Myra Batchelder
@myrabatchelder.bsky.social
Policy. Advocacy. Public Health.
Health Equity. SRHRJ. COVID-19.
Consultant working with nonprofits and social impact organizations.
New Yorker. Midwesterner.
She/her.
Health Equity. SRHRJ. COVID-19.
Consultant working with nonprofits and social impact organizations.
New Yorker. Midwesterner.
She/her.
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Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment
A husband who won a $500,000 scratch-off ticket in Ohio, and said he planned to pay off his wife's medical debt for her cancer treatment.
www.freep.com
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment"
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare.
No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment.
www.freep.com/story/money/...
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare.
No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment.
www.freep.com/story/money/...
"The Importance of Premium Tax Credits" Fact Sheet from @familiesusa.bsky.social
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familiesusa.org/resources/th...
The Importance of Premium Tax Credits: Affording Health Insurance Coast to Coast
If Congress doesn't act, this assistance will be cut, and millions of people will face losing their health insurance, delaying or skipping needed health care, or taking on medical debt they cannot aff...
familiesusa.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"The Importance of Premium Tax Credits" Fact Sheet from @familiesusa.bsky.social
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familiesusa.org/resources/th...
"Demand Congress extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits before December 31st."
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
Demand Congress extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits before December 31st.
The Senate is expected to vote December 10 or 11 on an extension of the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, which are keeping health insurance more affordable for tens of millions of Americans. With t...
actionnetwork.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"Demand Congress extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits before December 31st."
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
$1000 in a HSA and a gym in the airport is not going to be enough if you get cancer.
We need to extend the ACA tax credits and work to put in place a universal healthcare system in the United States.
We need to extend the ACA tax credits and work to put in place a universal healthcare system in the United States.
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
$1000 in a HSA and a gym in the airport is not going to be enough if you get cancer.
We need to extend the ACA tax credits and work to put in place a universal healthcare system in the United States.
We need to extend the ACA tax credits and work to put in place a universal healthcare system in the United States.
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
"In this building, maybe it's about the politics, but in the real world and in Georgia, this is life or death."
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"In this building, maybe it's about the politics, but in the real world and in Georgia, this is life or death."
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
And speaking to how unserious this plan is, it magically assumes that a system to provide federally-funded HSA contributions to Marketplace enrollees (assuming they even have HSAs or are even in HSA-eligible Marketplace plans) could be up and running immediately rather than take months or years.
December 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And speaking to how unserious this plan is, it magically assumes that a system to provide federally-funded HSA contributions to Marketplace enrollees (assuming they even have HSAs or are even in HSA-eligible Marketplace plans) could be up and running immediately rather than take months or years.
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
We have a broken healthcare system that must be fixed, but the solution in the short-term isn't to deny people the ACA tax credits that they rely on.
We must extend the subsidies so people aren't kicked off their healthcare next month, *and* we need Medicare for All.
We must extend the subsidies so people aren't kicked off their healthcare next month, *and* we need Medicare for All.
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We have a broken healthcare system that must be fixed, but the solution in the short-term isn't to deny people the ACA tax credits that they rely on.
We must extend the subsidies so people aren't kicked off their healthcare next month, *and* we need Medicare for All.
We must extend the subsidies so people aren't kicked off their healthcare next month, *and* we need Medicare for All.
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment"
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare.
No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment.
www.freep.com/story/money/...
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare.
No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment.
www.freep.com/story/money/...
Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment
A husband who won a $500,000 scratch-off ticket in Ohio, and said he planned to pay off his wife's medical debt for her cancer treatment.
www.freep.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment"
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare.
No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment.
www.freep.com/story/money/...
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare.
No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment.
www.freep.com/story/money/...
Dreaming of living in a country that works to ensure everyone has access to healthcare, rather than one that works to take healthcare away from people. #HealthCareIsAHumanRight
Calling my Congressmembers to urge them to extend ACA tax credits and to work for universal healthcare in the long-term.
Calling my Congressmembers to urge them to extend ACA tax credits and to work for universal healthcare in the long-term.
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Dreaming of living in a country that works to ensure everyone has access to healthcare, rather than one that works to take healthcare away from people. #HealthCareIsAHumanRight
Calling my Congressmembers to urge them to extend ACA tax credits and to work for universal healthcare in the long-term.
Calling my Congressmembers to urge them to extend ACA tax credits and to work for universal healthcare in the long-term.
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
Senate Republican health "plan" doesn't extend expiring enhanced Marketplace premium credits at all. Just $ for Health Savings Accounts while cutting federal #Medicaid $ for states using their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants & prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care (1/2)
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Senate Republican health "plan" doesn't extend expiring enhanced Marketplace premium credits at all. Just $ for Health Savings Accounts while cutting federal #Medicaid $ for states using their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants & prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care (1/2)
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
Senators Crapo & Cassidy have now released bill language for their health "plan". Besides nothing on expiring Marketplace credits and HSAs, it adds 3 harmful #Medicaid cuts from House version of H.R. 1 that were dropped in final law due to Senate rules (1/x): www.finance.senate.gov/download/hea...
[2025-12-08] Download: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act | The United States Senate Committee on Finance | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
[2025-12-08] Download: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
www.finance.senate.gov
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Senators Crapo & Cassidy have now released bill language for their health "plan". Besides nothing on expiring Marketplace credits and HSAs, it adds 3 harmful #Medicaid cuts from House version of H.R. 1 that were dropped in final law due to Senate rules (1/x): www.finance.senate.gov/download/hea...
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
People seeking health coverage through the ACA are facing increased costs and the expiration of tax credits that provided vital financial assistance.
