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Health News that Trump Doesn't Want You To Know

When RFK Jr is gone, the question will be whether he sunk himself or whether Dr Susan Monarez planted the dagger that killed RFK Jr's career as HHS Secretary.

Monarez would not cross ‘red lines’ before she was fired, confidant says

The former CDC director was ousted late Wednesday after refusing to resign under pressure from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Susan Monarez, the newly ousted director of the CDC, refused to fire top agency leaders and sign off on changes to vaccines from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisers, according to Richard Besser, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a former acting CDC director.

Monarez, during her short tenure, had tried to implement some guardrails on Kennedy’s reconstituted ACIP, former Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry and former National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Director Demetre Daskalakis told POLITICO. Both resigned shortly after news broke that Kennedy wanted Monarez out.

Those guardrails included a failed attempt to replace the federal official that oversees the committee with someone with more policy experience and to post the evidence and slides that the committee uses to inform their votes weeks before an ACIP meeting for public review and comment, Houry said.
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Dr Monarez wrote an editorial that was published in WSJ where she scorched RFK Jr for trying to force her to pre-approval specious and anti-science policies that RFK Jr's fringe advisors would be writing regarding vaccine policy in the US.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me By Susan Monarez
I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.

Review & Outlook: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is using Biden-era mistakes to tarnish a promising technology, and scientists are pushing back.

I served for 29 days as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Senate confirmed me to ensure that unbiased evidence serves our nation’s health, and for doing that, I lost my job. America’s children could lose far more.

During my first week as CDC director, a gunman opened fire on our Atlanta headquarters on Aug. 8. Investigators recovered more than 500 shell casings at the scene and more than 180 rounds struck CDC campus buildings. Officer David Rose was killed.
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He seems to still be riding it out though and Trump will retain him out of spite..just like Dr. Oz.

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Where is Luigi when we need him?

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rareboy said:
He seems to still be riding it out though and Trump will retain him out of spite..just like Dr. Oz.

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This is a big change that has flown under the radar.

One of the reasons that traditional Medicare has such a low administrative overhead cost is that they state up front what they cover and what they don't. This means that when a Medicare recipient needs a treatment or procedure, they don't need to delay waiting for Medicare to approve it and generate an authorization for number payment.

One of the things that makes Medicare Advantage more expensive than traditional Medicare is that it operates on an PPO or HMO model where only certain providers can be used, inpatient admissions must be pre-authorized and procedures must be pre-authorized.

What Oz is proposing is basically to convert traditional Medicare into an HMO type system where everything has to be authorized and they think that AI is the way to do it.

It's going to fuck up the whole program and if he continues in this direction to make Medicare work like United Healthcare, Dr Oz may find himself in the same situation as the CEO of United Healthcare.

If he really wanted to use AI, he should be using it on fraud, which is one of the biggest financial drains on the program.
 
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Traditional Medicare is accepted by most providers due to the above. Once you cause it to become more problemsome, providers will start refusing it. That will cause network issues where some accept it and others don't, where your provider accepts it but the person he is referring you to does not. Then you're stuck with calling your insurance co to find a specialist that accepts your insurance, one that may be miles and miles away. And one who is may already be overwhelmed with appointments and is not currently accepting new patients.

And this is best case scenario. In fact, your primary care provider may stop accepting Medicare. That would be a disaster for all of these patients who are by definition 65+ years old and have multiple complex medical issues.

They're going to fuck up Medicare. I just don't see how they will not do that.
 
Riverrick said:
Traditional Medicare is accepted by most providers due to the above. Once you cause it to become more problemsome, providers will start refusing it. That will cause network issues where some accept it and others don't, where your provider accepts it but the person he is referring you to does not. Then you're stuck with calling your insurance co to find a specialist that accepts your insurance, one that may be miles and miles away. And one who is may already be overwhelmed with appointments and is not currently accepting new patients.

And this is best case scenario. In fact, your primary care provider may stop accepting Medicare. That would be a disaster for all of these patients who are by definition 65+ years old and have multiple complex medical issues.

They're going to fuck up Medicare. I just don't see how they will not do that.
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This isn't a side effect or an unintended outcome. They're doing that on purpose.
 
Riverrick said:
...They're going to fuck up Medicare. I just don't see how they will not do that.
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That's may not be their aim but it will become a major issue. Some hospitals have been dropping Medicare Advantage because these contracts are negotiated with the payers (i.e. United Healthcare, Blue Cross) and not directly with Medicare. Traditional Medicare has already low-margin pay rates and the Medicare Advantage payers try to negotiate even lower rates so that the Advantage payers can make a profit. Privatizing Medicare would send the providers into a financial crisis since Medicare accounts for 50-75% of most providers' business.

