Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸
@mfcannon
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“Influential health care wonk at the libertarian @CatoInstitute”-WP “A pleasant discovery” -Capitalism mag @CatoHealth @mfcannon.bsky.social 🧵: @michaelfcannon
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Joined November 2009
Think of your least favorite presidential candidate. Now imagine s/he wins. Doesn’t limiting government power seem like a good idea?.
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I once believed the causes of child labor were exploitive capitalists and uncaring parents. And that child labor would never cease without enlightened government judiciously intervening to put an end to this evil. Happily, that grim view of humanity was wrong.
Capitalism, not the state, is what ended child labor in the United States (From “Child Labor in the United States” by Robert Whaples)
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If bombing factories hurts the owners, why do we hear their customers complaining about it? Ever ask yourself that?
🚨 SCOTT BESSENT TRUTH NUKE. TRUMP: Critics say tariffs are a hidden tax on consumers. BESSENT: If they’re so bad, and the American consumer is paying them, why do we hear the European, Chinese companies, and the Chinese complaining about tariffs?.
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Same Q, now for @KannoYoungs, @maggienyt. FDA labels confer “eligibility”?. (Maybe I completely misunderstand this?).
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This is a triumph of messaging. But not by the governor.
As long as I’m your Governor, Pennsylvania will never be a right to work state.
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“This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a [FAQ] circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.”.
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“The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.”. @SecKennedy’s changes will not last unless he secures them through an open, public process that even critics consider reasonable.
My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry,. I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
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Same claim here: “For those younger than 65, the FDA rolled back eligibility for Covid vaccines to those with a medical condition”. Huh? FDA labels confer eligibility?. Sincere Q. One of us has a very incorrect understanding of FDA law. (I worry it is I.).
nytimes.com
Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.
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Remember Tom Daschle’s “health fed”? That’d manage the health sector free of political influence? With amens from @haroldpollack & Peter Orszag? . Remember when Bev Perdue said, “we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years”? . Good times.
Vance on undermining the Federal Reserve: "I don't think we allow bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates without any input from the people that were elected to serve the American people. POTUS is much better able to make these determinations."
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RT @brian_blase: Health insurers are lobbying hard for more subsidies—subsidies that flow straight to them. The more dependent they are o….
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Same Q for @SherylNYT, @apoorva_nyc:. What “decision by the Food and Drug Administration…put new restrictions on updated Covid vaccines for the fall-winter season”?. Unless I’m wrong, narrowing the indications on the label doesn’t restrict access. 🧐.
nytimes.com
Susan Monarez was said to have refused to adopt Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on vaccination policy. A lawyer for Dr. Monarez said the firing was “legally deficient.”
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CDC ≈ Pentagon. YES. Nonconsensual transmission of dangerous pathogens is an inherently.violent act. Government’s role in public health is to protect individual rights by using its coercive powers to minimize the net amount of violence in society.
3/ The CDC is like the Pentagon: It stands between us as a group & the spread of dangerous disease. It monitors. It plans. It's a clearinghouse for data. It can move (pretty) fast. It's imperfect. But without it, we are literally naked. Yesterday, CDC was decapitated. —>.
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Revoking CDC recs triggers stricter SOP rules in some states, limiting access. But that’s not the FDA. Revoking ACIP recs ends a coverage mandate. But insurers can still cover. And again, not the FDA. So what “limit” is the FDA imposing?. Article:
nytimes.com
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
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Medical malpractice liability and scope-of-practice regulations are state issues. To the extent those things are problems, that’s where you go to fix them. Maybe states should not hitch state policy to advisory opinions of federal FDA/CDC officials?.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: . 1.Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that…. 2.Most people get their vaccines at a retail pharmacy. While I, as an MD, can contravene what the HHS secretary
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Q for @By_Cjewett, @JaceyFortin & @ReedAbelson:. How, precisely, did the FDA “limit[] who can get the shots”?. Once the FDA approves a drug, docs may Rx for any use, including uses the FDA has not approved. Is the situation different here? If so, how? The article doesn’t say.
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I too hail from Queens but am not a socialist (anymore).
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