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#ItsTimeForMedicareForAll #M4A (Also, BIG supporters & users of #PurrTherapy) Posting a range of perspectives to educate-posting does not = endorsement. Don't follow zero posts On FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1122248948400278/?ref=share&mibextid=adz
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Medicaid coverage for virtual visits ends April 1st. As someone who cares for children that live up to 8 hours away, this is DEVASTATING. Children, adults, elderly will all suffer. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES The 5 calls app makes it easy!

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Amen to that.

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The DOJ is investigating UnitedHealthcare over billing fraud to funnel extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans, the Wall Street Journal reports. UnitedHealthcare shares have already dropped 9% since the story broke.

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Amazing information on Social Security & its safeguards & self-audits. REAL INFORMATION, not made-up fake news. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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They’re coming for disability rights… “Texas v. Becerra is a court case in Texas, 17 states have sued the government, asking the court to get rid of Section 504 & its new rules that protect people w/disabilities from discrimination in health care & human services.” #disability #Specialed #rights

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A New Medicare Agenda—Moving Beyond Value-Based Payment and the Managed Care Paradigm jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Study Finds Limited Evidence to Support More Than 40 Predictive Machine Learning Algorithms Used in Primary Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#DYK Secondhand smoke will contribute to an estimated 6,000 cases of lung cancer this year. www.franciscanhealth.org/community/bl...

Gary Straber's story is a powerful reminder of why you shouldn't tough things out. Straber went to the Franciscan Health ER with tingling and tightness in his chest. He had an aneurysm. “It could’ve been days, it could have been years. And I would’ve never known.” www.wthr.com/article/news...

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She believes epidemiologists have a “professional and moral imperative” to ensure that medical and policy solutions are equitably applied to all populations. medschool.duke.edu/news/what-co...

This is a year old, but it's an excellent primer on health insurance vertical integration - well worth watching & bookmarking: youtube.com/watch?v=frr4...

@snmrrw.bsky.social I tried to outline a suggestion over on X. I'd really love it if you'd do a Classroom on Medicare for All, either for the reintroduction of the bills this spring or for Medicare's 60th birthday, July 30, 2025.

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🚨Senator Tammy Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed House budget resolution & paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid." Medicaid affects 70M+ Americans. THIS WOULD BE DEVASTATING!🚨

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While working at an eye clinic at Columbia University, she noticed discrepancies in vision problems. Her observations led her to document that blindness was twice as prevalent among black people as among white people. She became an advocate for blindness prevention and care for POC. #blackexcellence

Medicare Advantage plans are going to buy still more Advantage from Trump Did any hospital execs buy a reprieve for Medicaid?

"Public health experts in contact with the CDC said there did not seem to be attention to what jobs people did, but rather who would be technically easiest to fire." www.ajc.com/news/health-...

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The head of the food division at the US Food and Drug Administration has quit in protest over sweeping staff cuts that he warns will hamper the agency’s ability to protect public health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Private Equity trying to create confusion about less expensive alternatives? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

NPR: She suspected a heart attack, but was diagnosed with broken heart syndrome www.npr.org/2025/02/17/n...

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The main company driving GMOs (which are said to cause cancer) is begging to be allowed to keep poisoning us: apnews.com/article/baye...

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I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

#truth

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Video is on a loop: youtube.com/shorts/cupA_...

This is truly a horrible cut, although most folks on ACA plans don't know this help only existed until now: www.healthcaredive.com/news/trump-s...

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New flyer just dropped--spread the word with healthcare folks and among disabled adults. Download at link. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...