@BostonChildrens @HarvardMed via 🌉🗽🌴〽. Black ink: @RollingStone @ABC @JAMA_current. Fan: Words, Numbers, Wolverines. Younger twin. Tips: emcahan@proton.mehttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3mi5b53og6k2jICYMI: Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare, called Benjamin Landa an example of “giant corporate health care interests that prey on the vulnerable and...exploit loopholes at taxpayers’ expense.” Lots more inside. https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit28 Mar 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5b53og6k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3mhqq3fru322x1 month after Trump nominated Ben Landa, who owns >100 nursing homes, for Ambassador to Hungary, the President's own agency estimated his facility received over $31 million in excess taxpayer money via Medicare. Landa then sued the gov. It's just the beginning. https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit23 Mar 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqq3fru322xhttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3mdx6jsfoas2lI'm incredibly grateful to run Boston again on behalf of Boston Medical Center. Amid devastating federal budget cuts--and more to come--BMC's work helping the sickest kids, infants, and babies is more important now than ever. Please consider supporting us: https://www.givengain.com/project/eli-raising-funds-for-boston-medical-center-11641303 Feb 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdx6jsfoas2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3mafj7yqqis26The steps by HHS to hamstring the CDC (and state departments) have imperiled the public’s health for political purposes, neighborhood docs, officials, and national experts told me. It's all putting kids' lives in the balance. My latest for @rollingstone.com https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/measles-outbreak-on-the-rise-1235486810/?utm_source=edit-vip20 Dec 2025 05:52 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mafj7yqqis26https://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3m3foheo3ek2i“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-kids-school-absenteeism-1235447552/?utm_source=edit-vip17 Oct 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3foheo3ek2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3m34kvy7jlk2aICYMI: Some psychiatric hospitals across the country are illegally turning away patients, with few consequences. Most are owned by multi-billion dollar for-profit companies. I spoke with @opb.org about our @propublica.org reporting https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/13/psychiatric-hospitals-cedar-hills-turn-away-er/14 Oct 2025 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m34kvy7jlk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3m2wxikuins2s“The executive branch is using the shutdown as cover for a...targeted dismantling of leadership across the agency," an official told @statnews.com "It’s designed to sow chaos...and cripple the federal scientific infrastructure that protects Americans’ health." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-firings-government-shutdown-hhs/11 Oct 2025 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2wxikuins2shttps://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3m2uhb4leoc25Since 2010, >90 psych hospitals have failed to provide emergency care to ppl in mental health crises. Most violations were by hospitals owned by billion dollar for profit companies. It's all illegal. But they've faced few consequences. We discussed on @npr.org: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=nx-s1-5554443:nx-s1-948763010 Oct 2025 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2uhb4leoc25https://bsky.app/profile/emcahan.bsky.social/post/3lzjm2l6km22zOver 90 psych hospitals have violated EMTALA since 2010. The vast majority are for-profit Yet only a handful have faced sanctions. When they have, the penalties are trivial vs $$ billions these companies, like UHS & Acadia, raked in last yr Part 2 @propublica.org https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-mental-health-profit23 Sep 2025 18:57 +0000at://did:plc:2ausptdeyesgt7iwtl6fejgb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjm2l6km22z