Eli
@elirushbanks.bsky.social
Hi, I’m the General Counsel and Policy Director at Dollar For. I write about medical debt, health policy, and consumer protection.
The only bad part about re-watching the first 5 seasons of Lost is you have to re-watch the 6th season of Lost.
February 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The only bad part about re-watching the first 5 seasons of Lost is you have to re-watch the 6th season of Lost.
Weird energy in DC right now
January 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Weird energy in DC right now
PSA for my California buds, it is illegal under state law for medical debt to appear on your credit reports as of Jan 1. If you're a Californian and you see medical debt on your credit report you can and should demand it be removed. #consumerlaw #healthpolicy
January 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PSA for my California buds, it is illegal under state law for medical debt to appear on your credit reports as of Jan 1. If you're a Californian and you see medical debt on your credit report you can and should demand it be removed. #consumerlaw #healthpolicy
The CFPB announced a rule today to ban medical debt on credit reports. This is good, common sense, data-driven policy. These are facts...
January 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The CFPB announced a rule today to ban medical debt on credit reports. This is good, common sense, data-driven policy. These are facts...
If you only read one article for the rest of the year it should be what Michael Moore wrote after former United Health CEO, Brian Thompson was killed.
www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifest...
www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifest...
December 17, 2024 at 1:16 AM
If you only read one article for the rest of the year it should be what Michael Moore wrote after former United Health CEO, Brian Thompson was killed.
www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifest...
www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifest...
Medical debt has little bearing on credit worthiness. It's crazy this is even a debate.
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Warnock pushes to finalize plan blocking medical debt from credit reports • Georgia Recorder
Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is pressing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to finalize a change that would keep most medical debt off credit reports. Warnock joined Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown...
georgiarecorder.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Medical debt has little bearing on credit worthiness. It's crazy this is even a debate.
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georgiarecorder.com/briefs/warno...
"Operating margin" is a misleading metric as it ignores significant revenue like investment/endowment returns, donations, etc. Nonprofit hospitals use it to look poor...but even their operating margin profitable now. #healthpolicy
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Not-for-profit hospital outlook upgraded to neutral
The sector has seen improved operating margins while the escalation of labor expenses has slowed, says Fitch.
www.healthcarefinancenews.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
"Operating margin" is a misleading metric as it ignores significant revenue like investment/endowment returns, donations, etc. Nonprofit hospitals use it to look poor...but even their operating margin profitable now. #healthpolicy
www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/not-pro...
www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/not-pro...
Well, if Eric Adams says it...it must be true...
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NYC mayor says suspect identified in UnitedHealth executive's murder, NY Post reports
Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing UnitedHealth UNH.N executive Brian Thompson and are closing in on him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was quoted as saying on Saturday by the New York Post.
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Well, if Eric Adams says it...it must be true...
www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc...
www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc...
Hospitals are keeping drug discounts intended to lower costs for patients...OMG this is shocking! (said nobody who follows #healthpolicy or #consumerlaw)
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New 340B report from Minnesota exposes steep hospital markups on medicines, patient benefits remain unclear
A new 340B transparency report from the Minnesota Department of Health reveals stark inequities in how Minnesota hospitals, health care providers, and ultimately patients benefit from the thirty-year-...
phrma.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Hospitals are keeping drug discounts intended to lower costs for patients...OMG this is shocking! (said nobody who follows #healthpolicy or #consumerlaw)
phrma.org/Blog/New-340...
phrma.org/Blog/New-340...
Standing offer: I'll put a swab in your kid's nose for half this.
#healthpolicy #consumerprotection #wtfareweevendoing
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#healthpolicy #consumerprotection #wtfareweevendoing
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A toddler got a nasal swab test but left before seeing a doctor. The bill was $445.
Ryan Wettstein Nauman was inconsolable one evening last December. After being put down for bed, the 3-year-old from Peoria, Illinois, just kept crying and crying and crying, and nothing would calm her...
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December 1, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Standing offer: I'll put a swab in your kid's nose for half this.
#healthpolicy #consumerprotection #wtfareweevendoing
www.news-medical.net/news/2024112...
#healthpolicy #consumerprotection #wtfareweevendoing
www.news-medical.net/news/2024112...
#healthpolicy and #consumerlaw I’m starting to think we could fix healthcare with single law:
“It shall be a violation of this chapter to bill anyone as if you’re a total piece of sh$t.”
healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/medi...
“It shall be a violation of this chapter to bill anyone as if you’re a total piece of sh$t.”
healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/medi...
Medicare Advantage Costs Taxpayers 22% More Per Enrollee. Here’s How Payment Reform Could Help Close The Gap.
The overpayment of plans, amounting to $83 billion per year, is unsustainable. The Medicare Advantage payment system needs a broad reform that aligns insurers’ incentives with the needs of benefici…
healthpolicy.usc.edu
November 30, 2024 at 6:16 PM
#healthpolicy and #consumerlaw I’m starting to think we could fix healthcare with single law:
“It shall be a violation of this chapter to bill anyone as if you’re a total piece of sh$t.”
healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/medi...
