Dan Skinner
@danskinner.bsky.social
Health policy & politics professor | #MedEd | political scientist | Host, Prognosis Ohio | Editor, World Medical & Health Policy
Is someone going to come get him off the stage? Or nah.
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Is someone going to come get him off the stage? Or nah.
I hope Trump talks for three hours in Davos -- the more he talks, the clearer it all gets.
January 21, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I hope Trump talks for three hours in Davos -- the more he talks, the clearer it all gets.
South Carolina is going to have to change its state slogan to something about measles.
January 14, 2026 at 7:58 PM
South Carolina is going to have to change its state slogan to something about measles.
Americans need to take a minute to imagine how Russians are thinking about the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its leader.
January 6, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Americans need to take a minute to imagine how Russians are thinking about the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its leader.
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Proposal: stop using the euphemism "boots on the ground." This is a time for clarity.
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Proposal: stop using the euphemism "boots on the ground." This is a time for clarity.
Proposal: stop using the euphemism "boots on the ground." This is a time for clarity.
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Proposal: stop using the euphemism "boots on the ground." This is a time for clarity.
Another grim day for American imperialism and lawlessness.
January 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Another grim day for American imperialism and lawlessness.
Washington Post editorials seem to reach new lows every day. Just pure garbage written for an audience of one.
December 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Washington Post editorials seem to reach new lows every day. Just pure garbage written for an audience of one.
Swing and a miss, Market District
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Swing and a miss, Market District
Oh, and Bari Weiss. Duh.
Sharyn Alfonsi has more courage and conviction in her pinky than Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Donald Trump have combined in their total beings.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Oh, and Bari Weiss. Duh.
Sharyn Alfonsi has more courage and conviction in her pinky than Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Donald Trump have combined in their total beings.
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sharyn Alfonsi has more courage and conviction in her pinky than Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Donald Trump have combined in their total beings.
“Mother’s Maiden Name” is a ridiculous and medieval part of our society’s approach to security.
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“Mother’s Maiden Name” is a ridiculous and medieval part of our society’s approach to security.
The "Gulf of America" stupidity is different than the "Trump-Kennedy Center" stupidity.
Only autocrats name things after themselves while they are still in office. He is showing us who he is, again and again.
Only autocrats name things after themselves while they are still in office. He is showing us who he is, again and again.
I often find myself lamenting the lack of historical sense among us. Amazing to me that these high level people can't already see how sycophantic they are going to look for things like this in even a few years. I mean, they already look sycophantic and silly...
Burgum: "Gulf of Mexic-- Gulf of America"
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The "Gulf of America" stupidity is different than the "Trump-Kennedy Center" stupidity.
Only autocrats name things after themselves while they are still in office. He is showing us who he is, again and again.
Only autocrats name things after themselves while they are still in office. He is showing us who he is, again and again.
Reagan-era EMTALA remains an existential backdrop that protects Republican policymakers from total moral depravity.
So, I hear JD accused Biden of giving undocumented immigrants healthcare. What he's referring to is EMTALA, which requires hospitals to eat the cost for uninsured emergency patients. Biden has nothing to do w/that. Became law in 1986, as part of Reagan's COBRA law. JD knows better, but he just lies.
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reagan-era EMTALA remains an existential backdrop that protects Republican policymakers from total moral depravity.
I often find myself lamenting the lack of historical sense among us. Amazing to me that these high level people can't already see how sycophantic they are going to look for things like this in even a few years. I mean, they already look sycophantic and silly...
December 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I often find myself lamenting the lack of historical sense among us. Amazing to me that these high level people can't already see how sycophantic they are going to look for things like this in even a few years. I mean, they already look sycophantic and silly...
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I would like to see the major medical centers to file comments pushing back hard on this rule, which has implications for clinical judgment far beyond this context. I'd especially like to see it from the ones (like that affiliated with my university) who have bowed to Trump threats by ceasing GAC.
By doing so here, the Trump Administration runs smack into the prohibition on Medicare and Medicaid regulating the practice of medicine (as opposed to deciding what they'll pay for). Congress recognized regulating the practice of medicine is a state function, not one for Medicare/Medicaid.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I would like to see the major medical centers to file comments pushing back hard on this rule, which has implications for clinical judgment far beyond this context. I'd especially like to see it from the ones (like that affiliated with my university) who have bowed to Trump threats by ceasing GAC.
Trump is playing with fire when he characterizes the ACA as a giveaway to insurance companies. The ACA's concessions to industry were necessary to pass the only viable alternative to single payer. Trump STILL has no viable alternative. Undermine the ACA and you're left with Medicare for All.
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trump is playing with fire when he characterizes the ACA as a giveaway to insurance companies. The ACA's concessions to industry were necessary to pass the only viable alternative to single payer. Trump STILL has no viable alternative. Undermine the ACA and you're left with Medicare for All.
If you…
Exactly. And you haven't seen the importance of political theory over the past few years, you haven't been paying attention.
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Right-wing calls to end ACA subsidies are unwittingly aiding and abetting the formation of a single-payer health care system. This is because they will show why Obama and Congress established the subsidies in the first place, namely that real markets don't serve patients.
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Right-wing calls to end ACA subsidies are unwittingly aiding and abetting the formation of a single-payer health care system. This is because they will show why Obama and Congress established the subsidies in the first place, namely that real markets don't serve patients.
FIFA really needs to eff all the way off with its "peace" award. Like all the way.
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
FIFA really needs to eff all the way off with its "peace" award. Like all the way.
He feels the darkness, but hopes for light.
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
He feels the darkness, but hopes for light.
Some of my best medical students have been and are Somali Americans. The President is a disgrace. Will Ohio Republicans speak out?
Local Somalis say Trump could target Columbus next after Minnesota attack
www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
Local Somalis say Trump could target Columbus next after Minnesota attack
www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
Local Somalis say Trump could target Columbus next after Minnesota attack
President Donald Trump has been singling out the Somali immigrant community in Minneapolis, calling them criminals and unwanted in the U.S.
www.dispatch.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Some of my best medical students have been and are Somali Americans. The President is a disgrace. Will Ohio Republicans speak out?
Local Somalis say Trump could target Columbus next after Minnesota attack
www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
Local Somalis say Trump could target Columbus next after Minnesota attack
www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that our treasonous president couldn’t care less about the laws of war, the Constitution, etc.
I wish this video by lawmakers about "illegal orders" was better. Some say soldiers "can" refuse orders. Another says "must."
As someone who worked with an authority on Nuremberg for 20 years, I'm here to say:
YOU MUST REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.
As someone who worked with an authority on Nuremberg for 20 years, I'm here to say:
YOU MUST REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that our treasonous president couldn’t care less about the laws of war, the Constitution, etc.
I wish this video by lawmakers about "illegal orders" was better. Some say soldiers "can" refuse orders. Another says "must."
As someone who worked with an authority on Nuremberg for 20 years, I'm here to say:
YOU MUST REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.
As someone who worked with an authority on Nuremberg for 20 years, I'm here to say:
YOU MUST REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I wish this video by lawmakers about "illegal orders" was better. Some say soldiers "can" refuse orders. Another says "must."
As someone who worked with an authority on Nuremberg for 20 years, I'm here to say:
YOU MUST REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.
As someone who worked with an authority on Nuremberg for 20 years, I'm here to say:
YOU MUST REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.