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No one - the Falun Gong has faced persecution from the CCP for awhile now, and they saw an opportunity in Donald Trump to access his followers by pushing far-right conspiracy theories, with an end goal of creating considerable anti-Chinese sentiment and destabilization of US/Chinese relations.

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Are there any potential applications for stem cell therapies in patients with relapse-remitting MS?

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I’m not able to comment on their legitimacy as a religious organization, but from what I understand they’ve always been ultra-conservative in nature and their leader in part out has always subscribed conspiracy theories, so I wouldn’t be surprised. The fact remains though, that until 2015 they abstained almost entirely from publishing anything related to American politics. You say it’s a much bigger problem that they’ve been a cult for such a long time, but I disagree. Even assuming they’ve always been a nefarious cult, they didn’t have the audience they now hold before they latched onto Trump. Their capacity for negatively influencing the American public is greater than it has ever been.

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Yes, and we unfortunately saw it manifest in anti-Asian violence this week

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Hi Andy, thanks for taking the time for this AMA. I work in EHR and from my perspective some of the industry's largest inefficiencies arise from complexity in hospital and professional billing, insurance and claims. I feel that the technology exists to automate a lot of the actual processing that needs to occur, but that one thing that technology cannot overcome is the complexity of billing rules/regulations.

Do you feel there is room for optimization in this area without a switch to a single payor system?

From your perspective, what are the other areas of greatest inefficiency and/or unnecessary expense in the healthcare industry?