Good Stats For All The Wrong Reasons

Last week my LinkedIn posts reached almost 160,000 impressions. The number is big. The reason is ugly.

The top three were about UnitedHealth raising premiums, cutting benefits, and kicking hundreds of thousands off their plans. Wendell Potter naming names in Congress while showing exactly how prior authorization is engineered to make people give up. And RFK Jr. wanting to scrap the federal panel that decides when doctors should screen for cancer or HIV.

Different topics. Same pattern ➡️ Corporate power flexing. Politicians shrugging. Patients paying the bill with their health.

These posts didn’t take off because I found a clever way to package them. They took off because people are done with the lies. Done with the theater of “debate” while cancer research gets gutted and access to care shrinks.

Look, within the context of this post, I don’t care who you voted for. I care that you can see what’s happening in front of you.

We live in a country that can find $84 billion in Medicare Advantage overpayments for a single company but will argue for years about whether to fund cancer screening.

I’m proud of the reach. But I hate what it says about where we are. That this many people clicked, shared, and commented means they know the rot is real.

The only thing left to figure out is how we use this anger.