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Gary Schwitzer, @garyschw.bsky.social

@garyschwitzer

Health care journalist for 50 yrs. Founder/Publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, which had a great 16-year run. Now retired but still publishing a Substack.

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The goose that laid the golden egg. A goose to taxpayers & a golden egg for Medicare Advantage plans w/another pay hike. 1st sign of life under Medicare chief Dr. Oz, who owned insurance stocks & touted MA plans for years on his television show? substack.com/home/post/p-16…

The goose that laid the golden egg. A goose to taxpayers & a golden egg for Medicare Advantage plans w/another pay hike. 1st sign of life under Medicare chief Dr. Oz, who owned insurance stocks & touted MA plans for years on his television show? 
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Rough ride on the RFK, Jr. rollercoaster. A macro view of the mind-numbing messages coming from, and about him - just from the last week or so. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…

Rough ride on the RFK, Jr. rollercoaster.  A macro view of the mind-numbing messages coming from, and about him - just from the last week or so. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
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What a week! He’s unaware of $11B cuts from his own agency. Touted “miraculous, instantaneous” measles recoveries. Predicts he’ll reveal the cause of autism after new global research - within 150 days! open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…

What a week! He’s unaware of $11B cuts from his own agency. Touted “miraculous, instantaneous” measles recoveries. Predicts he’ll reveal the cause of autism after new global research - within 150 days! open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
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Swift rejection of RFK Jr. statements that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job. washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04…

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Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How She Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants. And Art Garfunkel & The Fonz now pitching drugs. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/confessions-…

Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How She Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants. And Art Garfunkel & The Fonz now pitching drugs. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/confessions-…
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Trump’s Surgeon General pick “falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience.” lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-surge…

Trump’s Surgeon General pick “falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience.”
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“Do you know and you're blatantly lying? Or do you not know, and you're just that out of touch?”- a laid-off FDA scientist said of Dr. Marty Makary’s comments. cbsnews.com/news/fda-head-…

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The The Washington Post editorial board: If Congressional Republicans are serious about eliminating waste/fraud in federal health care spending, they would start by overhauling something they long have championed: Medicare Advantage. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

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Gutting the Women’s Health Initiative “because limiting knowledge about preventing cardiovascular disease, dementia, colon & breast cancer & bone health for women as they age is definitely a big step in making America healthy again!“ vajenda.substack.com/p/the-whi-is-e…

Gutting the Women’s Health Initiative “because limiting knowledge about preventing cardiovascular disease, dementia, colon & breast cancer & bone health for women as they age is definitely a big step in making America healthy again!“
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“We have made living with disability and old age exceedingly unpleasant. We are on course to make it virtually intolerable.” nytimes.com/2025/04/24/hea….

“We have made living with disability and old age exceedingly unpleasant.  We are on course to make it virtually intolerable.” nytimes.com/2025/04/24/hea….
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Disappointing The Washington Post headline fails to educate the public. "The key to heart attack survival" headline for a story about sudden cardiac arrest is misleading. These are 2 different scenarios - something CPR and AED training emphasizes. Please correct.

Disappointing <a href="/washingtonpost/">The Washington Post</a> headline fails to educate the public. "The key to heart attack survival" headline for a story about sudden cardiac arrest is misleading. These are 2 different scenarios - something CPR and AED training emphasizes. Please correct.
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Over and over, journalists, PR people, and many who should know better - treat the terms “heart attack” and “sudden cardiac arrest” as if they are interchangeable. They are not. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…

Over and over, journalists, PR people, and many who should know better - treat the terms “heart attack” and “sudden cardiac arrest” as if they are interchangeable.  They are not. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
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GLP-1 drug hype reaches new heights as TIME dips into the abyss of obsequiousness with piles of superlatives for Lilly’s pill in development. I point to contrasting NY Times story. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…

GLP-1 drug hype reaches new heights as TIME dips into the abyss of obsequiousness with piles of superlatives for Lilly’s pill in development. I point to contrasting NY Times story. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
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“This is a disaster for effective oversight,” said Robert Steinbrook, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group. “There’s not going to be much federal involvement in protecting human subjects.” open.substack.com/pub/gooznews/p…

“This is a disaster for effective oversight,” said Robert Steinbrook, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group. “There’s not going to be much federal involvement in protecting human subjects.” open.substack.com/pub/gooznews/p…
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Trump's new Surgeon General pick embraces Woo Woo. From one bad choice to another. The hits just keep on comin’. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…

Trump's new Surgeon General pick embraces Woo Woo. From one bad choice to another. The hits just keep on comin’. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…