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Belinda McIntosh, M.D.

@bmacmd.bsky.social
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Physician, Healthcare Equity Advocate, Physicians for a National Health Program, Georgians for a Universal Health Program

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Belinda McIntosh, M.D. @bmacmd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Medicare Advantage Is Breaking America’s Promise to Seniors | Heal CA
THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   Privatized Medicare now covers more than half of older adults nationwide. But how do Medicare
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Dr. Sydney Doe joined a big crowd in Chicago last night to honor the life of Alex Pretti—part of a nationwide week of action organized by @nationalnurses.bsky.social. Together, we will place community care back at the center of our national politics.
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“When we take away health insurance, people die. It’s just that simple.” - Dr. Claudia Fegan, testifying before the U.S. Senate
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Thank you to the American Academy of Family Physicians for supporting “the absolute right of patients to access traditional Medicare” and opposing “involuntary assignment to Medicare Advantage or to private, for-profit care management.”
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HEAL California @healcalifornia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“No real choice.” That’s the reality of Medicare Advantage for many seniors. New Code WACK! episode explores why — and who gets hurt. 🎧 loom.ly/zvcAM9M
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Belinda McIntosh, M.D. @bmacmd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
New Code WACK! episode 🎧 Dr. Belinda McIntosh explains why Medicare Advantage often isn’t a real choice, and how it deepens racial and income disparities for seniors. What surprised you most about Medicare Advantage? loom.ly/zvcAM9M
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Dr. Dave Oxman says the Democratic Party is at a crossroads, and change isn’t coming from the inside. That’s why he’s running to represent the people of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District. Visit daveoxman.com to learn more.
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Dr Dave Oxman
Dave is a lifelong Democrat who believes deeply in public service—but he is not a career politician.
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Watch Video Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=66l8...
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Congress
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Private equity firms don't revive struggling hospitals any more than a chop shop fixes cars. Let's break it down. youtu.be/Q_5vYjMUKnQ
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Private Equity's Assault On Healthcare
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
60 years ago, America did something special. Happy birthday, Medicare!
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The way we offer healthcare in America is a sign of a broken system. It's time we fix it. youtube.com/shorts/lzoxY...
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Employer-based Health Insurance Doesn't Make Sense #politics #philadelphia #philly #democrat
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
RFK is on a mission to spread misinformation in his role as Health and Human Services Secretary. Democrats in power need to step up and call him out as he crusades, spreading junk science and harmful lies.
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Dr. Dave Oxman For Philly @drdaveforphilly.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"If communicated as a matter of economic freedom and a fight against the creeping corporatization of American life, a national health plan could form the cornerstone of a new economic populism from the left." Read the full article here: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen...
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Belinda McIntosh, M.D. @bmacmd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"no amount of data will repair underfunded clinics, reverse physician shortages or protect patients from predatory insurers."
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Belinda McIntosh, M.D. @bmacmd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/11/2025
“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 09/11/2025
I’m no great fan of the ACA. I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system. But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This right here.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake. I voted NO.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS: “If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
No health care, no deal.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Laurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 10/11/2025
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I don’t what to say about a Dem leadership that can be undone by the likes of Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen. Saying they went over Schumer’s head is not the flex people think it is.
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Belinda McIntosh, M.D. @bmacmd.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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On Eve of SNAP Crisis, St. Paul’s Reopens Food Pantry with Emmaus House Help - Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
St. Paul’s expected to serve approximately 120 to 140 families each distribution day. Instead, on Oct. 31 they served 205 families representing 525 people receiving fresh and packaged produce, protein...
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Amending state constitutions seemed like a long shot, but Virginia’s move shows more blue states may be willing to try, opening new possibilities.
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Why Democrats Could Win the Redistricting War
Amending state constitutions seemed like a long shot, but Virginia’s move shows more blue states may be willing to try, opening new possibilities.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 08/11/2025
If only the Speaker put half as much energy into governing as he does into avoiding work. He still hasn’t sworn in Representative-elect Grijalva, people are hungry, planes are grounded, and Republicans are on vacation. They’re showing you exactly who they are. Believe them.
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@alaw202.bsky.social hyping up the PNHP crowd during lunch!
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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‘Care cuts kill': Doctors carrying coffins rally against health care cuts
Dozens of doctors and health care workers marched on the U.S Capitol to warn of what they called potentially dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s health policies.
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
When health care is under attack, what do we do? Rise up, fight back! #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Doctors marched along Capitol Hill against health care policies
"Physicians for a National Health Program" rallied against health care policies they say are harming our communities and threatening access to care for vulnerable
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
“The corporate takeover of the health care system is unsustainable. We’re here to fight for patient rights, and for our rights to practice.” #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The Medicaid Work Requirements Contradict their stated purpose. 92% of Medicaid benficiaries are already working, caretaking, or enrolled in in school
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Private insurers are efficient at two things,… making money off you for Wall Street investors and denying care
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#acaexpansion #governmentshutdown #shutdown #affordablecareact
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Did you know...seniors of color enrolled in Medicare “Advantage” are offered lower quality plans, face higher rates of prior authorization denials, and suffer worse health outcomes compared to their white counterparts? Learn more: pnhp.org/EquityReport
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dr. Monica Maalouf and Dr. Paul Ehrlich talk about moral Injury #Moralinjury #Medicare for All
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
We met so many infectious disease health professionals at #IDWeek2025 who are all in on #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll! Universal, high-quality coverage is essential to public health!
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It’s that time of year again—when corporate insurers pull out all the stops to market #MedicareAdvantage. Thankfully, @lastweektonight.com just aired a thorough takedown of the industry’s favorite cash cow—and how unchecked profiteering harms American seniors.
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We have a modest proposal for states reeling from federal Medicaid cuts: ✅ Cancel contracts with corporate health insurance ✅ Save tens of billions of dollars annually ✅ Protect patients by reinvesting in Medicaid Our leaders are laying out our Medicaid Blueprint at #PNHP2025
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Welcome Dr. Uche Blackstock! We are so happy that you are our keynote speaker tonight! @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thank you so much @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social for such an INCREDIBLE keynote speech! Your words were inspiring for all the advocates in the room🫶🏽
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Corporations like Cigna, Aetna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield want us to believe they care about health equity 🙄 These claims couldn’t be further from the truth. Our leaders are bringing the receipts when it comes to the many ways that Medicare “Advantage” fails seniors of color. #PNHP2025
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