RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization
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Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.
“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Well, I finally got around to evaluating the #ManageMyHealth portal;
https://managemyhealth.co.nz/about-us/
When my GP suggested I sign up with it, I presumed it was a public service offered by Te Whatu Ora, like My Health Record;
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/my-health-record
So what do I think of Manage My Health? Not impressed. This is a privately-owned, for-profit digital platform, that I can't be certain isn't #DataFarming patients who sign up with it.
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Data manipulation within the US Federal Government [1]
👉Government datasets modified without notice.
▪️We gathered metadata from the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and Veterans Affairs database harvest sources [... ] that were modified between Jan 20 and March 25, 2025.
▪️We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered.
⭐SOME CHANGES⭐
- “Social determinants of health” to “non
medical factors”
- “Gender” to “sex”
- “female details” column deleted
▪️The agencies involved have not issued any statements confirming or explaining these changes [...]
▪️Despite Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's (Department of Health and Humana Services) calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged data manipulation moves away from meaningful transparency.
▪️Only 15 (13%) of the 114 altered datasets logged or otherwise indicated that the change had occurred.
[1] 🌐https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext
@publichealth @psychology @sociology @datascience #publichealth #datascience #science #research #health #government #criticalthinking #hhs #cdc #va @bicmay
> Living with #Covid is a political lie that worked because it cynically tapped into some basics of human behaviour.
https://xcancel.com/RageSheen/status/1943718115038089337
Interesting explanation of the psychology of the fear & denial around #SarsCoV2 and how #PublicHealth was killed.
What does that mean for #CovidCautious folks? What's right with us? Didn't the lies work? Do we not care about what others think of us?
You may want to check into how your local gov is handling new HHS policy change
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STATEMENT FROM L.A. COUNTY DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH
SERVICES & MENTAL HEALTH ON HHS POLICY CHANGE AFFECTING ACCESS TO
FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS
"We are deeply saddened by the federal administration’s decision to bar undocumented Californians from accessing critical federally funded health and social service programs..."
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While studying he was a national lead for a global study: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258348 and also: https://icph.birzeit.edu/posters/clinical-learning-environment-gaza-strip-cross-sectional-study-among-medical-students
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.
Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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This is a repost from LinkedIn. The author is Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL.
This is how being Uninsured Kills. This is my Uncle Tommy…we lost him in the last 48 hours.
I hear elected officials say that not having insurance, doesn’t kill people – I want to explain to you exactly how NOT having health insurance kills people every day in this Country.
My uncle has worked two jobs nearly his entire life, one at the local grocery store, and the other as a painter in an Idaho Ski town, minimum wage in Idaho is $7.25 an hour. His employers didn’t offer health insurance for his role and he couldn’t afford the premiums of private insurance being in his early 60s.
He is what you define as the working poor – making too much to qualify for Medicaid; but not making enough to be able to afford a $500+ month health insurance premium on the health exchange.
You see in Idaho, to qualify for #Medicaid you can’t make more than 138% of the federal poverty level, the federal poverty level is $15,650; so 138% = $21,597. My uncle on a good year made somewhere between $40,000-$45,000 a year.
So when he was feeling unwell with a cough the past couple of weeks, he didn’t go to the local urgent care to see a doctor and get the antibiotics he needed, because a visit like that would have cost him $300-$500, extra money he just didn’t have.
So as he got worse, he just kept pushing through, until he couldn’t.
Friday, he couldn’t ignore the growing chest pain so his girlfriend of 30 years, took him to his local small critical access hospital in rural Idaho, where he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and sepsis.
Too critical to be treated there, he was air flighted to the nearest hospital over 80 miles away. On the way, he had a major heart attack; was intubated, but didn’t make it.
He died from a completely preventable illness, one that if he had insurance, could have gone to a local urgent care to get the antibiotics that would prevented the pneumonia, sepsis and saved his life. But because he didn’t have health insurance and couldn’t afford the out of pocket expenses of urgent care without it, he didn’t seek care in time.
I do not understand how we keep failing millions of Americans, who every day work hard to try to get ahead, work multiple jobs, and still can’t afford health insurance. So they scrape by, hoping not to get sick, but when they do – it’s often too late.
I saw it time and time again as a nurse, and now personally.
And what is shocking, is the Big Beautiful Bill, will make 16 million Americans ineligible for Medicaid. Leaving them uninsured. Adding to the 26 million uninsured Americans in the US today - all with little talk over the repercussions of what this means to actual American lives. But god - we have to do better as a nation.
Because this matters. Every single day to the lives of loved ones, who being uninsured costs them their lives.
RIP Uncle Tommy. I hope you catch that big fish in the sky. You will be missed.
#insurance #healthinsurance #publichealth
Link to the original: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rebeccalovenursing_uninsured-medicaid-idaho-activity-7345077338927210496-Mx0W
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