See Elizabeth Warren's 2003 book "The Two-Income Trap" -- a shockingly based analysis of the consequences of married women entering the workforce en masse in the 1970s and 1980s. Concludes everyone is worse off.

Do you know why many #prescriptions are sent to mail order #pharmacies for 100 days, instead of 90 days? And, also why your #insurance will force you to fill at least 90-day supply, even when your #doctor prescribes a 30-day supply and is titrating your dose? Meet Goodheart’s law in Medication Adherence Quality Measure. pcplens.com/p/the-madness-of…

Even NBC in 2016 was sounding the alarm on statins: youtube.com/watch?v=6sWmgtqR…

Except there is the problem of "overtreatment" and when the patient is not paying, which of course in the catastrophic sector they cannot, then we have to be worried about physicians trying to pad their own pockets with unnecessary procedures and patients consenting because, "well, insurance is paying!"

Those alleged "costs" are not real costs. When prices have no meaning and third-parties pay because they are guaranteed the ability to jack up premiums, then we end up with "costs" (which are not real costs) that are out of control. See the two charts below, which appeared in a recent article in JAMA.

Is there a correlation between the CDC lowering the threshold for what is considered "normal" cholesterol in 2004, and the introduction of Medicare Part D via the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003? Part D, of course, covers pharmaceuticals!

What would happen if the government made any mortgage over 15-years ILLEGAL and mandated at least 20% down?

I think we need to move away from the idea of "high deductible" plans. These are the thin edge of the wedge when it comes to insurance still maintaining control over so much of our medical care. After all, every medical interaction must still be "processed" by the insurance company, which is how you know you've "reached your deductible." Second, we typically end up paying the outrageous "list price" for services until we reach our deductible. And, finally, the physicians and other entities must still maintain the outrageous insurance overhead as they will still have to file each interaction as a "pseudo-claim." So, no, insurance should just be limited to catastrophic care, and perhaps a deductible can be attached to that, which would be similar to car insurance.

Where were you when Bidens economy was killing us. Hypocrite! #Congress #Corruption

Big Psychiatry, Big Pharma, and SSRIs in one pic:

This was obvious to any thinking person back in the mid-1990s.

Bravo @RBystrianyk ! This is epidemiology at its best Striking and conclusive Respiratory deaths (I&P, red line) compared to flu vaccine coverage in 65 year old (blue dashed line) 1900 to 2020

With Professor David A. Hyman @GeorgetownLaw & @brianuhlig @GCGFinancial, our article published in @JournalGIM #1. Inexpensive and frequent expenditures are not insurable because the administrative cost of processing these claims outweighs the benefits of pooling the associated risks. #2. Hospitals and insurance companies have an incentive to acquire primary care practices to capture the profit margins generated by referred services. Once insurance coverage is off the table, many of these arrangements will be unwound. Independent physician practices will gain greater autonomy, fostering competition and expanding patient choice. #3. Cash prices are routinely lower than insurer-negotiated prices. Price sensitivity, which has driven down prices for healthcare products and services not covered by insurance, will do the same for primary care. Policymakers should allow catastrophic insurance coverage (low premiums) and broaden Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) eligibility and allow HSAs to receive government subsidies and tax-deductible contributions from employers, organizations, or other individuals. @JHUCarey @JohnsHopkinsSPH @BSPH_HPM

NPR is missing the point. The outrage is not that the patient was inappropriately charged a "co-pay" of $67.07; it's that the 20 minute PCP office visit was billed at $487, of which insurance paid $419.93. Insurance paid out $419.93? Where is that money going? This is precisely why our monthly premiums are so high. And, this is what must be addressed. npr.org/sections/health-shot…

Has anyone considered where all of these "health insurance" premium dollars are going? Does anyone think "health care" merits a $25,000/year premium per family?

There was an old expression from the 1960s, "the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution." The regime will not propose and encourage such a logical plan because that would mean walking back their agenda for total control over reproduction and therefore women. It is the pro-IVF crowd that is leading the way toward total female enslavement. Any woman who undergoes IVF is basically a surrogate for her own baby. And, who even knows if the fertility doctor implanted the right embryo? Imagine transferring reproductive prowess, which until 1978 inhered in the female body, over to third-parties. Brave New World indeed.

There are a couple of points that struck me from this video. The DOJ has filed a complaint against three health insurers for paying illegal kickbacks to insurance brokers to steer profitable patients to their Medicare Advantage plans. This could be a violation of the Anti-kickback law, and that would result in fines, prison time, and exclusion from all Federal Health programs. However, the video shows physicians and not insurance brokers or insurance company executives. There are no physicians charged by the DOJ! The other interesting point is that the solution proposed to the 450 million denials of claims is an AI company. Why should physicians have to hire another middleman to deal with a problem that shouldn't exist? Suppose the denials aren't based on clinical metrics. In that case, the insurance company should be fined, whoever denied the coverage should be imprisoned, and the company should be excluded from all Federal health programs. @DrDiGiorgio @DutchRojas

Actually, costs will only come down if the opposite is in effect: cash at the point of service for things like PCP office visits, lab work, and basic imaging. This way the massive expense associated with insurance overhead for these routine and mundane encounters can be eliminated. For more involved things like surgeries or other big ticket items, then insurance can kick in.

According to the WEF's Nita Farahany, brain sensors embedded in headphones and other devices will soon be monitoring your brain activity. "Things like, are you tired? Are you paying attention? Is your mind wandering? Are you happy or sad?"

Check out Bernie Sanders in 2015 telling the truth about the effect of immigration on the wages of American workers. He actually said this at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. By 2019 Sanders was calling Trump a racist for saying this exact same stuff.

"I've been thinking a lot about the 10 million Americans who lost their homes in the 2008 financial crisis, and how President Obama's first act in office was to give $700 billion to the banks that caused it, including $30 billion in bonuses to the crooks who organized it. And I'm thinking about how those very Americans saw a president pick Wall Street over main street and what they saw this whole week was a President willing to go out there and fight for the forgotten men and women of this heartland and take on the entire international global order for them."