Proud to have supported this campaign to make Austin the 2nd city in Texas to pass a resolution in support of #MedicareForAll! Grateful to CM Vanessa Fuentes 💃🏽 for championing this resolution and to yosha singh, md mph for her work in making this happen! Physicians for a National Health Program Students for a National Health Program

Whenever I hear people talk about “health equity” or “justice,” I want to see policy demands, not empty rhetoric. This policy agenda for TIME outlines the kind of work that health equity in reality, rather than just perpetual theory, requires. time.com/6278659/how-co…

BREAKING: The Students for a National Health Program resolution calling for AMA to drop its decades-long opposition to #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll passed unanimously! Livestream here: facebook.com/doctorsforsing… cc: AMA Medical Students #MedTwitter #AMAGetOutTheWay

Breaking public health news: After a long wait, Narcan is finally going over-the-counter next week It's currently being shipped to major retailers: CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Walmart Key considerations on this: 🧵 1/

NEW: The FTC is suing U.S. Anesthesia Partners & its private equity owner, Welsh Carson, alleging they formed a monopoly to jack up prices. Comes a year after Tara Bannow & I investigated Welsh Carson's relentless pursuit of profit, which included USAP. statnews.com/2023/09/21/ftc…

Neither of Miranda’s twins were expected to survive after birth. She couldn’t afford to leave the state, so she continued her pregnancy in accordance with Texas law. I followed Miranda through to the bitter, horrible end, with Shelby Tauber on photos. texastribune.org/2023/10/11/tex…

TEXAS IS YOUR BIG 12 CHAMPS 🤘

So excited to join UT Southwestern Urology! Can’t wait for all that’s to come!

🎉 After a historic union election in 2022 and two #RNStrikes in 2023, RNs at Ascension Seton in Austin voted Monday in favor of ratifying a three-year contract! The first-ever union contract at ASCMA! The nurses united will never be defeated! nationalnursesunited.org/press/ascensio…

HORNS WIN!!!!!! HORNS WIN!!!!!! HORNS WIN!!!!!! HORNS WIN!!!!!! HORNS WIN!!!!!!

It's so striking what's missing from the Make America Healthy Again slogans and ideas: health coverage.

Have the Department of Government Efficiency folks made it to the part of the system yet that shows private Medicare Advantage plans get paid by the government 22% more than costs would be in traditional Medicare?

The Trump admin appears poised to double down on one of Washington’s most entrenched orthodoxies: value-based payment (VBP) and its ideology of managed care. Andrew Ryan and I argue this is a mistake. It’s time for a new agenda in Medicare. 1/x

.Sen. Bernie Sanders: Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Debbie Dingell, and I are introducing Medicare for All single-payer legislation. And let me very briefly tell you what this legislation is about.

Opinion: Want to find the real waste in health care spending? Look at Medicare Advantage | Opinion statesman.com/story/opinion/…

Excited to share my latest piece in Austin Statesman! Medicare Advantage - not Medicaid - is the real fraud in healthcare spending. Physicians for a National Health Program Students for a National Health Program

Efforts to eliminate pass-fail grading in medical schools are misguided attempts to undermine the value of a diverse physician workforce, writes a medical student. trib.al/l7H3WSw

Medical school grading policies are meant for medical institutions, not legislators. My latest today in STAT!