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Gregg Bloche

@greggbloche.bsky.social
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Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics, Georgetown Law. Revelations & perspective on medicine's uses & abuses, health care disparities, 💰 in the health sphere.

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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
For a succinct explanation of the fight that's led to a government shutdown, join us this Friday: 📅 Oct 10 | 1–2:15 PM EDT: "Rationing Medicine for America's Marginalized" 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/RationingMedicine Organized by the Urban Institute/Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Eye-opening piece by Jill Horwitz @jillh.bsky.social & Mary Beckman on the threat that private equity's pursuit of short-term rewards poses to health care for the least-advantaged among us: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Standing up for what's right is harder to do now, but it's more important than ever before for health professionals to do this. #publichealth When Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders? www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @greggbloche.bsky.social @kerrywallace.bsky.social
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Just out in Health Affairs: With former #AMA ethics chief David Orentlicher & Urban Institute fellow Kerry Wallace, I'm urging federal health professionals to disobey orders that violate medical ethics. "Federal Health Professionals' Duties to Disobey" www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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When Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders? | Health Affairs Forefront
Health professionals need to be ready to say “no,” in the interest of the nation’s health, their own morale and well-being, and democratic mechanisms of public decision-making. Professional organizati...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Please join the Urban Institute Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Please access our website for webinars and other information on the Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law www.law.georgetown.edu/urban-instit...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Know Your Rights: Health Care Providers & Immigration Enforcement
Information for health care providers on how to prepare for and respond to enforcement actions by immigration officials and interactions with law enforcement.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
drive.google.com/open?id=1Lyj... Reposting Article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Health so that it is accessible
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Important article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Healthhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_dRxyaHCwMp5kPvi8mDnpOSQLGkNG85eOo_1OkZhUQ?usp=drive_fs
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Such a deeply-moving piece, just posted in Health Affairs, remembering Susan Wood, whose integrity & courage ought to inspire us in these surreal times www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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Remembering Susan F. Wood, A Woman Who Dared | Health Affairs Forefront
Susan was a scientist, a biologist by training. Her unwavering faith in scientific inquiry was her guiding compass. She dedicated her career to applying scientific evidence to health policy decision m...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Rule-of-Law plays with a 2 handicap on this SCOTUS ⛳️🏌️‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read Justice Samuel Alito’s Dissent in the Alien Enemies Act Case
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law was premature.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Listen to this piece - it’s important: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Emergency Is Here
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 04/17/2025 · 1h 12m
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Kudos to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social & our students for putting it on the line for democracy! Or, as this piece put it, "Georgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones" abovethelaw.com/2025/03/geor...
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Georgetown Law Student Group Calls Skadden Cowards, Opts Out Of Recruitment Event - Above the Law
Georgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Medical school acceptances for marginalized racial & ethnic groups are in sudden, steep decline. Join us Fri. March 21, 2 to 3:15 pm EDT, for discussion of the worrisome health implications & strategies for reversing this trend. Register in advance at: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans. Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban
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Downsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income Americans
The Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice features conversations with researchers and legal professionals about how we can reduce widespread disparities in medical care and health in...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Family feud? From Pam Bondi's bro's law firm bio: "In 2021, he endowed the Bradley J. Bondi Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship Fund at the University of Florida...for law students who demonstrate a commitment to advancing the causes of diversity and inclusion." www.paulhastings.com/professional...
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Brad Bondi | Paul Hastings LLP
Brad Bondi is Global Co-Chair of the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and a nationally recognized litigation partner. He focuses on securities and financial investigat...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join us online, Mon. March 10, 2 to 3:15 pm EDT, for "Downsizing Medicaid" - part of the "Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice" Register in advance at: downsizingmedicaid.splashthat.com
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A pioneer, a giant, & an inspiration! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
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Alvin F. Poussaint, 90, Dies; Saw Racism Affecting Black Mental Health
A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic bigotry.
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Georgetown Law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
WEBINAR 🗓️| Join @UrbanInstitute.bsky.social and #GeorgetownLaw on 2/26 for a virtual event on the conflict between care providers’ Hippocratic duty and immigration enforcement demands. Moderated by @greggbloche.bsky.social #healthjustice bit.ly/4kajeAl
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Et tu, NAS?