“It shall be a violation of this chapter to bill anyone as if you’re a total piece of sh$t.”
healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/medi...
Hospitals need to realize they are not as good at charity care administration as they think.
Jordan’s case was not unique. I’m glad we were able to help, but thousands of others are unfairly denied charity care or never learn about it in the first place.
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Jordan’s case was not unique. I’m glad we were able to help, but thousands of others are unfairly denied charity care or never learn about it in the first place.
www.aol.com/news/ticking...
‘Ticking time bomb’: NC woman wanted to recover after hospital visit. Then came the bills.
Even when nonprofit hospitals reduce prices, paying bills is not always within reach for North Carolinians with low incomes.
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November 29, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Hospitals need to realize they are not as good at charity care administration as they think.
Jordan’s case was not unique. I’m glad we were able to help, but thousands of others are unfairly denied charity care or never learn about it in the first place.
www.aol.com/news/ticking...
Jordan’s case was not unique. I’m glad we were able to help, but thousands of others are unfairly denied charity care or never learn about it in the first place.
www.aol.com/news/ticking...
The CFPB provides an objectively incredible return on our collective investment. #consumerlaw #cfpb #consumerprotection #healthpolicy
What we pay vs. what we get
What we pay vs. what we get
November 29, 2024 at 1:16 AM
The CFPB provides an objectively incredible return on our collective investment. #consumerlaw #cfpb #consumerprotection #healthpolicy
What we pay vs. what we get
What we pay vs. what we get
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The CFPB is super popular. They've given 195 million consumers abused by finance companies $19.6 BILLION in actual dollars, principal reductions, canceled debts and similar. It took another $5 BILLION from companies that broke the law. "Terrorizing financial institutions" WHO BREAK THE LAW indeed.
Elon Musk called Wednesday for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the nation’s most powerful watchdog agencies, signaling it could be scrapped as part of a planned review of government spending ordered by President-elect Donald Trump.
Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ federal financial watchdog as ‘DOGE’ begins work
“Delete CFPB,” the billionaire tech executive running the “Department of Government Efficiency” said in an early-morning post on X.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:28 PM
The CFPB is super popular. They've given 195 million consumers abused by finance companies $19.6 BILLION in actual dollars, principal reductions, canceled debts and similar. It took another $5 BILLION from companies that broke the law. "Terrorizing financial institutions" WHO BREAK THE LAW indeed.
88% of Democrats and 78% of Republicans support the CFPB’s proposed rule to ban medical debt on credit reports. This is wildly bipartisan stuff.
#healthpolicy #medicaldebt
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#healthpolicy #medicaldebt
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ourfinancialsecurity.org
November 28, 2024 at 4:16 PM
88% of Democrats and 78% of Republicans support the CFPB’s proposed rule to ban medical debt on credit reports. This is wildly bipartisan stuff.
#healthpolicy #medicaldebt
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#healthpolicy #medicaldebt
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As usually @danweissmann.bsky.social nails it. Great episode!
I get butterflies every time he mentions me into a microphone. Listen here... armandalegshow.com/episode/new-...
I get butterflies every time he mentions me into a microphone. Listen here... armandalegshow.com/episode/new-...
New lessons from the fight for charity care - An Arm And a Leg
Checking back in on the fight for hospital charity care, with lessons from Dollar For and you.
armandalegshow.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM
As usually @danweissmann.bsky.social nails it. Great episode!
I get butterflies every time he mentions me into a microphone. Listen here... armandalegshow.com/episode/new-...
I get butterflies every time he mentions me into a microphone. Listen here... armandalegshow.com/episode/new-...
New Commonwealth Fund study findings:
- 9% of Americans are uninsured.
- 23% of Americans are insured but still cannot afford care.
- 41% of people who delay care due to cost had their health problem get worse.
How many of these studies do we need to treat medical debt is a #publichealth issue?
- 9% of Americans are uninsured.
- 23% of Americans are insured but still cannot afford care.
- 41% of people who delay care due to cost had their health problem get worse.
How many of these studies do we need to treat medical debt is a #publichealth issue?
November 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM
New Commonwealth Fund study findings:
- 9% of Americans are uninsured.
- 23% of Americans are insured but still cannot afford care.
- 41% of people who delay care due to cost had their health problem get worse.
How many of these studies do we need to treat medical debt is a #publichealth issue?
- 9% of Americans are uninsured.
- 23% of Americans are insured but still cannot afford care.
- 41% of people who delay care due to cost had their health problem get worse.
How many of these studies do we need to treat medical debt is a #publichealth issue?
Despite the fact that hospital associations constantly claim that increased costs, such as traveling nurses, brought on by the pandemic are to blame for rising prices, the data doesn't support this. Great report out from Rice University putting this "argument" to rest for good.
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November 25, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Despite the fact that hospital associations constantly claim that increased costs, such as traveling nurses, brought on by the pandemic are to blame for rising prices, the data doesn't support this. Great report out from Rice University putting this "argument" to rest for good.
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