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Andrea Ducas

@andreaducas.bsky.social
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VP of Programs at Peterson Center on Healthcare; formerly Health Policy VP at Center for American Progress & SPO at RWJF // skeets my own // feminist, tea-lover, travel bug, hiker, relentless pursuer of a more perfect union

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David Schleifer @davidschleifer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
That's basically the price of a car, every year
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Natasha Murphy @nzmurphy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will increase the uninsured population by millions. ➡️ Every state. ➡️ Every congressional district. See the breakdown: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Increase the Number of Americans Without Health Coverage in Every State and Congressional District
Explore how the law’s historic cuts will affect uninsurance where you live.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
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RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Americans’ Most Valuable Asset Isn’t Stocks or a Home. It’s Social Security. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...
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Americans’ Most Valuable Asset Isn’t Stocks or a Home. It’s Social Security.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 04/09/2025
I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.
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a woman in a blue shirt is looking at a man in a pink shirt .
Alt: a woman in a blue shirt is looking at a man in a pink shirt , scene from Notting Hill
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"This report sets examples of Kennedy’s costly, chaotic, and corrupt actions from EVERY DAY he has served as Secretary." From Feb 13- Sept 4. 203 days of sowing chaos and spreading misinformation; dismantling HHS research, prevention and health care and more. www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The results were so secret that they were published for the entire world to see, even RFK Jr. But, as @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote back in February, “Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence that vaccines are safe”.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This is one hell of a way to make America healthy again 🤯 Key CDC leadership positions… #USAnotRFK
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Grateful to Dr Demetre Daskalakis for his voice tonight 🔥 🛟🧪🩺
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Andrea Ducas @andreaducas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
RFK Jr. has done the exact opposite of promoting “medical freedom” and has instead dismantled systems that allow people to make choices. This move threatens our health and our autonomy. www.americanprogress.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Is Systematically Undermining Vaccine Science and Endangering Health
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent upheaval of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is just one example of numerous attempts to replace science with his personal ag...
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Young children are at high risk of serious complications from COVID-19. Now parents will face more challenges getting their kids COVID vaccines, having to jump through hoops for approval. And they could find vaccines no longer covered by their health insurance plans. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...
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FDA approves new Covid shots with limits on who can get them under RFK Jr.
It's unclear how easily patients without high risk factors will be able to get a Covid shot, and whether insurance plans will still cover them.
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Washingtonian Problems @washprobs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
According to a post on Reddit, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle t-boned a car in Capitol Hill this morning. Firefighters reportedly used the jaws of life to free the driver, who DC Fire & EMS said sustained only minor injuries.
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
RFK Jr keeps finding new ways to cast doubt on vaccine safety. If he follows the approach he used with ACIP, he will appoint people with limited vaccine expertise and credentials, conflicts of interest, and personal agendas. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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HHS revives child vaccine safety panel sought by anti-vaccine activists
Anti-vaccine activists funded a May lawsuit to reconvene the defunct Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines and scrutinize the childhood immunization schedule.
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A Danish study of more than 1.2 million children over more than two decades found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
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Aluminum in Vaccines Not Culprit in Kids' Chronic Diseases, Study Shows
Nationwide analysis evaluates autism, asthma, and other disorders in 1.2 million Danish children
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
bottom 20% poorer, top 10% 2.7% richer, everyone else 0.1 to 1.5% better off.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New from CBO: year-by-year health coverage effects of the "Big Beautiful Bill." The law kicks 10 million off their health insurance (the difference between the orange and dotted blue line). It also does nothing to address the cliff from the blue to the green, for another 5 million losing coverage.
Trump take line, kick 10 million people off health insurance. Orange man indeed bad.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In a single act, Trump is undoing significant portions of the health coverage gains of the last 60 years.
Percent of people without health insurance, going back to 1963. Huge declines following the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, down to roughly 12%. Creeps back up to 15%. Then comes the ACA, down to 9%. Creeps back up a little. Then comes Biden improvements to the ACA, down to 8%. The "Big Beautiful Bill" pushes it back up to 12%.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Medicare Advantage is costing taxpayers $550 billion this year. UnitedHealth Group and a web of business partners have built a research apparatus — replete with flawed studies and papers — to push back against critics and ward off attempts at MA reform. www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/u...
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Inside the research machine that helps UnitedHealth protect its Medicare profits
A STAT Investigation: Inside the research machine that helps UnitedHealth protect its Medicare profits.
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In addition to undermining efforts to defend against infectious diseases and save lives, RFK Jr misleads and confuses the public and his actions threaten to stall cures for cancer. ufhealth.org/news/2025/su...
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Surprising finding could pave way for universal cancer vaccine - UF Health
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An experimental mRNA vaccine boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy in a mouse-model study, bringing researchers one step…
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Medicaid has been helping millions of Americans access the lifesaving health care they need for six decades. Listen to @americanprogressaction.org’s @andreaducas.bsky.social speaking on @c-span.bsky.social on the anniversary of Medicaid to discuss the lasting impact of the program.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare this week, check out @andreaducas.bsky.social's starter pack of health policy-focused thought leaders, researchers, reporters, and advocates to learn more from the experts on health policy:
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Progressive Health Policy Voices
Join the conversation
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
On its 60th anniversary, Medicaid is under attack; historic program cuts enacted by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration threaten the health and financial security of millions of Americans. The latest from CAP's @andreaducas.bsky.social:
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On Its 60th Anniversary, Medicaid Is Under Attack
Historic program cuts enacted by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration threaten the health and financial security of millions of Americans.
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 30/07/2025
What have Democrats done to lower the cost of health care? A lot. @andreaducas.bsky.social dives into it on @cspanwj.bsky.social.