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Launching the Urban Institute--Georgetown Law Web Series on Health Justice! Wed. Feb 26, 12 to 1 pm ET: How should hospitals & clinics handle government demands that they assist in detaining unauthorized immigrants? Register at georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Critically-important post from Julie Linton et al, just out, on how #healthcare institutions can resist pressure from #ICE & other immigration authorities to violate medical ethics (part of Health Affairs' "Ethics & Health Systems Change" series): www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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Health Care Institutions And Immigration Enforcement: An Ethical Imperative | Health Affairs Forefront
Given the unprecedented potential for sweeping immigration enforcement actions that may include health care settings, health care institutions have an ethical responsibility to urgently prepare.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#FlyEaglesFly tonight! But I'm not happy about Elon Musk's announcement a few hours ago that he's bought Super Bowl ads to promote his lawless #DOGE rampage www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISx...
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Elon Musk’s $40 Million Super Bowl Commercials: DOGE Ads Unveil Government Waste!
YouTube video by Trump Train YT
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Why? Bad legal advice? Irrational fear within the Howard Hughes Medical Institute? Some sort of vibe-shift? www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h... via @statnews.com
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Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Why we hate our health insurers—just posted: www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/h...
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We are all complicit in the big lie of health insurance
“Insurers deliver the deception we seek — by promising to pay for ‘medically necessary’ care and telling us nothing about whether and how they weigh cost,” writes M. Gregg Bloche.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You've perhaps already seen this, but please read it closely. The impact is devastating. The wanton cruelty is unfathomable. Unknowable numbers of kids & others will die as a result. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Tara Adams Ragone @tararagone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Closing strong at @setonhallhealthlaw.bsky.social’s 9th Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat with @medlawdan.bsky.social’s “Privatization, Cancer, and the Individualization of Social Problems” with commentators Prof. Valerie Blake of University of Tennessee Law & @greggbloche.bsky.social.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
CDC just took down its Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data - more Orwellian truth from the Trumpists: search.app/SLJXABqaAojr...
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The unitary executive theory for an *unconditional* *absolute* presidential power to fire officers is a manufactured myth. I am ready w/ my amicus brief from SEC v. Jarkesy showing their anti-originalism & misuse of Founding-era sources. Who wants my help for free? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Amicus Brief in SEC v. Jarkesy on Original Public Meaning of Article II & Presidential Removal
In holding that the SEC’s administrative law judges’ protections against removal were unconstitutional, the Fifth Circuit extended Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Will Trump’s immigration crackdown put pressure on healthcare institutions to breach their ethical duties to patients? Worrisome possibilities loom. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Health Providers Gird for Immigration Crackdown - KFF Health News
Different states are offering starkly different guidelines to hospitals, community clinics, and other health facilities for interacting with immigrant patients as President Donald Trump issues a flurr...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Fly Eagles Fly!!! 🏈🦅
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Disciplinary action by professional societies & state licensing boards remains available as a response to these allegations, even if DoJ refuses to enforce the law www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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DOJ drops case against Texas doctor who shared transgender care data
Eithan Haim was accused of leaking health records of patients at Texas Children’s Hospital. Haim, who calls himself a whistleblower, had pleaded not guilty.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Powerful, tight summary of devastating Medicaid cuts planned by House Republicans -- explains how and why these cuts would effectively destroy Medicaid ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...
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House Budget Committee Circulates New Detailed List of Budget Reconciliation Options Including Draconian Medicaid Cuts Within House Republican Caucus
On Friday, January 17, Politico and other news outlets reported that the House Budget Committee distributed to the House Republican Caucus a new 50-page list of mandatory spending and tax proposals…
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Stunning numbers just out—numbers of Black, Latino, & Native American medical students are down by double-digit percentages nationwide in 1rst medical school class chosen since Supreme Court ended affirmative action: www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
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New AAMC Data on Medical School Applicants and Enrollment in 2024
New AAMC data on applicants, matriculants, and enrollment for 2024-2025
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Yet another side to Jimmy Carter - he saw the vital connection between medical professionalism and human rights (this commentary accompanied an investigative piece I did on physician participation in torture) ... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Physicians and Human Rights
When I was President, every US ambassador throughout the world was my personal human rights representative, and all American embassies were known to be havens for those being persecuted by their own l...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
How Elon Musk turned "Stand Up to Cancer" into "Stand Up FOR Cancer" (& against kids)
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Delighted to announce the online launch of the Urban Institute/Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity (Brian Smedley, Yael Cannon, & I will co-direct) - we're engaging leading thinkers to craft remedies for our health system's profound disparities - more to come ... www.urban.org/projects/urb...
