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Yesterday, Georgia doctors, nurses & medical students demanded that Gov. Brian Kemp expand Medicaid. Kemp refuses to expand Medicaid as hospitals close, 70% of Georgians struggle to afford care & Georgia is #3 in uninsured residents. Listen to what these experts had to say.⬇️

Disastrous effects of GA's failure to expand Medicaid playing out in Atlanta with multiple city hospitals on diversion. This crisis could have been prevented.

Commercial health insurers have shown us over, and over, and over again why they should not be trusted to administer Medicare benefits. nytimes.com/2022/10/08/ups… via The Upshot

61 people are dead in just 48 hours from a growing cholera outbreak at Haiti National Penitentiary. When an epidemic breaks out in a prison, the most essential health intervention is to release everyone and provide them with care and proper prevention resources. 1/

Okay! So for anyone following the Atlanta jail fight, here's what happened last night:

Harm reduction saved my life. Years into recovery, I never forgot the kindness of Haven Wheelock. My family had forced me into treatment twice, only for me to relapse and OD. I walked into the syringe exchange scared and alone. I’d had a hep c exposure. 1/

public records show an outbreak of lice & scabies in a Fulton County Jail mental health dorm, impacting 100% of the people there. 90% were found to be significantly malnourished, with muscle wasting commonly seen in people with late stage cancers.

A great turn out at the Georgians for a Universal Health Program Fall Social last night at Brian! Nurses, medical students, physicians, and journalists came together to talk about GA's failing health system and the importance of #universalhealthcare and #MedicareForAll 🍑

These three paragraphs from an article about the wave of jail deaths sweeping the United States will teach you more about the criminal punishment system than anything I've ever posted.

Why is Fulton County (where 90% of Atlanta is located), which jails its residents at nearly three times the rate of other urban counties, threatening to defund its alternative response & pre-arrest diversion program?🧵

So...the DOE decided that SARS-CoV-2 originated with a "lab leak." The available evidence shows overwhelmingly that the pandemic started at Huanan market via zoonosis. But affirmative evidence of lab origin could change my view. What kind of evidence? 🧵 nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/…

THREAD. Many progressives are not paying enough attention to what is happening with Cop City in Atlanta. The level of state violence against local people organizing to protect an essential forest from becoming a training center for militarized cops is escalating.

Emory EM Tox and EMS docs getting ☢️ again…and tormenting one of our PGY1s while at it 😅 TY Kieran Kristensen for being a good sport while we “contaminate” you w/ Cs-137 then “shove” a chest tube in you!#TimeDistanceShielding Emily K Ziad Kazzi, MD, FACMT, FAACT, FAAEM, FACEP

This study has been years underway — I'm happy to see it published today in the Milbank Quarterly. "Century-Long Trends in the Financing and Ownership of American Healthcare." A short thread.

646 rural hospitals are at risk of closing due to financial concerns. That's 30% of all rural hospitals in the US. Georgia is 10th in the country with 20 rural hospitals at risk. This is a devastating example of health care inequity in our country. #M4A zerohedge.com/markets/646-ho…

1. Yes this is negligent healthcare - which is the norm not the exception in US prisons and jails. The issue however is not simply poor medical care but the carceral environment itself. calls to “improve” medical care alone are not enough as these institutions are built to…

1 If you are an Atlanta healthcare worker or student show up on Monday at city council by 11AM. It is important to show solidarity with the movement to stop cop city which is a movement for the future of the city of Atlanta - one defined by vast inequality and the carceral state

Amazing turn out at our 35th anniversary social and fundraiser last night! We raised over $2,000 to help Physicians for a National Health Program start Students for a National Health Program chapters in med schools across the country! Thank you to all those who donated and have joined our cause for healthcare reform! 🍑#m4a

mass turnouts for public comment? wrong way to engage. direct nonviolent actions like living in the trees you want to save? wrong way to engage. a democratic referendum? wrong way to engage. see the pattern?

Deacon Johnny Hollman, Sr. was killed on 8/10/23 by a 23 year-old officer who tased him repeatedly *after* being trained by Atlanta Police Department. He said “I can’t breathe” at least 16x. That’s what their deescalation “training” does.