Lauren Weber
Health and Science Accountability Reporter at The Washington Post
Health & Science accountability reporter @washingtonpost. Former @KHNews , @HuffPost. @Georgetown alum. STL @Cardinals fan. The HP stands for health policy.
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1 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Lauren Weber
RFK Jr.: If you eat doughnuts or smoke, should society pay for your health care? (washingtonpost.com) RFK Jr.: If you eat doughnuts or smoke, should society pay for your health care? By Lauren Weber 2025041022502300 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked whether society should pay for the health care of Americans who eat doughnuts or smoke when they know those habits can contribute to poor health outcomes.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Lauren Weber
Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead. (washingtonpost.com) Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead. By Lauren Weber 2025040117281900 Some government health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder with discrimination complaints. But Pinder, who was the director at the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, died last year.
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flipboard.com | Lauren Weber
9 hours agoWhen Madonna Cristobal landed at the airport near Seattle in February, she and her aunt waited in the same line for customs. Cristobal, a U.S. citizen, sailed through. Then she waited for her aunt. And waited. "One hour, two, three hours," Cristobal said. "I started to worry, and then I'm like, 'Oh, …
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Carolyn Johnson |Rachel Roubein |Joel Achenbach |Lena Sun |Lauren Weber
Widespread layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies (washingtonpost.com) Widespread layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies By Carolyn Y. Johnson; Rachel Roubein; Joel Achenbach; Lena H.
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1 month ago |
democrats.org | Lauren Weber |Caitlin Gilbert |Shelby Reese
Key Point: “Mehmet Oz, the nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, co-founded health benefits company ZorroRX with his son last year, according to now-hidden source code … Ethics experts, lawyers and health care analysts say his ties to a health benefits company that could profit off the federal drug program entangle him in a potential conflict of interest.” Washington Post: Health benefits company co-founded by Dr. Oz could be a conflict of interest By Lauren Weber and...
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“If you’re smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you expect society to pay when you get sick?” RFK Jr. asked in a CBS news interview yesterday. He said something similar for those who choose to “eat donuts all day” My latest @washingtonpost https://t.co/eUdbjImZie
RT @sarahkliff: Medicare spending on bandages made out of dried placenta skyrocketed to $10 billion last year, our new @nytimes story finds…
Trump has faced measles before. The difference this time is RFK Jr. The CDC has been muzzled, messaging has been muddled, and public health funding has been slashed. Me, @bylenasun @rachel_roubein @FenitN @washingtonpost https://t.co/atLsAgRRZ8
