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By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

What I renamed “The Big Beastly Bill” passed the Senate yesterday. It signed into law dramatic cuts to our public health care system. In the meantime, over at Health and Human Services, RFK Jr. has fired all the experts of the vaccine advisory committee, threatening the supply of life-saving immunizations for millions of Americans.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

In nearly six months of hits to the health of Americans, the actions of the House in passing Trump’s so-called “One, Big Beautiful Bill” budget last month have reached a new level of callousness and ignorance. The $880 billion dollar cuts over 10 years in aid to states for Medicaid programs would have disastrous effects.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

I was awakened this morning at 5:30 by thoughts of this administration’s destruction of our health care system, our economy, our democracy, our environment, and our friendships with allies around the world. (Many of those whom I know share these night time/early morning preoccupations.)

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

RFK Jr., the former environmental champion, now head of head of the Department of Health and Human Services, declared just last year that climate change is “real, manmade, and an existential threat.” Yet in late March, all research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — part of HHS — studying the effects of climate change on human health was canceled.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

The week of Jan. 20, 2025, made history in a way few Americans realize. For the first time in 128 years, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, originally called Public Health Reports, was not published due to a gag order placed on all federal agencies by the new president.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

 As a pediatrician, I not infrequently try to help children who have been bullied. I’ve learned that the bully on the schoolyard — just like bullies at work, or in government — depend on the work of flying monkeys to maintain their power.It’s weirdly...