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Healthcare system reform needs strategic consideration of the following theories: economics, systems, game, political, ethical, organizational, informational. We need to establish checkpoints and timestamps.
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Sign this petition to fire Lee Zeldin's ass.

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Petition to Remove EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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The FDA is playing with fire here. Nobody wants to be exposed to unnecessary risk! This is corporate sponsored regulatory engineering. WILD

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FDA review staff was excluded from voting on whether to approve first priority voucher drug
Top officials like Vinay Prasad and George Tidmarsh voted on the drug, a major break from the FDA's typical practice.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Ethics, morals, dignity these are worth protecting

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Pope: Safeguard human dignity as health systems integrate AI - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV reflects on the need for an ethical approach to healthcare systems, especially in light of the growing use of Artificial Intelligence and ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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I'd trust our healthcare finances to be under management by BridgeWater

They seem to be responsible

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November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Chronic illness is on the rise, why aren't we keeping up with the research needed for public health policies. Maybe it's because we keep losing our experts... Federal workers who criticized Trump during shutdown put on leave www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Is this why healthcare costs are going up? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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This is what happens when healthcare is out of our hands.
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“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”
Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health - KFF Health News
Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly upended outbreak response, HIV treatment, and dementia care in communities across America.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Any one of us could be a minority. This administration is strategically defunding research meant to address health outcome disparities in minority populations.

Are we building an apartheid state?

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Minority health researchers walk tightrope amid NIH funding cuts
As the Trump administration slashes and transforms the National Institutes of Health (NIH), minority health researchers are walking a tightrope, trying to maintain funding without crossing the vagu…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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These are some of the dream team members I would trust to advise our national health network

Institute for Preventive Health Team share.google/QAeyql74X2ym...
Team | Institute for Preventive Health
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November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Group of experts stand up for science! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Public health defends its time-tested approach against the rise of MAHA
Public health leaders convene in Washington, D.C. this week to defend their vision for America's health, and look ahead for how to rebuild after the Trump administration's attacks on the system.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Health Insurance consultants are shaking in their boots. If you see this message, and you want to apply leverage. NOW is the time to organize. A public campaign Boycotting health insurance this year will propagate a tsunami. We could have the power. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Is it cheaper to pay for medical care without health insurance?
Hospitals or clinics may offer cash-only discounts to people who pay without insurance. But experts warn that health care isn't the place to bargain for the best deal.
www.nbcnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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It's a structural conflict of interest between corporate profit and healthcare www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h...
The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed
“The market competition, managed care, and ‘corporate efficiency’ that economists prescribed as the cure for health care inflation instead accelerated it.”
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October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Hell yeah! Shots fired

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin
Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.politico.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The same thing that happened to our healthcare system happened to our localn news papers

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink | PBS share.google/EhH6kMqzhiJp...
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Listen to the US government fumble with our healthcare. Disappointing but expected. We don't have to live on our knees.
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🔊 Listen Now: Congressional leaders met with President Trump ahead of shutdown deadline
All Things Considered on NPR One | 6:48
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September 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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News coverage of America's Kafkaesque healthcare system. Listen to: A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy - one.npr.org/i/fis-110229...
🔊 Listen Now: A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
Tradeoffs from WFYI Public Media on NPR One | 27:10
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September 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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One solution, we take over.

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Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds
The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.
www.nbcnews.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Does the news about the EPA make your stomach turn? Go to the police. Tell them you've been poisoned by Lee Zeldin. Demand a toxicology report for pesticide ingestion. It's in your food as a residue. You can bring a potato for them to test
July 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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What happens when we consume trace amounts of Diquat? It is in our food. Where are the chronicity studies? Where are the bioaccumulation studies? Why is it banned in other countries?

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July 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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As the cost of healthcare is skyrockets, there is much to be gained by the healthcare industry when our environment is poisoned.

The current administration has banned the words "environmental quality, pollution, climate science, and systemic" Chris Webby speaks up.
July 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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As the landscape shifts, the river bends. It's still worth fighting for freedom. Study your tyrannical oppressor. Know what is happening.
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James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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July 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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See what the future holds 🔮
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Why Private Equity Is Buying Hospitals & Shutting Them Down
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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July 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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What is this shenanigans? This is just proving my point that we need to take back our healthcare
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I just emailed Dr. Berwick my strategy for fixing this
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The $5 Trillion Lie: Why U.S. Healthcare Fails Us All With Guest Dr. Don Berwick (Ep. 12)
YouTube video by Benefit Whisperer
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June 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM