Thứ Bảy, 5 tháng 7, 2025

Doctors: Do You Still Mask Around Your Patients? How Does That Align With Your Ethical Oath?

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I’m an immunocompromised patient navigating a healthcare system that’s increasingly abandoning masks. And I’m genuinely curious:

👉 Do medical professionals still mask in clinical settings—especially around vulnerable patients?

I know many of you have taken the Hippocratic Oath or similar pledges to prioritize patient well-being, minimize harm, and uphold dignity. But in practice, the absence of masking has felt contradictory to those promises—especially for those of us whose health depends on extra caution.

So I’d love to hear from doctors, nurses, med students, or clinical staff: - What guides your decision around masking today? - Does patient comfort or safety factor in? - How do you reconcile your ethical commitments with current norms?

This isn’t meant to accuse—just to open a respectful dialogue about care, risk, and responsibility. I truly want to understand how you weigh these choices.



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Less people on Medicaid means cheaper healthcare for people who have private health insurance

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We all know the American method of healthcare, crazy expensive for what we’re getting. You ask for an itemized receipt of a hospital stay and you get charged $100 for a bag of IV fluid that costs less than a dollar to make. Want to know why you’re getting charged that much? Because whether you like it or not, hospitals are a business and need to make some sort of profit in order to pay their employees. 58% of hospitals in the US are non profit hospitals, meaning the profit they make, go back into their facility and are not making profit to increase shareholder value. Private insurance carriers get charged crazy rates in order to cover the lack of payment that Medicaid and Medicare provides the hospitals for the exact same service. The problem with the system now is that Medicaid and Medicare are not allowed to negotiate prices with hospitals. Meaning, they set the rate, and they tell the hospitals what they are going to pay, regardless of the actual cost of the service provided. I worked in billing for a number of years and I’ll provide an example of how this works. Simple dental extraction surgery - the cost of the surgery done at a facility needs to go to pay the time of the nurses during the surgery, pre and post op. That’s the time of at a minimum 4 nurses. Then you have to think about the sanitation of the surgery room and all the supplies. Then you have to think about the medication for pain after the surgery and anything they might need during the surgery. Then you have to pay all the admin workers and other workers that do the sanitation. The Medicaid payout for this surgery? $526 dollars. Certainly not how much it cost to do the surgery. We would have to charge private insurance carriers $1500 for the exact same surgery. We can’t charge Medicaid more for the cost of the surgery simply because they won’t pay it, so being a business, that money has to come from somewhere so we charge private insurance carriers 200% more for the same surgery. Ever wonder why it’s so expensive to go to an Emergency Room if you have private health insurance? It’s because 69% of all ER visits are from people who are on Medicaid or who don’t have insurance at all, meaning they can’t pay. It’s illegal (and the moral thing to do) to refuse anyone healthcare because they don’t have insurance, so those patients get a lot of specialized and expensive care, and the hospital sees little to no money from that patient. How do the hospitals make up that difference? By charging private health insurance carriers a higher rate for the same level of care. By reducing the amount of people on Medicaid and Medicare, it allows for hospitals to bill the actual cost to private insurance carriers. Less Medicaid/Medicare patients means more money for the hospitals. When hospitals are actually making the margin required to pay for basic costs, then they don’t have to inflate prices for private insurance carriers. This benefits hospitals because they aren’t having to come up with crazy rates to charge because they are actually getting paid for their services. This benefits hospital employees because more money for the hospitals means better pay and benefits. This benefits patients because their insurance is being charged crazy numbers for the same level of care.
The way to fix our system is to make it easier for people to have private insurance and less reliance on government insurance programs. This is what Obamacare attempted to do, and what should be expanded on in the future



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Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 7, 2025

FAQ for Getting Payment in the CareDx $20.25M Investor Settlement

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Hey guys, if you missed it, CareDx finally submitted the terms of the settlement to the court for final approval. It’s about hiding issues with revenue quality and compliance with Medicare billing rules. They’re already accepting claims, so I decided to share it with you with a little FAQ.

Long story short, in 2021, CareDx promoted growing revenue from its AlloSure test. But soon, it was accused of improper billing and paying kickbacks to doctors. After government investigations and financial problems became public, $CDNA dropped over 75%, and investors filed a lawsuit.

The good news is that $CDNA finally settled $20.25M with investors, and they’re accepting claims. 

So here is a little FAQ for this settlement:      

Q. Who can claim this settlement?

A. Anyone who purchased CareDx, Inc. common stock between April 30, 2020, and November 3, 2022, inclusive, and was damaged thereby.

Q. Do I need to sell/lose my shares to get this settlement?

A. No, if you have purchased the shares during the class period, you are eligible to participate.

Q. How much will my payment be?

A. The final payout amount depends on your specific trades and the number of investors participating in the settlement.

If 100% of investors file their claims - the average payout will be $0.32 per share. Although typically only 25% of investors file claims, in this case, the average recovery will be $1.28 per share.

Q. How long does the payout process take?

A. It typically takes 4 to 9 months after the claim deadline for payouts to be processed, depending on the court and settlement administration.

You can check if you are eligible and file a claim here: https://11th.com/cases/caredx-investor-settlement 



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Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 7, 2025

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