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Kaiser Permanente’s operating income more than doubles to $495M in Q3: 7 things to know Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente recorded an operating income of $495 million (1.4% operating margin) in the third quarter of 2026, up from $218 million (0.7% margin) during the same period last year, according to its Nov. 6 financial report. hubs.ly/Q04DLCxZ0

You guys have twelve likes in two days on your attempt to dunk on me. I post a photo of tomatoes or flowers I grew — thousands. (I am an authentic gardener) Hat I knit — thousands. (I have real world skills, several). Opinion I have on current affairs — tens of thousands. Which of us is relevant?

As an attorney my advice to @RepThomasMassie: @SecWar isn’t going anywhere. YOU are. SCOTUS rejected Congress bypassing the President to issue binding orders. You can’t impeach Hegseth for defying an order Congress lacked power to issue. Your articles lack legal foundation.

Not just that. But the impeachment articles are about executing "unlawful orders." But who issued these unlawful orders in the first place? President Trump. Why would Senate Republicans vote to remove Hegseth from office, but somehow not President Trump? It doesn't make sense. Not only that, but even establishing a precedent for punishing "unlawful orders" is going to cause mass confusion inside the military and cause security defections.

She never seems to want to talk about health systems (particularly the not-for-profits).

And that is what was encouraged by the ACA! The people were used and tossed aside. The ACA was never for the people, it was for the healthcare industry.

OPINION by John L. Smith: “I’m not sure what Lombardo will do with the time he has left in office. But I know one thing he shouldn’t do, and that’s press ahead with his executive order on AI data center development in the state.” thenevadaindependent.com/art…

If you have private insurance now, you’re not going to like Medicare for All. Your taxes will go up to pay for it. “That’s fine, because I won’t have to pay my private insurance premiums any more!” You might say. But since we already spend too much on Medicare, even with the tax increases, we won’t be able to fund ample high-quality access for all. Low-value utilization will go up. We have two very strong studies that show this. So you’ll be waiting even longer for doctor appointments than you do now. You find out you need cataract surgery or a hip replacement and are told the wait is 6 months to a year. The appointments will be even shorter, the doctors more burned out. It’ll take three visits with an NP before you even get to see a doctor. So you buy private insurance, if you have enough disposable income after the extra taxes. Except now the insurance premium isn’t tax advantaged, so it costs you more than it did previously. In the end, with the increased taxes and higher priced private insurance, you’re paying more for the same care you have now.

🚨 BURCHETT SHUTS IT DOWN: Hakeem Jeffries is a "hard yes" on impeaching Pete Hegseth. Tim Burchett's answer: "It's not going to happen." "On what grounds? You impeach for criminal activity.  What did he do? He FOLLOWED THE PRESIDENT'S ORDERS." Democrats aren't even sworn in yet, and they're already lining up impeachments. Burchett said it best: "That just shows the Democrats' cards for the next couple of years." Impeachment for doing your job. That's the Democrat agenda.