Mission to Destroy Accomplished, Time for Narrative Management (DNR #397)

Do Not Resuscitate asks, Why do we spend trillions and get lousy healthcare? This week's edition discusses the GOP spin that we're hearing about how they're not really wrecking the federal regulatory, research, and safety net infrastructure but merely "saving" the system from deadbeats. It's not greedy disdain for the vulnerable, oh no! Also, how they're using solid criticisms of our scientific establishment's shortcomings to repoliticize toward their own biases while some surprising fightback emerges from, of all places, the VA. 

Here are links to all the articles mentioned: 

Gregory Svirnovskiy, “Dr. Oz pushes back on criticism that GOP is cutting Medicaid,” Politico, May 30, 2025

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/dr-oz-claim-gop-cutting-medicaid-00375618 

Elizabeth Crisp, “Johnson: ‘States are not properly administering’ SNAP payments,” The Hill, May 25, 2025 https://bit.ly/4kXCvVj

Glenn Kessler, “Are 4.8 million people on Medicaid ‘cheating the system’?” Washington Post, May 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/3Hrezex

Rachel M. Werner & Amanda Kreider, “Long-term care in the U.S. faces two existential threats: an immigration crackdown and Medicaid cuts,” STAT, May 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/3ZO0jCK

Bill Haskell, “Cuts to Medicaid and maybe Medicare,” Angry Bear, May 22, 2025

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/05/cuts-to-medicaid-and-maybe-medicare

John Wilkerson, “ACA reforms in the GOP’s tax bill were little-noticed. That might change,” STAT, May 30, 2025

https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/aca-reforms-gop-tax-bill-could-drive-enrollment-down-trump-voters/

Robert Kuttner, “Ten sneaky sleeper provisions in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill,” American Prospect, May 23, 2025

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-05-23-ten-sneaky-sleeper-provisions-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/

Greg Leiserson, “The GOP plan to cut the EITC via administrative burdens,” Can We Still Govern? May 19, 2025

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-gop-plan-to-cut-the-eitc-via

Wendell Potter, “The GOP’s health care math: Pay more, get less,” Health Care Un-covered, Jun 2, 2025 https://bit.ly/4knF6b7

Wendell Potter & Rachel Madley, “What MAHA and public health experts actually agree on,” Health Care Un-covered, May 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/4jDYzmC

Beth Mole, “RFK Jr.’s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion,” Ars Technica, May 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/3HH8fPT

Anil Oza & Megan Molteni, “Scientists protest White House plan to put political appointees in charge of grant-making,” STAT, May 23, 2025

https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/nih-research-threatened-trump-schedule-f-plan-reclassifies-scientists-as-political-appointees/

Aatish Bhatia, Irineo Cabreros, Asmaa Elkeurti & Ethan Singer, “Trump has cut science funding to its lowest level in decades,” New York Times, May 22, 2025 https://archive.ph/3KWw1

Colette Delawalla & 4 others [opinion], “Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it,” Guardian, May 29, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/trump-american-science?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Aaron Glantz, “US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance,” Guardian, Jun 1, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/us-veterans-affairs-agency-doctors-scientists-research

See the full archive at www.nypan.org/single-payer-news