First national data on fate of those dropped from Medicaid as part of the great 'Medicaid unwinding' is very troubling: around 1 in 4 become uninsured. Nationwide, with 20 million losing Medicaid, that could translate into ~5 million more uninsured.

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In a 2021 Maternal and Child Health article, I explain how CPS involvement in maternal drug use cases can do more harm vs good & disproportionately 1) happen to & 2) lead to family separation & lower odds of reunification for Black women. Do better The Free Press.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🧵At NEJM, I argue for decompartmentalizing health policy and properly politicizing it rather than allowing it to remain captured by neoliberal norms. Public health, safety, and economic security are entwined. We can’t build any without building all three.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Sharing our blog post in Public Health Post today summarizing an article titled 'Guiding Principles for Writing About Immigrants &Immigrant Health.' The language we use shapes how we treat people. We hope people in #ImmigrantHealth find this helpful Immigrant & Refugee Health Center at BMC publichealthpost.org/viewpoints/gui…

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I told you today would be historic.

39 briefs from 1,067+ signatories, including Congress, State AGs, clergy, homeless folks, doctors, scholars, and so many more.

And we are just getting started.

See you outside SCOTUS on April 22nd.

More at johnsonvgrantspass.com

White House Karine Jean-Pierre:
- 27 M Americans have #asthma
- It costs $5 to make an inhaler; uninsured pay up to $600
- the FTC & FDA attacked 'false patents'
So now, 3 of the 4 'largest inhaler manufacturers announced they will cap the cost...at 35 bucks per month.'

Passing this along:

We have a PGY3 opening starting July 1 at Cambridge Health Alliance/ Harvard Medical School. If interested, please your CV and a brief letter explaining why you'd like to transfer and why you feel you'd be a good fit to [email protected].
Thank you!

'The majority of hospitals are not really managing to give back their fair share in terms of the tax benefits they enjoy,' said Vikas Saini of the Lown Institute said. 'There are haves and have-nots; the haves probably could do more than they're doing.'
modernhealthcare.com/finance/hospit…

No one can possibly look at US mental health crisis response systems and tell me they resemble anything remotely rational, effective, or caring. We need full-scale change––and it's not going to come from police. Get police out of mental health.
statnews.com/2024/02/08/tre…

It is inspiring to see CUGH rallying the #GlobalHealth community to push governments to adopt the #PandemicAccord , seeing this World Health Organization (WHO) reform as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to prepare for future pandemic challenges. Join this effort at myemail.constantcontact.com/Call-to-Action….

Huge shoutout to Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social for not only writing this wonderful book, but also making it open access!

Download 👇🏾

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In general I’m not enthusiastic about charges for Mychart messages etc but I also just spent 3 hours of my day off answering them.

There has to be a happy medium.

Important MA topic & easy to advocate on. Just call your senator today.

Arbitrary cutoffs for support of families w/o a path to housing is very unwise, & likely more expensive overall.

BU/BMC IM Residency BMC Addiction Medicine Fellowship Socially Responsible Surgery Katherine Gergen Barnett MD Gopal Yadavalli, MD, FACP (He/Him) Regan Marsh, MD MPH

'We want people to not see Haitians as a group that are suffering with nothing to contribute. Haitians ... we’ve been dealing with a lot but we’re still a very strong population. If we still can stand, it’s because people are together,” Robi said. nbcnews.com/news/world/hum…

This is not an opinion piece. It is fact.

Every person in every level of US government should see it.

Fix (or ABOLISH) prior authorization.

Great day of legislative meeting w ACP Massachusetts - Catherine Rich Catherine Rich, MD, FACP & I had a wonderful time chatting with Mike Connolly & staff, and staff from Sal DiDomenico.
Thanks to our state legislators-keep up the great work!
#ACPMA2024

I encourage folks to give! Nice way to follow-up to CUGH

The performance of 11 fingertip pulse oximeters during hypoxemia in healthy human participants with varied, quantified skin pigment - eBioMedicine thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

The chaos in Haiti is gut-wrenching. The Haitian people deserve free and fair elections, and safety from violence. I’m monitoring this crisis that is deeply personal for the Haitian community in Massachusetts. Parole has been a lifeline, and we must ensure protections for asylum.