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Dan Skinner

@danskinner.bsky.social
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Health policy & politics professor | #MedEd | political scientist | Host, Prognosis Ohio | Editor, World Medical & Health Policy

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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The City and the Hospital is an excellent book...sure to make a significant impact in multidisciplinary scholarship on urban healthcare and beyond. I certainly won’t view hospitals and the neighborhoods they occupy in the same way after reading this text." - International Sociology Reviews
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Being an academic used to feel like something closer to a calling than a mere job. It doesn’t feel that way anymore.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This perfectly encapsulates what the supermajority in the Ohio General Assembly thinks it's accomplishing in mandating that students read the U.S. Constitution as part of college-level civics training. theonion.com/area-man-pas...
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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think ar...
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I got a bunch of less-than-happy notes after posting this, so let me be clear: it's not that these orgs (AMA, AOA, state orgs, etc) don't often take positions that are good for patients. It's just that it's literally not their institutional or even legal charge to do so.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Kudos to Brazil and Mexico for bucking the American-led trend of strangling the Cuban people. Biden missed a huge opportunity that teed up Trump's larger criminal operation. Trump’s Economic Vise Leaves Cubans Desperate for Food and Medicine www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
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Trump Sanctions on Cuba Strands Thousands Of Shipping Containers
The U.S. says its sanctions are not aimed at depriving Cuba of essential goods. Thousands of stranded shipping containers tell a different story.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a great time to remember that physicians groups exist to advocate for physicians...not patients. Ohio doctor group backs Ramaswamy over Acton; Some upset with nod www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Ohio doctor group backs Ramaswamy over Acton; Some upset with nod
Ohio's largest physician group PAC backs Vivek Ramaswamy for governor over fellow doctor Amy Acton.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My latest (it's been a long time!) in the @ohiocapitaljournal.com Lowering Medicare eligibility age would be a lifeline for Ohioans ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/14/l...
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Lowering Medicare eligibility age would be a lifeline for Ohioans • Ohio Capital Journal
Commentary: Especially with Ohio's rapidly aging population, Ohio’s congressional delegation owes its constituents an open debate on healthcare and Medicare eligibility. Voters should be asking candid...
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Check out the latest Prognosis Ohio, with sustainability expert, Liz Quigley, of All Aboard Ohio--and dare to dream of passenger rail in Ohio! www.prognosisohio.com/episodes/774...
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exactly what I'd expect a billionaire who moved his company to Texas to say to Ohioans.
"Abolish your state"
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Around next Monday at noon? I'm giving a Zoom talk with the Ohio University Dept of Social Medicine (thanks to @danskinner.bsky.social for the invite!) on my next book, which explores legal underpinnings of the coverage barriers I expose in Coverage Denied (www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...). Join us!
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ramaswamy going hard after the baseball vote with these absolutely embarrassingly bad swings.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Acton, he added, was not hurt and started treating those who had been pushed down.” Armed man attempts to attack Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Armed man attempts to attack Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton
An armed individual allegedly attacked Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton injuring multiple people at the Canfield Fair.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dr. Acton began treating others, a suspect had been arrested.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Acton, he added, was not hurt and started treating those who had been pushed down.” Armed man attempts to attack Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Armed man attempts to attack Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton
An armed individual allegedly attacked Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton injuring multiple people at the Canfield Fair.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a scandal what we've let them do to higher education. The MAGA vision is literally idiocracy.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Expanding eligibility for Medicare would be a lifeline for Americans close to retirement but being squeezed out early by an ailing economy and a labor force starting to be displaced by AI. It's also extremely good politics. wapo.st/4x8V6Dv
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Democrats eye expanded Medicare coverage if they take U.S. House
Reversing Medicaid cuts and restoring ACA subsidies top the list, but Democrats are also talking about lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare benefits.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's been quite an August in Ohio.
