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Adriel Bettelheim
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Senior health care editor at Axios. Politics and policy with some music and sports sprinkled in. Signal: oradea.10 https://linktr.ee/abettelheim
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 5h
Organ transplant network disrupted by government shutdown. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Axios Vitals - 1 big thing: Exclusive — Transplant network stalled by shutdown
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 17h
White House says it's found funding to keep the WIC food aid program afloat during shutdown. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/w...
Scoop: White House says it has funding to save food aid program
The administration will transfer funding derived from tariff revenue to keep WIC going for "the foreseeable future."
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 21h
Trump admin cuts federal support for disabled Americans facing homelessness. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...
Trump administration ends support for disabled Americans facing homelessness
The cutback is the latest in a series of hits to the poorest Americans from the White House.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 22h
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Colorado conversion therapy ban. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/s...
Supreme Court seems skeptical of conversion therapy ban
A decision could force more than 20 states to revisit their bans on the practice.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 1d
Young adult suicide rates are rising almost nationwide. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/y...
Youth suicide rates are rising almost nationwide
The numbers underscore the toll of the country's youth mental health crisis.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 1d
Conversion therapy case lands at Supreme Court with big implications for mental health regulation. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/s...
Supreme Court weighs case on conversion therapy for youth
The case will likely decide the fate of laws in almost half of the states that restrict the practice.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 2d
CDC formally approves RFK Jr. vaccine panel's recommendations on COVID, MMRV shots. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/c...
CDC signs off on RFK Jr. vaccine recommendations
The new schedule drops a broad recommendation that Americans age 65 and older get a COVID-19. vaccine
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 2d
The shutdown fight explained in two polls. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/g...
The government shutdown fight, explained by two polls
One date to watch is Nov. 1. That's when open enrollment starts for ACA coverage.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 2d
Home births climb as distrust of hospitals grows. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/h...
More parents are choosing to give birth at home
The rise reflects distrust in the medical system and a push for more personalized care.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 2d
MAHA faithful see autism message helping drive midterm turnout. www.axios.com/2025/10/03/r...
RFK Jr. allies say autism claims will drive midterm turnout
Kennedy's belief that vaccines or Tylenol cause autism is resonating with a slice of voters.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 5d
Conservatives rage after FDA approves new generic abortion drug. www.axios.com/2025/10/02/f...
Conservatives rage after FDA approves generic abortion drug
The decision adds to conservative scrutiny of the agency and Commissioner Marty Makary.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 5d
Gatorade and Cheetos are among the Pepsi products getting a natural dye makeover apnews.com/article/peps...
Gatorade and Cheetos are among the Pepsi products getting a natural dye makeover
Pepsi has a new challenge: Keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d
The WSJ editorial board criticizes Trump’s threats to the pharma industry as “political extortion” and pans the idea behind the president’s planned “TrumpRx” website.

“Why does the federal government need to become a drug marketer? Doesn’t it already do enough not very well?”
Opinion | America’s Pharmacist in Chief
The President becomes a drug marketer, while Pfizer gets a tariff break.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 6d
Shutdown puts billions of hospital funding in peril. www.axios.com/2025/10/02/g...
Government shutdown puts hospital funding in peril
Hospital operators are worried about temporary funding cuts that could squeeze already tight margins.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 6d
Walmart plans to remove artificial colors and other additives from store brands apnews.com/article/walm...
Walmart plans to remove artificial colors and other food additives from store brands by 2027
Walmart says it plans to remove synthetic dyes and 30 other food additives from its store brands sold in the United States by January 2027.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 7d
Obamacare premiums would more than double if Congress doesn’t renew enhanced subsidies: study www.axios.com/2025/10/01/a...
ACA premiums to rise 114% without subsidy renewal
The tax credits that help people afford premiums are at the center of the showdown over government funding.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 7d
Some telehealth and hospital-at-home care frozen by the shutdown. www.axios.com/2025/10/01/t...
Some telehealth and home care frozen by shutdown
Additional legislation is required to restore the services.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 7d
Pharma blindsided by Pfizer-Trump deal. www.axios.com/2025/10/01/p...
Pfizer's deal ratchets up pressure on other drug companies
Tuesday's announcement caught the industry off guard.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: Per multiple sources, HHS employees received a message 20 minutes ago saying that Trump opposes a gov shutdown. "Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the US Senate due to unrelated policy demands."

One source called it "the most overtly political message" yet.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 7d
750K federal workers risk furloughs in government shutdown, CBO estimates. www.axios.com/2025/09/30/g...
750K federal workers risk furloughs in government shutdown, CBO estimates
Their compensation will total approximately $400 million per day.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 7d
Trump and Pfizer announce deal to lower drug prices, including "Trump Rx" web site. www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...
Trump and Pfizer announce deal to lower drug prices
Trump has pushed drug manufacturers to lower U.S. prices, and Pfizer's commitment could make other companies commit.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 8d
Republican senator floats possible ACA subsidy compromise. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Axios Vitals - Marshall floats ACA subsidy compromise
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 8d
Trump and pharma are still at loggerheads over drug prices. www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...
Trump and Big Pharma at loggerheads over drug prices
Trump's deadline for drugmakers has come and gone without his specific demands being met.
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 8d
HHS moves to block Harvard from doing business with the government, putting hundreds of millions in research funding at risk. www.axios.com/2025/09/29/h...
HHS seeks to ban Harvard from federal funding in civil rights case
HHS refers Harvard University to Suspension and Debarment Program over alleged civil rights violations
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 8d
Federal health agencies would furlough, and possibly fire, nearly 32,500 in a shutdown. www.axios.com/2025/09/29/g...
HHS would furlough nearly 32,500 in government shutdown
The furloughs or firings would come on top of sweeping cuts to thousands of scientists and health workers earlier this year.
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