Michael Infanzon

Managing Partner - EPIC Policy Group; United States Marine; political antagonizer; freedom fighter but proudest to be Dad to three great adult children. 🚫DMs

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

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[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

294 rural hospitals are at immediate risk of closure in the next two to three years.
That is not just a healthcare statistic. It is a warning sign for rural America.

When a rural hospital closes, a community loses more than inpatient beds. It loses emergency access, local maternity care, diagnostic services, jobs, and one of the anchors that makes rural life sustainable.

The newest Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform data, reported by Becker’s Hospital Review, shows that 720 rural hospitals, about one-third of all rural hospitals nationwide, are at risk of closing. In most states, more than 25% of rural hospitals are at risk. In ten states, at least half are at risk.

This should be treated as a public policy emergency.

Rural healthcare policy cannot stop at temporary grants and press conferences. Lawmakers, insurers, employers, and local governments need to confront the underlying payment problem, especially when rural hospitals are expected to maintain 24/7 emergency capacity while being paid only when a billable service occurs.

A hospital is not just a building. In rural communities, it is the difference between care close to home and care too far away to matter.

Rural hospital stability should be part of every serious conversation on economic development, veterans care, emergency response, workforce retention, and family health.
#RuralHealth #HealthcarePolicy #RuralHospitals #VeteransHealth #PublicPolicy

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

Not every veteran wound is treated inside a clinic.
The SAVES Act of 2025 would help eligible veterans access trained service dogs through qualified nonprofit providers. That means more independence, more stability, and more support for veteran families across Arizona.
Arizona Veterans support S. 1441.
Read why you should support it too.
https://t.co/mHjTl51fT3

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

This is why the rest of our nation must continue to fight against the tyranny being perpetuated in the New England states like Ct and Mass. Support @CCDL_CarryOn and @GOALupdate Arizona stands with you! @AZCDL_Freedom

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

252 years ago today, the British Empire closed the busiest port in North America to teach one colony a lesson, and accidentally turned thirteen colonies into one country.

On December 16, 1773, a few dozen Bostonians had thrown 342 chests of East India Company tea into the harbor. The damages came to roughly £9,659. Lord North, the Prime Minister, decided to make an example. Parliament passed the Boston Port Act. King George III signed it on March 31, 1774. It took effect at dawn on June 1.

The Royal Navy moved warships into Boston Harbor and dropped anchor. Every dock was sealed. No ship could enter or leave. Not a barrel of flour, not a load of firewood, not a letter. The port would stay closed until Boston paid the East India Company in full and promised to behave.

The intent was to isolate Massachusetts and force her neighbors to watch her starve.

What happened instead is one of the strangest political miracles in modern history.

Down in Williamsburg, a 31 year old burgess named Thomas Jefferson and a few friends, including Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, pulled a dusty old book off the shelf of the House of Burgesses library, a record of how the Long Parliament had once handled a tyrant, and proposed that the entire colony of Virginia observe June 1, 1774 as a day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer" in solidarity with Boston.

The Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, dissolved the House two days later for treason. The burgesses simply walked across the street to the Raleigh Tavern and kept meeting.

June 1 came. In Virginia, every Anglican church was draped in black. The bells tolled all day. Plantation owners shut their doors. Jefferson wrote later that "the effect of the day through the whole colony was like a shock of electricity."

The same shock ran through every colony south of New England. Wagon trains of food started rolling toward Boston from as far away as Charleston. The Marblehead fishermen offered to give the Boston merchants the use of their docks for free. A Quaker miller in Pennsylvania sent a hundred barrels of flour. Israel Putnam personally drove a herd of sheep from Connecticut to feed the city.

Three months later, 56 delegates from twelve colonies sat down together in Philadelphia. It was called the First Continental Congress. None of them had ever met under one roof before.

Parliament wanted to punish a city. It created a nation.

252 years ago today, in a harbor full of Royal Navy frigates, the American Revolution stopped being a Massachusetts problem.

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

Publix may not support your right to open-carry, depending on where you live, by @HT_GunWriter https://t.co/SI3xpznfFP

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

WIth California, Maryland, and Connecticut banning Glocks and New York soon to do the same, we asked this Q: How many people have been murdered with Glock-style guns using Glock switches? About 43 total over the five plus years from 2021 to now. https://t.co/F67hcGv4O2
#2a #guns

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

Because the Arizona State Legislature was in recess during May, @SenatorBolick offered the proclamation on the first day lawmakers returned to the Capitol.

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[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

Is your business "policy-proof"? Every session, thousands of bills fly through the Copper Dome, and many of them could change the way you do business overnight.

You don't need a massive political machine to have a voice. You just need a strategy. We’ve broken down a 5-step guide to grassroots advocacy specifically for AZ business owners.

Read more: 5 Steps How to Start Grassroots Lobbying in Arizona (Easy Guide for Businesses) https://t.co/fHtexC3mF0 via @LinkedIn

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

This week’s congressional committee schedule is not just a list of meetings. It is a map of policy pressure points.
Clean Air Act vehicle rules. AI and cybersecurity. Medicines and intellectual property. Veterans nominations. Federal forests and wildfire. Privacy law. Small business.
If your business, association, nonprofit, or membership organization waits until the final vote to pay attention, you are already late.
https://t.co/IafbeS4jzm

[House Committee on Veterans' Affairs @HouseVetAffairs]

PROMISES DELIVERED: The House passed the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act last week to protect constitutional due process and #2A rights for veterans.

Chairman Bost and House Republicans will always fight to put veterans first. 👇

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

@GOALupdate Director of Public Policy Mike Harris: The anti-2A crowd - it’s not about the actual firearm. They are against the idea of freedom and liberty. They are prosecuting the idea of freedom.

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

My day today. What are you doing for liberty today?

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

Laura Whitcomb of @GunOwnersME . Addressing keyboard warriors “How will you stand up to real tyranny if you won’t even vote?”

[Gun Owners of America @GunOwners]

Biden’s weaponized DOJ charged Tate Adamiak with violations of the NFA for having collectible firearm parts—leading to one of the most unjust convictions we’ve ever seen.

That's why GOA is calling for a Presidential pardon for Tate.

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

Arizona just took a practical step for veterans, EMS personnel, and rural emergency readiness.
SB1235, now signed by the Governor, brings Arizona into the Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact, known as REPLICA. The bill allows qualified EMS personnel licensed in compact states to practice across state lines under defined conditions, while keeping public-safety safeguards through fingerprint clearance, background checks, and shared disciplinary information. Thank you Senator @JohnKavanagh_AZ for sponsoring this bill.
For veterans, this matters.
Many veterans leave military service with medical, emergency-response, and field-care experience. SB1235 helps reduce licensing friction for those who continue serving as EMTs, paramedics, flight medics, disaster-response personnel, or rural EMS providers. It supports workforce mobility, helps Arizona recognize qualified out-of-state EMS professionals, and strengthens the emergency response pipeline in communities that need trained responders.
This is what veteran workforce policy should look like: remove unnecessary barriers, maintain standards, and let trained people keep serving.
And for those who didn’t know, Representative @SelinaBliss worked hard on the House mirror bill. Thank you Rep Bliss for your extremely hard work for the veteran community.
#Arizona #Veterans #EMS #WorkforceDevelopment #RuralHealth #EmergencyMedicalServices #MilitaryTransition

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

The gun control debate in the United States has long been a contentious issue, with advocates for stricter regulations clashing with those who argue for the preservation of Second Amendment rights. However, recent accusations of hypocrisy against gun-control advocates, particularly those who have armed security for themselves and their families, have added a new dimension to the discussion.
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[Michael Infanzon @infanzon]

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