Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.
András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 4mo agoPerhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Republicans refused to renew ACA subsidies. Premiums will spike, and millions will lose coverage. Meanwhile in Japan, universal health care is taken for granted—and it works. @citizencohn.bsky.social shows what a better system looks like, and what America is choosing to give up.
Everyone should read this paper, especially in light of the FDA’s new attacks on science and vaccines as reported today in the Washington Post.
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 8mo agowww.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.” Genes-> Medicine nature.com/articles/s41...
Yale & Penn found that literally tens of thousands of people will die because of the Trump Administration’s cuts to healthcare. I will never stop fighting for a right to quality, affordable care for every American. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
House Bill Seen Causing 51,000 Preventable Deaths Annually
Health care scientists warm the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will strip health insurance from millions and cause thousands of preventable deaths annually
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We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
NEW: If you've ever fought with your health insurer -- and, let's be honest, who hasn't? -- then this explainer on external reviews from @deldeib.bsky.social of @propublica.org will surely help you. www.propublica.org/article/heal...
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
propublica.org
Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
Ousted CDC director testifies she was fired for resisting pressure from RFK Jr.
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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BALDWIN: We're left wondering who's advising Kennedy or if his own conspiracy theories are enough to dictate who can get a vaccine. Did you ever brief him? HOURY: No B: You were chief medical officer at CDC. Would you say it's harmful to the public if he's not informed by experts? H: Very much so
On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
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The effect on premiums if enhanced ACA tax credits expire is confusing. Average out-of-pocket premiums would increase by over 75% with smaller tax credits. Total premiums charged by insurers would also increase 4 percentage points more than expected as healthier people drop coverage.
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
I wrote about Trumpian culture, the Liver King, scams, frauds, corruption—and the new structural economic and political incentives that have caused us to enter a new era of inequality dominated by hucksters, which I call: The Grifted Age. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-grifte...
The Grifted Age
Move over Gilded Age. In the 21st century, hucksters and swindlers are exploiting mass stupidity and conspiratorial thinking—and getting filthy rich in the process. Why is this happening?
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Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
It's the Guns.
America is the only rich democracy that features the routine mass slaughter of its citizens with guns. Why does this happen? The data show a really clear picture: It's the guns. Yes, it's that simple.
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It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Dr. Michael Osterholm cuts to the chase on why cutting mRNA research funding is such a dangerous idea.
“Trump calls our trade deficits a ‘50 year emergency’ — that’s an oxymoron… I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber. I buy a haircut from her, she buys nothing from me.” Conservative George Will clowns Trump’s trade war, says Congress has abandoned their duties
