Brian Chiglinsky

health care comms and speechwriting | views here are my own, but they should be yours too

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

then join the department of labor and leave health care to people who wish to help people stay healthy

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Dr Oz on Medicaid requirements: "You have to work. You were not put on this planet to sit at home and watch television. The average person who's on Medicaid, who's able-bodied, watches 6.1 hours of television, or just hangs out, every day. That's not why God put you here."

[Sarah Despres @sarahdespres]

Holy. Moly. @SecKennedy and his team keep telling us they are restoring trust. The exact opposite is happening. Could it be that their real goal is sowing mistrust? Just asking questions…. https://t.co/2QeohNQ5NU

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

“pet projects” can be interpreted quite literally with this guy

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

RFK Jr. is reportedly focusing solely on his pet projects and has "checked out" of broader public health concerns and policy issues

https://t.co/AB0BneqaiY

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

Rural hospitals across Virginia are working hard to continue delivering care while facing provider shortages, long travel times for patients, and growing financial pressures.

As the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ threatens healthcare providers and Virginians’ access to care, I will continue bringing providers, patients, and local leaders to the table as we chart our path forward. Amid the uncertainty out of Washington, we are working to ensure that every Virginian has access to high quality, affordable healthcare no matter where they call home.
https://t.co/gn4Zh63wuJ

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

it’s been more than two decades since I’ve seen this and it’s a heartwarming tale of young male friendship. a rosetta stone whispering to ages hence what it meant to be alive and loved before the smartphones descended.

[Old Internet @OldInternetFeel]

Budweiser "Wazaaaaa" 1999

[Jesse Ferguson @JesseFFerguson]

(CNN) "The Trump administration makes it harder for some sick Americans to maintain Medicaid"

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

“you need to”

just wild how blatant the interference actually is behind the scenes.

[Edmund Lee 🐿️ 🗞️ @edmundlee]

First reported example of Bari Weiss meddling in 60 Minutes, finally someone asked the follow up up question, nicely done @LuluGNavarro

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

this from Means at HHS is just clearly untrue because the people at most need of this support will be cut off from their Medicaid, their local hospital will close and they’ll spiral deeper and deeper into untreated chronic conditions

[Sarah Despres @sarahdespres]

This is a bizarre take. Almost every day the MSM has major reporting on GLPs. It’s everywhere. So what he is complaining about? Measles has hardly been in the press of late despite continued outbreaks. It’s been overtaken in coverage by screwworm and Ebola.

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

as a speechwriter, you want your speaker sometimes to zig when others zag.

this is too much zig.

[Special Taiwan @TaiwanSpecial]

Awkward Taiwan:

In probably one of the more surreal commencement speeches of all time, graduates at Taiwan’s Shih Hsin University #世新大學 were told to “End yourselves quickly” if they couldn’t keep their lives in order after they entered the work place.

This rather drastic admonition was made by Shih Shin University president Chen Ching-ho 世新大學校長陳清河 during his commencement address to the school’s Master’s and PhD degree graduates.

He then went on to tell them that if they could not manage their lives they should exit from the world because the world wouldn’t need people like them.

The ensuing uproar has led to calls for Dr Chen to resign. Yesterday he apologized for “had not been sufficiently careful in my remarks” and announced he would take a two month unpaid leave.

#Taiwan #graduation #commencement

[Colin Baillio @colinbaillio]

It is deeply disappointing to see the @washingtonpost Editorial Board to embrace this flawed analysis. It takes so much methodological handwaving to arrive at this conclusion. Did they even bother to talk to experts?

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

food for thawt

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

For whatever reason, unlike ice cream, frozen yogurt is cyclical. But while it does go in and out of fashion, it doesn’t go backwards. The current craze is different from the Pinkberry era, which was different from the TCBY era. Lesson in that.

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

not only are we cutting health care here in America

we’re doing it abroad, too

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

I dunno, man. Maybe CBS News execs shouldn’t try to out maneuver a seasoned investigative journalist.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

look there are so many important and massive undercurrents in this story

but just the chasm of writing quality between Weiss/Bilton’s and Pelley’s statements is jarring

[Variety @Variety]

CBS News Boss Bari Weiss Defends Firing Scott Pelley From ‘60 Minutes’: 'Trust' Was 'Broken' After His Blow-Up and 'That's the Path He Chose' https://t.co/8nAd6LXVOy

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

@Rob_Flaherty their grandchildren will probably wonder what they were saying and doing when the United States government set in motion the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world from starvation and treatable illnesses

and this is what they’ll find

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

“… as long as no one here tries to report on the President’s foreign concentration camps.”

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Here is Nick Bilton's memo to the "60 Minutes" staff about Scott Pelley:

Team,

You should hear this from me first. We have parted ways with Scott Pelley.

I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don't say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground. That was not the path Scott chose.

What I regret most is that this situation interfered with the conversation I had hoped to have with you about Season 59 and the future of this show. I realize this is a great deal of change in a very short time, and I wouldn't pretend otherwise.

I won't relitigate the last week with you here. What I will commit to is this: My unyielding support for each of you, the journalism that you do and what we will do together going forward.

Nick

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

I’m shocked the Republican Party stalwarts couldn’t stop an authoritarian takeover of their party.

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

🐸 Breaking frog news:

Cornyn tells me “you can sort of make your own interpretation” about the frog/scorpion parable he tweeted last week.

Is he the frog?

“If you want a friend in DC, get a dog.”

Is Trump the scorpion?

“If the shoe fits, wear it.”

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

wow, just learned that - according to the NHE - US spending on “does value based care work?” content reached 18% of GDP

[Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky]

We’ve got 50 years to learn some very valuable lessons here.

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

"As things are developing, we’ll remember the story of America’s grandest commemorations as follows:

One hundredth: a giant industrial exposition in Philadelphia.
Two hundredth: a tall-ships regatta in New York harbor.
Two hundred and fiftieth: a Trump flop in Washington, D.C."
-- @davidfrum:
https://t.co/WM4JDRCtb4

[Matthew Herper @matthewherper]

People who don't follow cancer research often ask me why we haven't cured cancer. That perception masks a wonderful reality: We make amazing, stepwise progress every year, and the result is that many people live much longer today than they would have previously.

Right now we're in the thick of the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the biggest research meeting on new cancer medicines, and this morning a bunch of really important studies dropped. I'm going to review them here.

This first image is the result for daraxonrasib, a treatment for pancreatic cancer that is generating consdirable excitement. The green line is the probability of living for patients who got the new drug; the gray one is the chemo control group.

If you follow cancer drugs, a chart like this will make your breath hitch a little. I'm going to review these and some other data here.