American Healthcare continues to go backward
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Mother Jones = Newsmax
That article is propaganda crap.
I'm not a fan of most of the changes at HHS/FDA, but they are absolutely right on this. Black box warning overuse harms doctors and patients probably to the benefit of trial lawyers.
If you want to hear what he said and not a BS smear, watch the video at this link. He talked about nuance and individual decisions. That article is BS and exactly what is wrong with our country, just on the liberal side instead of the conservative side this time.
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I almost put a disclaimer on it because Mother Jones. I tend to try to stray from them and Newsmax because they are left and right extreme, but then peddling this was too far out to ignore
I like Mark Cuban far more than Trump, but his response seems self-interested and ironically dumber than what he’s criticizing.
If changing the law, just make the penalty 85–100% if HSA money isn’t used for health care. And if someone prefers to save HSA funds and pay for care with other money—or simply make lifestyle changes and need less care—what’s the problem? It is OK if an insurance VP makes $5 mill a year but a healthy American with a little extra cash in the HSA is a huge problem?
The flaw in his idea that funds “must go directly toward necessary medical care” is that some Americans tend to define “necessary” as everything they can get covered. We need skin in the game to make better decisions. Replace insurers with another centralized payer and it’ll be the same story—another group profiting off free money. If government runs it, politicians will funnel funds to donors and allies.
It’s not a full fix, but it’s a potential improvement worth hearing out. I’d gladly be responsible for my own health costs with low-cost catastrophic coverage. I’ve never needed major care, so insurers would have profited from me. Chronic patients, of course, would need a different model.
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