**Some Personal News** THE TEN YEAR WAR, my new book, is available for pre-order. It’s an effort to tell the story of Obamacare and, more broadly, the story of American politics over the last decade. (1) https://t.co/xFYluV7iTE

Hearing same CDC/infectious disease staff protect us from invaders Biological, not military — but still could be deadly Imagine if Trump were firing field commanders, troops on the DMZ

We’re observing a generational decline in testosterone levels over the past several decades. -A meta-regression analysis (shown below) demonstrates roughly a 35% decline in median testosterone since the 1970s. -This relationship persists independent of population aging and

If health insurance is neither cheaper nor more accessible, how did the uninsured rate in Kennedy's home state of Louisiana drop from 17.8% in 2010, when ObamaCare became law, to 6.9% today? Receipts below:

Sorry Tigers fans 😢 Was a great game -- and a great season too (Despite the late collapse)

Trump got a Covid booster from his doctor and then fired a dozens of doctors and scientists who were working to keep the rest of us healthy and alive

Blatant violation of the Hatch Act, illegally using taxpayer money for political propaganda. I know - no one cares.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

This is some game

so Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis really are turning the Washington Post into garbage. the new edit page describing events around Jan 6: "Trump tried fruitlessly to convince lawmakers to vote against recognizing his election defeat."

Eh, I’m pretty sure it’s discrimination.

President Trump littered his Cabinet meeting today with false claims about vaccines and other subjects. A quick fact check: No, there’s no link between vaccines and autism. The CDC website still notes that this idea has been debunked. No, babies aren’t given vaccines twice the

Sen. Thom Tillis says the needs to be a solution on ACA credits, not just a failed vote for messaging purposes. Tillis adds Trump wants something done on ACA credits. “It’s not just minority members here. It’s over in the White House, too.”

New: Furloughed federal workers want Democrats to keep it up even if it means them missing paychecks: “If we don’t stand up now, we might not have jobs in a month, in two months….We are willing to take some temporary pain,” one told me

To be fair, in 2017 he came up with a horrific plan that would have gutted Medicaid, disproportionately screwed blue states and dissolved the ACA exchanges.

From somebody who is both a student of health care and and provider of it (And not coincidentally has a firm grasp of what this all means in real life)

Rs voted to cut Medicaid, taking $137B out of rural hospitals Then they gave $50B back That's still a big cut You can defend it, argue money better spent on their tax cuts, whatever But you can't accuse Ds -- who want to reverse the cuts -- of attacking rural hospitals

Just to reiterate... There are always tradeoffs in health policy, for everybody's policies Expanding access tends to require more spending, cuts tend to reduce access etc There are exceptions, the best policies find efficiencies etc. This is not one of those instances

So disingenuous The $50B fund is a band-aid on a much bigger cut -- one that Democrats are demanding Republicans reverse Rs disagree, think the cut makes sense Fine, defend it Don't pretend Ds are the ones taking money from rural hospitals https://t.co/DTSKhy57Rg

One thing that hasn't been fully priced in yet is beltway senators like Kaine and Warner going from parochial weak links to Schumer's best soldiers. Arlington/Fairfax crowd is increasingly down for the cause, especially post-DOGE.

And here's my colleague @saletan on why they're doing it (8)

And here's some more on why -- whatever the veracity of Johnson's claim just now -- the overall gist of the GOP argument on health care is not true (7)