Jan R. Boehnke<p>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SysReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SysReview</span></a> suggests that medical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crowdfunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crowdfunding</span></a> is less a tool for mitigating health disparities, but rather reproduces existing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a>.</p><p>Individuals who face structural barriers to healthcare access often have the greatest financial need but the least capacity to launch successful campaigns.</p><p><a href="https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-025-02543-x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">equityhealthj.biomedcentral.co</span><span class="invisible">m/articles/10.1186/s12939-025-02543-x</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHealth</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p>Instead, the argument relies on a series of misunderstandings [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a>] & non sequiturs to obscure the obvious fact that cutting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> would make <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poor</span></a> people sicker & more likely to die.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The timing is even more remarkable, given that this wondrous solution has come along at precisely the moment when congressional <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> are desperate for budget savings to partially offset the costs of a regressive & fiscally irresponsible tax cut.</p><p>Sadly [if unsurprisingly], a close reading of WSJ’s editorial reveals that no such miracle is in the offing.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Last week, the WSJ editorial page published an editorial headlined “The Medicaid Scare Campaign.” The thesis is that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> cuts would “improve healthcare by expanding private insurance options, which provide better access & health outcomes than Medicaid.”</p><p>This would be, as they say, huge if true: The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> has found a way to give <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> Americans better <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> while saving hundreds of billions in taxpayer money.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JoniErnst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoniErnst</span></a> later doubled down on her<br>comment on social media, attempting to equate concern that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> cuts could harm people with believing in the tooth fairy.</p><p>Ofcls such as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a> & Ernst have not provided a detailed explanation of their blithe assurances. But there is one center of conservative thought that has attempted to defend these claims: the WSJ editorial page.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As voluminous research literature shows, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WorkRequirements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkRequirements</span></a> achieve savings by implementing burdensome paperwork obligations that mostly take <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> from eligible beneficiaries, not 25-yr-old guys who prefer playing video games to getting a job.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, by imposing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WorkRequirements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkRequirements</span></a>, the bill would eventually increase the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/uninsured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uninsured</span></a> population by at least 8.6M. At first, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> tried to defend this outcome on the grounds that it would affect only lazy people who refuse to work. This is clearly untrue, however.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthyIfYoureWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyIfYoureWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Asked to comment on the findings of this story, an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> spox directed Reuters to a video stmnt by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> administrator, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeeZeldin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeeZeldin</span></a>, who has outlined a strategy emphasizing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deregulation</span></a>, saying the US can protect the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> & promote economic growth at the same time [note the absence of concern for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> & populations in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> communities].</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"It's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> being treated like a four-letter word," said Linda Birnbaum, a retired toxicologist & fmr director of the National Institute of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environmental</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sciences</span></a> who spent 19 years at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>. "People who are already most impacted by high <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> are going to be most hurt by the loosening of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Those <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> inequities are the legacy of racial <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> that was legal from the country's inception until 1965, the type of historical <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> policies were designed to correct.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> also rescinded a 1994 EO by fmr Pres Bill <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Clinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clinton</span></a> that directed every <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgency</span></a> to develop an agency-wide <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> strategy to address adverse health or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> effects on *minority* & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> populations.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> researchers & 5 fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> ofcls interviewed by Reuters say the end of the EPA's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> programs—which seek to ensure a healthy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> for *minority* groups that often live closest to sources of contamination - will be most felt in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hispanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hispanic</span></a> [& <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Latin</span></a>] communities that have long endured the harmful effects of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin's press release announcing the end of the lawsuit said the dismissal fulfilled Trump's Day One <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> to eliminate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equity</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inclusion</span></a>, & that it aligned with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>'s new pledge to "end the use of '<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a>' as a tool for advancing ideological priorities."<br>[read as opposite of what they say]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Gerard lives along the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MississippiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MississippiRiver</span></a>, just a few blocks from a synthetic rubber plant that the admin of fmr President Joe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> sued, claiming it posed an imminent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> hazard. Gerard, like more than 90% of people living within 1 mile (1.5 km) of the plant, is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> ends <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a>, *minority* communities pay a price<br>From her home on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a>'s "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter & wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends & relatives whose lives were cut short by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trumps-epa-ends-environmental-justice-minority-communities-may-pay-price-2025-04-23/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-energy/trumps-epa-ends-environmental-justice-minority-communities-may-pay-price-2025-04-23/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As a doctor in training more than 20 years ago, she cared for a teen boy who died from a degenerative neurological condition linked to his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infection</span></a> as an infant, when he was too young to be vaccinated.</p><p>“There are really bad, scary things that we can protect our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> from,” she said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> officials have tallied 65 cases & one death of an unvaccinated adult. These are the first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deaths</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> since 2015.</p><p>Dr. Alex Cvijanovich, a pediatrician in Albuquerque, said NM has one of the nation’s highest rates of childhood <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> & says she is terrified about what could happen if the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> program is scaled back.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…Over the past decade, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> has administered 5.6 million doses of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> through the program…. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> has received nearly 364k doses of the MMR vaccine over the same time period…</p><p>TX ofcls said on Tues that the state’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outbreak</span></a> had grown to 624 cases, including 64 who were <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hospitalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hospitalized</span></a>. 2 unvaccinated <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> with no underlying <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> conditions have died in the state, including an 8-year-old girl…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> created the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a> program in 1993 after a US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/epidemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epidemic</span></a> had killed dozens of children a few years earlier. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> found<br>that >50% of the children who got measles then were unvaccinated. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immunization</span></a> was a primary reason families had skipped the shot even though they were seeing doctors regularly….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>At the same time, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> canceled about $11 billion in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a>-related grants to state & local <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> departments that were used for a wide variety of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a>-related clinics & outreach activities, including for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a>. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the cuts in some states.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> employees who staff the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> program were *largely* untouched, 3 sources familiar w/the situation said.<br>🚨However, about 20 others were fired who comprised a unit that helped promote the program in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communities</span></a> at high risk of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfectiousDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfectiousDisease</span></a>, including during the current <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outbreak</span></a>, these sources said. These employees helped bolster the confidence in the safety & effectiveness of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a>, they said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
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