Melanie Yates, MD
@myates28.bsky.social
Minnesotan • Zag Class of 2016• CWRU Med 2020 grad • Cincy EM Class of 2024 •
Health Policy and Advocacy fellow GW EM
Interests in: Firearm injury prevention, reproductive freedom, health care reform, nature, sportsball, adorable dogs
Health Policy and Advocacy fellow GW EM
Interests in: Firearm injury prevention, reproductive freedom, health care reform, nature, sportsball, adorable dogs
Now more than ever, physicians need to be in the conversation on the impacts that policy and politics have on our patients and crumbling healthcare system. Time to buckle up for the new year, and grateful to write this piece with my friend and colleague: escholarship.org/uc/item/2nn0...
The One Big Beautiful Bill: A Looming Crisis for Health Equity and Emergency Medicine
Author(s): Yates, Melanie; Yun, Peter
escholarship.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Now more than ever, physicians need to be in the conversation on the impacts that policy and politics have on our patients and crumbling healthcare system. Time to buckle up for the new year, and grateful to write this piece with my friend and colleague: escholarship.org/uc/item/2nn0...
What is this new feeling of hope? Who is she? Haven't seen her in a while
#civicengagement #2025election #democracy
#civicengagement #2025election #democracy
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What is this new feeling of hope? Who is she? Haven't seen her in a while
#civicengagement #2025election #democracy
#civicengagement #2025election #democracy
Just your friendly reminder that healthcare does not follow free market principles and people continue to die for profit in the current system.
And this is only going to get worse as uninsured rates skyrocket with the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidies expirations
#healthpoliy
And this is only going to get worse as uninsured rates skyrocket with the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidies expirations
#healthpoliy
Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms
Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals
hms.harvard.edu
September 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just your friendly reminder that healthcare does not follow free market principles and people continue to die for profit in the current system.
And this is only going to get worse as uninsured rates skyrocket with the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidies expirations
#healthpoliy
And this is only going to get worse as uninsured rates skyrocket with the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidies expirations
#healthpoliy
It is not lost on me that a bunch of weak old men who can't handle one bad comment against them are telling women to "suck it up" and not take the one well-studied safe medication for pain and fever in pregnancy based on non-existent evidence that it causes autism 🙃
#scienceoverpolitics
#scienceoverpolitics
September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It is not lost on me that a bunch of weak old men who can't handle one bad comment against them are telling women to "suck it up" and not take the one well-studied safe medication for pain and fever in pregnancy based on non-existent evidence that it causes autism 🙃
#scienceoverpolitics
#scienceoverpolitics
One of the greatest honors as an emergency physician is to be able to care for everyone no matter where they come from or what their beliefs are. One of the greatest heartbreaks is telling families their loved ones have died from gun violence.
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
One of the greatest honors as an emergency physician is to be able to care for everyone no matter where they come from or what their beliefs are. One of the greatest heartbreaks is telling families their loved ones have died from gun violence.
Reposted by Melanie Yates, MD
Actions mean more than words.
And the fact that the new COI rules are not being applied to the new hand-picked Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, speaks volumes.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...
And the fact that the new COI rules are not being applied to the new hand-picked Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, speaks volumes.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...
HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest
RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.
www.statnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Actions mean more than words.
And the fact that the new COI rules are not being applied to the new hand-picked Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, speaks volumes.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...
And the fact that the new COI rules are not being applied to the new hand-picked Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, speaks volumes.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...
No fireworks 🎆 just nature 🌿
Taking a break out on the water today so we can fight for our freedoms tomorrow
#courageovercomfort
Taking a break out on the water today so we can fight for our freedoms tomorrow
#courageovercomfort
July 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
No fireworks 🎆 just nature 🌿
Taking a break out on the water today so we can fight for our freedoms tomorrow
#courageovercomfort
Taking a break out on the water today so we can fight for our freedoms tomorrow
#courageovercomfort
Reposted by Melanie Yates, MD
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
July 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
I think this is mother nature's wrath for the senate GOP passing the abhorrent big blasphemous bill
July 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I think this is mother nature's wrath for the senate GOP passing the abhorrent big blasphemous bill
Reposted by Melanie Yates, MD
Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
Reposted by Melanie Yates, MD
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
Reposted by Melanie Yates, MD
@eggerdc.bsky.social: "If this monstrosity of a bill ever becomes law, it will be interesting to see the unstoppable force of this delusion meet the immovable object of people actually losing their coverage en masse. For the sake of the country, we hope we never get to see it."
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
@eggerdc.bsky.social: "If this monstrosity of a bill ever becomes law, it will be interesting to see the unstoppable force of this delusion meet the immovable object of people actually losing their coverage en masse. For the sake of the country, we hope we never get to see it."
Work requirements ➡️ kicking eligible adults off their healthcare due to administrative burden. #ArkansasWorks is an example, where ~18,000 people were kicked off Medicaid inappropriately ➡️ to significant deleterious healthcare effects.
The GOP budget bill will hurt so many to benefit so few
The GOP budget bill will hurt so many to benefit so few
KFF takes a new look at data on Medicaid and work requirements.
Like our previous analyses, this shows a majority of Medicaid expansion adults who would be subject to work requirements in the House reconciliation bill are working 80+ hours in a month: on.kff.org/4kWYmfO
Like our previous analyses, this shows a majority of Medicaid expansion adults who would be subject to work requirements in the House reconciliation bill are working 80+ hours in a month: on.kff.org/4kWYmfO
June 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Work requirements ➡️ kicking eligible adults off their healthcare due to administrative burden. #ArkansasWorks is an example, where ~18,000 people were kicked off Medicaid inappropriately ➡️ to significant deleterious healthcare effects.
