Ok!! Now we’re getting somewhere!

How much more complicated can health care financing get!?! The CBO scored the Medicare for all bills in the house and Senate as winners. Covers everyone costs less and revitalizes our crumbling primary care infrastructure.

Medicaid isn’t a handout; it’s a lifeline that is critical to your patients and your practices. AAFP president Jen Brull joined leaders from AAP, ACP, and ACOG Action with a message to Congress: Primary care matters. Medicaid matters. And our patients’ lives

What is good for patients is good for primary care and vice versa! #Medicaid #PrimaryCare Most (90%) of Medicaid patients are hard-working individuals and expensive means testing is not necessary. Most of the remaining 10% are caregivers or are disabled.

Another legal win for PBM's and ERISA preemption Supreme Court punts on Oklahoma PBM reform ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2…

They might find that $1 trillion in the coffers of for-profit insurance, PBM’s, and the advantage plans along with the unnecessary costs of preventable disease and late inpatient care. This money belongs to we the people. #SinglePayer solves this.

As healthcare systems and insurers consolidate, they begin to expand their power and influence leading to massive increases in middle management. This has led to massive increases in healthcare costs. Cutting physician pay will paradoxically increase the cost of care as it will

This is quite unfortunate, especially for the state of North Carolina. Just when we were starting to see some improvement in access continuity of care and stabilization of critical access hospitals. Most of these cuts won’t be felt until after the next midterms, but we cannot

Clear as mud. How about combining all payers, both public and private, into a uniform risk pool that covers everyone and eliminating expensive and unnecessary means testing. Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF kff.org/tracking-the-m…

Medicaid work requirements explained instagram.com/reel/DKpsQsjSk…

So Your Doctor Is a D.O. Does That Matter? nytimes.com/2025/07/13/wel… via @NYTimes

Firing and intimidating professionals for the job they were hired to do is undemocratic. In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/… via @NYTimes

This hardly seems like a good idea.🤯 nytimes.com/2025/07/17/cli… via @NYTimes

What makes an ER doctor? Ask a clipboard at admin rounds: patients per hour, left-without-being-seen rate, dispo times. Ask a surgical subspecialist—during the day, it’s a smirk. At 2 a.m., it’s “God bless you.” Ask the little girl whose broken arm I just reduced. Or her mom.

As we recognize the ADA National Network 35th anniversary, the AAFP continues to develop resources to enhance care and support physicians and patients with disabilities. The AAFP endorses Institute for Exceptional Care’s National Roadmap for Disability-Inclusive Healthcare. bit.ly/4acqrtI #ADA35

As Congress starts to examine the performance of the Medicare Advantage program, two policy recommendations need to be prioritized - making the MLR for MA plans 90% or greater versus 85% and putting a minimum 15% primary care spend threshold on all plans. And of course, the

PBM would not be able to legally collect these rebates ( which are functionally kickbacks) if GW Bush’s HHS secretary had not extended an exemption to the PBM from the anti kickback statute. Yep, the same companies that are integrated with the big insurance companies and have

Senate Hearing Focuses On the Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group, by Wendell Potter open.substack.com/pub/healthcare…

How about lowering Drug costs while you’re at it.

The sharp end of the law going after profiteering is the only way out of this dilemma. Our wonderful local pharmacy stopped doing prescription refills for this very reason, forcing us to use national retail pharmacies, which is not a great experience.