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Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Invaluable guide to executive action Trump will/may take in health care: www.kff.org/potential-he...
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Potential Health Policy Administrative Actions in the Second Trump Administration | KFF
Potential health policy administrative actions under the incoming Trump administration based on campaign positions and statements by President-elect Trump, President Trump’s record during his first ad...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Kudos to my Georgetown Law colleague, Dorothy Brown @dorothyabrown.bsky.social on her recognition as a Tax Notes "Person of the Year" for championing data-sharing that's critical for demonstration of racial inequity: www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
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Person of the Year: Dorothy Brown, Champion for Change | Tax Notes
Dorothy Brown reflects on her time spent serving as a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity and the committee’s ultimate success in advocating for Treasury to release regulations ...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Insightful piece on states' efforts to limit private equity's distortion of medical judgment (by Rooke-Ley, Fuse Brown et al) www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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California’s Failed Bid To Regulate Private Equity Investment In Health Care | Health Affairs Forefront
A vetoed California bill offers a case study for future legislative attempts to address private equity involvement in health care. It also offers a cautionary tale for how such efforts are susceptible...
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Arguably the most consequential health policy development in a generation — the demise of Chevron deference & the looming rebirth of the non-delegation doctrine www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How billionaire Charles Koch’s network won a 40-year war to curb regulation
A seismic Supreme Court ruling on Chevron deference ushered in a new era of diminished federal power. The next Trump administration hopes to capitalize on it.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Delighted to learn of Dick Allen’s much-overdue election to Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He endured shameful bigotry — and triumphed over it! www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...
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Dick Allen, Dave Parker elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by era committee
The Hall welcomed two dominant sluggers to its gallery on Sunday, with Allen and Parker gaining election through an era committee vote.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Timely warning for Republicans — and those who voted for them
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky
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Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
As oral arguments in the #SCOTUS Tennessee #transgender care case wrap up, here's the most comprehensive review of the medical science: Hilary Cass's independent review of gender identity services, for the UK's National Health Service: cass.independent-review.uk/home/publica...
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Final Report – Cass Review
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Powerful tool for learning who will lose health insurance if Trump & Congressional Republicans kill enhanced tax credits for purchasing coverage via the #ACA Insurance Exchanges: www.urban.org/data-tools/h...
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Who Would Lose Coverage If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire?
The expiration of the pandemic-era enhanced premium tax credits risks leaving 4 million people without health insurance.
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Good review of how Trump could use executive power to make abortion access difficult, even impossible for many: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable - KFF Health News
President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to sign a nationwide abortion ban. But he wouldn’t need to do so to make abortion difficult, or illegal, writes KFF Health News’ chief Wash...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I served as a US ambassador and know hundreds of others Never met one before who hired a prostitute to seduce their brother-in-law or sent a videotape of the encounter to their sister Or who committed 18 felonies & was pardoned by another in-law I guess the job qualifications are changing…
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Nice #HHS study by Bosworth et al re cost of #obesity drug coverage! Fitting for 🦃-day wknd! Missing, though, is assessment of cost of keeping patients alive longer (they'll spend more on healthcare later - economics earns its moniker, "the dismal science") #Medsky #obesity #Medicare
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Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A must-read: just discovered this courageous, insightful piece by Walter O'Donnell MD, on the moral responsibilities of budget-cutting clinical administrators: www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Reducing Administrative Harm in Medicine — Clinicians and Administrators Together | NEJM
The patient-safety movement has turned clinical medicine into a team sport, but administrators have been left off the team. The effects on patients of administrative decisions and changes therefore...
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