{"id":10993,"date":"2025-04-05T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2025-04-05T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:50:33","slug":"trump-causes-more-hospital-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/05\/trump-causes-more-hospital-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Causes More Hospital Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/s\/viewarticle\/trump-cuts-agency-works-make-nations-healthcare-safer-2025a100085v\">Read how<\/a> a major nonpartisan medical organization describes how Trump and RFK Jr&#8217;s cuts are making medical care in America decidedly less safe. Remember how much more risky surgeries were in years past? THIS organization has been making them safer. And they&#8217;ve still got a lot of work to do to!<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of many articles Medscape has written recently about problematic policies (read: killing Americans) enacted by the new presidential administration. It&#8217;s like Trump is trying to save the people a few bucks by removing the seat belts from our cars.<\/p>\n<p>From the article<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to spend $5 trillion a year on health care, it would be nice to know what the best use of that money is,\u201d said a senior AHRQ official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job. \u201cTo gut a 300-member, $500 million agency for no other reason than to placate a need to see blood seems really shortsighted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how a major nonpartisan medical organization describes how Trump and RFK Jr&#8217;s cuts are making medical care in America decidedly less safe. Remember how much more risky surgeries were in years past? THIS organization has been making them safer. And they&#8217;ve still got a lot of work to do to! This is just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10994,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions\/10994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}