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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Washington Journal #CSPAN #CSPANWJ Skeet at @c-span.bsky.social and cspanwj.bsky.social VP of Health Policy at Center for American Progress Action Fund @andreaducas.bsky.social discusses the 60th Anniversary of #Medicare & #Medicaid Watch here: tinyurl.com/bdd4khps
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Kennedy Andara @kennedyandara.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Are you left wondering "what's next?" following the passage of Trump's mega bill? Check out a detailed timeline of the enactment dates of several major provisions from OBBBA to know when cuts and changes will go into effect ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Implementation Timeline of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
An overview of when the cuts to basic needs programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and student loans and other provisions in the Republicans’ OBBBA go into effect.
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Andrea Ducas @andreaducas.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Great set of folks to follow!
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Andrea Ducas @andreaducas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Yes -- this is going to be a big issue for more than a million people, per CBO as @americanprogress.bsky.social highlights here:
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 28/07/2025
NYC joins federal lawsuit to protect Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from 3 countries gothamist.com/news/nyc-joins-federa…
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NYC joins federal lawsuit to protect Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from 3 countries
People wait in line to enter the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement New York field office in Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on July 28, 2025 in New York City. The protections are currently set to expire on Aug. 5 for Nepali immigrants, and on Sept. 8 for those from Honduras and Nicaragua. [ more › ]
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2025
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Under the guise of ferreting out waste & abuse in traditional Medicare, CMS’s “WISeR” project will create onerous red tape that will hurt seniors’ access to care. Don Berwick and @andreaducas.bsky.social explain for @statnews.com:
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Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply troubling
Preauthorization is about to enter the lives of many seniors who have chosen traditional Medicare over MA, write former CMS Administrator Don Berwick and health policy expert Andrea Ducas.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
and this was right after they rolled out a big “agreement” to reduce prior auth from payers…
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Andrea Ducas @andreaducas.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
CMMI has announced a demo to introduce more prior authorization into traditional Medicare. My latest with Don Berwick in @statnews.com on that’s bad news: www.statnews.com/2025/07/25/m...
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Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply troubling
Preauthorization is about to enter the lives of many seniors who have chosen traditional Medicare over MA, write former CMS Administrator Don Berwick and health policy expert Andrea Ducas.
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Natasha Murphy @nzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Under the guise of ferreting out waste & abuse in traditional Medicare, CMS’s “WISeR” project will create onerous red tape that will hurt seniors’ access to care. Don Berwick and @andreaducas.bsky.social explain for @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/07/25/m...
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Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply troubling
Preauthorization is about to enter the lives of many seniors who have chosen traditional Medicare over MA, write former CMS Administrator Don Berwick and health policy expert Andrea Ducas.
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thank you @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social for profiling the irony in the Trump administration's purported plan to "make America healthy" while ripping away resources we all rely on to protect and advance our health. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Unpacking the MAHA mirage: Trump guts healthcare while preaching wellness
"They're moving us back almost into the Dark Ages."
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Kierra @kierrajones.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
As the administration guts programs that research and support women’s health and fertility, it will be more dangerous for women to be pregnant during an already dire maternal health crisis. Read more from me and @jillrose.bsky.social:
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The Trump Administration Is Endangering Women’s Reproductive Health
The Trump administration is dismantling programs to prevent, treat, and cure diseases that affect women as well as threatening access to basic reproductive and maternal health care—and the One Big Bea...
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
@kierrajones.bsky.social and I discuss how the administration’s dismantling of environmental and public health protections, along with historic cuts to Medicaid, will have a disproportionate impact on reproductive and maternal health. Read more: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration Is Endangering Women’s Reproductive Health
The Trump administration is dismantling programs to prevent, treat, and cure diseases that affect women as well as threatening access to basic reproductive and maternal health care—and the One Big Bea...
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Popping in briefly from vacation to share my latest: Here's how the ~$1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in Republicans' newly passed law could threaten the home- and community-based care that many Americans with disabilities rely on.
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Disabled Americans Fear What Medicaid Cuts Could Do to Them
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows” “The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I spoke w/ @maddylelu.bsky.social about how massive cuts to Medicaid will harm disabled students. "'School-based Medicaid funding has long been the plan. Stripping it away is fiscally reckless, legally wrong, & morally bankrupt,’ said Doherty.” Read more: www.theinvisiblevoice.net/writersroom/...
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“Fiscally Reckless, Legally Wrong, and Morally Bankrupt”: Medicaid Cuts Drain Vital School Services — The Invisible Voice
Medicaid cuts threaten essential services in public schools, putting disability rights and inclusive education at risk nationwide.
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Natasha Murphy @nzmurphy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A federal judge just struck down the CFPB rule that would’ve wiped billions in medical debt from credit reports. It’s a win for debt collectors and a loss for millions of Americans 🧵: www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/b...
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Judge nixes a Biden rule in order to keep medical debt on credit reports | CNN Business
Americans’ unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week vacated a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such de...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Actions mean more than words. And the fact that the new COI rules are not being applied to the new hand-picked Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, speaks volumes. www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...
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HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest
RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Republican line is quickly becoming “we didn’t cut Medicaid because raw Medicaid spending still increases” — but if you adjust for inflation and population growth, that’s not true. That’s why more than 10 million people are going to lose their health insurance from the law.
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The GOP Is Doing Damage Control After Cutting Medicaid — And It's Getting Weird
“We are increasing Medicaid expenditures by $200 billion,” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) falsely said of Trump’s tax law, which will strip health care from millions.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show:
	•	Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS.
	•	Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS.

Key takeaway box below reads:
“Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.”

Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.
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