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Matthew Holt
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Health Care Curmudgeon

Was Health 2.0; Now @THCBStaff blog & #THCBGang Podcast
AND @smackhealth health tech advisory

Topics: health, tech, politics, soccer
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boltyboy.bsky.social
Do we need fewer lawyers and more scientists in Congress? @kimbbellard.bsky.social thinks so
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Support your neighborhood scientist – The Health Care Blog
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November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Once again America turns to @kimbbellard.bsky.social to explain all that stuff about mRNA you missed by not reading the science journals....

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Life Is Geometry – The Health Care Blog
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November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
The ghost of EA Codman, the Boston surgeon who tried (and failed) to introduce quality scores for surgeons more than a century ago, rattled Leonard D'Avolio's cage a while back. He has thoughts
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Waiting for Codman: 100+ Years of Profits > Patients – The Health Care Blog
thehealthcareblog.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Matthew Holt
implausibleblog.bsky.social
Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole

Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer

Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus

Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK?

Tax rises? That'll be Brexit
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Phenomenal first time author on THCB today. Suhana Mishra is a student researcher in California's under-resourced central valley, and she has some great ideas for helping to get the word out the lack of access to primary care thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
A Comprehensive Examination of Primary Care Disparities in California: Navigating the Abyss – The Health Care Blog
thehealthcareblog.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
@kimbbellard.bsky.social has seen the future of video gaming and he thinks it has some lessons for health care
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Halo, Heresy, and Health Care – The Health Care Blog
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October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
More brilliant journalism from @radleybalko.bsky.social The awful story of how wrongful accusations destroyed a man's life.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-j...
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Matthew Holt
radleybalko.bsky.social
Lots more detail in here about this outrageous arrest. The guy has been in jail for weeks now for posting a quote by President Trump.
lilianasegura.bsky.social Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 23d
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Kim Bellard wants to keep the subsidies for the ACA, but he's wondering why THIS is the one issue that is keeping the government shut down when there are so many worse problems
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
Trade Ya Subsidies For a Government – The Health Care Blog
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October 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
used to be my MP. A decent an honorable man -- telling the truth
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Oct 7
Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥
Robert Peston @Peston Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.” 4:26 PM · Oct 7, 2025 · 16.2K Views
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Reposted by Matthew Holt
tom--scott.bsky.social
Unlike Jenrick & Badenoch, Heseltine has no wish to preside over the smoking, toxic ruins of the Conservative Party. This means he's able to tell the truth about Farage & Reform with no fear that this alienate puce-faced racists in golf-club blazers.
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Oct 7
Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥
Robert Peston @Peston Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.” 4:26 PM · Oct 7, 2025 · 16.2K Views
October 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Tamir Gotfried, the Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer at TytoCare came on THCB to show us how their remote device works to deliver the last few inches of telehealth.
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
TytoCare–The Last Few Inches of Telehealth? – The Health Care Blog
thehealthcareblog.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Reposted by Matthew Holt
johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy.

Choose.
October 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Great and more timely than ever 40 years later
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · Oct 4
And @publicenemyno1.bsky.social doing a medley including Fight the Power (we see you @chuckdpe.bsky.social) youtu.be/aKV1UQqxQN0 — I can’t help but think that some minds will be blown at what people were saying with their chest 35+ years ago.
Public Enemy – Don’t Believe The Hype, The Hits Just Keep On Comin & Fight The Power (Medley)
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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October 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Matthew Holt
tomtomorrow.bsky.social
WE HAVE LIFTOFF

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
There's a flightless bird that swims well with big ambitions in creating a platform for AI in all health care enterprises. Fawad Butt & Missy Krasner from Penguin Ai came on THCB to tell why this is needed and how it will work.
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
Penguin–The Flightless Bird of Health AI – The Health Care Blog
thehealthcareblog.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
"Opposing reproductive choice while protecting the religious freedom assured by the very same 1st Amendment is a difficult needle to thread" Medical historian Mike Magee is looking at how religion is impacting the debate over abortion via telehealth.
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
Teledoc Medication Abortions Under Attack – The Health Care Blog
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October 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Such a thrill to have Stephanie Strong and her new-ish colleague Marianna Zaslavsky from Boulder Care on THCB to discuss their program, what Medicaid cuts will mean and much more
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
Boulder Care: Stephanie Strong & Marianna Zaslavsky – The Health Care Blog
thehealthcareblog.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Given the complete shit show emanating from HHS under RFK Jr and his bunch of jokers, david introcaso's proposal to make it an independent body like the Fed Reserve deserves a good look

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HHS’s Independence: If Not Now, When? – The Health Care Blog
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September 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Patient safety expert Michael Millenson reflects on how far we have come since a cabinet secretary's father was killed by a chemotherapy overdose in 1979. Not far enough

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Lessons From The Medical Error That Orphaned A Cabinet Secretary – The Health Care Blog
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September 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
You may have heard from a very reputable scientific source, the President of the US or his head of the EPA, that climate change is a myth. @kimbbellard.bsky.social is here to remind you that it's not

thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
And Yet It Moves – The Health Care Blog
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September 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Help texts is a really helpful lightweight solution for those grieving a loss. Today they are introducing a calculator that shows health plans how much that grieving costs them!
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
New Bereavement Cost Calculator shows that grief is expensive – The Health Care Blog
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September 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Matthew Holt
djrothkopf.bsky.social
If the international and US domestic justice systems were working properly there would not be enough courts in which to try this guy for his various crimes nor enough jails in which to confine him after he was convicted.
September 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
boltyboy.bsky.social
Apparently climate change is a hoax. Sadly no one told the planet that message. david introcaso is back on The Health Care Blog after a long absence to look at the response of the health care industry in cutting its carbon emissions. The news is not great.....
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Does American Health Care Violate the ICJ’s Recent Climate Advisory Opinion? – The Health Care Blog
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September 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
boltyboy.bsky.social
It's an unbelievable and very long read but here is @radleybalko's round up of this country's descent into authoritarianism in just the PAST MONTH. Read it and weep, literally
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
Roundup: One month of authoritarianism. Plus: Obama cites The Watch! (sort of)
Here's what happened in just one month of the Trump administration's dizzying push toward autocracy
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September 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM