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Writer, editor, communications consultant, tap dancing wannabe. Obsessed with news, politics & health. Author, “Changing the Way we Die”
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We often speak of gun violence as an epidemic. Yet the problem fits the definition of chronic: continuing or occurring again and again. If only the current obsession with chronic illness aimed at the leading killer of kids. centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/ins...

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Excited to be writing for the USC Center for Health Journalism on the sweeping changes in health care policy, massive budget cuts, and how it’s all playing out in communities. Here’s my first. centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/rep...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“Repeal and Replace” ACA failed in 2017. The same bulldozing of health coverage and health care access “is now being sold as an exercise in fiscal restraint.” : bit.ly/43a5Jdu

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The president of the U.S. appears to be improving his own health through access to great medical care and great medical science. That's what he gets. Simultaneously, his administration is doing so much to hurt regular Americans' opportunity to achieve those same good health outcomes the same way.

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments

Freedom is just another word for gambling with your child’s life. An American tragedy. apple.news/AziT0iAmtTCC...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Texas measles outbreak: Culling the herd, I guess. Awful to see people gambling with children’s lives out of some warped sense of freedom or misreading of science. I almost died from measles as a kid, just months before the vaccine came out.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Measles outbreak in the United States, originating from Texas, thanks to the Trump regime's anti-vaccination propaganda people are now being rapidly infected. #EndAutogenocide

submitted 115 days ago • 118 comments