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@ZekeEmanuel
Jun 25, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Today, I joined 800+ public health experts calling on Trump to drop the lawsuit trying to overturn the #ACA and take away health care from 20M Americans. Doing that anytime is bad; doing it during a pandemic is crazy. #ProtectOurCare cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
Millions of Americans who have just lost their jobs and employer-sponsored coverage during COVID-19 now rely on the ACA coverage as a critical safety net. If Trump succeeds in repealing the ACA by legislation or court order, ~20 million MORE Americans would lose coverage. 2/
This is not a theory: @realDonaldTrump said: “We want to terminate health care under Obamacare.”

Instead of destroying #ACA, defend it.

Working on the #ACA was a highlight of my career. The time is now to build on the ACA to expand coverage and bring down costs. /end

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Apr 25
Here are some things that I think we get wrong in our increasing obsession with longevity 1/🧵👇 @NewYorker @DhruvKhullar
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
Living a long time is not an end in itself. If it becomes the focus of your life, that is one of the worst mistakes you can make. It’s not that we shouldn’t exercise or eat well—but everyone goes through a decline. Spending your life worried about all these tiny things is a waste of time.
Doctors should focus more on improving health in communities where people die young rather than getting the wealthy from 90-years-old to 100-years-old.
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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Jan 24, 2023
Great talking with @smerconish about my 2014 @theatlantic piece. Here are 3 key points I find often get lost in the discussion 🧵...

cnn.com/videos/health/…
1. Not everyone can be an outlier. By the time we reach 75, creativity, originality, & productivity are beginning to wane for the majority of us. There are exceptions to the rule, but too many ‘American immortals’ assume that they’ll be the anomaly.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
2. Death is a loss but living too long is also a loss. It leaves most of us debilitated and unable to contribute to society. We are no longer remembered as being vibrant and engaged, but instead as feeble and ineffectual.
thetimes.co.uk/article/zeke-e…
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Aug 5, 2022
Drug companies claim that drug price negotiations in the #InflationReductionAct will prevent as many as 100 drugs from being developed. PROBLEM: the person making that claim — Tomas Philipson — is a hired gun for big pharma. 🧵 1/4
yahoo.com/news/donald-tr…
The nonpartisan @USCBO estimates that this bill will have a VERY SMALL impact on drug innovation. Maybe reducing the number of drugs approved by 8 out of 300 drugs in the next 10 years. That is a small price to ensure necessary drugs are affordable for Americans. 2/4
Drugs only work if Americans can afford them. As a cancer doctor, it is heartbreaking when patients say they stopped taking their chemotherapy--or never started--because it was too expensive. 3/4

npr.org/sections/healt…
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Aug 5, 2022
Here they go again….Pharma is scaring everyone that regulating the prices on just 20 drugs will kill innovation especially for cancer. As an oncologist, let me say this as clear as I can: this is ridiculous.
Making drugs affordable for Americans will not kill innovation. The independent @USCBO predicts that one—YES ONE—drug will not come to market in the next 10 years because of this bill & 9 more in the next 20 yrs—all while 1300 drugs will be approved. thehill.com/policy/healthc…
Drug companies are screaming that when governments set prices “breakthrough cures start slipping away.” Yet in this bill, only prices on drugs that have been sold for 9 yrs or more can be negotiated. By that time, drug companies have already earned a lot of money on their R&D.
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May 13, 2022
While America retires its masks, fills restaurants, & treats COVID like it's in the past, I'm still masking & running HEPA filters. Here's why and a 🧵:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
I'm not a worrywart, I take more risks than my family would like! I ride an electric motorcycle 🏍️. But I desperately fear getting #LongCOVID. It's shockingly common in COVID patients, between 3-17% of all cases. Symptoms range from uncomfortable to life-altering or -threatening.
Vaccines reduce incidence, but a failure of @NIH and others is that the research has yet to be done to understand how #LongCOVID works & whether symptoms are reversible.
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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May 13, 2021
Let’s bust five common #COVID19 #vaccine myths in one thread:

Myth #1: “I already had COVID19, so I don’t need a vaccine.”

FACT: Vaccines provide better, more durable immunity from COVID19 than prior infection.
news.yahoo.com/fact-vs-fictio…
Myth #2: Long-term side effects are a reason to avoid the #COVID19 #vaccine.

FACT: With over 1.3 billion doses administered, side effects are extremely rare & occur shortly after vaccination. Infection from COVID19 can cause long term health issues. cnet.com/health/what-is…
Myth #3: The #COVID19 #vaccine harms women’s fertility.

FACT: Vaccines are a natural way to create immunity, and they do not affect fertility -- more than 100k pregnant women have received the vaccine w/ no ill effect. COVID19 infection, however, can harm a pregnancy.
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