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This 1000% - thinking of people who gained coverage w Medicaid expansion who are likely the most vulnerable to lose coverage.

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The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

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CT legislators, led by Rep. Roberts and Rep. Sweet, are organizing to end homelessness in CT with the formation of a caucus dedicated to the effort. “Three crucial priorities, the biggest priorities,” Roberts said. “Prevention, crisis response, and housing.” www.thehour.com/news/article...

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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These charts show that operating margins were lower among rural hospitals and hospitals with high Medicaid shares but higher among for-profit and system-affiliated hospitals in 2023. Explore 40 additional charts with key data about hospitals: on.kff.org/4hNOOCh

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A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

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Another signal that opioid overdoses continue to drop dramatically; Looks like >30% drop in non-fatal OD and >50% drop in fatal OD EMS calls over two years. It'd be great if we understood why... ndews.org/wordpress/fi...

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

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Happy now #BillCassidy #SusanCollins #JoniErnst, #TomTillis? Your cowardice will kill. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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NEW: Connecticut ended the death penalty last decade... but turned out a Connecticut-based company had a hand in helping supply the Trump administration with a chemical ingredient it needed to go on an execution spree in 2020. Now, legislation would ban CT businesses from helping the death penalty:

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📣New paper alert 🧵Our paper on substance use in homeless populations @jama.com : 🗝️points: 1) >1/3 ppl use drugs regularly--meth is most common 2) ~1/4 of all ppl experiencing homeless (PEH) started using regularly AFTER becoming homeless (42% before) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/x

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Obvy hypocrisy is the norm w this crew but you can’t be pro-family and anti-Medicaid.

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Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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Thank you @wgnradio.bsky.social for having me earlier this week to talk about our lawsuit now with the City of San Francisco and represented by @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Here's an update on the case now asking several HHs agencies to restore this info: www.sfcityattorney.org/2025/02/19/s...

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GOP Pushes Drastic Cuts to Medicaid & Food Aid While Proposing Tax Cuts for Rich

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TEXAS TRIBUNE: West Texas measles outbreak climbs to 58. Thirteen patients have been hospitalized. The outbreak is Texas’ largest in more than 30 years, and comes at a time where vaccination rates among children have dropped. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t... via @texastribune.org

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

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BREAKING: @drsforamerica.bsky.social now with the City of San Francisco, represented by @publiccitizen.bsky.social have filed an amended complaint to the administration's removal of key clinical information & data used for practicing medicine, protecting public health, & conducting research. #MedSky

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Connecting people to treatment in hospitals through the Bridge model. New year - same story - still not connecting enough people to care. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...

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This is bad. apnews.com/article/doge...

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Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

Government does important work — but not if DOGE can prevent it paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-govern...

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@drsforamerica.bsky.social sent Senators potential questions about #RFKJr's stated intent as HHS Secretary to gut federal public health capacity & if he would be complicit with DOGE in doing so. He didn't answer, saying he would check "employment & labor relations laws." He knew all along. #MedSky

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it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

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This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

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🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

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ICE's Latest Detention Data Shows Growth of Immigrants Targeted With No Criminal Histories – Exactly as Predicted (from @austinkocher.com) austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-lates...

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EXCLUSIVE: Tennessee universities, medical centers warn Trump administration cuts will 'devastate' search for cures www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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This whole situation where the publicly owned utility companies are doing everything possible to push out the first regulator who has held them accountable is terrifying. Anyone who thinks the answer is not confirming Marissa Gillett is playing a dangerous game of chicken with our wallets & grid.

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How long before all vaccine mandates for school attendance are targeted?

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reads like something out of a Soviet textbook...

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Established in 1951, the EIS fellowship program is for our nation’s best and brightest. Abruptly firing these dedicated fellows is unconscionable, ghoulish, dangerous. I’m furious. www.cdc.gov/eis/php/abou...

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What a fucking sad day. I've had multiple students join this program, it's such a win-win of an amazing opportunity for training and gathering/monitoring and bringing back information.

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Half of EIS, the CDC's renowned "disease detectives," gone. These folks respond to emergencies in the US and around the globe, and are now in tatters.

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 8 days ago • 600 comments

The US federal government is—today—firing thousands of scientists. The short-term impact will be terrible; the long-term impact will be devastating.

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