Friday, November 18, 2022

A valediction: The Twitter School of Public Health

As Twitter may well be on the brink of imploding, I want to preserve for the record -- for my own benefit, if no one else's -- my on-site eulogy thread for its central role in my education about healthcare. The like list for each of the four tweets below is a repository of public health and healthcare policy professionals and journalists willing to engage, with much to give. Look for them on Mastodon, or whatever new Twitterish site gains traction. Or of course on Twitter, if it somehow emerges intact. I'm at AndrewSprung@Mastodon.social and now posting at https://xpostfactoid.substack.com/ as well as here.

As I inevitably missed a number of tweeps, I'll add a tweet or two today to make the list as complete as possible. 


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I love Twitter. My feed is a thing of beauty. I was never bombarded by trolls and missed the hate. Whatever I know about healthcare was basically via Twitter University & the people and documents it led me to. To exaggerate just a little, my social life is one long DM thread.
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Co-Founder Get America Covered, Former Healthcare.gov CMO, and Amateur Sumo
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Sr VP, Kaiser Family Foundation (), Director, Program on Medicare Policy and Sr Advisor to the President
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Health care business reporter for  and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: bob.herman@statnews.com or DM.
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HSR PhD candidate . Doggy dad. Former health policy at Harvard SPH. Former think tanker. Wannabe economist. Opinions my own.
Goal-driven fighter for health and social justice. VP . Former . DC 🏡, Michigan 💙🇱🇹-American, stands with 🇺🇦
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United We Stand M4All For-Profit Health Care is morally abhorrent
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Data, Analytics, & Strategy - currently  - alum  - proud kentuckian - 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) - @jsmalloy@mastodon.social
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Dad; Haverford, LBJ School, UT Law alum; active health care lobbyist
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Husband, dad, wonk with  & runner, preferably on trails. Trying to bring Shalom to the commonwealth. The plural of anecdote is not data.
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I love Twitter. My feed is a thing of beauty. I was never bombarded by trolls and missed the hate. Whatever I know about healthcare was basically via Twitter University & the people and documents it led me to. To exaggerate just a little, my social life is one long DM thread.
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Sr VP, Kaiser Family Foundation (), Director, Program on Medicare Policy and Sr Advisor to the President
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Assistant Research Professor at Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms; former FOIA litigator; tweets (and dogs) are my own!
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Vice President , Affordable Care Act. Also tracking health costs, outcomes and access to care. Also at: mastodon.social/@cynthiaccox
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life (Berthold Auerbach)
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Former Biden White House Sr Advisor, past head of Medicare/Medicaid for Obama. Host of Webby-winning  & author best-selling book “Preventable.”
Medical librarian, professor, sharing info. (#publichealth#edtech#IPE#leadership). Tweets are my own. Follow, likes, & RT ≠ endorsement.
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Health policy, helping states w/ health reforms, Professor of the Practice + co-director Global Health Program   shvs.org
Medical Cost Containment Specialist, Cash Pay Patient Assister, ACA Certified Agent in MD and VA, Providing Affordable Healthcare Financing Plan Options for all
Pro-choice. Pro-fish. Views are mine alone and are not those of my employer.
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From the Stinking Onion to our nation's capital by way of a mitten and some beignets. Became a hockey fan along the way from swamp to swamp to swamp.
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Working on making health care more affordable. I mostly speak in Arrested Development one-liners. Views expressed here are my own.
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Keeping up with the world. Third-year PhD student studying Health/IO . Alum  and .
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Journalist-in-residence   . Health policy & politics -- birth, death and everything in between. RTs...the usual
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Assistant Research Professor at Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms; former FOIA litigator; tweets (and dogs) are my own!
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Former Biden White House Sr Advisor, past head of Medicare/Medicaid for Obama. Host of Webby-winning  & author best-selling book “Preventable.”
Medical Cost Containment Specialist, Cash Pay Patient Assister, ACA Certified Agent in MD and VA, Providing Affordable Healthcare Financing Plan Options for all
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Working on making health care more affordable. I mostly speak in Arrested Development one-liners. Views expressed here are my own.