▪️Anyone with a brain should have known that there was probably more to the viral “they’ll stop paying for your anesthesia” memes. It turns out that the left, in their recent demonic rush to defend the murdering of insurance execs, parroted an advocacy group for members who make over $400k/yr over attempts to reign in surprise billing and bring it in line with current Medicare practices.
▪️Anesthesia is among the specialties with the highest proportion of “surprise billing” complaints because patients usually do not choose an anesthesiologist. Attempts to reign in this phenomenon have led to lower costs, particularly lower out-of-network costs.
▪️Because of the collective freakout over this on social media, Blue Cross backed off this, which the left is treating as a victory. And in their next breath will continue to complain about things like surprise billing.
🔹Here are the sources for the community note:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2782816
https://www.cms.gov/files/document/chapter2cptcodes00000-01999final11.pdf
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
