ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
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GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Medicaid#Healthcare#Congress#Trump#GOP#BigBeautifulBill
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"CHILDREN ARE DYING because medicines have been abruptly cut off, & risks of Ebola, tuberculosis & other diseases reaching #America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses.

After #ElonMusk boasted about feeding #USAID “into the wood chipper” over a weekend, he claimed that no one had died as a result...

Come with me on a trip to the villages where your aid cuts are killing #children. Open your eyes."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html

#Musk#Trump#USPol#Politics#Health#World

Text from article: I’ve been traveling through Sierra Leone and Liberia to gauge the impact of Trump’s closing of U.S.A.I.D., to see how bad things have gotten since an earlier trip through South Sudan and Kenya. Here’s what I see: Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses. After Elon Musk boasted about feeding U.S.A.I.D. “into the wood chipper” over a weekend, he claimed that no one had died as a result. Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated that claim just last month. So I challenge them both: Come with me on a trip to the villages where your aid cuts are killing children. Open your eyes. And if you dare to confront actual waste and abuse — the kind that squanders lives as well as money — join me in the village of Kayata, Liberia,
Text from article: I’ve been traveling through Sierra Leone and Liberia to gauge the impact of Trump’s closing of U.S.A.I.D., to see how bad things have gotten since an earlier trip through South Sudan and Kenya. Here’s what I see: Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses. After Elon Musk boasted about feeding U.S.A.I.D. “into the wood chipper” over a weekend, he claimed that no one had died as a result. Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated that claim just last month. So I challenge them both: Come with me on a trip to the villages where your aid cuts are killing children. Open your eyes. And if you dare to confront actual waste and abuse — the kind that squanders lives as well as money — join me in the village of Kayata, Liberia,
Text from article: I’ve been traveling through Sierra Leone and Liberia to gauge the impact of Trump’s closing of U.S.A.I.D., to see how bad things have gotten since an earlier trip through South Sudan and Kenya. Here’s what I see: Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses. After Elon Musk boasted about feeding U.S.A.I.D. “into the wood chipper” over a weekend, he claimed that no one had died as a result. Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated that claim just last month. So I challenge them both: Come with me on a trip to the villages where your aid cuts are killing children. Open your eyes. And if you dare to confront actual waste and abuse — the kind that squanders lives as well as money — join me in the village of Kayata, Liberia,
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in a poor country is get pregnant. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that #American assistance has prevented some 34,000 maternal deaths per year around the world. That suggests that ending such aid may lead #women to perish in pregnancy approximately once every 15 minutes."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html

#ElonMusk#Musk #Doge#Trump#GOP#USPol#Politics#USAID#Health#Healthcare#World #News#US#USA

Text from article: So when I hear glib talk about waste and abuse in U.S.A.I.D., I think of how we American taxpayers purchased ambulances for Liberia at a cost of more than $50,000 each and then abruptly cut off gasoline funds, leaving a young mom to bleed to death. Freeman is buried in an unmarked grave on the edge of the forest. Her two daughters, ages 3 and 6, weep for their mother. “The three of us sit together and cry,” said Freeman’s younger sister, Annie. One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in a poor country is get pregnant. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that American assistance has prevented some 34,000 maternal deaths per year around the world. That suggests that ending such aid may lead women to perish in pregnancy approximately once every 15 minutes.
Text from article: So when I hear glib talk about waste and abuse in U.S.A.I.D., I think of how we American taxpayers purchased ambulances for Liberia at a cost of more than $50,000 each and then abruptly cut off gasoline funds, leaving a young mom to bleed to death. Freeman is buried in an unmarked grave on the edge of the forest. Her two daughters, ages 3 and 6, weep for their mother. “The three of us sit together and cry,” said Freeman’s younger sister, Annie. One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in a poor country is get pregnant. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that American assistance has prevented some 34,000 maternal deaths per year around the world. That suggests that ending such aid may lead women to perish in pregnancy approximately once every 15 minutes.
Text from article: So when I hear glib talk about waste and abuse in U.S.A.I.D., I think of how we American taxpayers purchased ambulances for Liberia at a cost of more than $50,000 each and then abruptly cut off gasoline funds, leaving a young mom to bleed to death. Freeman is buried in an unmarked grave on the edge of the forest. Her two daughters, ages 3 and 6, weep for their mother. “The three of us sit together and cry,” said Freeman’s younger sister, Annie. One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in a poor country is get pregnant. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that American assistance has prevented some 34,000 maternal deaths per year around the world. That suggests that ending such aid may lead women to perish in pregnancy approximately once every 15 minutes.
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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Stalin gave people #healthcare. #Liberals have been promising to give us healthcare since #FDR & have failed to deliver on that promise for 9 decades.

And when you dare get mad at them about this & bring this up, there's always some excuse why it can't ever be done.

Why am I supposed to believe after nearly a century that #Democrats will EVER follow through on this promise?

#Politics#Republicans#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#USA#Fascism
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month

"I couldn't even imagine health care without plastics, and I don't even think we should go there. I would argue that plastic has allowed very important innovation of medical devices and supplies, and is here to stay."

#DrJodiSherman, Founding Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

Head in the sand, much? How will you get plastic, without the fossil fuel industry spitting it out as byproduct?

#healthcare #plastic#Yale #sustainability
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Doctors Art Nahill and Glenn Colquhoun are on a two-week 'Hīkoi for Health' the length of the North Island, talking to as many people as possible about their experiences of the health system and their ideas of how it could be fixed.

The hīkoi would last only 13 days, and was limited to the North Island, because it was self-funded and carried out during their annual leave."

#PeterDeGraaf, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559279/hikoi-for-health-doctors-on-journey-to-change-new-zealand-s-public-health-system

Legends.

#HealthCare#HīkoiForHealth#ArtNahill#GlennColquhoun
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Having dedicated health reporters in key newsrooms makes a huge difference, and giving those reporters the time to cultivate their contacts, to dig through documents, to make OIA requests."

#RachelThomas, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=61d7c2a9-7bca-435a-b796-b5d87c90ca92

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#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch #healthcare#NewsMedia#HealthReporting