America in 2026.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

9 is running for president in a mock 4th grade election and the largest plank of her platform is softer thicker toilet paper in the school bathrooms so she will obviously be winning in a landslide.

Love is keeping your children safe from vaccine preventable diseases.

Text between me and my almost 12 year old who absolutely hates needles.

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Poland is planning to jail all the elites in Epstein files. They have started a task force to analyse the Epstein files as they don't trust the way the Americans have handled them.

I like Bernie Saunders idea of reading the Epstein files for the filibuster against the SAVE act.

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These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

Fuck @bcbsmichigan.bsky.social.. Yet another example of their bullshit for you, @shematologist.medsky.social

YES! Pediatricians, public health professionals, & parents >antivax propaganda #VaccinesCauseAdults #ProtectKids @drannieandrews.com @shematologist.medsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social @philipverhoef.bsky.social @mauikidsdr.bsky.social @shreya-pedsid.bsky.social

I still haven’t forgot about their intentional delay & deny tactics from 2.5 years ago, when they fought against covering a diagnostic cardiac catheterization for me. They put my life on the line for 2 months in order to attempt to save money. They do not care if people live or die. It’s all $$

$43.3 billion dollars by delaying and denying much needed care for patients, and clawing back money from those who provide it. Yet, they claim they haven’t made a profit in years. I call fucking bullshit. They could have killed me back in 2023 with their dangerous, calculated actions.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

One by one, hospitals are abandoning trans kids as they preemptively cave to HHS threats over Medicaid/Medicare funding. They ought to consider the terrible message walking away from some kids sends about their dedication to caring for all of them. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

He’s the whistleblower who reported that our data were being stolen from the Social Security Administration in broad daylight. I think he needs more followers. This kind of courage is rare.

@bcbsm.bsky.social comment?

I’ve had patients travel from all over the country to see me. Which makes it all the more tragic that patients in my own state of Michigan “covered” by @bcbsm.bsky.social may no longer be able to do so. #PatientsOverProfits #HealthInsurersAreTheWorst

Medical insurance execs in the US = soulless, money grubbing ghouls

Health insurers are the reason our healthcare system SUCKS

Another reminder that health insurers in the US are THE WORST. This week it’s @bcbsm.bsky.social next week it’ll be another one.

Absolutely tragic. And unavoidable. Vaccinating your kids also protects those that can’t be vaccinated.

I've been resisting replying to a lot of posts today, because I wanted to think. And I think that we are at a unique crisis point right now on the left. You can not spend a year running on telling us that democracy will end if this guy wins, and then just turn around and say, "well norms, you know"

Good people of Michigan, do you relate to yearly millionaires who deny your claims for a living, instead of being modestly compensated and servant oriented? Vote with your feed, find other insurance and send a message to BCBS leadership and owners.

My BCBS insurance went up 15% this year and I felt lucky compared to many. This is what I get. Burn it all down.

#bcbsmi #bcbs Your flex on how much of a health care dollar is reimbursed to Mich Med is pathetic. You are an ADMINISTRATOR. Why should over half of that dollar stay in house and NOT go to the provider giving care? You have cornered the market on insurance in Michigan. Drop UM & that will change.

TIL that @bcbsm.bsky.social made $43.3 billion in 2025, $641 million from their stock & bonds alone. Michigan medicine proposed extending the current contract w/ extra $ for improved access, quality & cost reduction. BCBS reimbursement would still be the lowest among commercial payers.

The way I look at it, if you preorder a book 8 months before its publication, when you get it it's basically free.

Omg it’s a Friday miracle. A physical copy I can hold in my hands. This book is so good I read the entire thing in a pdf on my phone in a day. I never re-read books but I’m definitely going back in on this one. @ranaawdish.bsky.social is magic. Preorder yours today—-you can thank me later.

Every time grief undoes my life, I think about these words I wrote when I was 15 and my horse died.

BCBS CEO pay is still criminally high; all to deny legitimate claims for healthcare.

“Gender-critical” transphobia now costs every woman athlete £185 if they want to compete in an international competition. Well done transphobes, this is your doing and no-one else’s. Trans people have long been saying that transphobia would harm cis women. We were right, people just don’t listen.

156 years ago this month, the @umich.edu Regents began the process of making a landmark decision: To allow women to study medicine along with men. That fall, U-M became the first truly coeducational #medschool. I trace what came after in this story: michmed.org/7Krvd #medhist #womenshistorymonth

BCBS Michigan paid its CEO $13.9M in 2024. The University of Michigan basketball coach made $4.6M. One of them denies your claims for a living. The other one just loses March games. We built a system that pays more to gatekeep care than to provide it.

I haven’t been following this, partly by choice because I am not seeing #patients this week, but this is a great thread. I agree with everything said here. And will add- because of how poorly #BCBS pays in #Michigan, we can’t keep young #doctors

THIS. Ugh. 😑

A reminder that physicians are not the reason your healthcare is bats*** expensive. If you need another reminder please google the salaries of upper health insurance suits.

I did it for you. The CEO of @bcbsm.bsky.social took home $13.9 million in 2024 They cut the pay for the new CEO in 2025 who got $6.9 million. The only @umich.edu employee who got anywhere close to that was our basketball coach who made $4.6 million in 2025.

In today’s episode of “insurance companies are the worst” @bcbsm.bsky.social & Michigan Medicine can’t come to an agreement leaving ~70% of commercially insured Michiganders possibly out of network 7/1. Their entire goal is to make $ yet are painting a non profit hospital as the villain. 1/

Burn down the health insurance system.

In today’s episode of “insurance companies are the worst” @bcbsm.bsky.social & Michigan Medicine can’t come to an agreement leaving ~70% of commercially insured Michiganders possibly out of network 7/1. Their entire goal is to make $ yet are painting a non profit hospital as the villain. 1/

“NYU Langone’s change in policy is self-imposed,” the letter states. “There has been no change in federal law to require the cessation of medically necessary transgender health care.”

they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means “Republicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”