Alice Chen MD

Doctor, wife, mom of 2 beautiful babies. Striving for people to live the healthiest and best life they can. Opinions are my own.

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

Here's the number for the Capitol Switchboard. Put it in your phone and just keep calling. 202-224-3121

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

My friend, pediatrician Dr. Abhay Dandekar shares the real world impact on health of HR. 1 and Medicaid cuts. Please share and urge Congress to #VoteNO.

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

I'm a primary care doctor and a mom. I can think of few things that are as important to our lives as our health.

Call Congress and tell them: Their budget bill is bad for our health. Call them every day that health matters to you.

#VoteNO

[Shawn Martin @rshawnm]

The health policy debates in Washington are heating up and so is the rhetoric. I have shared many times that our advocacy is centered on our unwavering commitment to our members and the patients they care for. Our work is guided by our values and by the policies developed and approved by our members.

It is important to remember that when it comes to health policy two things can be equally important. We do not have to sacrifice one priority for another because we understand that when it comes to primary care, policy either enables access or impedes it.

Research shows that individuals who have health care coverage and a continuous relationship with primary care are healthier and spend less money on their health care. This is why we are actively working to preserve Medicaid coverage while simultaneously working to reform physician payment.

We understand that appropriately resourcing family physicians and maintaining coverage for the Medicaid population contribute to making people and communities healthier. We do not have to choose, we can and should do both.

[NEJM @NEJM]

How are new U.S. policies and funding cuts threatening health and the values of the medical community?

Alice T. Chen, MD (@atychen), a primary care internist in Washington, DC, and former executive director of @drsforamerica, addresses that question in a new interview. Listen to the full interview: https://t.co/UoN49xE32D

Read “The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times,” the Perspective by Dr. Chen and former U.S. Surgeon General @vivek_murthy, MD, MBA https://t.co/tOKvDtFcCg

#HealthPolicy #PublicHealth

[NEJM @NEJM]

Perspective by Alice T. Chen, MD (@atychen), and @vivek_murthy, MD, MBA: The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times https://t.co/EAKisN7c8O

#HealthPolicy #MedEd

[NEJM @NEJM]

Alice T. Chen, MD (@atychen), discusses responding to the U.S. administration’s threats to health and physicians’ values and maintaining hope in difficult times. Listen to the full interview with NEJM Executive Managing Editor Stephen Morrissey (@srm128): https://t.co/EHEvZPCFFE

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

Even now, physicians have outsized power to push our society to protect people's health. Our (with @vivek_murthy) perspective piece in NEJM is out in print today and has an audio interview attached too. https://t.co/61WNXRRfGk

[NEJM @NEJM]

Perspective by Alice T. Chen, MD (@atychen), and @vivek_murthy, MD, MBA: The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times https://t.co/EAKisN7JYm

#HealthPolicy #MedEd

[NEJM @NEJM]

Perspective by Alice T. Chen, MD (@atychen), and @vivek_murthy, MD, MBA: The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times https://t.co/EAKisN7JYm

#HealthPolicy #MedEd

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

Colleagues around the country have been asking what they can do to protect health in the face of massive policy and funding changes. @vivek_murthy and I wrote this piece in the @NEJM to share our thoughts on The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times. https://t.co/61WNXRRfGk

[NEJM @NEJM]

The current crisis in the United States is bigger than politics, and it deeply affects the health and lives of our patients and communities, argue the authors of a new Perspective. Now is the time for physicians to harness their power and act. Read the Perspective by Alice T. Chen, MD (@atychen), and @vivek_murthy, MD, MBA: https://t.co/tOKvDtFcCg

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

Medicaid is my patients getting regular mammograms instead of advanced breast cancer. It's my patients managing their diabetes instead of going blind. It's people being able to be productive members of society so they can climb out of poverty. #DontCutOurMedicaid

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

In Alaska, Medicaid covers nearly 250,000 people. That's:
- 1 in 5 adults
- 3 in 8 children
- 7 in 9 nursing home residents
- 1 in 5 people on Medicare
- 3 in 8 people with disabilities
- 38% of births - babies!

https://t.co/1rDbB2r8w2

#DontCutOurMedicaid

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

Did you know? In Iowa, 75% of adults on Medicaid are working. Most are white. It covers 3 in 8 children, 1 in 6 adults age 19-64, 1 in 2 nursing home residents, 1 in 7 Medicare beneficiaries, 3 in 8 people with diabetes. h/t
@KFF https://t.co/2B6lYGYENa #DontCutOurMedicaid

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

Health is everything. It's our ability to work, to go to school, to hug our children, to care for our elders. When one person goes down, it hurts all of us. There are many ways to cut costs and improve health - taking away health insurance isn't one of them. #DontCutOurMedicaid

[(((Alan Rosenblatt, PhD))) @DrDigiPol]

@atychen I grew up in an economically downtrodden New England mill town.

My dad was a doctor and most of his patients were on Medicaid.

He gave them OUTSTANDING care and they loved him for it.

#DontCutOurMedicaid... especially not to pay for billionaire donor tax cuts.

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

As a doctor, I know Medicaid is how many people who play important roles in our lives get their care - childcare workers, cleaning workers, construction workers, parents, fellow Americans in every community. #DontCutOurMedicaid

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

What is Medicaid? To me, it is a young woman who works at a daycare, comes to clinic with a sore throat, and gets treated for Strep so she can get back to work. (1/4)

#HandsOffOurMedicaid

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

If you are a fed, a fed grantee or contractor, share your story. If you are a friend or a relative or a neighbor, share their stories. It's so important. Beyond political scorekeeping and media spin is the reality of what we stand to lose and what we need to stand up for. /end

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

For nearly a decade, our Uber driver said, he did work he loved, resettling refugees, helping them go from war-torn famine-ridden gang-run places to become contributing threads in the fabric of America. Like so many in federally-funded programs, he was laid off. He has 5 kids. 1/

[Alice Chen MD @atychen]

We thanked him for telling us his story and told him to keep telling everyone. There are so many good, hard-working people who are contributing to our nation's strength who are being thrown aside by an administration that misunderstands what makes us a great nation. 4/