AI is coming for your health.
Health insurers are using AI to decide when patients are discharged from hospitals, whether they get diagnostic tests, or how many weeks of rehab they’re entitled to.
It's all about maximizing profit by minimizing care.
46-50: Senate along party lines defeated Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden's effort to repeal a CMS rule that allows the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new AI-supported prior authorization program, to conduct prior authorization for certain
Republicans just voted to protect Dr. Oz's Medicare prior authorization program that uses AI to deny seniors care. The rollout, which began in January, has been, quote, "horrendous."
One year into the GOP's tax law and billionaires are doing better than ever.
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla reported $315 billion in U.S. profits for 2025 (+30% from 2024) but they paid less than 5% of that in federal corporate income taxes.
@Groundwork @BMO but as i explained before, regardless of the split in wants vs needs, when you zoom out you're faced with the sobering reality that roughly half of the country doesn't have much discretionary income after taxes and expenses anyway, and that it's been this way for decades:
@Groundwork @BMO @econJaredB link to full story
Working families are fed up with surveillance pricing, and policymakers are taking note.
Laws to ban the practice are moving in 24 states, but corporate lobbyists are working overtime to make sure they're riddled with loopholes.
Why do Big Pharma profits reach 76% while our prescription drug costs keep rising?
Alejandro Molina at @groundwork breaks down the structure of the pharmaceutical industry and why these inflated prices are not inevitable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yILLnmTSiQo
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Trump's billionaire tax cut law? Paid for by, in part, students trying to afford an education.
40% of Americans will likely be denied private student loans because they do not meet income and credit score requirements.
@JaneAFlegal & I agree on the overarching goal: to capture AI's "fair share," we need a dedicated grid fund.
But we disagree on how to raise that $$: while @SearchlightInst proposes voluntary contributions from Big Tech, at @Groundwork we think we should tax them, not ask them.
"The Annoyance Economy persists because companies profit from it & because politicians have long treated it as a second-tier issue. It doesn't have to be. It's popular, it's actionable and, frankly, it’s long overdue."
@ChadMaisel & @nealemahoney in @Newsweek.
Headline wholesale prices fell 0.3% in June, largely because energy prices pulled back. But outside of food and energy, wholesale goods prices still climbed 5.1% over the past year.
Businesses face prices (costs) just like consumers do. Today’s wholesale inflation report showed no surprises: business costs are 5.5% higher than a year ago, with relief in June. But that relief was short-lived — the ceasefire is dead, Strait traffic is down ~60%, and energy
Why are essential generic drug shortages becoming so common?
Alejandro Molina at @Groundwork breaks down how generic drug shortages happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yILLnmTSiQo
StubHub operates the world's largest ticket resale marketplace.
But its own financial docs reveal those resale tickets could be coming from a pro scalper with close ties to StubHub — including one run by StubHub's CEO.
Another example of a system rigged against consumers.
