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She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements - I share what I'm reading, but it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
"More Texans have signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace compared to last year — despite the expiration of federal subsidies to lower the costs of premiums...But health care experts caution that the preliminary figures show an incomplete picture of how many people ultimately maintain coverage once they receive a premium bill."
The Texas Tribune
Texas breaks ACA health insurance open enrollment record
The Jan. 3 snapshot, though incomplete, indicates a stabler marketplace and less coverage loss than many experts and insurers feared.
 #healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #texas #txlege #USpol
"Six leading medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule announced last week by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal officials." American Academy of Family Physicians...? You've already supported RFK Jr resigning.
Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations
The groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say the C.D.C.’s revised vaccine schedule is not based on scientific evidence and will ...
 #PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #IDmastodon #ChildrensHealth
"Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today appointed two obstetricians-gynecologists to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Both appointees have a history of questioning vaccine safety in pregnancy, and one has erroneously claimed COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages."
RFK Jr. appoints 2 vocal opponents of vaccine use in pregnancy to federal advisory board
One appointee has erroneously claimed COVID-19 vaccines cause miscarriages.
 #PublicHealth #HHS #ACIP #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #MaternalHealth #ReproHealth
“We found that F.D.A. staff and scientists were basing the recommendations on the evidence, and that’s how it’s supposed to be,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Caleb Alexander, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The F.D.A. wasn’t making decisions that suggest that they were on one side or another of larger societal debates governing mifepristone regulation.”
F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds
A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-ba...
 #healthcare #FDA #ReproHealth #mifepristone
This story contains photos, videos and descriptions of violent arrests.
"ProPublica found more than 40 cases over the past year of immigration agents using these life-threatening maneuvers on immigrants, citizens and protesters. The agents are usually masked, their identities secret. The government won’t say if any of them have been punished."
ProPublica
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said ...
 #PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE #DHS #protests #protestors #violence
"Under President Trump, the E.P.A. plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone, when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times...Instead, the agency would estimate only the costs to businesses of complying with the rules."
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human li...
 #PublicHealth #EPA #environment #CleanAir #AirQuality #pollution #USpol
"It has also become a big driver in the number of older single mothers in the U.S. at a time when the country's overall birth rate is declining. The number of unmarried women in their 40s who are having babies has grown by 250% in the last 30 years, according to data from the government. A portion of these women have partners, but many don't." https://www.npr.org/2026/01/12/nx-s1-5647761/ivf-fertility-motherhood-40s-cost-donor-decision #healthcare #fertility #IVF #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #insurance #CostsOfCare
"Asked in an interview about his decision to take a leading role in the politically fraught health care negotiations, Moreno deployed one of Trump’s best-known slogans. 'Putting America first means putting Americans first,' he said. 'People are being affected, and I want to help the people who need help. That’s what we should be doing.'" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/12/bernie-moreno-obamacare-talks-00719585 #healthcare #insurance #ACA #obamacare #TaxCredits #UScongress #MAGA #USpol