Propaganda Alert: Don’t blame insurers for what doctor and hospital cartels did to US health care

(And the Brown-noser of the Year Award goes to...)

from The Hill (H/T T)

The murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has touched off a wave of anger that’s easy to understand. “Deny, delay, depose” comes from the lived experiences of thousands of Americans. But how much does health insurance actually cost us? According to the American Medical Association, it’s just 6 percent of health care spending.  

In other words, if insurers were to donate every cent of profit they made, your health care would become just 3 percent cheaper. 

Health insurance mostly operates as a pass-through to send premiums to health care providers. That 6 percent cost covers insurers’ profits, staff and other expenses needed to manage themselves. They use nearly all of their trillions of dollars in revenue to pay providers....

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Dr. Oz Had Up to Tens of Millions Invested in Companies Involved With CMS

from Common Dreams

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the "former daytime television fixture" who U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reported "up to $56 million in investments in three companies" with direct CMS interests, the watchdog Accountable.US highlighted Friday.

The celebrity heart surgeon is already under fire for his record of peddling "baseless or wrong" health advice and pushing Medicare Advantage (MA)—an alternative to the government-run program administered by private health insurance companies—on The Dr. Oz Show, as well as his stake in UnitedHealth and CVS Health.

The new Accountable.US report—based on disclosures from Oz's unsuccessful 2022 run against U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)—adds to conflict of interest concerns and fears that Oz may thwart the Biden administration's new rule intended to rein in privatized Medicare Advantage plans...

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More Questions Than Answers Surrounding Brian Thompson Shooting Suspect

by Scott Creighton

Looks like I was incorrect when I reported the gun used in the Thompson shooting was one of those WWII-era silenced pistols. Seems like the shooter was cycling the slide of a regular semi-automatic but the problem was, the silencer used did not have a specific spring which helps the gun do that on it's own so he had to do it manually.

 

Gerand Thumb explains.

However, Gerand has a lot of experience and based on what we all saw in the video, he concludes this shooter has experience not only firing weapons like these but also in killing people since it didn't seem to effect the shooter at all. 

That's not the millionaire suspect's history in my understanding of his background.

Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Privatize Medicare and Medicaid (video)

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Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Privatize Medicare and Medicaid https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2024/11/privatize-privatize-privatize-trump.html

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Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Privatize Medicare and Medicaid

by Scott Creighton

Donald Trump has picked TV celebrity Dr. Oz to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in spite of the fact that he 1. has no experience running such a large agency of any kind and 2. he was recently busted shilling a fake weight loss program to his fans.

Of course, to Dr. Oz, that means TIME TO PRIVATIZE those effective programs so BIG BUSINESS can make some glorious money!

'Dr. Oz has weighed in on Medicare policy, helping to write a 2020 opinion column in Forbes arguing for a universal health coverage system, in which every American not covered by Medicaid would be enrolled in a private Medicare Advantage plan. The coverage expansion, the column said, would be financed by an “affordable 20 percent payroll tax,” and would eliminate employer health coverage and the government Medicare program.

That strategy would be far out of the mainstream of conservative health policy. In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris, then a candidate for president, proposed a version of a “Medicare for all” plan with similarities to Dr. Oz’s 2020 idea. Instead of replacing private coverage with a government-run system, as some of her Democratic rivals had done, Ms. Harris called for allowing people to choose between a government Medicare program and plans modeled on Medicare Advantage.' NYT

Finally Medicare Advantage is Being Exposed

And it's about damn time.