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Fellowship-trained, board-certified neurosurgeon. Tweets/views=own. Curator epic #ORplaylist. Fugee ex-X. Follow 4 #healthcarepolicy #medpolicy #advocacy #spinehealth #neurosurgery #spinesurgery #medsky #surgsky. Everything in its right place. 🖖
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There are a number of physicians - look on X, Doximity, or go in the lounge
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Too many educated people I know are elated about this.
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Lindsey’s totally and I mean. completely compromised by something you know who has on him. It’s really quite sad.
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unfortunately. The way I think of it - they want to scrimp and save in all the places people can't fight back. Delaying payments to seniors and others is an easy way to hold onto money. It's exactly what the insurance companies do.
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You can count on it
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Remember the American Bund. The silver shirts. Some of us thank G-d have read history and have not been fooled to seek solace in their poison tentacles. “goose-steeping morons like yourselves should be reading books instead of burning them.”
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#kakistocracy
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Nothing. Fight like hell or we are all lost.
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He’s so fucking beta.
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totally agree - i've said it before - understanding does not mean condoning. Its really really messed up
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That’s not how that works for above reasons.
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It’s a blend of things. It is a physician sometimes but many times the physicians determination in favor of the patient is overridden by the insurer themselves. Also capricious guidelines set by insurers that are followed by reviewed poison the well
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The one where are young people voted for an authoritarian shill and the one where we plutocracy and technocrats take control due to the "price of eggs"
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Ohhhhhh man. That we have to state this…..
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Remember, call the people whose motto was move fast and break. Things are never the people who ended up putting them back together nor take responsibility when things get broken. The worship of technocrats is how we got here.
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💯
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Actually they often use nurses or folks with barely any degree to do that. Some states don’t require the same specialty so you can have a family doc rejecting indications for a neurosurgical procedure.
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It’s high level fuckery to be sure
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G-d please enough of him already
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Agreed. But you really need to direct a conversation at doctors (who also do research) justifying the gutting. I hope you can engage them and understand their very very inverted thought processes. Like with a lot of things that are important, the people who need to read This don’t see it.
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its all a scam. plain and simple. When they try to convince you it will save you money, that's the tell.
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They’re about to creamed by tariffs and countries not taking their products. Pretty doggone great. Idiots.
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wimpy wimpy wimpy
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its a descent into ignorance. Really a new Dark Age. Wonder if that's how it felt 1500 years ago.
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that was done - it was not til I took to Twitter that things moved
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I mean uh yeah
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Now they’re saying they deleted the authorization and we’re back to square one. #insurancecartel #medsky
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Ask @aetnahealthcare.bsky.social why my patient is waiting for her surgery approval and she can’t take care of herself. She did everything they asked and are insisting the “have fourteen days to review”. Her surgery is Friday. They have had her file for a month.
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tilting at windmills.
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Wow. “Free speech except when it’s not speech I like.”
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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.... Isaiah 14:12-14
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And if they are employed, the health system snags that cream and pays their middle management who don't take care of patients at 3AM and break awful news to scared patients and family (ie don't do the caring).
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the sacrificial lamb. Wonder if someone told her she's in charge.
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Well, partially right. MC rates for physicians' services is DOWN by 25% over the past 20 years, while the cost to do business has risen roughly 30%. DME like breast pumps do have a higher profit, and if the doctor is independent/solo chances are they use that money to make payroll. happy to cite
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