MacKay Jimeson
@MacKayJimeson
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Meet Rocco. He has Prader Willi Syndrome, a rare condition that results in insatiable hunger, weight gain, cognitive impairment, and other issues. @SpeakerJohnson met with Rocco and his family last week during We The Patients Week hosted by @PatientsRising.
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Thank you @FSUSoccer for you consistently being our best football team over the years!
WAY TO GO @FSUSoccer!!!!
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Not a judgement of the content, but of the delivery. The same people communicating through the same old elitist publications is performative, not persuasive to a skeptical American public. We are in an era of bottom up communication.
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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Why not fund the patient? Obamacare subsidies to health plans made health insurance too expensive and access to care too limited. Time to admit & fix mistakes. The @brian_blase HSA Option out of @ParagonHealth_ is worth a public discussion. https://t.co/T9e8poSOAU
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Allowing Low-Income Americans to Use a Portion of Their ACA Subsidy as a Health Savings Account Contribution
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Refreshing to see governing as a public service vs governing for political theater.
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A group of centrists broke from Democrats, negotiating with Republicans to end the shutdown.
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They include two more shots at budget reconciliation, which, if the party were sensible, it would make entirely about affordability, with (honest) pro-growth tax and healthcare reform and significant spending cuts. @KimStrassel
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After a setback at the polls, Republicans have plenty of excuses but need a plan.
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Some good ideas here. Ultimately government should fund the patient through HSA or voucher rather than giving insurers money. Force the health plans to treat patients like customers and compete for their business.
Wanna help offset the loss of ACA premiums? 1. Require patients pay net price for medications during the deductible phase. 2. Require intercompany expenses of ACA carriers be set to Medicare rates so they can't game the ACA medical loss ratios 3. Require all cash pay
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HHS has the largest budget of any federal agency. How much more government spending is needed to make health insurance and care affordable?
The subsidies go directly from the U.S. Treasury to health insurers. Obamacare caused health insurer stock prices to soar. The Biden COVID credits caused insurer stock prices to soar higher. If the COVID credits are extended, insurer stock prices will likely soar yet again.
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I know companies w tech that force hospital systems to compete for a patients business on certain procedures. Patients have gotten prices lower than the health plan negotiated rates. This isn’t widely known bc corporate healthcare hates transparency, competition, & what they
It sounds absurd on its face, but that’s the system. Insurance companies push higher premiums. Cash prices, almost everywhere, are lower than what insurance negotiates. With insurance, you pay three times: 1. The premium (before you get care), 2. The deductible (before
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Reducing needless bureaucracy is always a win for patients. Next steps: 1. Fix reimbursement to empower patients, not fund corporate healthcare. 2. Clear rules of the road on patents to protect America’s core belief in intellectual property and honor the social contract that
Modern science can prove biosimilars are equivalent without costly, outdated, unnecessary clinical studies. My bill pushed the FDA to follow the evidence—and now they have. This reform cuts costs, not corners. Thanks to @DrMakaryFDA for his leadership in making this reform a
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Connecticut healthcare affordability requires nonprofit hospitals to be givers to the community, not just takers. @ryanfazio ⬇️
And while hospitals like Yale New Haven Health are bringing in the cash without paying any taxes, the working poor in their surrounding communities are declaring medical bankruptcy. How do I know this? Because I have looked at the bankruptcy files of hard working Americans
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The big question is how much government money will it take to make the affordable care act actually affordable?
With newly-released federal data, we estimate ACA insurers are raising benchmark premiums an average of 26%. But, that's frankly not the most important number. The important number is that what ACA enrollees pay will spike by an average of 114% if enhanced tax credits expire.
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It’s important to be intellectually honest. You’re talking about the pandemic-relief enhanced tax credits that were designed by democrats to expire when the pandemic was over. Not the original tax credits that remain in place indefinitely that still don’t protect people from
There are two different KFF numbers about the ACA out there. Both are accurate, but mean different things. 114%: The average increase in out-of-pocket premiums if enhanced tax credits expire. 26%: The average increase in what insurers are charging for benchmark ACA plans.
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Some good points by @DrMakaryFDA here. I like that he is trying to improve transparency of the regulatory process, while safeguarding matters that are truly proprietary and confidential to companies.
If a drug sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The story of @US_FDA drug approvals is more complex than how the Wall Street Journal's editorial page makes it seem. Listen as @DrMakaryFDA explains how pharmaceutical companies sell their sob stories through their lobbyists
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Good time for @AARP to step up and offer bridge loans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.
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Thanks @newyorkbi for hosting a panel on the need for 340B and Charity Care reform at today’s Innovation Summit. Charity care and programs like 340B were supposed to be the safety net. Too often, they aren’t. Families are still being forced to choose between getting care or
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Thank you @CancerSupportHQ for the opportunity to speak at the Inflation Reduction Act Summit. An honor to join leaders focused on keeping patients and caregivers at the center of Medicare negotiations. It’s time to realign incentives so patients are in control of their care
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Allergy parents 👇
Where did the modern-day food and peanut allergy epidemic come from and what should we do? Join us on 10/6 at 10am (online or in person) to discuss root causes and potential solutions. https://t.co/D5VbhwsiZG
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We are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. 1-800-CALL-FBI Digital media tips: https://t.co/K7maX81TjJ
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