maximumbob4real.bsky.social
Mischievous side of a veteran businessman and Healthcare VC. Too many red and blue clients i can't risk offending, so I need to stay anonymous....
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sure, because he's only in it for the attention these days while President Musk does the work
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these endless DC shell games obscure basic facts: medicaid fed cut means states make it up (higher taxes) or hits a mix of: patients (fewer insured, which bites back when they get really sick) and health systems (less $, less choice)
Yes there is waste to cut but its used to hide the realities
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the mistake occurred in 2021-2, it was not taking rising prices seriously enough and developing messages people could understand about causes and actions being aggressively taken
contrast with Trump's stupid tweets, for all his massive faults the man knows how to spin the uninformed
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suprising a guy with Cuban's expertise wouldn't focus on a more obvious and valuable solution: need to make health care more efficient/effective through data/analytics/best practices. just like every other industry; hc is 20 years behind.
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why don't they simply stop the charade and say flat out they don't think they have an obligation to help low income people.
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Donald's hair is the perfect symbol for his administration: a few thin, wispy strands of substance covered with a huge amount of goo to hid the giant bald spot
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they all look and act like they are out of a Peter Pan casting call for the Lost Boys
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You mean Mar-a-Loserville (wasting away again)
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Rubio is going for a world record in the level of self disgrace.
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because he already has brought down prices and ended the Ukrainian war, of course!
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it's code for 'when the white christian men were in charge of everything'
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Problem is: average man on street feels a wrecking ball needs to be applied to 'the system' so many of the complaints falling on deaf ears.
It won't be until damage is done to things they care about that any effective resistance can emerge.
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sorry, this is MT Greene/Bobert level pandering to the base and counterproductive for building a critical mass of consensus.
Let's focus on the illegal defunding of programs that help average Americans, like canceling the free tax filing service, and make R defend it
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MAGA: "America first, he keeps us out of foreign wars"
that is until there is beach front real estate he wants to develop......
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Here comes Gaz-a-Lago, the new ultra luxurious resort on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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Because the knowledge that Cassidy is a doctor adds to his shame for approving a man any doctor knows is unqualified for the position
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don't worry, six months from now he'll announce that he's cured vaccine induced autism
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I used to think he was one of the good ones with a conscience, he voted to impeach Trump. But sadly he's finally sold his soul to avoid political blowback
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well, at least he's qualified for photo ops. and it keeps him away from doing all the things a Sec Def does for which he is not qualified
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better answer: forge a larger alliance. Trump is concurrently playing the same stupid cat-mouse games with EU and UK. Get everyone on one page, tell him to take a hike and invite China to a summit
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Except ideology is dead: the underpinning of the current movement is: 'whatever makes me happy' and 'owning the libs'; any intellectual inconsistencies are simple ignored.
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he's simply teeing up the talking points and story lines for the Fox Fluffers and the rest of right wing media
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Said another way the hallowed motto of Silicon Valley, 'move fast and break things', now applies to plane travel,
What else will President Musk break with life threatening consequences?
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how much can it really cost to reproduce several thousand tweets covered in a pool of obsequious slime?
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sadly, the picture should be amended to include Tuberville and his granddaughter
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yes, but he could never have pulled it off in 'old media' where he'd been fact checked; it only succeeds because on line destroyed that editorial check.
he can say the sky is green and all sorts of outlets would be debating Kelly or Emerald?
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i do a lot of work in SV, they are all modern day 'Calvinists', who believe they are a superior, chosen people whose success and wealth are a confirmation of their greatness
its why they're always after more: it validates their status within the chosen
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yes, ibu irritates stomach, as do nsaids and aspirin; can cause GI bleed, especially at rx strength and with frequent use. tylenol doesn't but causes liver damage, especially with alcohol. its a good reminder to know the risk profile of every medicine, even OTC.
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we cant worry about the maga hard core who want every non white deported. We need to focus on the rest who thought the guy would make life better than Biden, and show the lazy, cruel uncaring man he is. The man played golf yesterday when he could have been clarifying these orders to avoid chaos.
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Occam's Razor, Trump version: when in question, assume stupidity (with a health dose of laziness).
Why Dems aren't on every street corner excoriating Trump for all this chaos and confusion WHEN HE PLAYED GOLF YESTERDAY RATHER THAN CLARIFY THE OREDERS.
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brilliant, so he'll increase the price of drugs (either by tariffs or bc COGS increase with u.s. manuf) - and the biggest payer of those drugs who will pay the multi billion dollar costs increase: the U.S. gov.
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Maybe an actual health care plan is hiding in the cup of the 15th hole
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the fuss over AI is overblown: before it there was a decade of NLP/ML applications, before that armies of mostly offshore nurses
in reality there are legit use cases, MDs order a bunch of wrong stuff. However insurers are blatantly abusing it to shamefully pad profits. but its not a new game.
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no consumer product costs just the sum of its parts, typically COGs is 30-50% of the actual price: there are profits (to reward shareholders for the capital needed to develop and build) and usually a markup for the retailer whose store you buy it from (or the online equivalent)
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To illustrate the folly: commercial entities sell their information to government - no trade secret issues. Its purely the vanity of someone wanting it built 'their way' and the power/career build it creates, then snowing a group of reviewers too uninformed to know alternates exist.
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i'll reply broadly, DM me if you'd like more texture i can't make public
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i've seen NIH up close, even gotten grants; there are a lot of things they fund that don't make sense (and yes, you have to take risks and you should assume some failures). One easy example: they are spending millions building databases when better ones already exist in the private sector.
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I prefer Mar-a-Loserville (wasted away again in....)
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Everyone pretending this is some new thing: with AI they are just updating the NLP models they've been using for years to do the same thing. Heck Innovalon had armies of Philippine nurses doing this for decades
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two things a flawed Trump cant comprehend: empathy and allies
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Personally, i prefer Mar-a-Loserville
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When is the announcement naming a garbage scow after Trump?
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Loss of all this talent is why i cancelled my subscription
no wonder their on line traffic is a fraction of what it was four years ago
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when you have a compliant media, you can live in Wonderland, where the Mad King can simply pretend he's doing things so he can make his tee time and the faithful will never hear that its all a sham.
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The same people whining about 'woke' CA come from states with lower life expectancy, lower avg. income, higher poverty and higher illiteracy. It's the old deflection game to avoid being held accountable for their failures.
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yeah, but we also get to see a bunch of dipsh*ts blame red state politics and climate change deniers for the disasters since that is our new normal in this dysfunctional, unmoderated 'free speech' world.
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but the irony is they pay almost no income tax due to all the creative accounting options in the tax code.
not a VAT fan, but they'd pay a lot more under a consumption tax
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just the latest sign of sad decay at The Post
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or the old adage: 'money buys many things but you can't buy class'