Husband. Father. Follower of Christ. Emergency Physician. Posts are my own.
Birmingham, AL
Joined August 2011
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The bill has come due, and Americans have paid it in full.
Either the administration lied on the campaign trail or it failed miserably. It doesn’t matter now.
Today, expect excuses and blame instead of accountability.
But none of this was inevitable. It was self-inflicted.
Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
All Republicans had to do was:
1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers
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You don’t have to support universal healthcare to see that insurers have too much power. We fear government control - despite already accepting it through CMS - then let insurers dictate our care and call it the free market. We are headed towards a disaster. May already be there.
The average US family health insurance premium, per KFF’s annual survey:
1999: $6,000
2002: $8,000
2005: $11,000
2008: $13,000
2011: $15,000
2014: $17,000
2017: $19,000
2020: $21,000
2023: $24,000
2026: $28,000
That’s up 387% since 1999, about 6% a year.
Inflation over the same period: about 2.6% a year.
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Say what you will about the motivation and timing. To have a major Republican politician at last simply speaking the truth instead of the relentless sycophantic cheerleading and gaslighting we’ve had shoved down our throats for two years feels like waking up from a fever dream.
Governor DeSantis BLASTS Kristi Noem for bungling mass deportations and turning it into a shit show for her own glory.
DeSantis BLASTS Congressmen like Byron Donalds for making millions on the stock market.
DeSantis BLASTS Alina Habba for getting a $10 million government contract and securing a presidential pardon for her boyfriend.
“If the people in office don't display some civic virtue about public service as a sacrifice. It's not to use the public office for private gain.
I declined the pension in Congress. I declined the health care. I didn't trade the stocks.
And I believe in congressional term limits. I mean, imagine if you went to the American people and actually tried to get that done. That's not right or left. That's something that a lot of people realize.. These guys work for themselves. They should be working for you.”
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The reason I am doing what I am doing now is because of *this* sermon.
It might be the most impactful 2 minutes of preaching I've ever seen — and it changed my entire life.
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For decades, Steve Hatchell has helped turn the NFF’s mission into lasting opportunities for young people. We are proud to announce our president & CEO is a 2026 NFF Gold Medal recipient, the Foundation’s highest honor.
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“Football has opened every door for me that I've ever walked through in my life.”
Former @deltastatefb quarterback and 2016 Campbell Trophy finalist @tsullyMD, now an emergency physician, shares how the game has changed his life. #IPlayed
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The “studies” that led to these numbers are incredibly flawed.
For example, say a patient has a small intracranial hemorrhage from a fall. She’s on eliquis, a blood thinner, because she’s at risk of a stroke.
What does the neurosurgery team do with the eliquis?
Say they hold it. Two days later she has a massive stroke and dies. That would count as a medical error in the aforementioned studies.
Say they don’t hold it. The bleeding in her brain progresses and she dies. That would also count as medical error.
Doctors often walk in to advanced disease processes, many of which have no reliable data on the right course of treatment. Many treatment decisions have a potential for bad outcomes either way.
Sometimes you do surgery and the patient has a complication. Sometimes you don’t do surgery and the disease progresses.
We don’t have a crystal ball.
It’s not like piloting an airplane, unless the pilot was taking over the flight while the plane was on fire, one engine was out, and it was heading straight at a mountain.
Doctors do make errors, and egregious ones should be punished, but these numbers are a joke.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Huberman look up how many Americans die from medical error each year, and the answer floors them both.
ROGAN: “Okay, so medical error is responsible for 251,000 deaths a year.”
HUBERMAN: “Whoa, that’s crazy.”
ROGAN: “Do you understand how insane that is? Imagine if that was Pop-Tarts.”
That number comes from a 2016 Johns Hopkins study published in the BMJ. It estimated medical errors kill 251,454 Americans a year, which makes them the third leading cause of death, behind only heart disease and cancer.
And it gets worse. A 2023 Johns Hopkins and Harvard study found that misdiagnosis alone kills an estimated 371,000 Americans a year and leaves another 424,000 permanently disabled.
If an airline killed that many people, nobody would ever board a plane again.
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How long do We The People keep paying taxes?
Seven properties, a Mercedes G-Wagon, sneakers worn by Kobe Bryant and a Mickey Mantle rookie card worth $1.5 million. All of these things were bought with taxpayer money.
Paul Randall pleaded guilty in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes in the California history – diverting more than $270 million in tax dollars.
Why not just cut federal tax rates now, while Republicans have the House and Senate?
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I’d settle for a flat 10% tax.
If it’s good enough for God, it should be good enough for government.
All insurance, be it health, home, or auto, has become some varying degree of catastrophe coverage.
It is always extremely expensive, yet somehow cheaper, to just pay out of pocket.
92% of American have either delayed or totally abandoned medical care because of how expensive it is, per the Independent.
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