3 patients this week have shared that they are giving up health insurance in January due to skyrocketing premiums. One 62 yo (with no serious illnesses) said that the cheapest she could find was $1800/month. Her plan: roll the dice without insurance until she's Medicare eligible.

📰 @nytimes.com celebrates life & work Dr Bartlett: Robert H Bartlett, father of innovative life-support system, dies at 86. He developed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or #ECMO, a treatment that can sustain patients whose hearts and lungs are failing, for days, weeks or longer 🖇️ bit.ly/4qKFt3b

Michigan Medicine is opening the new Ypsilanti Health Center in downtown Ypsilanti on June 2nd, and the hall is packed with people excited for today's ribbon cutting. This project enhances health care access, improves services for mental health care, and brings more jobs and activity to downtown.

Medicaid covers 168,000 seniors in Michigan. Michigan nursing homes receive >$3 billion in Medicaid funding. Cuts to Medicaid? Wrong for Michigan seniors. #nomedicaidcuts #momsky

US FDA approves first at-home test for cervical cancer screening reut.rs/3GZu50G

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science We should all mourn the loss of our best source of health data for more than half of Americans. Question: the WHI budget is under $10M/year. Opportunity for philanthropy to step in, even in the short run? Donors out there?

www.annfammed.org/content/23/2... #PrimaryCare patients prefer their PCP for routine & chronic care, willing to wait weeks—except for urgent issues (only 7.2% would wait) As health systems prioritize speed over continuity, this study suggests patient preferences favor trust over convenience #FMsky

In Michigan - NIH FUNDING: $991 M JOBS SUPPORTED: 11,965 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $2.42B www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

📢 Our latest Michigan Collaborative for Type 2 Diabetes Annual Report is here! 🎉 Kudos to our incredible design team who crafted our data into a compelling, visually engaging story. 🙌 Full report here: mct2d-annual-report-2024.shorthandstories.com/2024-mct2d-a... #medsky #T2D #CQI #quality

Study after study shows we're behind in growing #PrimaryCare. It's honestly really simple: pay people specifically to become PCPs and then pay practicing PCPs better. "US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This original research study highlights patients who saw their own family physician for after-hours care were 10% less likely to visit the ER within a week, suggesting that continuity of care may improve outcomes, reduce ER visits & lower health care costs. www.annfammed.org/content/22/6...

Day 1 on Bluesky for me! Hoping to find some of my family medicine and palliative care friends and colleagues here. We have so much more great work to do, together.