Erika Ziller
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Erika Ziller
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Health services researcher recently transplanted to VT. Wearing merino wool & voting with my purse because that feels like all I can control.
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Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.
RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism
For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.
www.motherjones.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Jimmy Carter was a true public servant and peacemaker. Our country is a better place because of him. My thoughts are with his family.
December 29, 2024 at 10:17 PM
This *was* on my Bingo card for this term and is bad news for rural and remote folks. There is no profit margin in the rural routes.
This is their goal. Privatize everything.

And by “privatize” we mean steer billions to themselves and their friends, ending programs that serve those with the least under the guise of “efficiency”.

Rural areas will suffer. Prices will rise.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 15, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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Don’t support RFK Jr as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
December 14, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Ran around Roosevelt Island this morning, past the ruins of a smallpox hospital (now on the National Register of Historic Places).

Vaccines work. #idsky #episky
December 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Public praise for a killer is an escalation of a troubling trend: bloodlust for destruction & retribution. Americans are rejecting leaders who propose solutions for problems, in favor of antiheroes who just want to burn everything down—figuratively or literally www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Fan club for suspected shooter is a symptom of burn-it-all-down populism
There are better health-care heroes to valorize.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Excellent analysis and data in this post. Cheers for the new term #Muskaswamy
December 14, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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“A fistula ward is one of the happiest places you can imagine”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Unnecessary Suffering of Women With Obstetric Fistulas
Women with obstetric fistulas suffer year after year, even as a $619 surgery can restore them.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:59 PM
This makes me smile.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Have Walk-On Role in Broadway's & Juliet
Jackson will also participate in a post-show talkback.
playbill.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I keep wandering around this site and getting smacked with deja vu. I saw someone's Wordle, then a Jorts post, then the real Mark Hamill, and a reference to health policy valentines. Can bean can dad outrage, spa days for follow numbers, or feral hogs be far behind?
December 4, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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When I will respond to your email
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
First post: a stressed-out person looking for a little echo chamber opportunity and some respectful dialogue. And maybe a Wordle post or two.
November 18, 2024 at 12:24 PM