A Ecker retweeted
@SecScottBessent should make this guy be the auditor on these bank jobs. That would be epic!!!
CC: @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @marcorubio @elonmusk
A Ecker retweeted
Vance to Microsoft: you laid off 6,000 Americans and took 6,300 H-1Bs. Your green card pipeline is suspended.
A Ecker retweeted
Dr. Oz says UnitedHealthcare patients in New York City can be charged anywhere from $350 to $3,000 for the same MRI.
And he says this is not unique to one insurer, but part of a broader pricing problem seen across the healthcare system.
Now, he and RFK Jr. are taking action to make those prices far easier for patients to see and compare.
“And if you actually look at the numbers, it’s stunning.”
“In the city that I practiced medicine in for much of my life, New York City, the difference between an MRI scan across UnitedHealthcare insured policies, so just one insurance company, one procedure, $350 to $3,000.”
“On the same island if you’re insured by the same company.”
“The bottom line is our rule is going to empower all these transparency sites in the room today to sync up and deliver a one stop shop for cost comparison using the data that is out there, has always been out there, but has purposely been obfuscated.”
A Ecker retweeted
“Hip replacement in Boston costs $17,900 at one hospital, and at a nearby hospital, it costs $74,000 for the exact same surgery.”
“Researchers have found MRI prices varying as much as ninefold within a single city.”
RFK Jr. says Big Insurance has created a system where Americans can pay wildly different prices for the exact same care while the real cost stays hidden.
“And one analysis found that 60% of insurer negotiated hospital rates were higher than the hospital’s own cash price.”
“The insurance company, who is supposed to be negotiating for all of its members and beating down the price, has actually negotiated a price that is higher than if you just walked into that hospital off the street and asked for that procedure.”
“So the whole system was corrupt.”
“It was crooked.”
“Markets cannot discipline prices that they cannot see.”
A Ecker retweeted
In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸
A Ecker retweeted
Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?
A Ecker retweeted
Americans Should Be Furious After Hearing This
Senator Marco Rubio says Americans “They've worked here their entire lives. They retire. They get $800, $900, a $1,000 a month from Social Security. — Somebody who just got here from Cuba 3 months ago — is given $1,500 a month”
“So imagine if you've been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28 year old, Able body person who just got here.
That's real. That happens. That's happening every day. That makes no sense.”
A Ecker retweeted
My guest today is a woman who looked at the modern food pyramid and said, "Thanks, but I’d rather eat drywall."
@Realalexclark is the host of the hit podcast Culture Apothecary, a driving force behind a fantastic documentary, "Breaking Big Food," and a person currently on a deeply personal crusade to figure out why our breakfast cereal has a longer shelf life than the average car battery.
I wanted to hear from Alex about how Big Food and Big Tobacco sing from the same hymnal, and why your favorite "healthy" snack might actually double as an industrialized adhesive. Please welcome a woman who is bravely trying to save us from our own shopping carts, the wonderfully fired-up Alex Clark. (Honestly, if I can get her out of her shell, this woman is going places...)
Short clip below. Whole conversation here... bit.ly/TWIHI503AlexClark
A Ecker retweeted
Among many huge fails, the Republicans made a disastrous error in declining to make any major reforms in medical insurance. They should have: 1) allowed broad employee opt outs, 2) universalized HSAs, 3) permitted REALY catastrophic-only plans, 4) permitted premiums to adjust down for lower individual risk, and 5) broken the provider cartels.
A Ecker retweeted
Our national debt surpassed $40 trillion, yet very few in Washington are worried about addressing this crisis.
I put forth the Six Penny Plan to make even, across-the-board cuts so we can balance our budget in five years. All it takes is cutting six cents from every $1 the federal government spends.
A Ecker retweeted
Chuck Grassley turns 93 on Thursday & is currently chairing a critical Senate Judiciary Committee hearing... while 84-year-old, severely-disabled Mitch McConnell was wheeled into the Senate yesterday to cast deciding votes. Our system is f*cked up. Term limits, please, at least.
A Ecker retweeted
Thanks bill
NAILED IT: Bill Maher: “Canadian state TV told its reporters, ‘do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks.’ No? Even though the very definition of terrorism is using violence against civilians to pursue ideological goals, what should we call it then? Unruly passengers? A wrong turn taken at the Chrysler Building? Why not just say the planes and the towers got into a fight?”
“I mean, after all, as the BBC advised its reporters, using the word terrorist can be a, ‘barrier rather than an aid to understanding.’ You know what's really a barrier to understanding? Lying.”
A Ecker retweeted
Case Western Reserve University (@cwru) has just filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Assistant Director of Parking
No salary specified
Nobody in Ohio was qualified for this job.
A Ecker retweeted
A recent global test (PISA) found reading, math and science scores at record lows.
Also, just 23% of high school students passed AP tests. But 100% of a charter chain’s kids passed!
NY pols, in bed with Teachers’ unions, are suppressing that.
What the charter does differently:
A Ecker retweeted
In case anyone has forgotten: A US Senator is still MIA.
It's been 89 days since @SenMcConnell has been seen in public.
That makes it 86 days since his hospitalization.
And 34 days since he was released from "rehab" and sent home.
Still no public appearance. What's going on?
