Congratulations on this publication - important work

... that they are SUBSIDIZING it. Yes, immigrants (including undocumented) pay more into public and private healthcare programs than they use in services, subsidizing the native-born.

inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

...eligible for Medicaid were it not for their immigration status, so-called "Emergency Medicaid" (<0.5% of Medicaid spending).

That is it.

This is just non-stop lying & scapegoating. Immigrants are not "taking" native-born Americans healthcare. In fact, research shows...

...for whom it matters: Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, Medicare, or ACA subsidized plans, full stop. There is a negligible amount of Medicaid funds for hospitals that (as they should and legally must) provide emergency care to some people who would be...

* associated with it amongst the powerful and influential

Thanks Rob

www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/p...

but also lead us to unhelpful remedies or to misunderstandings of our illness. Particularly during this age of unprecedented and politicized anti-vaccination fervor, the establishment of a dubious 'post-vaccination syndrome,' on shaky science, is dangerous."

Link below.

This was how I concluded my STAT piece in March on "post-vaccination syndrome":

"But diagnoses are pragmatic constructs, structured both by biomedical realities and by social and political discourses. They can help us identify useful treatments and avoid injurious exposures,

No doubt: this is a complex issue in the clinic, requiring care, nuance, and humility.

But **enshrining diagnoses** premised on cause-and-effect processes that may not be present helps no one.

Challenging popular understandings of the underlying cause of non-specific symptom complexes is not popular, whether in the vaccine realm or in other domains.

These challenges are often criticized as "medical gaslighting", or more academically as "epistemic injustice."

... higher depression/anxiety scores in the Yale study. This does not mean the vaccine caused it: it could also well be that depression was a driver of their physical symptoms, which is extremely common, a hypothesis that was not considered by the study authors.

as the New York Times put it. Of course, as I wrote at the time, differences in some such parameters (many very small) could have many explanations — including depression itself, which is a biological process. Indeed, those with self-described post-vaccination syndrome had ...

Once you accept that premise, and then run huge numbers of assays examining average differences in biological parameters, you will find some differences that can then be used to conclude that those with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) have "distinct biological changes,"

...published earlier this year, which generated so much excitement in right-wing anti-vaccine circles (not the fault of the authors) was the implicit premise of a "post-vaccination syndrome" definable by individuals' understanding of their symptoms being caused by vaccines.