Unless lawmakers take action to extend these credits, many enrollees could lose coverage.
#HealthCarePriceHike
Unless lawmakers take action to extend these credits, many enrollees could lose coverage.
#HealthCarePriceHike
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
People seeking health coverage through the ACA are facing increased costs and the expiration of tax credits that provided vital financial assistance.
Unless lawmakers take action to extend these credits, many enrollees could lose coverage.
#HealthCarePriceHike
Unless lawmakers take action to extend these credits, many enrollees could lose coverage.
#HealthCarePriceHike
"Senate Republicans’ HSA Plan Can’t Replace the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits" www.americanprogress.org/article/sena...
Senate Republicans’ HSA Plan Can’t Replace the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
The Senate Republican response to the looming expiration of the ACA’s enhanced tax credits is a patchwork of policies that will shift costs onto patients and weaken insurance markets.
www.americanprogress.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"Senate Republicans’ HSA Plan Can’t Replace the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits" www.americanprogress.org/article/sena...
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
And to make matters worse it includes additional #Medicaid cuts that were in the original House-passed version of H.R. 1 that were excluded due to Senate budget rules before final passage: bsky.app/profile/edwi...
Senators Crapo & Cassidy have now released bill language for their health "plan". Besides nothing on expiring Marketplace credits and HSAs, it adds 3 harmful #Medicaid cuts from House version of H.R. 1 that were dropped in final law due to Senate rules (1/x): www.finance.senate.gov/download/hea...
[2025-12-08] Download: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act | The United States Senate Committee on Finance | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
[2025-12-08] Download: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
www.finance.senate.gov
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And to make matters worse it includes additional #Medicaid cuts that were in the original House-passed version of H.R. 1 that were excluded due to Senate budget rules before final passage: bsky.app/profile/edwi...
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
This plan doesn't extend the expiring enhanced Marketplace credits at all & instead contributes $ to HSAs for enrollees who may not even have HSAs & can't use that $ for premiums. By appropriating cost-sharing reductions, it further lowers underlying credit amounts & raises premium costs even more.
Thune says Republicans will hold a vote on the Cassidy-Crapo health care plan Thursday as a counterproposal to Dems three-year extension of ACA tax credits
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This plan doesn't extend the expiring enhanced Marketplace credits at all & instead contributes $ to HSAs for enrollees who may not even have HSAs & can't use that $ for premiums. By appropriating cost-sharing reductions, it further lowers underlying credit amounts & raises premium costs even more.
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
More Special Elections this Tuesday!
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Home
Keep Healthcare Local and Affordable
You shouldn't have to drive an hour or go broke just to see your doctor.
Rural hospitals are closing or cutting services.
People can't afford care, so they wait...
www.ericgisler.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
More Special Elections this Tuesday!
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
COVID is not over. If you want to protect against getting sick, get vaccinated, wear a mask, and take steps to improve air ventilation and filtration. #SwissCheeseModel #VaxPlus
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
COVID is not over. If you want to protect against getting sick, get vaccinated, wear a mask, and take steps to improve air ventilation and filtration. #SwissCheeseModel #VaxPlus
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
Nature: 'Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?'
'The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.'
By Michael Marshall
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
'The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.'
By Michael Marshall
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?
The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nature: 'Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?'
'The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.'
By Michael Marshall
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
'The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.'
By Michael Marshall
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"WHO launches new, unified plan for countries to manage coronaviruses: COVID-19 and beyond"
www.who.int/news/item/03...
www.who.int/news/item/03...
WHO launches new, unified plan for countries to manage coronaviruses: COVID-19 and beyond
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new strategic plan for the management of coronavirus disease threats, including COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), and potential ...
www.who.int
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"WHO launches new, unified plan for countries to manage coronaviruses: COVID-19 and beyond"
www.who.int/news/item/03...
www.who.int/news/item/03...
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the CDC's vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice.
https://cnn.it/3Ml3kqo
https://cnn.it/3Ml3kqo
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the CDC's vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice.
https://cnn.it/3Ml3kqo
https://cnn.it/3Ml3kqo
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
Beautifully said, Ezra.
This social media ban for kids and teens is a poorly thought out knee jerk reaction and many kids will be harmed because of it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This social media ban for kids and teens is a poorly thought out knee jerk reaction and many kids will be harmed because of it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off? | Ezra Sholl
As I come to terms with life as a quadriplegic, Instagram and TikTok are a reminder I’m not alone
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Beautifully said, Ezra.
This social media ban for kids and teens is a poorly thought out knee jerk reaction and many kids will be harmed because of it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This social media ban for kids and teens is a poorly thought out knee jerk reaction and many kids will be harmed because of it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
More Special Elections this Tuesday!
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Home
Keep Healthcare Local and Affordable
You shouldn't have to drive an hour or go broke just to see your doctor.
Rural hospitals are closing or cutting services.
People can't afford care, so they wait...
www.ericgisler.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
More Special Elections this Tuesday!
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Georgia, vote for Democrat Eric Gisler in special general election for Georgia House of Representatives District 121 in Clarke and Oconee Counties!
www.ericgisler.com
Reposted by Myra Batchelder
People keep telling me that private insurance providers will keep covering preventative care like vaccines because it costs them less in the long run—but I grew up in the before times. As in the times before the ACA.
Before the ACA, insurance companies didn't cover a ton of preventative care even though the long-term effects resulted in sicker people. It's part of why the ACA had to mandate it.
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
People keep telling me that private insurance providers will keep covering preventative care like vaccines because it costs them less in the long run—but I grew up in the before times. As in the times before the ACA.