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Reporter covering health care policy in Washington for @KFF | Reach me: [email protected] | Priors: @AP & Ohio. | Signal: AmandaSeitz.01

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@KFFHealthNews
KFF Health News
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Some public health workers resigned rather than go to Guantánamo and other ICE facilities, with one calling the mass detention of immigrants a “man-made humanitarian crisis.” @amymaxmen investigates ⤵️ https://t.co/pctXj33Gbr
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U.S. Public Health Service doctors and nurses are being deployed to Guantánamo and other detention centers as President Donald Trump escalates mass arrests in his campaign to curb immigration. Some...
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@propublica
ProPublica
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New: ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no...
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@KFFHealthNews
KFF Health News
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Trump’s deportation push has put hospitals in a tough spot: Warning immigrant patients that ICE could get their data could stop them from getting emergency medical coverage or cause them to avoid care altogether. @philgalewitz & @AmandaSeitz report ⤵️ https://t.co/tSJMIL9RwC
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The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical...
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@isaacstanbecker
Isaac Stanley-Becker
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If you're canceling your Washington Post subscription but still have an Amazon Prime membership, you're doing it wrong.
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@AmandaSeitz
Amanda Seitz
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Hospitals and states generally aren't warning patients that their addresses might be shared directly with ICE when they enroll in Medicaid. @KFFHealthNews
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The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal...
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@MikeBalsamo1
Mike Balsamo
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Tough day for journalism. If you’ve been laid off or are figuring out what comes next, @NPCInstitute is here with career resources, professional development & career office hours. We’re here for you. Journalism doesn’t stop. Support doesn’t either.
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@NBCNews
NBC News
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Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby's mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.
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nbcnews.com
While the New Mexico Department of Health said it cannot pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy.
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@amandalanchu
Amanda Chu
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The Heritage Foundation is swapping Chick-fil-a for Sweetgreen, while GOP staffers are buying Oura rings and drinking raw milk How Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Make America Healthy Again movement is reshaping the lifestyles of conservatives in Washington: https://t.co/qWas3CBpf3
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politico.com
Conservatives in the capital are taking up the health secretary’s advice, eating their vegetables and eschewing pharmaceuticals.
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@aawayne
Alex Wayne
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Does your health insurance now cost more than your mortgage? Or did you drop your coverage altogether this year? We want to hear from you. Check out our new series, Priced Out, and tell us about your own experience trying to pay for health care. https://t.co/zaJnddjwvE
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kffhealthnews.org
Skyrocketing health care costs and insurance premiums combined with congressional inaction have forced a perilous decision upon many people: Pay higher prices for health insurance or go uncovered....
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@NewsDudeAP
Michael Biesecker
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#ICE told staff at #Minneapolis hospital a Mexican immigrant with a smashed face and shattered skull had run while handcuffed and slammed his head into a wall. But one later admitted the man "got his shit rocked." My latest @AP w/ @jack_brook96 @JimMustian
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apnews.com
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
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@GeoffRBennett
Geoff Bennett
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MPR News: Two more Minnesota children — a second grader and a fifth grader — were taken into custody with their mother on Thursday by ICE agents.
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The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were...
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@DKThomp
Derek Thompson
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The attention crisis is so dire at schools right now that film professors can't even get their students to finish movies, and the kids don't even look up the plots of the movies they skip, so students fail basic in-class quizzes like "what happened at the end of the movie?"
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@seungminkim
Seung Min Kim
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“There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
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pressherald.com
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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@AASchapiro
Avi Asher-Schapiro
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Strangely, this piece fails to ask or answer the only really interesting question about Tucker Carlson, Hilary Clinton, and all the rest speaking at a Real Estate Conference in Saudi Arabia: were they paid, & how much, and by whom? https://t.co/r0HWOzwIa6
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nytimes.com
The Democrat and the hard-right commentator found at least one thing to agree upon as they spoke at a conference in Riyadh.
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@sarahdespres
Sarah Despres
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Excellent reporting by ⁦@KFF⁩ that calls into serious question the ethics of Andrew Downing, the lawyer ⁦@SecKennedy⁩ hired to work on the vaccine injury compensation program.
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The federal government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was supposed to help patients with their medical bills while protecting vaccine supply. But allies of Health and Human Services Secretary...
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@AmandaSeitz
Amanda Seitz
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This lawyer now working for RFK Jr. collected $445 an hour from the government's vaccine injury program. The kid he represented walked away with nothing. https://t.co/5mJNOOqyLE via @kffhealthnews
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The federal government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was supposed to help patients with their medical bills while protecting vaccine supply. But allies of Health and Human Services Secretary...
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@kaitlancollins
Kaitlan Collins
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The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago.
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cnn.com
The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago.
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@kenvogel
Kenneth P. Vogel
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SCOOP: Nursing home firms donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug-Sept. Their executives got a lunch in Aug. at Trump's golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect. His administration revoked the rule
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nytimes.com
Executives who donated to the president’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients.
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@KDilanianMSNOW
Ken Dilanian
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Latest on Minnesota shooting: —A federal judge has ordered the feds to preserve the evidence after local law enforcement said they were blocked from gathering at the scene. —Officials tell us DHS, not FBI, will conduct an investigation. That’s unheard of. —Videos appear to show
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@jimsciutto
Jim Sciutto
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Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:  “We are heartbroken but also very angry.    Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA
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