Part of today's HHS cuts-- the CDC Division of Reproductive Health! Areas of emphasis include: Maternal Mortality and Complications of Pregnancy, Infant Morbidity and Mortality, Women's Chronic Disease Prevention, and Teen Pregnancy prevention. Women are again devalued by this administration!

Opinion | The GOP cutting Medicaid would hurt my family — and probably yours Last year, Medicaid was the primary payer for 63% of nursing home care. Without it, my family would have been expected to pay $13,000 a month.

As a physician who is acutely aware of the intersection between medicine and politics, I shared my parents' story-- one of middle class Americans needing Medicaid. If Republicans cuts Medicaid as their budget suggests, many more Americans and their family are at risk!
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Those of us who take care of pregnant patients knew this would happen-- and now the data reflects it. When you tie our hands in providing appropriate, evidence-based care people suffer.

$1 billion…

Just refusing to fund federal health research and pocketing away the designated money for their own slush funds

Sucking $1 billion out of the economy, diverting it from health research…

For what?

Here a sample of the science that didn’t get reviewed and thus can’t get funded by NIH yesterday.

Research to make breakthroughs in cancer metastasis, addiction, allergy, and mental health.

#fundingfreeze

NIH Funded Research Supports Jobs in Every State 312,041 Total Jobs supported in FY 2023

#Trump & #Musk are job-killers. NIH funding supports over 400,000 jobs across the country. Cutting indirect costs at NIH means unemployment for many in the US.

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Came back from vacation to an NIH blackout. While this is dismaying for scientists and research, it also has real economic impact! This is an unprecedented, foolish move.

Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.

Life of the Mother When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.

Follow along with ProPublica's reporting on the preventable deaths caused by abortion bans. Those of us who take care of pregnant people in states with bans warned that this would happen. 🥲
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Maternal mortality review panels are in the spotlight. Here's what they do State panels of experts investigate and learn from each mother's death

Maternal Mortality Review Committees are vitally important to improve maternal mortality in the U.S!
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