Mac Weninger MD
@MacWeningerMD
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Physician (PM&R). Complex musculoskeletal cases - Diagnostic & interventional ultrasound; Electrodiagnostic Medicine. @WisAlumni
Joined September 2018
What would happen if policymakers simply let physicians build? Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio says it best: “Give us our economic freedom. Get rid of Certificate of Need laws. End the moratorium on physician-owned hospitals. Just let doctors build.” The truth is, physicians don’t
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When the patient doesn’t tolerate EMG, bring out the ultrasound machine.
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A guy just used @AnthropicAI Claude to turn a $195,000 hospital bill into $33,000. Not with a lawyer. Not with a hospital admin insider. With a $20/month Claude Plus subscription. He uploaded the itemized bill. Claude spotted duplicate procedure codes, illegal “double
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Bernie, you must not respect your constituents if you think they'll fall for this. If I may, can we go through a few of the logical fallacies here? You present a list of national life expectancies to conclude that the US should have your version of single payer: Medicare for
Life expectancy: 🇨🇭84.2 🇯🇵84.1 🇸🇪83.4 🇦🇺83.1 🇫🇷83.1 🇧🇪82.5 🇳🇱82 🇨🇦81.7 🇦🇹81.6 🇬🇧81.1 🇩🇪80.6 🇺🇸78.4 There is no reason why the richest country in the history of the world should have a lower life expectancy than every other major country on earth. Medicare for All now.
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Interestingly, a PM&R doctor would make the best personal injury attorney
Age 50 I go to law school. I have a solid 16 years left of medicine, which I do enjoy.
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Age 50 I go to law school. I have a solid 16 years left of medicine, which I do enjoy.
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This isn’t going to doctors or nurses or even big pharma. This is going to hospital administrators and various layers of bureaucracy that actually come between patients and their healthcare. It’s funding 7 figure C suite salaries, Disneyland-like campuses for companies that
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Wow I had a bizarre week. Good thing you can always go fishing!
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Dr Potter I wish you the strength and perseverance to fight back and beat these crooked insurance companies
I’ve been keeping something from you. The way I cope with hard things is by doing the work and putting the pain in a box. But the truth is—since I spoke out against insurance companies, things have been really hard. My practice is struggling. I built a surgery center so I could
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Money is taxed when we are paid. Money is taxed when it's invested. Money is taxed when it's spent. Money is taxed when it's inherited. Property purchased with the taxed money is then taxed again every single year. The Founding Fathers would not support this level of taxation.
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@DutchRojas @dutchrojas is right. The reimbursement for high-risk surgical procedures is unsustainable. That is why 80% of medical students graduating, are employed even in neurosurgery. They can’t survive on their own. As you can see from the example above, Medicare pays a neurosurgeon
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Interested to see how Canada is doing compared to the US in 2028. Will have a major influence on our next presidential election!
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𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵'𝘀 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 $𝟮𝟲.𝟯 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁. Meanwhile, people across the country are rationing insulin, skipping treatments, and crowdfunding basic care because that’s what a “successful” healthcare
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I’m always amazed at how (most) academic surgeons talk about healthcare delivery. The solution is always more integration, more committees, more complexity. They blame “overutilization” for everything—without acknowledging that systemic complexity and institutional sprawl are
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The Democratic Party is a mess. No leadership, no direction / clear vision. Who is going to fix it? Could be me, or it could be you!
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I love the slogan "Make America Healthier Again" And that starts with allowing physicians to own hospitals. We need physician-led care.
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I would like to apologize for a tweet I sent out in 2022. You actually should have bought a house then instead of renting per my suggestion. Fortunately I didn’t listen to my own advice.
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I love the slogan "Make America Healthier Again" And that starts with allowing physicians to own hospitals. We need physician-led care.
But before stepping away, Dr. Oz ended on a message of hope. After exposing the rot and corruption, he looked to the future—with confidence and conviction. Before shaking President Trump’s hand, Dr. Oz delivered a final promise: “Together we’re going make the care better,
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"The most expensive care is bad quality care." That would include non MD/DO ordering unnecessary testing, making wrong diagnosis going down more expensive rabbit holes
After laying out the problem, Dr. Oz turned to the solution—and it’s a heroic one. He says it’s time to tear the mask off Medicare and Medicaid, and finally deliver real reform, real transparency, and real modernization—so Americans actually get the care they want, need, and
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