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Dorian's avatar

The most important question is not whether Palantir is “in healthcare.”

It is what layer of healthcare it is entering.

If the software touches scheduling, capacity planning, patient flow, resource allocation, discharge timing, claims logic, and operational decisions, then it is not just a vendor.

It becomes part of the nervous system.

That changes the risk model.

Healthcare data is not like ordinary enterprise data.

It contains bodies, vulnerability, pricing power, insurance friction, and life-or-death prioritization.

The danger is not simply surveillance.

It is decision infrastructure becoming invisible.

Michelle's avatar

Thiel looks like Saruman

Sharon | The Sabbaticalist's avatar

Love the handle “dissent in bloom”. Great fit to my angle that we need less tech republic and a more rewilded one

https://thesabbaticalist.substack.com/p/the-sabbaticalist-059-palantir-wants?r=8x7pe&utm_medium=ios

Nav 𓅯's avatar

These hands are reaching into non-american assets as well. Seeing Thiel’s VC arm investing in multiple Australian and NZ companies, many of which will no doubt end up using persona for age verification.

weareallkittygenovese's avatar

I can't stop thinking about this. As a woman and mother of a trans teen, I am outraged and terrified. Do you happen to know if there is a way to find out if our local hospitals are using Palantir? We had doctors at the Cleveland Clinic for decades. Yet another reason I'm glad we left.

Ann Zimmerman's avatar

he looks a bit like Riff Raff from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Kim Hansen's avatar

This is what we fought against in the 1990s and early 2000s. Thanks to DOGE, skeevy traitor players like Theil have access to not just our financial, Social Security and IRS records, but also our health records.

Data that can be used to initiate eugenics. Data that can be used to deny care for individuals. Data that can be used to turn down loans for folks considered a poor risk because of a medical condition. Data that can be used to deny insurance policies.

gordon's avatar

In the western culture is an embedded desire to be saved, rescued, cared for in the manner of an helpless child, or a repentant sinner. This cultural thread is actually a cornerstone of the culture. Root that out and you might find a capacity for outrage, until then . . . .

Shannon Lynn's avatar

It’s not just healthcare these people are spying on; they spy everywhere. They use all kinds of things to spy on people, even bugs, flies, and bumble bees. How do I know this? These bugs are all around me, wherever I go, then they have people who live in the shelter with me in DC to talk about things I have spoken about to people in private or things I have done in private. They are sick in the head. They also use fake bird noises to let me know they are watching me. They have even watched me have sex in the privacy of my friend’s home by using a bumblebee with a small camera flying outside the window. There were no flowers outside this window, so why would a bumblebee fly around a window and stay there idle? Yes, I had premarital sex. I had been celibate for 8 years and fell/sinned. I own it, repented to my Heavenly Father, and asked to take away the urge.

Edlin Brewer's avatar

This must be stopped!

Richard M's avatar

Get big business out of Healthcare. Keeping people healthy should not be profitable

Wanda Sciarrino's avatar

Said it before and I'll say it again. In fascism, two of the people's worst enemies are health-care and the police.

John Carpenter's avatar

Only under a corrupt government run by a Dementia Trump could this happen. They are just like DOGE. . Not to help but to steal all your private data from healthcare providers. Say Thank You Trump Republicans!

gordon's avatar

You missed the part in the article about this starting with Obama.

Since the Clintons, there are no clean hands.

Josie Esquivel's avatar

I'll bet even his Mother didn't like him.

Jim Coddington III, LCSW's avatar

Now is the time for US, the vast majority of Americans, to unite and share in our prosperity. An estimated 8 million people showed up for the third No Kings protest. Now is the time to build off this momentum by initiating a grassroots campaign to pursue the following. Several Democrats and progressive organizations have compiled separate tax reform proposals. I envision having these proposals consolidated into one bill that will benefit the vast majority of Americans. Such a bill will provide a much-needed alternative tax plan that will counter and expose the corrupt and unjust fiscal endeavors enacted by Republicans. The following is a draft of my proposal.

True Tax Reform 2026: The Sequel:

Increase the current number of tax brackets to create more progressive tax rates on the top 10%, 5%, 1%, 0.1%, and 0.01% of income earners.

Create progressive tax rates that will benefit the vast majority of Americans. Compare this with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and H.R. 1 2025.

Richistan: A Journey Through American Wealth and Lives of the New Rich—Robert Frank: Consider income brackets for Lower Richistan, Middle Richistan, Upper Richistan, including Affluentville and Ultra-Wealthyville—added by Chuck Collins.

Make the federal tax system simpler and more rational.

Enact policies that address excessive CEO compensation. Corporations will be taxed at progressively higher rates based on the income gap between CEO compensation and median worker income.

Enact policies as necessary concerning upside-down subsidies to make them progressive.

Taxpayers subsidize private jet use. Current rates need to be raised substantially by targeting private jet use.

Provide financial relief to individuals adversely affected by higher prices caused by tariffs and caused by the war in Iran. This form of progressive payments could be distributed twice a year for those who qualify. Payments would be distributed similar to how COVID stimulus checks were processed.

Maintain President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act incentives for production in using green energy.

Target measures to protect programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP), to name a few.

