I just emailed the following letter to 11 Republican senators - feel free to plagiarize at will:
Dear Senator
I have spent over 50 years working in healthcare and advocating to improve quality, patient safety and outcomes. Most recently, I co-authored “Healing American Healthcare – Lessons from the Pandemic.”
I was appalled at how poorly prepared Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was at yesterday’s Senate Finance hearing. Among other deficiencies, he demonstrated that he had little knowledge of the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, nor of the Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) that was enacted nearly 40 years ago.
Moreover, his long history of vaccine skepticism renders him unfit to lead America through the next pandemic. The avian flu virus continues to mutate and spread among livestock and the U.S. is woefully unprepared to respond to an outbreak should human-to-human transmission occur.
Clearly, he is the wrong choice to “Make America Healthy Again.” Please vote against his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. The lives of our children and grandchildren are in your hands.
Having served on the Board of a Medicaid and duals health plan for over 7 years, I cannot imagine what the Trump administration will do to the health status of the most vulnerable in our society. Many will die, millions will suffer needlessly, all so billionaires can become ever richer.
Kennedy is woefully ill-qualified to assume leadership...as you note Vought and his Christian Nationalist cronies will be running the show.
I just emailed the following letter to 11 Republican senators - feel free to plagiarize at will:
Dear Senator
I have spent over 50 years working in healthcare and advocating to improve quality, patient safety and outcomes. Most recently, I co-authored “Healing American Healthcare – Lessons from the Pandemic.”
I was appalled at how poorly prepared Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was at yesterday’s Senate Finance hearing. Among other deficiencies, he demonstrated that he had little knowledge of the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, nor of the Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) that was enacted nearly 40 years ago.
Moreover, his long history of vaccine skepticism renders him unfit to lead America through the next pandemic. The avian flu virus continues to mutate and spread among livestock and the U.S. is woefully unprepared to respond to an outbreak should human-to-human transmission occur.
Clearly, he is the wrong choice to “Make America Healthy Again.” Please vote against his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. The lives of our children and grandchildren are in your hands.
Sincerely,
John J. Dalton FHFMA
Editor, The Three Minute Read
Thanks for the keen insights Merrill.
Having served on the Board of a Medicaid and duals health plan for over 7 years, I cannot imagine what the Trump administration will do to the health status of the most vulnerable in our society. Many will die, millions will suffer needlessly, all so billionaires can become ever richer.
Kennedy is woefully ill-qualified to assume leadership...as you note Vought and his Christian Nationalist cronies will be running the show.
They are the most un-"Christian" of Christians.
Ugggghhhh...more armchair quarterbacking.
Do you have any specific arguments to counter Merrill's? Any facts you can cite?