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Jill Burcum

@jburcum.bsky.social

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Minnesota Star Tribune opinion writer on health care. Applying Minnesota mom sensibilities to coverage: don't fib, don't be mean & you better have done your homework. StarTribune.com

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@jburcum.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 2:14 AM

Of course he did.

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@crampell.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:21 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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@lynnblewett.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 12:00 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

@univofminnesota.bsky.social
expert Peter Huckfeldt examines the financial pressures driving insurers’ retreat from #MedicareAdvantage @jburcum.bsky.social @startribuneguild.bsky.social www.startribune.com/open-enrollm...

@crampell.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:17 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comFDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmedRegulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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@nyccomptroller.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:42 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

NYC Comptroller Mark Levine urges Target's board to commission an independent review of any coordination or cooperation between Target and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), following the shooting involving ICE agents in Marble Hill on October 8.

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@gavinyamey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:32 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

Holy shit

FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest

This quote is 🔥

Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
GProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:20 PM

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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@jburcum.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:43 AM

???

@lizszabo.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:42 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. Babies will “contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

@jburcum.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:13 AM

That there is an endless supply is so depressing.

@mirandayaver.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:08 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

From April

@propublica.orgOct 6, 2026, 3:31 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)

propublica.org“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over DoctorsBlue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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@krutikakuppalli.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 6:30 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

A lab worker’s death after a reported accident in Russia has raised concern for #plague.

A reminder: As the US dismantles public health, we weaken our ability to detect and contain the next threat.

Cutting surveillance doesn’t eliminate danger. It makes us slower to see it.

@startribune.comOct 3, 2026, 5:50 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

A cluster of three major health system mergers in Minnesota this year reflect urgency among providers to grow and generate efficiencies that shield them from looming federal cutbacks.

@jburcum.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:59 AM

Thank you!

@frankconniff.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:04 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

Brutal! The Cornell rapists had to write those essays in longhand while still recovering from a slap on the wrist.

@texastribune.orgSep 28, 2026, 9:34 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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@emily.gorcen.skiSep 28, 2026, 10:23 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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@kevinmkruse.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 6:16 PMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

AAaron Rupar@atrupar.comSep 26, 2026, 5:43 PM

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

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@bachynski.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 11:59 AMReposted by @jburcum.bsky.social

“As of May 2026, the C.D.C. had 30 percent fewer employees than it did before the layoffs…Interviews with more than 30 current & former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs”

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