Most of you know know that Covered California gives working families access to affordable health insurance

But did you know they use experiments and user research to shape every aspect of the program?

Checkout this interview with CC’s Dr. Monica Soni
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Here’s Andrew Lennox, a former marine who was fired from the VA, talking about his work

Quoting MLK, Sierra Club’s @benjealous.bsky.social asks us all to move beyond comfort to make change

“If you are comfortable in your coalition, your coalition is too small”

#Bioneers

Here’s a must listen

Three of the smartest people I know discussing the shape and impact of potential Medicaid cuts
▶️ Kody Kinsley
▶️ @larrylevitt.bsky.social
▶️ Katie Heidorn

🔉 Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

On a recent episode of The Other 80 Alexandra Drane shared a shocking stat

52% of sandwich generation caregivers have thought about suicide in the last 30 days

Listen to whole episode here
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If Medicaid is cut, that number will only increase

Here’s willow (with us in spirit now)

Want more tools to protect our democracy?

Our good friend & Quaker activist @eileenflanagan.bsky.social is offering civil resistance training this Sunday and Monday in SF

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The complexity & size of federal programs has grown considerably since the 1950s (Medicare & Medicaid etc)

But the size of the federal workforce has not

We should all be asking: What will be the impact of planned buyout and other staff shrinking measures on basic functioning of government

Scott Gottlieb gives scary profile of how HHS could reduce vaccine uptake (w/out FDA)
- take childhood vaccines off ACIP recommended list
- ask for states to report on immigration status for children vaccinated by vaccine for children’s program
- make it harder to distribute multi disease vaccines

THIS is what I want at JPM: caregiving, rare disease, storytelling

Thank you Emily Peters

“The economy of outrage is no longer viable”

“We must follow our curiosity”

“Healthcare is filled with people with good intentions - yet our systems are so broken”

@mcgowankat.bsky.social

Americans are united on one thing: their poor view of US healthcare coverage

Poll results:
news.gallup.com/poll/654044/...

ht @healthdata.bsky.social

Dog joy, for anyone who needs it

So much to learn here - Buffy Wicks and Marshall Ganz talking about neighborhood organizing early in the Obama campaign