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Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio

3 days ago

Every family is paying about $30k annually for healthcare they barely use, and that typically comes with a high deductible and out of pocket costs. The median healthcare spend is $500 annually. Now imagine an alternate version. Every American has a tax exempt HSA, but to participate, you must purchase at least a catastrophic insurance plan. If we allowed pre-ACA plans, we are looking at $6000-12000 per year. For the poor, instead of Medicaid or an ACA subsidy, the government just funds their HSA for them. Now every family is putting $15k a year into an HSA. Most people would barely touch that. Maybe use some to pay for a DPC and the occasional lab or prescription. But by retirement, everyone would have $2-5 million saved up. That could pay for all lifetime medical expenses for 95% of Americans. The only people who have to deal with insurance companies are those with catastrophic high cost events (trauma, cancer, etc). The only role government has is as a reinsurance to keep premiums low and help people with pre existing conditions get plans. Or for the truly destitute who burn through their HSA and cannot care for themselves (universal backstop coverage). This would provide truly universal coverage, give money back to patients, simplify healthcare, and make every American richer.

Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit

3 days ago

this always gives me such sticker shock - the average annual health insurance premium for families is nearly $27K now! I updated the numbers for the upcoming Healthcare 101 course (starts July!) - one of the points I try to get across is that most people don't realize how much

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ScienceBlogs @ScienceBlogs

4 days ago

It's 100% junkification, because everything is linked to the same nonsensical selection pressure. It's humanities people who don't understand evolution.

Rob Sica @robsica

5 days ago

"Why evolutionary psychology is comparatively resistant to junkification... Hypotheses must be linked to plausible selection pressures, fitness-relevant outcomes, and mechanistic pathways shaped by natural or sexual selection" share.google/kThwSl4hZ5wCB2…

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5 days ago

You're right about shingles and the rest is just weird alternative nonsense.

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis

6 days ago

"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received

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5 days ago

A mathematician walked by my truck and thought I was working on an equation.

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a week ago

In 100% of clinical trials, the only lifestyle change that works is fewer calories. Like Einstein, energy balance has survived all challenges.

Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes

Five cancers that used to be death sentences. Pancreatic. Glioblastoma. Triple-negative breast. Renal. Melanoma. The median survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer is still 6 months. Glioblastoma, 15 months. Now personalized mRNA vaccines are producing complete remissions in

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Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @GovMLG

2 weeks ago

To every medical resident and physician looking for a place to plant roots: New Mexico is calling. Free child care. Tuition-free college for your kids. And now up to $300,000 in student loan repayment for physicians. We’re working to make New Mexico The best place in America to practice medicine and build a life. Applications for student loan forgiveness open June 1. Link in the first comment. #NewMexico #Physicians #LoanForgiveness #NMHealth

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2 weeks ago

If *how* you take the product impacts the result, the result is not a real effect, it's only epidemiology.

RealClearScience @RCScience

2 weeks ago

"Research shows that garlic affects your lipid health as well as your taste buds. But how you take it plays a big role in how well it works." via @sciencefocus realclearscience.com/2026/05/28/com…

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2 weeks ago

Who's laughing about my degree in theoretical phys ed now???

Colin Wright @SwipeWright

2 weeks ago

This person just got a PhD in human sexuality for a thesis about "How Queer Witches Heal Without Western Psychology" and why "magic" should be a "public health priority." From the abstract: "What can queer pagan liminal healing practices teach therapists and other

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2 weeks ago

Don't tell the anti-science hippies who flipped to the Republican party that everything in the world is made of chemicals. Here are the chemicals in a holistic, free range, certified organic egg. Oh no, the science is killing us!

MAHA Action @MAHA_Action

2 weeks ago

RFK Jr. reveals FDA officials admitted they literally do not know how many chemicals are in the American food supply. “When I came in, I asked FDA, ‘How many chemicals are in our food?’” “They said, ‘We don’t know.’” “‘We don’t have a list of them.’” “It’s somewhere between

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Science 2.0 @science2_0

2 weeks ago

A US company had one ready to test over a decade ago but there's no need in the US and the Obama administration refused to fund it.

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2 weeks ago

Look for a few members of Congress to support Ebola exposure now.

Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport

2 weeks ago

🚨REPORT: White House World Cup task force says Congo’s national team must isolate for 21 days or potentially be denied entry to the USA

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis

3 weeks ago

Tesla reports one major collision every 5.3 million miles with FSD engaged. The US average: one every 660,000 miles. That's approximately 8x SAFER.

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3 weeks ago

Americans can complain about American science uptake but the world leader in philosophical vaccine exemptions remains France. And in one year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe proved it.

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4 weeks ago

"What is the greatest thing in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their female rodents." - Genghis Birb. Most Gen X know the real version of this thanks to "Conan The Barbarian", which premiered on this day in 1982.