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Wonderful news out of CMS - 5 new state Medicaid waiver amendments -> CO, HI, MN, NY, PA <- were approved that will keep kids (and some adults!) covered longer via continuous eligibility. Aka without having to reapply. This is what leadership on health looks like!

www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...

It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!

Post by Jamie Selzer: Michelle Obama: “Our food environment isn’t healthy and we should explore some changes” Republicans: “You’re a communist taking our freedom!” RFK Jr: “Literally anything added to food is poison” Republicans: “Agreed! I demand you make all my food choices for me!”

Well, this gets it exactly right, doesn’t it?

Not only is he an AIDS minimizer, he denies that the HIV virus causes AIDS. (He thinks poppers do, and that Fauci “made up” HIV.)

He also thinks wi-fi causes cancer and there are secret chemicals in our water supply nobody will tell you about turning children trans (which he doesn’t think is real).

2024 Affordable Care Act Marketplace Plan Selections by Congressional District A new CAP interactive explores the proportion of nonelderly people who made federally facilitated marketplace plan selections during the 2024 open enrollment period by congressional district. Without ...

One policy now in the 🎯? Enhanced tax credits that help with marketplace coverage. In some places, close to 1/2 of adults get them. Without (GOP) action to extend beyond Dec '25, 5M ppl would be uninsured within 2 yrs + some red states hit particularly hard.

www.americanprogress.org/article/2024...

that is a great question.

What the actual F??!!! As if infectious diseases plan on giving US a break!

“RFK Jr. isnt gonna ban vaccines. He’s only changing the guidelines!”

Even if that were true (it’s not) health insurance companies base their pricing on these guidelines.

Meaning, if he says that certain vaccines aren’t NEEDED, your insurance will not pay for them.

Just starting here. Where are the #healthequity and #healthjustice #reprojustice feeds and peeps?

A good reminder that abortion is health care period.

Figure showing almost 100% reduction in cervical cancer with vaccination.

“Vaccines don’t work”. What’s that, shitbird? I can’t hear you over the sound of science.

The United States has oligarchs now.
Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.

A satirical cartoon of a passenger on a plane saying the pilot has lost touch with regular passengers before adding: “who thinks I should fly the plane?” Everyone puts their hands up.

cartoon of the day

I’m in a group chat with some colleagues in public health and honestly, it’s just us saying,

“Fuck.”
“Fuck fuck fuck.”
“Fuck.”

she started a haka to tear up their proposed changes to the indigenous treaties bill and the whole thing got pushed out what a legend

Please do not fucking say in the media that RFK Jr is “skeptical” of vaccines. He is against them, full stop. Don’t be cute with his bullshit

US preterm birth rate was 10.4% in 2023 w significant racial disparities, receiving a D+ from @marchofdimes.bsky.social for the 3rd straight yr.

Many challenges are secondary to maternal care deserts which will only worsen as ob/gyns leave states without reproductive freedom.

Some thoughts:

1. Many, many Secs of HHS (including Biden’s) are lawyers

1a. But almost all have had executive experience, including most w/experience overseeing some aspect of a state health system

2. No secretaries of HHS are perfect
2b. But to my knowledge none have been labeled as …

Tweet from Ashish Jha praising an Emily Oster op-ed, saying "Some public health experts believe the public can't handle nuance. That's nonsense. Want to rebuild trust in public health? Treat the people as adults."

Trust isn't broken because public health experts oversimplified their recommendations. Trust is broken because policymakers' efforts to do healthcare for-profit have left the system underfunded and understaffed to the point where it has undermined the dignity of those who give and receive care.

HOLY SH!T

it's nice to be on a site where the bugs and errors are because of rapid growth due to it being nice place to be rather than the rancid decision-making of a blood emerald manchild

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

A door handle that says “this room is alarmed” on a sticker above it.

Me too, Room, me too.

Recent RFK Jr quotes:

“There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”

“Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

About COVID restrictions: “Even in Hitler’s Germany … you could hide in the attic like Anne Frank did.”

Chart: Number of lives saved by vaccination from 1974 to 2004 Data source: Shattock et al. (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved child survival: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. Credit: Gavi Alliance

Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.

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Quote saying his political posts are because he loves his country and feels it’s his patriotic duty to oppose “this demented sociopath with every fibre of me being.”

Be like Mark Hamill.