Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that up to 20% of the 10,000 layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services may have been mistakes and will require reinstatements.
The cuts, part of a DOGE-led restructuring with Elon Musk, eliminated key programs, including the CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, stalling public health responses.
FDA officials confirmed some staff have already been asked to return temporarily, including teams handling drug and food inspections.
American health care: where the new standard of excellence is 80% correct limb amputation
“What’s the problem, you have a redundant back up.”
“Yeah, but the backup has bone cancer, you idiot!”
“Lol, malpractice will buy you a prosthetic. My bad, bro. Look, I need to bail, I’m going to Costa Rica for the holidays! Later! YOLO!”
On the plus side, I had the choice between my kid’s prescription this month! It was a decision between paying $600 now, or waiting until June for the generic for only $150.
I think we can all agree that the systems here are fucked, but why did we have to blow up every-fucking-thing else up?
We can’t even go refugee because we’re god-damned pariahs.
God-fucking-dammit this is all so wrong. My empathy.
What? No, that’s not true.
A bit hyperbolic, I’ll admit - though I’m in no position to uproot my family and move anywhere.
Lots of people around the world are in that position every day.
Emigration is never an easy decision.
edit: even so, in most countries USians would be significantly more welcome than most refugees. Even now.
and the generic will be more like $250 because it was manufactured overseas.
Our neighbor goes to Canada every year to buy a years worth of medication because its much cheaper. I suggested my mom do that to save money on her Eliquis, but shes convinced that foreign drugs come from dirty factories, and probably laced with Fentanyl. From Canada.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is powerful. I have to talk her off some ridiculous Conservative cliff every time she goes on the Internet.
She loves clickbait, the more misleading the headline the better. Three years ago she read a clickbait headline about about Cracker Barrel closing, and when i read it, they were closing a couple stores somewhere. Now, whenever we pass a Cracker Barrel, she either reminds me they are going out of business, or she wonders when they are going to be closing their stores. I remind her that they arent going out of business, but she just says she read it, and its true. All from a misleading clickbait headline from years ago.
“If what you read was true mom, why have we been having this conversation about them going out of business for 5 years?”