Jermaine Heath
@JHeath_
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M4 at Howard; Aspiring surgeon thinking about patient outcomes and healthcare systems. Formers: @hmshcp @DartmouthInst @Harvard | 🇯🇲
Brooklyn ✈️ Boston ✈️DC
Joined July 2012
#MedTwitter, allow me to reintroduce myself: I'm Jermaine Heath, an M4 @HowardU applying to General Surgery Residency #Match2025 My interests include health policy, delivery system reform, & health disparities I also enjoy cooking 🇯🇲 food & being tormented by NY sports teams
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Yes — and that’s not even talking about doctor care, diagnostic tests, procedures, hospitalizations. Serious illness will always be expensive; this is true even in nations with far lower healthcare costs than US and even when care is free at point of use. This cannot change…
One year of cancer therapy in the US can run $1 million or more. Drugs I prescribe cost $150,000 to 450,000 a year just drug cost for one year. One year! Unless you have good health insurance we risk losing savings and access to care because of one single serious health event
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OpenEvidence has revenue of $50 million - but a valuation of $6.1 BILLION. Question for all the “AI can’t replace doctors!” naysayers: What do *you* think OE’s long-term monetization pathway looks like? What are investors expecting will happen to justify this valuation? 🧵
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A concise viewpoint on how physicians can prepare for the generative A.I. era https://t.co/kX0BWwckpX
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This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field. ~30% residents are international medical graduates & ~10k of 43k residency spots are filled by docs with H1-B visas. Previously the h-1B fee was <$5,000. No hospital will pay a $100k fee for a $55k resident salary.
Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
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"I want an individualized risk-benefit assessment from a medical professional for my particular child." https://t.co/M93uUWhQh3
I am not an “anti-vaxxer.” I am willing to vaccinate my child for many things. But here is what I want: I want an individualized risk-benefit assessment from a medical professional for my particular child. “Here’s how many infants were in the ER with x disease in nyc last year.
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Lay people being overly dramatic about the side effects of GLP1s
Jameela Jamil criticizes Serena Williams for promoting and being the face of GLP-1 weight loss drug. The actress warns of serious health risks and points to Williams’ husband’s ties as an investor in the company.
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remember when "learn to code" was a nasty refrain @ people losing their non-stem jobs?
"Among college grads age 22-27, computer science & computer engineering majors are facing high unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5%...more than 2x the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history grads, which is 3%" Learn for learning's sake and you'll do better
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Again - if only there was some process whereby @SenBillCassidy could have stopped an anti-science zealot from controlling HHS …
It is unfortunate that the Secretary just canceled a half a billion worth of work, wasting the money which is already invested. He has also conceded to China an important technology needed to combat cancer and infectious disease. President Trump wants to Make America Healthy
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Peter J. Allen, MD, has been named as the next chair of the Duke Department of Surgery.
medschool.duke.edu
Peter J. Allen, MD, a nationally known surgical oncologist and leader in cancer care, has been named the new chair of the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine, effective August 25, 2025.
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We talk about whether doctors “accept Medicaid,” but this is misleading. It can easily take a year+ for a PCP to clear paperwork hurdles imposed first by state agencies, then by managed care plans. We have a PCP deficit in Medicaid for the same reason we have too little housing
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This isn't a "myth" - it is based on what *actually happens* when states have imposed work requirements. When states have imposed work requirements in the past, most of the people who lose their health insurance were working.
Five myths about Medicaid reform in Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’
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But don't worry, states will be able to effectively implement a Medicaid work requirement and only the "undeserving" who shouldn't have coverage will lose it. For sure, man, for sure: https://t.co/Pts76e266c
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President Donald Trump signed legislation that requires many Medicaid recipients to prove they’re working to qualify for health care coverage, allocating $200 million for states that expanded...
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Beyond the Alaska giveaways, the animating logic of this legislation is that rural hospitals need to be protected, but urban hospitals in poor communities can fare for themselves.
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Republicans would effectively be repealing the Medicaid expansion
NEW — THUNE says that he thinks the @SenRickScott FMAP amendment is “really good policy” and “a lot of us are gonna be supporting it.��� I asked him about the House’s position, which is FMAP changes shouldn’t be on the table. “I don’t know how Republicans couldn't be in favor of
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🚨🚨🚨 MASSIVE NEWS THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN has struck a whole bunch of critical health provisions from the reconciliation bill. INCLUDING the provider tax framework
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Big late-night news. Parliamentarian rules that the bill's large cut to ACA premium subsidies violates the Byrd rule, would require 60 votes to pass.
The Parliamentarian has weighed in on the HELP title. The Big Betrayal of a bill can't apply its cuts to current student loan borrowers, or increase health care premiums by ending silver loading.
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Filed under the category of would have been thought of as a miracle a decade ago. Biotech innovation for the win.
The FDA approved a powerful new prevention drug for HIV called Yeztugo that promises to keep most people virus-free with two shots a year
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What happens if the federal government totally abdicates its responsibility on childhood vaccines? Well — I hate to say it — but we are going there quickly And that means it’s time for doctors and states to take the lead My Op-Ed in the Washington Post
The main problem with Kennedy's unqualified ACIP is that if they no longer recommend a vaccine (say the polio vaccine) Insurance can stop covering it and Medicaid won't automatically pay for it States can ensure they do Here's my piece https://t.co/JeL4p2tG3q
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