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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies.

We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left, and the admin refused to give us numbers.

So we conducted our own analysis, a thread...

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Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show · 04/08/2025

From today's @21st.show: what's going on with rural heathcare in Illinois and beyond, and what's next for rural hospitals, with Medicare and Medicaid cuts on the horizon? We talk about it with @melanie-evans.bsky.social and leaders in Illinois rural healthcare.

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Melanie Evans @melanie-evans.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Trump’s Policies Could Undermine the Fight to End America’s HIV Epidemic - The administration this month froze at least $460 million for grants to local public health and nonprofits that were scheduled to start June 1 and proposed steep cuts to next year's spending. tradeoffs.org/2025/06/19/t...

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Trump’s Policies Could Undermine the Fight to End America’s HIV Epidemic

The White House is asking Congress to sharply roll back federal spending on HIV prevention, a reversal from President Trump’s first term, when he championed investment to end the epidemic in America w...

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Talk about some timely research. Here's the punchline: "Loss of drug subsidies after Medicaid disenrollment was associated with higher mortality among low-income Medicare beneficiaries." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Tradeoffs @tradeoffs.org · 26/02/2025

Last week, thousands of employees were fired from their positions in federal agencies and this week the House passed a budget bill. Here's what our team is reading...

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Melanie Evans @melanie-evans.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

President Trump issued an order on public health care prices, one of his signature policies. Trump is calling on agencies to make prices easier to use. What’s the issue? There are many. @tradeoffs.org talked to people who urgently want to use the data to save on care. tradeoffs.org/2024/12/19/t...

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Trump Forced Hospitals and Insurers to Reveal Their Prices. What Happened?

A mandate to make health care prices public was one of President Trump’s signature health policies in his first term.

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Melanie Evans @melanie-evans.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

RFK Jr. has long criticized an influential committee of scientists who advise federal policymakers on who should get vaccines. I’ve got an article today for @tradeoffs.org that profiles the committee’s wide reach. tradeoffs.org/2025/01/28/a...

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The Powerful Vaccine Committee RFK Jr. Could Soon Control

If the Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he would control a powerful group of federal vaccine advisors.

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