Consider expanding and increasing funding for programs such as SNAP and child care that target low-income families.

Republicans are threatening to discontinue some programs that provide much-needed assistance to individuals going to college.

Since 1954, scholarships that provide financial assistance to college students have generally been excluded from taxable income. Ensure this policy continues and protect a host of additional policies that make attending college more affordable.

Increase the corporate tax rate and tax corporations on all profits made in the United States.

Annually raise additional revenue to pay off the entire deficit created by Republican tax reforms of 2017 and 2025 by targeting the ultra-wealthy.

Annually raise additional revenue by targeting the ultra-wealthy to pay off the costs of the war in Iran.

Review and adjust Research and Development (R&D) tax credits.

Enact legislation to make the IRS Direct File permanent and available nationwide.

Decide what actions need to be taken to revise SALT.

Impose financial transaction fees to raise revenue.

Discuss the 20% small business deduction- TCJA 2017 section 199A and consider options.

Increase and make the Child Tax Credit permanent.

Plutocracy Prevention Program:

Design a comprehensive manner to address this issue.

Pursue rules and policies to raise the floor, level the playing field, and break upoverconcentration of wealth.

Pursue efforts that address inequality in wealth and income, including policies to address these inequalities based on race and gender.

Social Security: Create a higher threshold to target those with higher incomes.

Have Social Security benefits be exempt from federal taxes—specifically for low-income and middle-income families.

Pursue and expand a comprehensive approach similar to the "American Housing and Economic Mobility Act" that will provide financial support for homeownership for low-income and middle-class individuals and families.

Pursue efforts to address concerns regarding the size and distribution of intergenerational transfers.

Close the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) loophole.

Brookings: How Should We Tax the Great Wealth Transfer? (12/12/2024):

Authors report "the size and distribution of intergenerational transfers have raisedconcerns about creating family dynasties, exacerbating trends in inequality, andlimiting economic opportunity and mobility. Authors conclude, "reforms tothe wealth transfer system, including taxing unrealized capital gains at death andconverting the estate tax to an inheritance tax, can raise revenue, increaseprogressivity and improve the economy in other ways as well. "

Institute for Policy Studies: Revenue-Raising Proposals in the Ever-Evolving BuildBack Better Debate (1/25/2022):-

General proposals to raise taxes on high-income individuals. It was mentioned that a bill was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee that included aprovision to mostly reverse the 2017 tax law's cut in the top personal income tax ratefor "ordinary" income (income that is not capital gains or stock dividends subject tospecial tax rates). Democratic lawmakers left the provision out because SenatorKyrsten Sinema reportedly did not support it.

Pursue proposals that aim to limit tax breaks on wealth and income derived from wealth. This includes taxing capital gains as income.

Limit tax breaks for wealthy business owners.

Abolish unjustified tax breaks for the owners of pass-through businesses.

Abolish the special 20% deduction "qualified business income" for large businesses.

Make permanent the limit of pass-through business losses.

Increase taxes on corporations.

Proposals would be designed to ensure that corporate profits do not escape taxation.

Establish a corporate minimum tax rate that requires the biggest corporations to pay progressive federal income taxes on the profits reported to shareholders and create an excise tax on stock buybacks.

Include proposals to limit tax breaks for corporate profit-shifting and offshoring. This includes a reduction in the exemption for offshore profits for so-called "Qualified Business Asset Investments” and increasing the minimum effective tax rate on offshorecorporate profits on a per-country basis.

Proposals to limit tax breaks for wealth and income from wealth:

Repeal several breaks in the estate tax and lower the financial threshold to pay estate taxes.

Replicate successful state programs such as the Massachusetts Fair ShareAmendment and Washington state's Working Family Tax Credit (WFTC) in 2023.

Consolidate These Proposals:

Keep Your Pay Act: Cory Booker

Equal Tax Act: Senators Edward Markey, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Jeff Merkley

Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act: Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Rashida Tlaib

Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act: Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ro Khanna

Tax on Extreme Wealth and For the 99.8% Act: Senator Bernie Sanders

Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act: Senator Chris Van Hollen and Representative Don Beyer

The Ultra-Millionaires Tax: Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representatives Brendan F. Boyle and Pramila Jayapal

Defund the Oligarchs Resolution: Senator Elizabeth Warren

American Homeownership Act: Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Jeff Merkley

21st Century ROAD to Housing Act: Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott

Billionaires Income Tax Act: Senator Ron Wyden and Representatives Donald Beyer and Steve Cohen

The Money Agenda 250: Patriotic Millionaires

The Five & Dime Tax: Tax the Greedy Billionaires

Executive Summary: Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute

Court of International Trade Tariff Refunds: Senators Ron Wyden, Edward J. Markey, and Jeanne Shaheen

The Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011: Senators Ron Wyden and Dan Coates

Publications:

"99 to 1: How Inequality is Wrecking the World and What we can do About it”- Chuck Collins

"Is Inequality Irreversible? The Case for a Maximum Wage”- Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati

**** Review provisions in H.R. 1 and executive orders- void and add provisions as needed.

Kristine Blake's avatar

Both parties are on their payroll. Go check Palentir payroll link. 🔗