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emergency physician, author of Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine. Opinions my own. attending @BrighamWomens, @harvardmed
Providence, RI amazon.com/Your-Money-Lif… Joined March 2018
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Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine (coming November 1) is available for pre-order, with a discount code (AAFLYG6) for 30% off. You can also access the discount with the QR code below.

It's filled with reasons for rage and reasons for hope.
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Luke Messac @LukeMessac
I’m an emergency physician and a constituent of @SenWhitehouse . I called his office to talk to his health leg assistant about how dangerous RFK Jr would be for my patients, and for all Americans. The staffer didn’t have time to take my call.

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talkingpointsmemo.com Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr Wanted to share some information on the RFK Jr. nomination before the...
Luke Messac @LukeMessac
How can we translate momentum to cancel #MedicalDebt into efforts that prevent debt in the first place?

Join us and @RacePowerPolicy on Tuesday, January 28 for a conversation on "Envisioning an End to Medical Debt."

Learn more and RSVP: racepowerpolicy.org/event/arpa-inv…
racepowerpolicy.org ARPA Investments Building Toward an Equitable Economy: Envisioning an End to Medical Debt -... Join us on Tuesday, January 28 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 pm ET for the second installment in our webinar series, “From Local Innovation to Systemic Change: ARPA Investments Building Toward an Equitable...
Luke Messac @LukeMessac
As Trump claims immigrants are carriers of disease to justify cruelty, journalists should talk to historian Beatrix Hoffman to understand how this is an old reactionary trick. Her new book, Borders of Care, couldn’t come at a more necessary moment.

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press.uchicago.edu Borders of Care Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States.   For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care...
Luke Messac @LukeMessac
The defunding of global health (eg Global Fund, GAVI) will be the deadliest policy shift of the next Congress. It will lead to millions more deaths from preventable and treatable diseases like HIV, TB, and malaria, but it won’t be well covered.

nytimes.com/2024/12/19/hea…
www.nytimes.com Trump’s Return May Worsen Financial Woes for Global Health Institutions (Published 2024) The U.S. provides nearly half of the aid for global health, including childhood vaccination, H.I.V. treatment and disease surveillance.