Nicholas Armstrong🇺🇸
@Nickstrong901
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Health and Human Services Advisor to @SarahHuckabee | Former healthcare analyst @tppf | Memphis Tiger Fan | @SouthernMiss HIS & ECO alum 🇺🇸
Joined March 2023
🧵THREAD: Are nonprofit hospitals really doing more charity care than for-profits in Texas? Even lawmakers are asking. Here’s what went down in a recent hearing—and what the data shows. 👇
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We closed state offices so families could spend time together at Christmas. Some people objected, and told us we had to strip the holiday of its meaning - the birth of Christ. We declined.
NO APOLOGIES: Gov. Sanders rejects Freedom From Religion Foundation's demand to undo Christmas office closure, saying her faith-centered message doesn't alienate non-Christians but makes 'diverse religious communities feel seen and heard.'
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Thanks to @TomOliverson passing HB 2002 in Texas, patients are able to apply cash payment for a service to their deductible. Strong advocates like: @josharchambault
@taliff5
@CharlesTXPolicy
@InstituteCicero
@CSexton25 Should also be commended for their multi-state work
Texas and Tennessee and I believe Indiana and two other states as well , have laws that require insurers to apply cash pay to deductibles when you present them with the bills
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Agree
I went off on the healthcare system. Let me know if you agree or disagree
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Aww yes… what a noble “community benefit” and way to justify your multi-million dollar tax exemptions by bidding for naming rights of a stadium and securing luxury box seats for your c-suite to enjoy games.
12 physicians created an entire, brand new, hospital - specializing in breast cancer - for less than this not-for-profit hospital is spending on the NAMING RIGHTS of a college basketball stadium. How do you think OLOL is paying for it? The Keebler Elves of healthcare? It’s
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.@StephenM to Memphis Police: "The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is the United States of America — and all that bullshit is DONE. It's over. It's finished." 🔥
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Uh, the democrats used the filibuster to shut the government down because they didn’t want to extend the temporary ACA subsidies that they wrote to be temporary when they passed them as a Covid relief measure. Healthcare will be fine if they “blink.”
The government has shut down. This is a huge gamble for the Democrats in the fight to protect healthcare. Who's going to blink?
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Let's unpack the claim that the Democratic CR would expand federal health care subsidies for unauthorized immigrants and non-U.S. citizens. These claims are correct. Undoing the One Big Beautiful Bill would increase federal Medicaid and ACA payments to those individuals. 🧵
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In May, President Donald Trump signed an EO to combat high drug prices. The president is correct to seek to lower drug prices, as the U.S. has the world’s highest drug prices compared to other developed countries. The President should also consider reforming the 340B Program.
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Nonprofit hospitals do provide more charity care in Texas, but barely, and the difference is marginal, despite the huge tax breaks they receive. For-profit hospitals pay property, income, and sales tax. Nonprofits do not. Yet, you would expect NP hospitals to provide more
Nonprofit hospitals were meant to serve the poor — but today they give a smaller percentage of charity care than for-profit hospitals. At the same time they're costing taxpayers $37B a year. Half of that would go to state and local budgets that are already getting squeezed.
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When I was an intern at @Heritage, I used to sit in @RealEJAntoni office and pester him with questions about economics and history. He was gracious enough to entertain my questions and is one of the most incredible individuals I have met. Congrats on your nomination!
Donald J. Trump Truth Social 08.11.25 06:39 PM EST
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The world could use more Cajun wisdom
I believe in the adage, "Trust in God, but tie up your camel." President Biden apparently doesn't—and discouraged states from checking the income eligibility of people on their Medicaid rolls. The One Big Beautiful Bill stops fraud and saves Medicaid for the folks who need it.
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With $1T in Medicaid cuts, Texas can lean on its private safety net to ensure Texans who lose coverage still get care. Texas should strengthen its charity care disclosure requirements to ensure Texans have access to this vital support. #txlege Thank you to @JoinYoungVoices
While the media focuses on healthcare coverage changes in the OBBB, there stands another question: what safety nets exist for the uninsured? One of those safety nets is "charity care" from nonprofit hospitals - and, sadly, it's in dire need of reform. https://t.co/P0KYddxzdg
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Just Out: Updated version of the "Chart of the Century" with data through June 2025. It should be noted that the consumer goods that have become more and more affordable over time -- e.g., cars, household furnishings, clothing, toys and TVs -- are either imported or subject to
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