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smoallef.bsky.social
social epidemiology PhD candidate @harvard public health, human rights, health equity & harm reduction 🌈
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Seems almost certain that Medicaid expansion will be targeted for cuts. 20 million people (nearly 1/4 of Medicaid recipients) receive coverage bc of expansion. A family of 4 making $30-$40k will lose coverage. They can't afford the $17k avg premium of a non-subsidized health ins plan. Call Congress!

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Congress is about to cut #Medicaid by $880 billion. CALL THESE REPS. They are vulnerable--close margins in their elections and with lots of people in Medicaid in their districts. You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. List below. Call now and all day tomorrow. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

National Day of Action TODAY.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 105 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 21 days ago • 6588 comments

"Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab. Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late." www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 943 comments

SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 25 days ago • 569 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 231 comments

"The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also, health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down." www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The Census website was just taken down.

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

No matter the age, allowing people to become #homeless is a policy choice and a moral failing of our society. We manufactured this crisis. (3 min read, worth your time). www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

Une fois de plus, les ĂŠpidĂŠmios US dĂŠmontrent en quoi la santĂŠ publique doit ĂŠclairer la politique. EmmenĂŠ par N Krieger herself, un travail (complexe mais bien rigoureux) sur le lien entre choix politique et ĂŠtat de santĂŠ. Et oui, c'est indispensable. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

This story is absolutely maddening, but showcases an important facet to not overlook: the antivax movement relies on litigation bc a) their claims on science grounds have been repeatedly debunked & b) the evidence bar is lower for arguing cause (vs. scientific standards). lawsky 🛟🧪medsky policysky

submitted 77 days ago • 7 comments

Happy to share a recent publication that my colleagues and I authored. Not quite in time for the elections but ever so timely. academic.oup.com/healthaffair... Politicians, power, and the people's health... #EditorsChoice #HAScholar

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

“Election results may foretell (1) worsening health profiles in states with high or rising conservatism and (2) potential challenges to maintaining or improving the better health outcomes in more liberal states, given the national Republican trifecta.”

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

our new study is now available open access, please check it out:

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

"An assault on harm reduction in the province that will cost untold lives." 10 sites to be shut down under new legislation averted over 1,500 overdoses in 2022/3. Vital associated services, like drug checking, will also be lost. Matthew Bonn reports:

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is beyond insane. It throws millions of veterans onto the street without health care, guts and destroys one of the premier biomedical research institutions in the world (the NIH). Trump and his appointees are know-nothing zealots, radicals without reason or judgment.

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

The Lancet Global Health Editorial: Harm reduction must replace punitive drug policies www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #DrugSky #DrugPolicy #HarmReduction

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Donald Trump’s NIH pick who advocated mass COVID infection for herd immunity, wrote an “economic case against Medicare for all” in April 2020 for the Cato Institute. Hilariously, Jimmy Dore and other “leftists” have embraced this guy as a hero.

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

there are very serious problems with police violence and accountability throughout Canada and in response

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Nat'l sample of 325 health plans on govt insurance marketplaces: nearly 1/3 didn't have PrEP on their lists of covered preventive services. Btwn 20 & 30% of PrEP users w/ commercial ins. had to pay for it despite the coverage mandate--an avg. 2022 cost of $227 per the CDC. health policy 🛟 Medsky

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

nine people dead in eleven days. #yyj www.hashilthsa.com/news/2024-11...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

On this Public Health Thank You Day, I want to thank everyone who works for a state or local health department. You are public health in America, you keep us safe and healthy. You've taken a lot of crap over the past few years, but this infectious disease epidemiologist is grateful for all you do.

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Harvard peeps—students, staff, faculty! Join us on Dec 9 4-6pm at the School of Public Health for a discussion of our new Lancet Commission on Investing in Health report Scan to register If you’re not at Harvard but want to attend, message me & I’ll ask the organizers to get you a visitor pass

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Very informative new short video on three H5N1 cases that are causing concern - feat. @helenbranswell.bsky.social h/t @annayeo.bsky.social @statnews.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/i4frp...

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments