and if you want to be crass, employers have much more incentive to offer insurance (even if it's more expensive than IVF alone) to keep workers at work now, you're banking on altruistic businesses covering the cost of a pregnancy, even though it takes a worker out of commission

so the logic here is businesses will voluntarily cover $20,000 of a worker's medical bills, even though they already can't afford to offer health insurance??? https://t.co/onqJz8egXR

I talked with @DrTomFrieden about what's happening at the CDC: https://t.co/JYJTlYKPHk

kids are currently obsessed with this pop punk classic and I am a very happy man https://t.co/w74Jw3iXTz

So much focus from Rs on how the left's ideologies are warping the youth, I pray they have that same energy for themselves or we are gonna be in trouble as these people become the next generation of political leaders: https://t.co/RCAvVHWNuB

… yes? oh god, what am i missing

unveiling my radically normke take on the Taylor album: it’s pretty good! some great songs, some fine ones, and some forgettable ones just like most albums that have ever existed

I do not understand what happened to the Guardians defense this series Little League-level errors

Important paper published this week reframes the conversation on early onset cancer. How much of it is a real increase in serious disease — and how much is an improved ability to detect even trace amounts of cancer? The answer is, well, complicated: https://t.co/nYo3TLu2yC

told a group of 7-year-olds I was 37 today and they replied “oh, you’re not that old” in a disappointed kind of voice and then I started levitating

only guardians game I got to this season was during their 10-game July losing streak but who cares, playoffs baby

spooky season means it’s time for the fog, my vote for the coziest horror movie ever made, antonio bay seems lovely aside from the murderous sea ghosts

One thing I think I hear people having a lot of trouble grasping is how increases in risk work. Here's something I always remember. Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer by something like 20-fold, or 2,000%. With the discussions of acetaminophen/paracetamol and autism, it

feel like we got a perfect Trump arc in that presser when he started going full unashamed anti-vaxx on MME and then ended an hour later extolling Operation Warp Speed and the Covid shots

"it's common sense..." "I've never seen..." these words are tells

omg @OshanJarow at it again: “Western clinical settings are often presented as neutral,” said anthropologist and clinical psychologist David Dupuis, “but they’re just as socially and culturally constructed as Indigenous rituals." https://t.co/kWPBTylQu2

On Tynenol and autism, this study involving 2.5M kids is instructive: https://t.co/Cz3yS89CYZ Finds a slight association between Tylenol and autism in the raw data, but when they focus on siblings in order to remove other possible confounding factors, association disappears.

Back in the 2010s, Rs got *a lot* of political mileage out of the premium increases faced by people above the income limit to qualify for ACA subsidies. Dems finally eliminated them under biden... and now Rs want to bring them back. Policymaking is a wondrous thing.

New story: GOP in early talks on changes to ACA subsidies to make extension more palatable —income limits —“skin in the game” minimum premium —finding right length of extension Sen. Sullivan: talks “going alright” but “big [issue] is reform” And still don’t want on the CR!

You can tell the admin is going to sell its autism announcement partly on the idea that genetics are a dead end, as RFK Jr. has said: https://t.co/WYiKOqLyXz But that spin is belied by the fact that new gene therapies are currently in clinical trials https://t.co/OZOLgAH2W9