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Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
@silvisax.bsky.social
Mental health writer. Trauma therapist. Medical social worker. Healthcare advocate.

Seen in Recovery, Mentalyc, Choosing Therapy, Forbes, Parade, Yahoo!, Women's Health, Newsweek, Healthline, etc.

Opinions are my own.

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Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Over the last decade, a community health center in Virginia filed more than 7,000 lawsuits for unpaid bills.

It sued one couple for $59 last January, an amount that ballooned more than 600% within months due to interest, court costs and lawyer fees.
These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Looks like the Supreme Court is gearing up to force states to allow religious exemptions to childhood vaccine requirements for school entry.

The completely unnecessary carnage that is going to have to occur to stop the war on Public Health will be ghastly.

It doesn’t have to be this way.
The Supreme Court Just Gave Anti-Vax Parents an Alarming Win
We’ll find out soon enough if the majority is willing to weaponize recent precedent against the literal lives of schoolchildren.
slate.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is set to reintroduce legislation that authorizes criminal and civil penalties for private equity owners of healthcare orgs when their actions cause the injury or death of patients in their care. It is the toughest legislation to date against Wall Street owners in healthcare.
Will Nursing Home Chain Be Off the Hook for Paying Injury and Death Settlements?
A private equity-owned chain aims to use the bankruptcy process to avoid obligations to residents and workers.
truthout.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
I turn 49 tomorrow and read this NY Mag piece about aging and related to it heavily www.thecut.com/article/midd...
Falling Off the Aging Cliff at 44
Research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments. Elder millennials are headed toward the edge.
www.thecut.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
An Army gynecologist has been charged with secretly recording more than 40 of his patients at Fort Hood in Texas, military prosecutors said on Tuesday, as members of Congress expressed concerns that the Army was slow to stop his misconduct.
Army Gynecologist Charged With Secretly Recording Over 40 Patients
Members of Congress expressed concerns that the Army dismissed complaints about the doctor, who was accused of secretly recording patients at Fort Hood in Texas.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
As President Trump recoils at the very mention of affordability, new polling from Politico and Public First shows that nearly half of respondents find it hard to pay for their groceries—and 55% of them hold this administration responsible. trib.al/pXY4n84
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Georgetown University launched a research hub tasked with investigating the deaths of minors who perished in juvenile facilities nationwide in the last 150 years, an effort that will initially focus on the graves of Black boys who died in Maryland state custody. https://wapo.st/3MstO9v
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
As I noted a few weeks ago, my colleagues and I identified the area of Arizona where the measles outbreak has exploded as a region of low vaccination coverage a decade ago.

There is no question that undervaccinated areas are dangerous, and we can predict where outbreaks will grow.
US exceeds 1,900 measles cases as outbreaks expand
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
If you believe that every person in Florida deserves to get vaccine-preventable disease because the state elected DeSantis, then it follows you must also believe that every person in the U.S. deserves to get vaccine-preventable disease because the country elected Trump.

We’re the global Florida.
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Yesterday marked the anniversary of the end of the Assad regime, a moment Syrians waited 50 years for.

As celebrations fade, the healthcare system is still struggling.

Years of sweeping US and EU sanctions weakened hospitals long before Assad fled.
Syria's Long Road to Recovery
Western sanctions on Syria are being lifted, but the damage they inflicted on the country's healthcare infrastructure is long-term.
inthesetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
“I want the world to see our suffering & help us.”

In Gaza, the lives of people with disabilities are marked by daily struggles that go beyond physical limitations: loss of mobility, access to medicines, safe shelter & basic dignity, reports Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi in a new dispatch from Palestine.
The hidden struggles of people with disabilities in Gaza
Israel’s genocide has been cruel to disabled people, whose disabilities have been exacerbated by inadequate access to food and medicine
prismreports.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
The chaos created by the freezing and termination of billions of dollars of research grants has left trans academics especially vulnerable.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/09/h...
Early-career trans researchers reconsider their futures amid lost funding and fear
The chaos created by the freezing and termination of billions of dollars of research grants has left trans academics especially vulnerable.
www.statnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women

>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
And here’s the story of how that happened.

How right wing covid disinformation and institutional cowardice led directly to Kennedy today.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B

Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.

It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Instead of exploring the roots of Lakanwal’s unravelling by reevaluating the CIA’s vast landscape of war crimes, littered with the blood of untold numbers of Afghans and other brown-skinned peoples, the Trump administration is ramping up an already draconian and racist anti-immigrant crackdown.
Trump Is Using National Guard Attack to Collectively Punish Communities of Color
Trump has wreaked collective punishment on immigrants following the shooting of two National Guard members in DC.
truthout.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
There was a 5K race to raise funds for pediatric cancer research at the UofA today.

As I ran, I got overwhelmed by the fact that all around me were the things that I value and that MAGA is trying to destroy.

Education. Community. The Arts. Research. Appreciation for all people.
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
I can’t tell you how glad I am to be released from the disgrace of Temu ACIP.

I made a commitment to watch and comment on these proceedings. Not sure I’ll do it again.

In summary, ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.

Every U.S. state needs to decouple their vaccine policy from ACIP.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
A CDC scientist has just correctly pointed out to the conspiracy theorists that the HBV vaccine has been so successful that it’s difficult to collect data for HBV transmission.
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Fine.

It now the job of our current medical establishment to make sure all mothers are screened for Hep B.

It is their job to deliver results and our job to hold them accountable.
Høeg says that there isn't a scientific basis to different vaccine recommendations being different under equivalent exposure risks in reference to why what Denmark does is so much better, and asks why we are trying to vaccinate our way out of an imperfect healthcare system (maybe because it...
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Silvi Saxena, MBA, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C
Temu ACIP has just voted to discontinue the recommendation for the birth dose of HBV vaccine against the advice of all scientific experts.

They have now established beyond a shadow of doubt that they are not a legitimate scientific body.

Meissner says “we are doing harm”.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM