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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 23h

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 23h

When will the GOP finally look to other countries for guidance on health care. Our market based health care system is clearly failing us. Only fools fail by doing the same thing over and over without looking for a better way.

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think that when the US spends vastly more on health care per capita than any other country & yet has far worse outcomes that we'd look to what other countries do and copy it. Of course, instead the GOP wants to double down on our outlier market based model that fails us over and over again.

How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

This chart collection examines how U.S. health spending compares to health spending in other similarly large, wealthy OECD countries using the OECD Health Statistics database.

www.healthsystemtracker.org

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 1d

Your first sentence is the big problem and it trickles down to other families of affluence as well. Many of the wealthy GOP don’t see the roll that luck and social/ familial connections played in accumulating their wealth and socio-economic standing. They think it’s all been earned individually.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 2d

www.pbs.org/show/the-inv...

The Invisible Shield

Public health saved your life today and you don't even know it.

www.pbs.org

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TTownSue @ttownsue.bsky.social · 2d

This! Troy is 100% correct.

Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 6d

The GOP says the USDA food insecurity survey is “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous."

I say cutting it is “remarkably convenient” just as the GOP cuts SNAP benefits.

It’s a lot easier to hide the damage when you don’t collect the statistics!

USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food

The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

www.npr.org

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, we argue vociferously, backed by empirical research, that patients’ wellbeing and health outcomes will suffer from the Trump administration’s push to end DEI policies at US medical schools

The BMJ @bmj.com · 3d

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 3d

Additional details on cdc rif.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

open.substack.com

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 3d

Many don’t realize the breadth of cdc. They do far more than fight infectious disease and recommend vaccines. They are key to all areas of health: chronic disease, maternal and child health, gun violence, substance abuse, suicidal prevention, on and on. Killing ourselves literally by gutting cdc.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

Even MTG understands how devastating this will be! I wish mass media would stand up and give these straightforward simple examples to demonstrate the forthcoming disaster and allow the people to understand that the GOP just doesn’t give a sh!t about real working people!

Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 4d

Virginia’s 2026 ACA marketplace window shopping is underway, meaning people are already seeing next year’s premiums spike because of expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Virginia will face a $18,000 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 3d

Sad part is that many are tested for free in populations that have no other options (Africa, SE Asia, etc.)

Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

I used to play some of my dad’s records at home when I was an early teen. Lots of great 60s stuff, Dylan, the Doors, the Byrds, etc… Mixed w/ these was Cash. I never played him & always thought he was out of place in the collection. Then in my early 30s I rediscovered him and knew why he belonged.

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

Even MTG understands how devastating this will be! I wish mass media would stand up and give these straightforward simple examples to demonstrate the forthcoming disaster and allow the people to understand that the GOP just doesn’t give a sh!t about real working people!

Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 4d

Virginia’s 2026 ACA marketplace window shopping is underway, meaning people are already seeing next year’s premiums spike because of expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Virginia will face a $18,000 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

They're a working class party now!
DICKENSIAN working class, that is!

Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 4d

Virginia’s 2026 ACA marketplace window shopping is underway, meaning people are already seeing next year’s premiums spike because of expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Virginia will face a $18,000 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

I’d understand if he made this mistake once. Anyone can make an error when speaking in public… but he does this time and time again. 🤷‍♂️

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

Skipped the day they covered percentages in middle school.

Drug prices to drop by 100% to 500%!

Would be quite the feat to have drug companies paying us to take meds!

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 4d

Get your Covid shot too.

Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

It's time to get your flu shot!

Last flu season 280 kids died from influenza, 89% were unvaccinated.

Each year 100s of thousands are hospitalized & 10s of thousands die from influenza just in the US.

Don't wait, you're online already, schedule your free shot now!

Please share & spread the word.

It's time to get your flu shot!

Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

open.substack.com

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 4d

It's time to get your flu shot!

Last flu season 280 kids died from influenza, 89% were unvaccinated.

Each year 100s of thousands are hospitalized & 10s of thousands die from influenza just in the US.

Don't wait, you're online already, schedule your free shot now!

Please share & spread the word.

It's time to get your flu shot!

Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

open.substack.com

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 5d

Scrolling through my posts today. I couldn’t have put two more opposite people next to each other. Evil and goodness personified.

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 5d

And all harming public health in the process.

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 5d

Getting closer and closer to Trump invoking the insurrection act - not because it's needed but because it is part of Trump's ultimate power play. Laid out in simple terms here.

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

youtu.be

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 5d

“…ambiguity about universities’ role in society could lead many institutions to become increasingly susceptible to corporate co-optation, political interference and eventual collapse.”

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