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Great opinion piece. The government stipend will seem nice for people in the immediate, but when they end up with a bill for $30,000 for an unexpected hospital stay and no insurance, the shallowness of that distribution will be revealed.

Opinion | Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves We finally know what “concepts of a plan” looks like – and it’s not good.

Here is my latest for @msnbc.com, on Trump's ill-advised concept of a plan for health care, which entails repealing the ACA, and redistributing private insurers' tax breaks to the people for what would essentially amount to an HSA, which is unhelpful if not wealthy. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Republicans have talked about having the concept of a healthcare plan to replace the ACA for a decade, but sure, this time they *really really* mean it.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

I’m convinced every Pittsburgher has a visceral, physical reaction to seeing our city’s name spelled incorrectly. That H is sacred.

How cruel do you have to be to see a court compel you to feed people and you dig your heels in and say no.

I want to believe higher utilization of CGM amongst the non-diabetic population will improve time-to-diagnosis of diabetes and reduce long term complications, but I suspect the affluent “wellness” population is not the population at risk of undiagnosed diabetes and associated complications, right?

While you’re here, food insecurity is a real threat as SNAP benefits expire in the next 24 hours. Consider donating food items or monetarily to your local food pantries to help your neighbors keep food on their tables. I am based in Connecticut: www.ctfoodshare.org

#snap #foodinsecurity

Fun bit of news: I am a contestant on Netflix’s next season of Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2. There are a lot of great personalities on this season, so tune in starting November 4th to see me and the rest of the cast.
#squidgame #netflix #squidgamechallenge #squidgamethechallenge

Why the ACA needs young people — and the looming 'death spiral' for health insurance Young and healthy people who get Affordable Care Act health insurance are thinking about dropping coverage next year, as the government remains shutdown over health care tax credits.

A health insurance ‘death spiral’ looms if young people drop out as prices spike : Shots - Health News

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I wouldn’t be mad if this caught on.

The fact that this absolutely vile AI slop video exists, regardless of it was deleted, should be wholly disqualifying for Cuomo.

Corporate support cannot make up for threats to the NIH budget The privatization of medical research can’t replace what the NIH has provided.

Opinion: Corporate support cannot make up for threats to the NIH budget www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/n...

Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 6% in 2025, Nearing $27,000, with Workers Paying $6,850 Toward Premiums Out of Their Paychecks | KFF Family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance reached an average of $26,993 this year, KFF’s annual benchmark health benefits survey of large and smaller employers finds. On average, workers...

Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 6% in 2025, Nearing $27,000, with Workers Paying $6,850 Toward Premiums Out of Their Paychecks www.kff.org/affordable-c...

The Consequences of Selective Defunding of Health-Relevant Research Areas Research has long been dependent on the generosity of the benefactors who fund it. In the Medieval Period, in presixteenth century Europe, early scholarship was principally supported by the Church. Mo...

The Consequences of Selective Defunding of Health-Relevant Research Areas url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

(Published August)

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

I can’t help but think of the absolute cowardice of the private sector, pharma and biotech in particular, who for decades have profited off of relationships with the public sector. Now that civil servants like those at the CDC are being fired en masse, the private sector is no where to be found.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

it’s less than 90 days until bills are due for the first month of coverage

RFK Jr. also falsely claims that with the government shutdown:

“Democrats want to hurt hospitals and clinics in vulnerable communities by repeal of $50B in rural health care funding”.

He omits the fact that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts $187B and that rural health clinics are already closing.

This is alarming. Resources for dementia patients and caregivers are already stretched and expected to reach crisis level by 2030.

marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world

There is always a grift with the current administration and those adjacent to it.

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. — ProPublica Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

Mental health care services in the United States cannot be dependent on for-profit organizations to survive. Private equity and for-profit companies will strip them for cash and leave the communities they serve with nothing when it’s all said and done.

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The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

Even before Trump, preterm births and low birthweight births are more prevalent under GOP presidencies than Dem presidencies.

The negative association between Republican presidencies & infant health is especially pronounced for Black babies.

Torche & Rauf 2021 using 1971-2018 state-level data.

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.