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Deb Gordon

@gordondeb

Author, The Health Care Consumer's Manifesto
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Co-Director, Alliance of Professional Health Advocates aphadvocates.org

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Atul Gawande (@atul_gawande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

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Not clear how blocking visibility into health threats which can /likely will harm Americans makes us great, strong, safe, healthy. I understand the movement is about cruelty to vulnerable people elsewhere but I don’t understand how making Americans less safe serves the objectives

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Every aspect of life is affected by government funds. Not only poor and vulnerable people but companies, hospitals, etc. Expect rise in unemployment figures. Not sure that’s in the administration’s best interest. Certainly won’t help the economy, states (red and blue), etc.

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Red states rely much more heavily on Medicaid than blue states. Shutting access to federal funds, essentially blocking Medicaid, hurts his own supporters disproportionately. It’s wrong across the board but isn’t it also against his own interests?

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Medicaid is not “fully paid for by the federal government” as RFK jr just said. The Secretary of HHS should know the most basic #facts

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Ok now he says Medicaid premiums and deductibles are too high. I’m starting to wonder if he knows what Medicaid even is

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This is like watching a cold call on someone who didn’t do the reading. Stringing words together that they hope sound plausible with a few buzz words thrown in but clearly had no clue what he’s even being asked

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Medicare Advantage is not more expensive. Many people choose MA plans because they can get $0 Premiums plus extra benefits. The problem arises when those managed care plans restrict coverage/deny services. This guy really has no clue about the US healthcare system

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Questions about EMTALA shouldn’t be hard for a lawyer. The questions about science are reasonably out of scope and better left to actual scientists, but basic questions of health law shouldn’t be a stumper.

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Listening to RFK jr on his observation that more people seem to have allergies now than when he was a kid is like listening to trump saying it’s cold out so global warming must be a hoax

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If one teacher or professor anywhere in RFK’s education had taught him that correlation doesn’t equal causation, we might not be here.

Craig Spencer MD MPH (@craig_a_spencer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This morning Uganda announced a new Ebola outbreak. The last time there was an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, the CDC worked with the WHO on helping end it. But now, the CDC can’t even talk to the WHO. I repeat, again and again, this is pure stupidity that will only hurt us.

Nancy Vu (@vu_reports) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sen. Hassan asked Kennedy to simply define Medicare Part A, B, C. The HHS pick stumbled through with incorrect answers. Kennedy said Medicare Part A is "mainly for primary care and physicians" (Part A is hospital insurance). For Part B: "For physicans and doctors." (Part B

Cynthia Cox (@cynthiaccox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We KFF had already downloaded these government data files and will be able to see what, if anything, changes if/when the data come back online

Isaac Bogoch (@bogochisaac) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-heal…

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Neera Tanden🌻 (@neeratanden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Voters didn't vote to make Elon Musk king of the government. Why is everyone aquiescing to this? People should resist. Start calling your members. If you have any Republican representatives, call them.