In JAMA we find that in 2020 the VA paid $20B for Veterans enrolled in Medicare Advantage. Plans get paid full rates regardless of where care comes from. As such this could mean huge duplicate payments to plans for care already covered by VA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… 1/

Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die

Can confirm. Connecticut’s Medicaid payment system has been turned off. Doctors and hospitals cannot get paid. Discussions ongoing about whether services can continue. Medicaid covers health care for millions of seniors and covers 40% of births in America.

Trump is essentially carrying out an illegal shutdown of the federal government, putting tens of millions of American lives at risk. Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

Meals on Wheels CEO responds to Stephen Millers assertions on funding freeze: Meals on Wheels, 37% of that funding comes through The Older Americans act.. and that is on the list as a grant funded program, which it is, because the support for Meals on Wheels goes from the federal

Congress would rather do ANYTHING but make practicing medicine easier for physicians

Please, someone on the Finance Committee: Ask RFKjr to explain the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. Should be the first question asked of any HHS secy nominee.

That’s right. The world is watching. This is the most direct attack on our democracy and our legislative branch in our history. Lo and behold. Project 2025 just as promised by the Heritage Foundation and conspiring for this coup attempt. A spectacular blast of lawlessness and

Yesterday it was a ‘dumb media hoax’ and a ‘left wing media lie.’ Today… they rescinded it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Take it straight from the White House: Trump's illegal freeze has NOT been rescinded. Only the memo has. Working families, Veterans and small business owners are still living in fear that they'll lose out on services they rely on. A cruel, needless crisis created by Trump.

Leadership in public health must be rooted in truth and transparency. Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s nomination threatens decades of progress in addressing health disparities in the U.S. The Senate should act decisively and oppose this unfit nomination. #WeDontTrustHim #SayNoToPolio

N95 mask-wearing HEROES protesting the RFK Jr confirmation hearing. THANK YOU!!! ✊

This already exists. It is called the Government Accountability Office. Musk's proposition is not that a public entity should monitor federal spending for waste. It is that he - an unaccountable private citizen - should be able to cancel spending that he deems wasteful at will

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

NEW: Congressional District level interactive map showing how much ACA enrollees' out-of-pocket premium payments would increase without an extension of enhanced subsidies. (link below)

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.