The GOP budget bill will hurt so many to benefit so few
The GOP budget bill will hurt so many to benefit so few
What is it about socialism that scares so many people and calls for this much fear-mongering? Can they not fathom the empathy it takes to care more about the collective good than individual power?
June 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
What is it about socialism that scares so many people and calls for this much fear-mongering? Can they not fathom the empathy it takes to care more about the collective good than individual power?
Got my hair cut yesterday, and my stylist said for the longest time when she listened to the news she heard "Rhonda Santis" and was so confused about the governor of FL.
Honestly would make an excellent drag queen name and now I need this to happen 😂
Honestly would make an excellent drag queen name and now I need this to happen 😂
June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Got my hair cut yesterday, and my stylist said for the longest time when she listened to the news she heard "Rhonda Santis" and was so confused about the governor of FL.
Honestly would make an excellent drag queen name and now I need this to happen 😂
Honestly would make an excellent drag queen name and now I need this to happen 😂
Reposted by Melanie Yates, MD
Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.
The Senator Who Failed America on Vaccines
Bill Cassidy blew it.
bit.ly
June 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.
Gotta love when Kravitz and Brundle make fun of the #TrumpTariffs during the #F1 qualifying broadcast.
🇺🇸 continues to be the subject of most jokes and anger around the world, and we deserve it.
🇺🇸 continues to be the subject of most jokes and anger around the world, and we deserve it.
April 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Gotta love when Kravitz and Brundle make fun of the #TrumpTariffs during the #F1 qualifying broadcast.
🇺🇸 continues to be the subject of most jokes and anger around the world, and we deserve it.
🇺🇸 continues to be the subject of most jokes and anger around the world, and we deserve it.
Breaking News: A second child has died of measles in West Texas amid an escalating outbreak. It is the second confirmed measles death in a decade in the U.S.
A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas
It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#ThePitt is becoming my pseudo oral board exam study guide while simultaneously reminding me of the humanity of my work.
Tension pneumo, hair tourniquet, hyperkalemia from rhabdo, end of life care...really crushing it @hbomax.bsky.social
#EmergencyMedicine
Tension pneumo, hair tourniquet, hyperkalemia from rhabdo, end of life care...really crushing it @hbomax.bsky.social
#EmergencyMedicine
April 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
#ThePitt is becoming my pseudo oral board exam study guide while simultaneously reminding me of the humanity of my work.
Tension pneumo, hair tourniquet, hyperkalemia from rhabdo, end of life care...really crushing it @hbomax.bsky.social
#EmergencyMedicine
Tension pneumo, hair tourniquet, hyperkalemia from rhabdo, end of life care...really crushing it @hbomax.bsky.social
#EmergencyMedicine
@booker.senate.gov now all you have to do to become an excellent resident physician is place a chest tube at the 27th hour of your call...props to you sir and thanks for fighting for us 🇺🇸
#democracy #filibuster #forthepeople
#democracy #filibuster #forthepeople
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@booker.senate.gov now all you have to do to become an excellent resident physician is place a chest tube at the 27th hour of your call...props to you sir and thanks for fighting for us 🇺🇸
#democracy #filibuster #forthepeople
#democracy #filibuster #forthepeople
Five years ago today. Gave me the chance to learn EM from the best and create a family with #CincyEM, and I will be forever grateful 🚁
Feel all the feels today M4s, whether that is anxiety or excitement. We are all so excited to accept you into our residency families! Happy #MatchDay2025
Feel all the feels today M4s, whether that is anxiety or excitement. We are all so excited to accept you into our residency families! Happy #MatchDay2025
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Five years ago today. Gave me the chance to learn EM from the best and create a family with #CincyEM, and I will be forever grateful 🚁
Feel all the feels today M4s, whether that is anxiety or excitement. We are all so excited to accept you into our residency families! Happy #MatchDay2025
Feel all the feels today M4s, whether that is anxiety or excitement. We are all so excited to accept you into our residency families! Happy #MatchDay2025
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Hey, Trumpy, leave trans kids alone!
Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
“Trans sports” isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder.
www.thebulwark.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hey, Trumpy, leave trans kids alone!
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I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.
February 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy...if I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness." - Pres. Teddy Roosevelt
Nice little reminder on my walk today. Regroup and then continue to work towards progress
Nice little reminder on my walk today. Regroup and then continue to work towards progress
January 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy...if I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness." - Pres. Teddy Roosevelt
Nice little reminder on my walk today. Regroup and then continue to work towards progress
Nice little reminder on my walk today. Regroup and then continue to work towards progress
@amyactonoh.bsky.social is the reason I realized I wanted to combine health policy and medicine into a career. Her empathetic, level headed, and science based leadership is what Ohio desperately needs right now. Ohioans, please don't screw this up.
Ohio, I’m running for Governor. I’ve spent my life listening to Ohioans, helping families, and solving problems. It’s time for leadership that gives power back to the people. Together, we can build the Ohio we all dream of. Join us: actonforgovernor.com/donate-launch
actonforgovernor.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
@amyactonoh.bsky.social is the reason I realized I wanted to combine health policy and medicine into a career. Her empathetic, level headed, and science based leadership is what Ohio desperately needs right now. Ohioans, please don't screw this up.