Dr. Rob Davidson

Trump and Pharma Get Cozy Paging America · Episode

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Trump and Pharma Get Cozy Paging America · Episode

🔥Announcement🔥
I’m co-host on a new Podcast, Paging America, where Miles Baker and I explore the power, profit and politics shaping American healthcare and what you can do about it.

Check us out wherever you listen.

open.spotify.com/episode/6dFH...

It’s an everyday battle to combat misinformation – but we do it because the health of America depends on it. Proud to fight for access to health care + trust and accurate public health info from our govt officials w/ @protecthealthcare.medsky.social and @drrobdavidson.bsky.social

As an ER doctor, I treat people when other systems fail. Now, we're watching those systems get dismantled on purpose: 20,000 jobs slashed at HHS. Vaccine and prevention programs gutted. And Congressional Republicans voting to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks. 1/10

Public health isn’t partisan. It’s basic humanity. And right now, it’s under attack. Speak up. Organize. Protest. And in 2026, get ready to vote. Because silence is complicity—and people will die if we don’t stop this. /END

We can have a functioning system. But we have to fight for it. That means calling out the lies, rejecting the cruelty, and holding Congressional Republicans accountable—for confirming RFK Jr, for voting to gut Medicaid, and for putting lives at risk. 9/10

You don't notice public health until it’s gone. It’s clean water, vaccine access, prenatal care, food safety, emergency response. Lose that, and you don’t get chaos—you get catastrophe. 8/10

This isn’t some abstract policy debate. Public health jobs are being cut. Medicaid access is being slashed. And millions of Americans—especially in rural and underserved areas—will pay the price with their health. 7/10

The GOP isn’t just slashing budgets. They confirmed RFK Jr.—a man with a history of spreading vaccine misinformation—to lead this health purge. Every Senator who voted to confirm him owns this disaster. 6/10

In the ER, I see the results of these decisions: kids with asthma living in mold-infested apartments, seniors rationing insulin, people coming in with strokes and infections that should have been caught early—but weren’t. 5/10

And what’s it all for? So billionaires and corporations can pay less in taxes. That’s the actual trade: public health for private jets. 4/10

At the same time, the GOP is pushing Medicaid cuts. That’s 90 million people—children, seniors, pregnant women, and low-income families—left without a safety net. It’s a one-two punch: gut prevention, then gut care. 3/10

The Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy will be wiped out. This office leads vaccine education, pandemic response, and disease prevention. Without it, we’ll see more outbreaks, more ER visits, and more preventable deaths. 2/10

As an ER doctor, I treat people when other systems fail. Now, we're watching those systems get dismantled on purpose: 20,000 jobs slashed at HHS. Vaccine and prevention programs gutted. And Congressional Republicans voting to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks. 1/10

The Trump administration restructures federal health agencies, cuts 20,000 jobs The reduction in force comes along with a reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, consolidating 28 divisions to 15.

Slashing 20,000 HHS jobs is reckless. Pairing that with Medicaid cuts? That’s not reform—it’s sabotage. You don’t “fix” healthcare by gutting its core. People will suffer.

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This is fucking cruel. Withholding $300M. That’s 0.004% of the 6.8T budget last year m. They are willing to let 8 million kids die over the next 5 years to save 0.004% of the US budget. How much are we spending on rooms at Mar-a-Lago when he’s golfing?

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I was honored to be a guest Tuesday night of my congressman @repsuhas.bsky.social .

The fact that he heard my voice and gave me the opportunity to share my family's story says so much about him as a representative.

“NIH research has contributed to over 90% of all the drugs treat disease. You start cutting back on that, we're talking about people dying of cancer, diabetes treatment, Alzheimer's treatment." - @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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[We opposed him] “because his life of anti-vaccine advocacy, vaccine skepticism, bizarre health claims during Covid, bizarre claims about HIV, about antidepressants causing school shootings. The list goes on and on.”- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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“It's bad enough that he fueled the anti-vaccine conspiracies, and he profited so greatly from that. But now he gets the megaphone of HHS, gets the megaphone of the Federal Government to spread this level of disinformation.”- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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“It's highly concerning that he wants to re-investigate Mifepristone, a drug safer than aspirin, safer than Viagra. This could result in restrictions on this drug that has afforded the right of bodily autonomy to so many women.”- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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“This administration, but certainly with RFK and HHS, they don't seem to really know what they're doing. And when it comes to something like healthcare, that's pretty terrifying"- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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“During the confirmation hearings when questioned about Medicare, Medicaid, he didn't understand how they worked. He could get rolled by Trump who wants tax cuts for billionaires. They see this as a pot of money where they can do that.”- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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[RE: Medicaid cuts] “I work in a very Red area of Michigan that voted for Trump about 70%. These are people I've cared for. They would be horribly damaged. Addiction recovery, mental health services, all of that would just be devastated.”- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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These assholes voted tonight to cut funding for 2/3 of seniors in nursing homes. They voted to cut funding for 1/2 of the births in the US. They voted to shut down rural hospitals like the one I’ve worked at for 23 years. All for Trillions in tax cuts for billionaires. Unconscionable.

Merci

I refuse to be dejected and despondent. We are so much better than those in charge. I have relentless faith in the power of the people. And we at the Committee to Protect Health Care are 40,000 strong; doctors who will not give up on our patients’ need for accessible and affordable healthcare.

About 85% of my cancer patients rely on Medicaid to cover their treatment. Without it, they wouldn’t be able to afford any care. Same with 95% of my sickle cell patients. Medicaid is a necessary service

A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US.

The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed.

This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs.
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When they tried to cut #Medicaid in Trump's first term, I had an encounter with then VP @Mike_Pence in early 2020 explaining why it is such a critical program for my patients and the community that I serve. 2/13