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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

23.07.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2714    ๐Ÿ” 471    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67

Congrats to you both!!

13.06.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s so weird how weโ€™re all just working like this is still a normal country.

31.03.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18467    ๐Ÿ” 2579    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 107    ๐Ÿ“Œ 365
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I thought this was Boston. But, it's Greenland.

28.03.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10389    ๐Ÿ” 2086    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 245    ๐Ÿ“Œ 116

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

24.03.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14553    ๐Ÿ” 3069    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 194    ๐Ÿ“Œ 87

Democrats need to make this an ad and just play on repeat until 2026

21.03.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
KFF donut chart showing Medicaid covered about one-fifth of all spending on hospital care in 2023. The chart shows the distribution of spending on hospital care by payer, 2023: Medicaid is 19%, Medicare is 25%, Private health insurance is 37%, Other third-party payers is 10%, other health insurance programs is 7%, and out of pocket is 3%.

KFF donut chart showing Medicaid covered about one-fifth of all spending on hospital care in 2023. The chart shows the distribution of spending on hospital care by payer, 2023: Medicaid is 19%, Medicare is 25%, Private health insurance is 37%, Other third-party payers is 10%, other health insurance programs is 7%, and out of pocket is 3%.

Medicaid accounted for 19% of all spending on hospital care in 2023, or $283 billion out of $1.5 trillion.

Absorbing cuts in Medicaid spending could be challenging for hospitals and may accelerate the pace of hospital closures, including in rural areas. on.kff.org/41HDoKR

05.03.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research

04.03.2025 03:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 128    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Go Kiara! Such important work.

26.02.2025 02:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MEDICAID Basics
Over 50% of the spending for Medicaid goes to cover those with DISABILITIES and the AGED

38% of those on Medicaid are CHILDREN. /1

25.02.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 408    ๐Ÿ” 254    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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DOGE By The Numbers
theonion.com/doge-by...

21.02.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14325    ๐Ÿ” 2871    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 184    ๐Ÿ“Œ 83
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Donald Trump and Elon Muskโ€™s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

14.02.2025 01:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4258    ๐Ÿ” 1254    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 180    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60

I hate it here.

13.02.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If only that breast cancer commercial ended with a notice about all the research funding cuts the current administration is pushing through and how it has immediate negative impacts on breast cancer research and screening.

10.02.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 354    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

You and me both, my friend. See you out there!

08.02.2025 02:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. Itโ€™s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

08.02.2025 01:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1154    ๐Ÿ” 369    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
Cover of The Lancet: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake.
Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

Cover of The Lancet: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

Oh, hell yeah

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

07.02.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 216    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Oh no!! Itโ€™s the worst! Get well soon.

05.02.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nothing to see hereโ€ฆ

31.01.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜”

27.01.2025 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our countryโ€™s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I donโ€™t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

23.01.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7650    ๐Ÿ” 2185    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 178    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67

My daughter did the same at that age. I was a little sad when she learned the real name for it.

16.01.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I have so many questions for the PI

15.01.2025 01:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฎ

15.01.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, yes, and yes

17.12.2024 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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