Payers and policymakers elsewhere need to take a page from this playbook. Primary care is critical infrastructure for the US health care system. It was already at risk, and COVID is causing major damage.

How health insurance companies were made

Most of you rallied to this account because of my hot takes about pep bands during prep football games. As most of you have probably noticed, I'm no longer working in newspapers. I am working as a field organizer in Fort Atkinson for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

A turbo speed version of what has been playing out over time in the US: devaluing of public health and prevention efforts while we spend huge $$ on end-stage therapies.

Giannis took the trophies to Chick-fil-A and ordered 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 50 nuggets. Amazing scenes 😂

"I’m not a health expert but I believe in people. No matter if you’re rich or poor, people are important & at the end of the day what are we going to do about it? This is me doing something about it.” - Giannis Antetokounmpo on telehealth investment jsonline.com/story/sports/n…⁩

I swear insurance companies throw out the craziest bullshit just to see if anybody’s paying attention. Public shaming is good and productive sometimes.

Unfortunate, but necessary information

After years of Republicans talking about “freedom,” is there ONE Republican in Congress prepared to stand with Ukraine and democracy? Or do they ALL agree with Trump that Vladimir Putin, a blood-thirsty dictator, is our ally in this horrific war that he started.

if i were a foreign adversary of the united states, core policies i would support: 1) leaving nato and the un 2) shutting down foreign aid 3) dismantling the professional us bureaucracy 4) removing safeguards for epidemics and disease

Republicans blocked aid for this

David Dack I covered this on Exercise and the Brain. It activates 2 parallel circuits involving the adrenals, signaling by the vagus nerve to a brain center that releases norepinephrine, and separately, direct activation of a brain circuit that increases alertness. So this whole “exercise

Stunning. With rollout of the RSV vaccine and treatment for babies <8 months old, RSV hospitalizations fell >50%. By comparison, for toddlers and kids <5 years who were not covered by these advances, RSV hospitalizations did not fall.

I actually laughed out loud. I love Dr. G 😂

The only appropriate role for an insurance company is to pay bills, not to "manage" care. The only appropriate decision-makers in health care are patients and their doctor. Corporate America practicing medicine without a license needs to end.

What’s frustrating as a physician on social media is when you have fun content ideas to provide meaningful medical education to your audience, but then a powerful idiot starts mass diagnosing something fake like “mitochondrial challenges” while people watching at the airport, so

Nine former CDC directors who served under Republican and Democratic presidents warn that the damage RFK Jr is doing to America's public health system is "unlike anything our country has ever experienced."

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