Ross White
@rossswhite.bsky.social
Girl dad x2 | Health Policy Director | DC explorer and #51stState supporter | 🚴♂️ | Charleston, SC native
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12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
December 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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14 states would lose $75B in federal #Medicaid funding under this piece of House Republicans' sweeping budget legislation. Just for doing their own, wholly state-funded coverage programs for people w/o documented immigration status.
House Republican Energy & Commerce bill would cut #Medicaid funding to states that have wholly state-funded health coverage programs that allow people w/o a documented immigration status to get affordable health care.
May 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
14 states would lose $75B in federal #Medicaid funding under this piece of House Republicans' sweeping budget legislation. Just for doing their own, wholly state-funded coverage programs for people w/o documented immigration status.
Bioethics: Back to the USSR?
"I hope that bioethics... will morph into a truly global field with global perspectives that recognizes diversity and solidarity and transcends current divisions between North and South, Western and non-Western thinking."
www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ba...
"I hope that bioethics... will morph into a truly global field with global perspectives that recognizes diversity and solidarity and transcends current divisions between North and South, Western and non-Western thinking."
www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ba...
Bioethics: Back to the USSR?
Will bioethics continue to exist and in what form? In the United States, where the discipline is most developed and institutionalized, it is under pressure.
www.thehastingscenter.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bioethics: Back to the USSR?
"I hope that bioethics... will morph into a truly global field with global perspectives that recognizes diversity and solidarity and transcends current divisions between North and South, Western and non-Western thinking."
www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ba...
"I hope that bioethics... will morph into a truly global field with global perspectives that recognizes diversity and solidarity and transcends current divisions between North and South, Western and non-Western thinking."
www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ba...
The real question: is our children learning?
April 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The real question: is our children learning?
“I’m not sure he knows what we do here,” said one CMS employee who listened to the call.
www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...
www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...
Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall
Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“I’m not sure he knows what we do here,” said one CMS employee who listened to the call.
www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...
www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...
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Barack Obama just delivered a blistering takedown of Trump's lawlessness. Importantly, Obama also offered Dems a way to argue that Trump's dictatorial abuses of power and his imminent wreckage of the economy are the same story.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1936...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1936...
Obama’s Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward
In an appearance on Thursday, the former president laid out the connection between Trump’s lawlessness and—yes—the price of eggs. Will other Democrats follow?
newrepublic.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Barack Obama just delivered a blistering takedown of Trump's lawlessness. Importantly, Obama also offered Dems a way to argue that Trump's dictatorial abuses of power and his imminent wreckage of the economy are the same story.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1936...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1936...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social Brilliant response to Calley Means 👏👏👏👏
April 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
@repauchincloss.bsky.social Brilliant response to Calley Means 👏👏👏👏
This interview is mind boggling 🤯 Urging "humility" for the Administration on recent HHS job cuts.
Not sure I woke up choosing violence this morning, but I decided to listen to the Politico Health Summit this morning, which now features HHS "special government employee" Calley Means speaking about MAHA. The amount of propaganda he's managed to spew in just a minute is astounding.
April 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This interview is mind boggling 🤯 Urging "humility" for the Administration on recent HHS job cuts.
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Just so you know Democrats are voting to defund the public schools attended by the kids of their own overworked and underpaid staff
SCHUMER just now: "While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse."
March 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just so you know Democrats are voting to defund the public schools attended by the kids of their own overworked and underpaid staff
Depravity
NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...
Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools
Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.
51st.news
March 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Depravity
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Congress’ ignorance & maliciousness towards DC, our people, & our government are the reasons why. They don’t know us, understand us, or care about us. They’ve made their careers off of ‘hating DC’ & this is what happens. Those are the reasons why.
NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...
Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools
Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.
51st.news
March 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Congress’ ignorance & maliciousness towards DC, our people, & our government are the reasons why. They don’t know us, understand us, or care about us. They’ve made their careers off of ‘hating DC’ & this is what happens. Those are the reasons why.
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COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
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“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
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KREMLIN SAYS WASHINGTON NOW LARGELY ALIGNS WITH RUSSIA Sees tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in Trump-Zelensky meeting, as an unexpected, potentially transformative "gift" @francescaebel.bsky.social reports from Moscow
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Wow: Jeff Grant, a top career official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, retired today. On his way out, Grant sent this letter excoriating Jeffery Anoka, who carried out the DOGE firings, and said Anoka is "ethically and legally bound to restore" the jobs of the fired employees.
March 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work.
"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."
w/ @deldeib.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."
w/ @deldeib.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work.
"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."
w/ @deldeib.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."
w/ @deldeib.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
February 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.
February 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.
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RFK Jr. failed the Medicare quiz. If the highest health official in the United States cannot answer what Medicare Part A, B, C, and D are, he can't be expected to make them work better for American seniors. Period.
January 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Absolutely terrifying
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
January 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Absolutely terrifying
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The Biden executive order Trump rescinded called for the development of new approaches to lower drug costs. The big question, which Trump hasn’t addressed yet, is what he’ll do with government negotiation of drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act.
January 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Biden executive order Trump rescinded called for the development of new approaches to lower drug costs. The big question, which Trump hasn’t addressed yet, is what he’ll do with government negotiation of drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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New on MSNBC: Vice President Harris will fly back to Los Angeles today with an all-female U.S. Air Force crew — the first time an all-female crew has operated a C-33.
Upon landing, Harris will visit a local fire station and then distribute food to community members impacted by the wildfires.
Upon landing, Harris will visit a local fire station and then distribute food to community members impacted by the wildfires.
January 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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