First on the fox: Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavy category Jon Jones He announced on Thursday that he would soon apply a big blow to hidden prices in health care.
UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones said to launch patients a new initiative with a non -profit power group to take over hospitals, managers for pharmacy and insurance houses, which he says have “rejection[d]”Being transparent with their prices to increase in multiple profits.
“This next fight for me is personal, but it’s not just for me. It is for every American who has ever been harassed, plundered or cheated. It’s probably the most important struggle in my career,” Jones said at a press conference in Akin press those in which he participates in the announcement of his next UFC opponent. “My next opponent will be: the US health system.”
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Jon Jones screen shot on Thursday announces his new power supply initiative to patients. (Jon Jones)
During his first term, president Donald Trump The transparency prices of health care prices that have forced hospitals and insurers have been adopted to publish all their prices, so that patients could make more information decisions on where they want to get treatment and, as a result, increase competition and lower prices.
On the trail of the 2024 campaign, President Trump suggested during an interview with Podcaster Theo von that the lack of transparency over the price of health care was “extorting” these rich companies, and he accused former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamal Harris with rejection First Rule. However, according to Trump, he will “press” to ensure that this type of transparency in the health system is fruitful.
During the Mock press conference, Jones said people should know if MRI would cost $ 600 or $ 6,000, noting that “in America we should not be advocated for honesty and responsibility in healthcare.”
The picture is a photo of a medical billing statement, similar to what most patients get. (East)
Medical accounts are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US, according to some studies. National Health Institutes considered 2019 that the debtor’s research showed that most respondents, 58.5%, agreed that medical costs contributed to their financial troubles.
Trump said that if his first -day transparency prices were carried out the way he had imagined, they could demolish the price of care for as much as 50% to 60%. Trump also blamed the “powerful” lobby of the health industry for the reason why the rules were not appropriately implemented.
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While Jones and Trump are allies – the fighter presented his champion belt during one of his recent fights and also surprised the fans Trump’s dance move with signature After his victory – the problem is two -sided. During the last Congress, The cohort of Republicans and Democrats sought to adopt a legislature, which was suppressed in improving the transparency of the hospital’s price and insurer.
The elected President Donald Trump greets Jon Jones after defeating Stipe Miocic at the UFC 309 in Madison Square Garden, early on Sunday, November 17, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Patient power is not foreign Star power. The group has been in partnership with the Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll’s superpower in the past, as well as Rappers Fat Joe, Methond Man and others.
“I am proud to join Power to patients to take over hospitals and insurance houses who refuse to show their prices,” Jones told Fox News Digital.
“For years, hospitals and insurers are not obeying the rules that require to publish prices for patients before care. In a health care system that lacks transparency and responsibility, Jones said:” Without real prices, hospitals and health insurers in America, they make healthy in America inaccessible, inaccessible, and completely dishonest. When we cannot see or compare the actual prices in advance, we are blinded by excessive, prices and accounts for surprise for which we cannot check that they are accurate. ”
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“In his first term, President Trump has taken aggressive and historical actions to make health care prices available to patients before being cared for instead of keeping the Americans a surprise accounts,” said Kush Desai White House. “After the bidel administration neglected the implementation of these health ideas and enabled the health industry to hold patients in the dark, the other Trump administration was dedicated to reducing costs and re -enhancing Americans to become a healthy choice that they want and transparency they need to make informed decisions.”
