Gutting America’s public health system does nothing to make our nation safer or healthier. In fact, it does the exact opposite. It ensures that fewer cures are found, less treatment is available, and more Americans will die unnecessarily. - ThreadSky

cleaver.house.gov • 5 days ago

Gutting America’s public health system does nothing to make our nation safer or healthier.

In fact, it does the exact opposite.

It ensures that fewer cures are found, less treatment is available, and more Americans will die unnecessarily.

Reposted from The Washington Post

Breaking news: The Department of Health and Human Services is cutting nearly a quarter of its workforce and consolidating several of its departments, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday.

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lrb9.bsky.social•5 days ago

The priority is not Public Health. The priority is more money for the ultra rich.

artist12.bsky.social•5 days ago

,😡

shirley-sirius.bsky.social•5 days ago

vaesamyn1.bsky.social•5 days ago

I suggest ppl watch the movie “ Civil War”, then watch the series “ Fallout”
It is where you’re all headed!

okayaboutthat.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is heartbreaking 💔 to know how many human lives will negatively be impacted from this and for what?

America is being ripped to shreds by project 2025 and DOGE

timatwurk1.bsky.social•5 days ago

If they wanted us to be healthier, we would all have universal health care, but they want us to die sooner, bankrupt, and not collect our social security.

lovingkindness730.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not one second of any medical education, not one second of any scientific research education. If you get a pimple, he will blame it on vaccines. He’ll replace the 20,000 with patients from the local mental institution. And fill out the staff with some of Alex‘s staff members. Maybe a witch doctor2

thatsmoreamoore.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm sure RFK Jr's hairbrained plan to send toxic amounts of vitamins to each US household will contribute to the effect. 🙄

peggyfrompa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Horrific and despicable

ramonjamar.bsky.social•5 days ago

Let’s be honest — these cuts don’t make sense to the American public, but they make perfect sense to the healthcare industry. The goal of this administration is to dismantle agencies, privatize everything, and turn the country into one big business. Profit over people.

joannesapelo.bsky.social•5 days ago

All these fired federal employees on the unemployment rolls, no longer paying federal or state taxes, eating up unemployment and welfare benefits—not to mention related private sector jobs that will be lost—will lead to a huge recession that will take us years to recover from.

vaesamyn1.bsky.social•5 days ago

They won’t be able to apply to get unemployment, when they’re fired it makes them ineligible!
It’s just one more act of cruelty and why the true number of unemployed will not be correct for sometime. All while they take in millions for themselves. It’s shocking 😳

joannesapelo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well, if they are wrongfully fired—like the probationary workers—without the requisite notice and based on false pretenses that their performance was poor when it was really excellent—then they might have a claim. Particularly if they file a lawsuit for wrongful termination.

vaesamyn1.bsky.social•5 days ago

True, and there are lawsuits and rulings to say that most must be reinstated, I am not aware of that being reversed as yet, as to whether those affected are back to work, but, I don’t have confidence Trump will obey the courts at this point.

sharitucker10.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well these guys are on a Darwinist based eugenics purge, so that tracks.

vacatmom3.bsky.social•5 days ago

Welcome in TB, measles, covid! The door is wide open!

genirae.bsky.social•5 days ago

They want us to die.

cnj08540.bsky.social•5 days ago

Republiklans are destroying education too....they want a serf class of ignorant and unwell people to work for the oligarchy.

grayhair71.bsky.social•4 days ago

Someone else pointed out that RFK believes that disease has a purpose of promoting only the strongest should survive.

justjustie.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you sir

Most people have private insurance thru work

Healthcare spending cuts will drop profits for providers. As a result will hike for 2026

Maga promised to lower cost of living. They lied again. Shocker!

agelessobserver.bsky.social•4 days ago

And when I called Senator Bill Cassidy, MD to offer my thoughts on his support of RFK, jr who he naively felt could be worked with, his staff HUNG UP ON ME when I noted I wanted to make a comment. They had no way of knowing if said comment would be positive or negative, they simply hung up.

okayaboutthat.bsky.social•4 days ago

He should lose his medical license for all the human harm his decision will soon directly cause by voting for this

agelessobserver.bsky.social•4 days ago

My anger and emotions agree although having a wrong opinion aren’t grounds for losing it. I am keeping up the pressure with letters and calls (he has other offices) to advise my feelings on his poor decision.

okayaboutthat.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is at best a fool to believe RFK Jr’s reassurances (aka lies)

His colleagues in the medical community are quite unhappy with him

Cassidy took a Hippocratic oath and people will die preventable deaths because of RFK Jr’s appointment

agelessobserver.bsky.social•4 days ago

I agree completely. What a naive buffoon. He heard from me, often, before the confirmation. And I won’t stop now.

callyourreps.us•5 days ago

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lilymjohnson.bsky.social•5 days ago

As we know from his first term, Krasnov specializes in unnecessary American deaths.

elizmadsen.bsky.social•5 days ago

It appears that the billionaire oligarchs running our country want the rest of us to be sick or dead.

waidbarks.bsky.social•5 days ago

The wealthiest people imagine themselves as job creators. And yet all you hear about is layoffs and job cuts and eliminating positions. American people who step up to do hard work are at least 50% of job creation.

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