Reporter covering health care policy in Washington for @KFF | Reach me: [email protected] | Priors: @AP & Ohio. | Signal: AmandaSeitz.01
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Amanda Seitz retweeted
First lady Melania Trump is calling today's executive order a "transformative moment" for women's health. But this is a topic Jill Biden spearheaded back in '24. The Trump administration subsequently made cuts to programs impacting women's health research:
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Breaking News: Ex-Congressman accused of sex trafficking miamiherald.com/news/politic…
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California wants to offset billions in federal healthcare cuts with a one-time wealth tax on roughly 200 billionaires.
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Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope.
CMS is encouraging millions of American seniors to manage health care & records on just a handful of health apps.
One is Slothwise, which launched from a San Francisco apartment by a young, biotech entrepreneur and triple citizen of Russia, Israel & U.S
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Without public oversight, tech companies are lobbying Trump administration officials in a government-run chat room for more access to Americans’ sensitive medical information.
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A team of financiers, techies+ government officials are talking on a government-run chat room about how to get Americans to use medical AI, turn over their medical records, and for the companies to profit.
From @AmandaSeitz, @maia_rosenfeld and myself: cbsnews.com/news/ai-tech-lea…
Exclusive: A Slack managed by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI execs & Trump officials to launch a rapid campaign aimed at persuading Americans to manage their health and medical records on apps.
@KFFHealthNews gives you a peek inside thousands of conversations that have taken place for over a year.
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NEW from @ErinDurkin2 and @victoriaregisk — Cassidy is seriously exploring fixes to the No Surprises Act, which has mired insurers and providers in lengthy and costly disputes over bills.
“Believe it or not, there’s common ground there,” said retiring Republican HELP Chair Bill Cassidy. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
HHS & @SecKennedy announce plans to “require” vaccine injuries be reported in electronic health records. As @KFFHealthNews reported earlier this year, Kennedy sees sweeping access to Americans’ medical as vital to his anti-vaccine crusade.
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Amanda Seitz retweeted
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
Read story w/ dream team: @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
Amanda Seitz retweeted
In @wsj interview, Rep. Max Miller called Sen. Jon Husted “as entertaining as a two-by-four” and “as smart as a box of rocks.”
He boasted: “My chances of winning are much better than his.”
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Amanda Seitz retweeted
Kennedy made a quiet, unannounced visit to the NIH yesterday to discuss vaccine safety research. It was his first visit there as secretary. No press.
The entire Bethesda campus was encouraged to telework. An email warned of "increased traffic and security," without saying why.
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Really interesting study: cidrap.umn.edu/public-health…
"These children were also more likely to have an intellectual disability compared to those born without an infection, with the risk of severe to profound intellectual disability up to 30 times higher than the general population."
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Seven media witnesses were in the prison during Christa Pike’s failed execution on Sept. 30. Catherine Sweeney of @WPLN was one of them. Here’s what she saw.
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Amanda Seitz retweeted
Update with new details: The Monday rollout of RFK Jr's new vaccine injury initiative included:
-Ribbon cutting of a new NIH clinic focused on vaccine injured people
-A proposal to pay doctors for reporting vaccine injuries
-Modernizing the agency's vaccine adverse event reporting system
-New requirements around electronic health records
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New: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a new vaccine injury research initiative at NIH on Monday
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Amanda Seitz retweeted
Ohio @GovMikeDeWine is not attending tonight’s Trump rally in Dayton. Earlier today he attended the funeral of Haitian immigrant Pierre Damas Bel. Bel died by suicide in August after his family said he was bullied for wearing an ICE ankle monitor.
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incredible + sobering story in @WSJ wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-ge…