Coming back to something that I mentioned earlier. This didn't come out of nowhere. It was clearly laid out in Project 2025 as their goal. Pointing back to post #243 in this thread, the healthcare section of Project 2025 was written by Roger Severino, closet case evangelical Christian activist and husband of Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN). JCN is part of the Federalist Society/Leonard Leo organization that got Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch onto the Supreme Court. The Severinos have an anti-LGBT and anti-abortion agenda which is how Roger got himself involved in healthcare policy at the Heritage Foundation. He also used that platform to put the Medicare privatization plan into Project 2025. The Severinos have been working on packing the Federal Courts with conservatives and ideologues while they pursue an evangelical social agenda.

www.gohealth.com

Project 2025 and Medicare

Project 2025 contains policy proposals for the future of Medicare. Learn how these suggested changes could affect your coverage.
www.gohealth.com www.gohealth.com

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www.politico.com

kffhealthnews.org

Inside Project 2025: Former Trump Official Outlines Hard Right Turn Against Abortion - KFF Health News

Former President Donald Trump has distanced himself from a Heritage Foundation document that outlines positions on abortion and a range of other social issues. But Democrats view it as a window into the far right’s to-do list and a clear opening for political attack.
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Riverrick said:
Traditional Medicare is accepted by most providers due to the above. Once you cause it to become more problemsome, providers will start refusing it. That will cause network issues where some accept it and others don't, where your provider accepts it but the person he is referring you to does not. Then you're stuck with calling your insurance co to find a specialist that accepts your insurance, one that may be miles and miles away. And one who is may already be overwhelmed with appointments and is not currently accepting new patients.

And this is best case scenario. In fact, your primary care provider may stop accepting Medicare. That would be a disaster for all of these patients who are by definition 65+ years old and have multiple complex medical issues.

They're going to fuck up Medicare. I just don't see how they will not do that.
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I doubt if it will be refused...Medicare is the financial lifeline for a lot of hospitals...after the stripping of Medicare from millions of people, we are already hearing about closures and the likely bankruptcy of many hospitals across the US.
 
While RFK Jr is making it very difficult to get a Fall COVID booster, COVID is making a big comeback on the West Coast:

www.latimes.com

COVID rising fast in California, fueled by new 'Stratus' variant tied to Omicron

COVID is once again climbing to troubling levels in California — a worrying trend as health officials attempt to navigate a vaccine landscape thrown into uncertainty by delays and decisions from the Trump administration.
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COVID-19 is once again climbing to troubling levels in California — a worrying trend as health officials attempt to navigate a vaccine landscape thrown into uncertainty by delays and decisions from the Trump administration.

Public health departments in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties have reported jumps in the coronavirus concentrations detected in wastewater in recent weeks. L.A. County also has reported a small increase in patients hospitalized with COVID...

The rate at which COVID lab tests came back positive in L.A. County is 12.6% for the week that ended Aug. 16, up from 7.6% a month earlier. In Orange County, it’s 14.4%, up from 8.1%.

Hudson said the coronavirus subvariant XFG, nicknamed Stratus, accounts for the vast majority of variants seen in wastewater.
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Stratus is a new Omicron variant, so the 2024 booster should offer some immunity for the 25% of Americans who got the 2024 booster, but the rapid increase in COVID wastewater testing in a big city like Los Angeles means that it's likely to spread after the Labor Day holiday.

The medium blue in the grid below shows the growth of Stratus (aka XFG) variant in the US.

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Wait...you mean that it wasn't the vaccines after all?

It was Tylenol???

If the company doesn't launch the biggest lawsuit in history over this....even if there was some basis to the claim...it is reckless and scientifically sloppy.

www.forbes.com

RFK Jr. Will Reportedly Link Autism To Tylenol Use During Pregnancy

Tylenol maker Kenvue denies the connection allegedly made in the report, which is expected to be published by the Department of Health and Human Services this month.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
 
And even in Maine, which is joining other north east states to make Covid vaccines more available is still experiencing uncertainty and confusion. As a border state to Canada, we
will be watching with interest adn concern.

www.pressherald.com

Confusion looms over COVID-19 vaccine access in Maine

Maine is joining a coalition of northeastern states to try to preserve vaccine availability, but many unknowns remain.
www.pressherald.com www.pressherald.com
 
Reckless and irresponsible*...in this case, what Florida is doing borders on criminality.

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*I am talking about Tapper as well because of his book...
 
KaraBulut said:
If a child goes to their pediatrician and is diagnosed with measles, can another patient be put in the exam room afterward? How does one decontaminate the exam room to prevent measles from spreading to other children?
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A hospital not too far from me has a UV robot that sanitizes the room using such intense UV light that the windows in the doors have to be covered lest escaping UV light damage people's eyes. It travels through the room making sure the UV gets into every single space however tiny. There's also a cleaning robot that sanitizes every surface with actual steam. Obviously both of these are so dangerous people have to stay out -- but it gets the job done.
 
rareboy said:
One consequence of Florida's policy may be a further loss of business for tourism.

www.huffpost.com

Infectious Diseases Expert Sounds Alarm On Disney Vacations Amid Florida Vaccine Move

Michael Osterholm explained why he "wouldn’t want my kids going to Florida in the years ahead, to go to Walt Disney World or any place like that."
www.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com
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I heard on the tube that several European countries have already warned against traveling to Florida.

Disney should put spikes on the outside of the Epcot Center to make the dome look like a virus, and add a horror ride showing all the things that happen from not being vaccinated.
 
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