Why are progressives tolerating misogyny (Platner) and antisemitism (El-Sayid)? People, do not vote for this. Dems, we can do better. Thank you @symonedsanders.bsky.social for calling out his antisemitic lies. #whyweneedthemedia
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Physician, published book author and healthcare leader. I advocate for healthcare transformation to create healthy populations. #MedSky #childhealth #PEM #AI
Happy to help @cnn.com with this story. So far 275 military trainees are sick w flu, 4 reportedly hospitalized & maybe 1 death (not confirmed). Predictable & why vaccines are fundamental to force health protection. How much more damage to nat sec can we tolerate? www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...
US Air Force requested to bring back mandatory flu shots weeks before basic training outbreak | CNN Politics
A worsening flu outbreak among recruits attending basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, began earlier this month while an Air Force request to reinstate a mandatory flu shot requi...
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My latest Substack on maternal mortality in the U.S.
Only 12% of people in the U.S. are fully health literate. Doesn't matter how smart & educated you are, navigating our system is challenging. Knowledge is empowering. The Prepared Patient available for preorder! Available at: www.amazon.com/Prepared-Pat... thepreparedpatient.com
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To justify their bone-headed anti-vaccine policies, the Trump Administration officials hide the evidence that vaccines work. We are not safe with these people in power. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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My latest Substack newsletter about primary care access: open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
When Even Physicians Struggle to Find Primary Care, the System Is Failing Patients
My search for a board-certified primary care physician exposed a larger problem: physician shortages, concierge barriers, and a system that is making equitable access harder to sustain.
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My latest Substack. Be a prepared patient and consumer. Know how your health care coverage is changing. open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
Your Health Care Coverage Is Changing Now
What Every Patient Needs to Know in 2026
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The Prepared Patient: Your Guide to Surviving the Health Care System Is Available for Preorder! open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
My Book Is Available for Preorder!
The Prepared Patient: Your Guide to Surviving the Health Care System
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Our healthcare system is broken but you are not. Learn how to prepare. Protect your finances, understand your coverage. My book available for presale at: www.press.jhu.edu/books/author...
My latest The Prepared Patient Substack on the healthcare affordability crisis with policy solutions open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
The Prepared Patient: Policy Solutions to Fix the Unaffordability Crisis
One in a series to help The Prepared Patient understand what is broken and what is needed to fix this mess
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My Substack about the health spending bill up, with bipartisan agreement, up for a vote this week. Here's what's in it: open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
Bipartisan Health Funding Bill: What's In, What's Out
Will It Increase Affordability?
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“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane because it often results in physical death.” Martin Luther King Jr.
My latest Substack on the Administration's healthcare "plan". terryadirim.substack.com/p/verdict-th...
Verdict: The "Great Healthcare Plan to Lower Costs", not So Great
An evaluation of the Trump Administration's plan to lower healthcare costs
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My latest Substack on what CEOs get wrong about digital health transformations. open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
What Hospital and Health System CEOs Get Wrong About AI and Digital Transformation
“AI and digital transformation is not an IT effort, it is about healthcare delivery.”
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My new newsletter about the impacts of Congress leaving before passing an extension of the enhanced ACA subsidies. www.linkedin.com/pulse/congre...
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Saying other first world countries don't recommend Hep B vaccines at birth is an outright lie. Among countries in the European Centre for CDC: as of 2019, 43% of those countries offered a HepB birth dose to all newborns. Also, Australia recommends a birth dose + Israel and other countries.
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U.S. Health Care System At the Breaking Point
Costs, Complexity, and Reform Strategies
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Department of Defense, you need to fix this. Military Service Members should not be expected to need food pantries. www.wsj.com/us-news/mili...
Military Families Are Getting Paid, but Still Need Food Pantries
Many have struggled to get sufficient food for years, their finances on a knife’s edge due to constant base moves, deployments and other pressures.
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Terry Adirim, M.D., is a physician and former government health official. She writes about health policy & the future of medicine. She is author of The Prepared Patient: Your Guide to Beating the Odds...
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Give to your local foodbank. I just did. No one should go hungry in this country.
Price transparency in health care is necessary. But prices are not THE answer to reigning in prices or fixing what is broken in our system. open.substack.com/pub/terryadi...
Health Care Economics 101: Does Price Transparency Work?
Policies promoting “consumer-driven health care” often overestimate the ability of patients to behave like shoppers.
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We all must stand up for Leticia James. She is being punished for doing her job of prosecuting criminals.
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Add to your to-do list this weekend - get your COVID and Flu shots. The committee advising on vaccines (ACIP), now mostly anti-vaxxers, is meeting this week. It’s expected they will further restrict access to these life-saving vaccines. I just got back from getting mine- easy in my state and free.