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A thread on @MikeBloomberg’s history w/ #Flint:

He donated $3M to help elect Republican Gov Rick Snyder who passed the emergency manager law.

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.@MikeBloomberg-backed Snyder had his original emergency manager law repealed in a REFERENDUM - like Michigan voters literally voted to repeal it.

But he passed a second version which couldn’t be repealed.

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.@MikeBloomberg-backed Snyder directly oversaw the Emergency Manager who made the decision to change #Flint water source to corrosive Flint river water, despite many pleas not to.

It would save the city money, they decided.

It ended up poisoning 9000 kids.

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Emergency management was the municipal government version of #stopandfrisk: it used the power of the state to take away power and dignity away from Black folks and it hurt them.

America—and #Flint—deserve better.

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Abdul El-Sayed
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Want to understand why we're dealing with the scepter of serious #Coronavirus #COVIDー19 outbreaks in the US?

The @realDonaldTrump admin's profound mismanagement.

A Thread:

The public health approach to stopping an infectious disease is about "contact tracing."

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Contact tracing is painstaking work. It involves identifying all of the known or potential contacts of someone who has the disease in question, finding them, and then isolating them--and then rinsing and repeating.

It's a serious test of your gov's abilities.

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It requires that:

1) Gov't is funded appropriately to do this work
2) Gov't employees trust higher-ups to give them bad news, rather than pretend that cases don't exist.
3) Ppl trust their gov't to protect them--and to share information with them

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Abdul El-Sayed
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By now, you've heard about the @thelancet analysis from @yalesph led by @Alison_Galvani with some rather impressive, predictable top-line findings:

#Medicareforall would save:
$458 Billion/year (13%)
68,500 lives/year

But let's dig in. A thread 1/
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Let's look at the cost estimates first.

They built a model called "single-payer healthcare interactive financing tool" which allows users to toggle between various assumptions about the savings, costs, revenue w/ #MedicareforAll. Check it out:

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 shift.cidma.us
Savings:
- Reducing Pharmaceutical prices (by negotiating)
- Reducing Hospital prices (by setting them lower)
- Reducing clinical service prices (by setting them lower)
- Reducing overhead (Medicare's overhead is ~2%, private insurance is ~15%)
- Reducing fraud

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Abdul El-Sayed
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A THREAD on #MedicareForAll and “choice”:

I’m not a huge fan of polls, especially when they're squeezed into headlines or used to support arguments like this one:

1/ nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/…
We’re told that the “polls tell us” that #m4a support is fragile when people realize that it’ll take away their insurance. So, let's take a look at what may be driving #MedicareforAll polling using one @KFF poll earlier this month.

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@KFF This Kaiser poll found that 53% or respondents supported #MedicareforAll at baseline.

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 kff.org/slideshow/publ…
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#Thread With news that several GOP Senators are looking to take up an amnesty bill that was recently passed in the House (America Last Amnesty Bill H.R.5038) we thought we'd give you a bit of a refresher on the bill.

Here is @TuckerCarlson discussing the bill on his show. 1/
@TuckerCarlson Congressman Doug Collins revealing some of the horrible provisions of H.R. 5038. 2/

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RU trolls interfered in 2016 U.S. elex & made ad money
#Grifters (projection)

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🤔 What do you think Dr Eden Wells know about Flint’s water that makes Governor Rich Snyder feel the need to creates a civil service physician job to keep her happy⁉️⁦@MingGao26⁩ detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
💥Ananich, Senate Minority Leader, said it was unprecedented that “someone under a felony indictment, bound over for trial, would be given a classified job, meaning they have protections, with such a cloud hanging over their head.”💥#Flint
🔥Dr Eden Wells is implicated in the Flint water crisis and Gov Rick Snyder has this to say about giving her this new position👇
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#THREAD
Today Pink Legacy diamond from platinum necklace donated by Maharaja of Mysore to Tirumala Tirupati Temples known as 'Leonardo da Vinci of Diamonds' was auctioned by Christie's at Geneva despite our letter to PMO & temple mahant's warnings. But how did it reach there?
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THREAD: One year since Hurricane Irma, it’s time to revisit how @FLGovScott's negligence and deregulation led directly to the deaths of 14 nursing home patients after the storm and why he has blood on his hands miamiherald.com/news/weather/h… /1
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