Franklin County Emergency announcements - tornado, severe thunderstorm, heat.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Angrily re-naming bodies of water because you weren't able to negotiate a better trade deal is the kind of childishness reserved for tinpot dictators with only the most fragile of egos. Donald Trump is the Idi Amin of the Western Hemisphere.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One takeaway from Little League World Series: MLB must mandate that all managers be mic’d up for mound visits.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At least the dumpster industry is taking affordability seriously.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Trump administration is making it really hard to take care of kids. The disrespect of health professionals is disgraceful. HHS accuses Nationwide Children's, others, of insurance fraud over transgender care www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
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HHS accuses Nationwide Children's, others, of insurance fraud over transgender care
The Department of Health and Human Services says hospitals across the nation allegedly used incorrect billing codes to provide gender care to minors.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One additional note on this. I'll never forget the night the amendment was approved. At the event I was at I heard a medical student exclaim, "Now I can practice in Ohio." This decision was meaningful to physicians - especially OBGYNs - deciding whether they had a future in the state.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of the few positive developments in Ohio over the last few years has survived a test. Ohio Supreme Court dismisses legal challenge to abortion rights amendment www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Ohio Supreme Court dismisses legal challenge to abortion rights amendment
The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a Trumbull County judge's lawsuit challenging the state's abortion rights amendment.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In response to Mark Cuban's latest comments on AI and physicians: AI's inevitable inroads into medicine will force a big and much-need philosophical debate: what is necessarily human about human medicine--and what is not? If we do it right, it could be good for physicians, not a threat.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of the few positive developments in Ohio over the last few years has survived a test. Ohio Supreme Court dismisses legal challenge to abortion rights amendment www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Ohio Supreme Court dismisses legal challenge to abortion rights amendment
The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a Trumbull County judge's lawsuit challenging the state's abortion rights amendment.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
President Ballroom is really busy these days. Trump wants a ballroom in Ireland. One man is having a ball fighting it. wapo.st/4xQXXBI
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Trump wants a ballroom in Ireland. One man is having a ball fighting it.
Tiny Doonbeg was all in favor of the plan, but concerns about an endangered snail — and “serial objector” Liam Madden — could derail the project.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
None of these TV guys has the guts to connect @fandueltv.bsky.social advertising to the Black Sox in the @mlb.com's Field of Dreams game...
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My political theorist head is spinning from the ridiculously inaccurate ways we're using the word "socialist" these days.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In an ad now running all over tv and social media in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy is using an out-of-context sound bite from my interview with Dr. Amy Acton. I encourage you to listen to the whole interview. www.prognosisohio.com/episodes/acton
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134. Dr. Amy Acton on Loss, Learning, and Finding Meaning in the Pandemic — Prognosis Ohio
On Episode 134, Dr. Amy Acton talks with Dan about the state of public health preparedness in Ohio, and what Ohio needs to do to start not only learning important lessons from our state’s collective e...
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In an ad now running all over tv and social media in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy is using an out-of-context sound bite from my interview with Dr. Amy Acton. I encourage you to listen to the whole interview. www.prognosisohio.com/episodes/acton
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134. Dr. Amy Acton on Loss, Learning, and Finding Meaning in the Pandemic — Prognosis Ohio
On Episode 134, Dr. Amy Acton talks with Dan about the state of public health preparedness in Ohio, and what Ohio needs to do to start not only learning important lessons from our state’s collective e...
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
People having to recertify 2x year on Medicaid is unsustainable. By design, it was written to throw people off the program. There’s no increase in staff to handle an increase in recertification which the onus and burden is put on the states. Absolutely despicable.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sad scene inside. Dust balls and stacks of campaign signs.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The story of Trump - the least reflective president in history - going to inspect the Reflecting Pool basically writes itself. It's the story of Narcissus, except he couldn't see the green, murky algae as he once again fell in love with himself.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Don’t worry. We’ve got our best guy on the case…
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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is very sad and entirely predictable. Didn't even last two months. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Dems should be leaning in fully on the "JD Vance, architect of the Iran deal" narrative.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This Iran "deal" from the author of the "Art of the Deal" is just laugh-out-loud bad--transparently an attempt for Trump-Vance to save face and try to pry some oil out of Iran. The JCPOA had 100% more teeth.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Where were all the No Kings people when a literal king took up residence at the US Capitol?
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ICYMI: Flu outbreak killed 45,000 U.S. Soldiers during World War I www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...
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Flu outbreak killed 45,000 U.S. Soldiers during World War I
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In September 1918 there were two killers in the world. World War I, which would claim 20 million lives by its end, and the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, is estimated
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
So excited to be working with DFA. Join us in DC!
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
So excited to be working with DFA. Join us in DC!
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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
👀 Check out our featured speakers! @ammahstarr.bsky.social @danskinner.bsky.social @drkamleigh.bsky.social 📆 View the full agenda: www.doctorsforamerica.org/national-lea... 🎟️ Claim your spot: www.doctorsforamerica.org/national-lea...
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
With everything else going on, I really can't stomach a day of "heat shield" anxieties.
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Christopher Crawford @myohwhy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fuck ICE
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Denali Gulf of Mexico The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Just three things among many others that will have to be restored to their proper names in 2029.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Great timing, WaPo.
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Dan Skinner @danskinner.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It’s a small thing given the larger context of horrors, but the Kennedy Center nonsense really encapsulates an essence of Trumpism.
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