About 17 Million More People Could be Uninsured due to the Big Beautiful Bill and other Policy Changes In total, due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and other policy changes, the number of people without health insurance is expected to increase by about 17 million. If all of this comes to pass, it wo...

Uninsured Number After Big Beautiful Bill Takes Effect

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Impacts of Medical Debt - CCLP Medical debt impacts several other areas in a person’s life, including household finances, physical and mental health, and access to housing.

Medical Debt Cause of Bankruptcies

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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.

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Spending vs Outcomes

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What if Healthcare Actually Worked for People? I am looking to build a new kind of healthcare access model. The intent will be to connect individuals with caring providers for affordable, up-front, transparent prices - no insurance required. If y...

🚩The Big, Beautiful Bill is going to leave 17 million more Americans uninsured.
🚩More than 60% of bankruptcies are because of medical debt.
🚩The US spends the most on healthcare of any wealthy country, yet has the worst healthcare outcomes.

🛑 This is unacceptable for what is a human right.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
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Public services are not a start up - “moving fast and breaking things” puts lives at risk.

But we’re in a meritocracy now! /s

Thank you 🙏👏👏 we are lucky to have you!

Trump’s “Return to Office” order for the federal workforce is a misnomer - many of us were hired as remote workers into remote teams that have been remote for 15+ years. Despite this, we are still being forced to “return” to an office we don’t have.

SRY gene: MedlinePlus Genetics The SRY gene provides instructions for making a protein called the sex-determining region Y protein. Learn about this gene and related health conditions.

While I still don't have an answer for solving America's utter defiance to accept fact and science, I do know that dismantling the Department of Education and revoking DEI programs will not help.
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that frequently lives rent free in my head, the gears of my mind quietly turning in the background of life, waiting for some epiphany to come.

as the SRY gene which provides the fetus instructions for making the sex-determining protein, does not activate until 6-7 weeks after conception). Would the outcome have been the same if the instructions had said "free standing" instead of "self-supporting"?
America's antiscience bias is something

structure which was taped on the wall almost to the classroom ceiling, earned us extra credit.
It was such a clarifying moment for me. THIS is how we end up with nonsensical laws and executive orders (including the recent EO saying sex is determined at conception... which would make everyone female

explain why doing this would disqualify us, but how does one explain a physics concept like that in less than 3 minutes? It wasn't a hill I was willing to die on, so I let it go. Turns out, our law professor also did not understand physics and considered the structure "self-supported" and so, our

suggested we build our structure against the wall, taping it above a foot above the desk and continuing the structure upwards against the wall from there.
If you know physics, you know that a taped structure against the wall is not self-supporting - it is being supported by the wall. I tried to

allotted 5 minutes, and the extra credit was yours.
Our team got to work. I was the only one with a STEM background, but I tend to only step up and lead a group if there is a leadership vacuum, so I instead participated and followed others' lead rather than offering up suggestions... until someone

Antiscience bias is real - whether it's an intentional dismissal of facts or not. And, years ago, I benefited from it. On my first day of my MBA program's Business Law class, we were given an opportunity to earn extra credit: build the tallest self-supporting structure with your group in the

This is the goal with most, if not all, private agencies - VA is well underway

If the actions of this administration are still surprising you, you need to take a look at this website. This administration always tells on themselves and we need to take it seriously, especially because we are only 1/3 of the way through what is planned!

Don't wait to react once it's too late.

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Congress and Veteran Service Organizations, begun with Agent Orange and most recently for Burn Pits/ Airborne Toxins, has led to historic increases in mandatory VBA spending in recent years." Call your reps today. Share this information far and wide with your fellow Veterans.

Project 2025: "The VA's Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD) has assigned disability ratings to a growing number of heath conditions over time; some are tenuously related or wholly unrelated to military service. The further growth in presumptive service-connected medical conditions pursued by

initiatives aims to reduce disability ratings for future claims (see: Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, page 649). They are coming for any health condition that did not initially present during your service, including Agent Orange and Burn Pit-related illnesses.
Here is an excerpt directly from

Veterans - did you know your disability benefits are on #Project2025's target list?
And no - they don't intend to reimburse you more for your service-related disabilities. If you think it is difficult to get your disability approved by the VA, just wait. One of several VA-related Project 2025

I don't want to hear anyone complaining about DEI unless they and every hiring manager in their organization have taken Harvard's Implicit Bias test

Let’s get out there everyone and show the world we will not sit idly by while our democracy erodes!
50501 Protests

The Greatest DEI Disaster Ever Democratic Senators--especially the women--shed a glaring light on a sketchy, uninformed nominee who has no business lording over the Pentagon

MERITOCRACY my ass. DEI for White, incompetent, ethically compromised men: contrarian.substack.com/p/the-greate...

I would like to remind all Federal Employees that, on day 1 of your public service, you took an oath to serve the American people by upholding the Constitution - not to serve the administration in the executive office.

That is all.