eventually be eliminated - unless Dr. Oz disagrees because of $$$.

Why CVS Sucks Now — And Is Getting Worse YouTube video by More Perfect Union

www.youtube.com/watch?v=woAC...

Corporate Values Slavery - because creating Pharmacy Desert is a business life goal.

CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna sue to block FTC case over insulin prices The complaint is the latest move in a bitter legal fight between the U.S.'s three largest so-called pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, and the FTC.

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/c...

I guess they don't like it when the government does arbitration. Check ANY TOS to us "folks" and somehow the arbitration clauses come into play, must be nice to have big lawyers arguing about "due process" when the case is about LITERAL PRICE GAUGING OF US CITZENS.

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

In-depth reporting from @propublica.org on Minnesota-based United Healthcare. Reporter Annie Waldman will be on Morning Edition tomorrow to talk about.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

www.npr.org/2024/10/16/n...

Consolidation via M&A really worked! Pharmacy deserts by 2026!

Emergency physicians go unpaid at California hospital ED physicians at Seton Medical Center in Daly City have gone unpaid due to contractor NES Health

www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/emer...

Any ER physicians familiar with the NES situation? This is worth discussion.

Dr. Oz Could Lead Medicare And Medicaid—Here’s How Trump May Change The Programs Trump named Dr. Oz to lead the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid—as his team reportedly eyes cuts to Medicaid.

www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Peak Privatization incoming. Game knows game.

time to setup our 2nd social media shop!