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Free2Care

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A national coalition of over 8 million patients and doctors dedicated to solutions that make healthcare affordable & accessible

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Practicing Physicians of America (@ppa_usa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dutch Rojas , reminds me of when @writttenoffusa via featured our co-founder Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits in a cartoon. We need lots of ethical practicing physicians reshaping the future of medical care! Cartoon by Vic Guiza Here is the whole piece: letsrethinkthis.com/our-newspaper/…

<a href="/DutchRojas/">Dutch Rojas</a> , reminds me of when @writttenoffusa via featured our co-founder <a href="/mass_marion/">Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits</a> in a cartoon. 
We need lots of ethical practicing physicians reshaping the future of medical care! 
Cartoon by <a href="/VicGuiza/">Vic Guiza</a> 
Here is the whole piece: letsrethinkthis.com/our-newspaper/…
Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS (@drdanchoi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some will claim the expensive and consolidated healthcare system we have were unintended consequences of the ACA I’ve said this over and over. After ACA, insurance companies and corporate medicine won big. Physicians and patients lost much. This was all by design Even if this

Dutch Rojas (@dutchrojas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Every Economic Collapse Begins with Price Obscurity In every industry, from finance to energy, price transparency is the cornerstone of market stability. Healthcare is the outlier and the consequences are visible. When no one knows the price, and no one owns the risk, expenses

Dutch Rojas (@dutchrojas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imagine a country where lawyers are forbidden from opening law firms. Or engineers barred from owning firms that build roads. Now imagine that same country insists on calling itself “free.” That’s healthcare in America. Physicians—trained, experienced, and trusted—are banned

Leah Houston MD (@leahhoustonmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When I talk to doctors who want to leave clinical medicine, it’s never that they hate taking care of patients. They LOVE, taking care of patients. It’s the uncompensated administrative burden, and the Orwellian oversight that deters them away from clinical practice. That’s what

Dutch Rojas (@dutchrojas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Of course the American Hospital Association have friends in high places, they spend $30,000,000 a year on political affection. Yes, every year. That’s not lobbying. That’s a subscription. And what does $30 million buy you? A permanent ban on physician-owned hospitals. I mean, why have

Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (@repgregmurphy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Medicare Advantage plans got a 5 % raise today. Yet the Doctors, who are the ones who actually care for the patients GET CUT every year. This is RIDICULOUS. cms.gov/newsroom/fact-…

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So the insurers that run Medicare advantage are getting a raise?   The suits that Dr. Mehmet Oz and Elizabeth Warren agree in this clip that committed fraud by up-coding in the Medicare Advantage space.  Rewarding fraud is no way of reducing waste fraud and abuse  youtu.be/fIX-XjmWNn4 And

So the insurers that run Medicare advantage are getting a raise?   The suits that <a href="/DrOz/">Dr. Mehmet Oz</a> and <a href="/SenWarren/">Elizabeth Warren</a> agree in this clip that committed fraud by up-coding in the Medicare Advantage space. 
Rewarding fraud is no way of reducing waste fraud and abuse
 youtu.be/fIX-XjmWNn4
And
Dutch Rojas (@dutchrojas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CMS just handed MA plans a $25B raise. Independent physicians? Still underpaid. Here’s what they don’t want you to hear:

Real Doc Speaks (@realdocspeaks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rebates are allowed because of a modification of a Medicare fraud and abuse law. The Anti-Kickback Statute was modified to allow a safe harbor for PBMs and GPOs to distort the market. Who the hell thought this was a good idea and would end well? Repeal this exemption now!

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why do we keep paying companies that we all know are profiteering off the backs of the sick? Companies that 60-80% of Americans don't trust. We call them 'insurers", but they are bloated 3rd party middlemen. Employers can fire them and pay direct. Medicare patients can say no to

Why do we keep paying companies that we all know are profiteering off the backs of the sick?
Companies that 60-80% of Americans don't trust. 
We call them 'insurers", but they are bloated 3rd party middlemen.
Employers can fire them and pay direct.
Medicare patients can say no to
Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Paragon Health Institute Free2Care Dr. Mehmet Oz Here's the Centene Board salaries... remember, Centene gets most of it's revenue from it's work in medicaid managed care. Next post will be about how Obstetricians are paid by Medicaid.... www1.salary.com/CENTENE-CORP-E… 3/5 🧵

<a href="/Paragon_Inst/">Paragon Health Institute</a> <a href="/Free2CareHC/">Free2Care</a> <a href="/DrOz/">Dr. Mehmet Oz</a> Here's the Centene Board salaries... remember, Centene gets most of it's revenue from it's work in medicaid managed care. 
Next post will be about how Obstetricians are paid by Medicaid....
www1.salary.com/CENTENE-CORP-E… 3/5 🧵
David Balat (@davidbalathc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The missed opportunity was language moving Congress to start the process of repealing the safe harbor from the anti kickback statute

Leah Houston MD (@leahhoustonmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The US healthcare system is a $4.9 trillion system. 70% of this money is wasted because it goes towards profit-driven mega corporations that are in charge of healthcare rather than patient care. That’s an unacceptable amount of waste, don’t you think?

Dutch Rojas (@dutchrojas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

UnitedHealth just posted its worst trading day in 25 years. This wasn’t a market fluke. It was a reckoning. For years, they bought Medicare Advantage market share by dangling low premiums and minimal out-of-pocket costs. It worked, until they changed the rules. In 2025,

UnitedHealth just posted its worst trading day in 25 years.

This wasn’t a market fluke. 
It was a reckoning.

For years, they bought Medicare Advantage market share by dangling low premiums and minimal out-of-pocket costs. It worked, until they changed the rules.

In 2025,
Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PBM collecting kickbacks legally is a government created problem. It is my understanding that PBM were granted their right to legalized kickbacks in 2003 by the existing HHS, at the time the Secretary was Tommy Thompson.  Thompson went on to join the board of directors at