22 comments

  • JumpCrisscross 11 hours ago

    23% of the AAP’s revenue comes from grants and pledges [1], and their $100mm in investments could cover the shortfall for up to three years if all $28.5mm of that is HHS. A crisis, for sure. But not an urgent one. The AAP can fight.

    To that end:

    1) Does the AAP have a case that RFK Jr. acted unconstitutionally?

    2) Were these “grants…previously awarded” in a binding nature? Or does the government sign grants with a get-out-of-jail-free clause?

    3) Is Senator John Barasso, a pediatrician, a dues-paying member of the AAP?

    [1] https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20Financial%20Statemen...

    • rtollert 10 hours ago

      My recollection (apologies, I'm not able to turn up a citation on this) is that the AAP has not really shied away from gripping ideological third rails with both hands; they've taken very liberal-leaning positions on abortion rights, gun violence, trans healthcare, etc. (Of course, depending on how you look at things, such policy positions might appear either partisan or nonpartisan.) I would be surprised if Sen. Barasso were a member.

      • JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago

        > I would be surprised if Sen. Barasso were a member

        Hmm, I think you’re correct.

  • klaff 11 hours ago

    How many people will this administration kill?

    • pixl97 11 hours ago

      They've been given a blank check by their voters to take the numbers up to the millions at this point.

    • guizadillas 11 hours ago

      How many MORE people will this administration kill?

      • voxadam 11 hours ago

        I think they're trying to beat their first term high score they earned during the pandemic.

  • tpoacher 11 hours ago

    Reading the comments here, was hoping for some context ...

    Gotta say, it's a sad day when you get a more nuanced discussion on 9gag than on HN on a political topic ...

    • wat10000 11 hours ago

      What nuance? HHS is run by a completely unqualified jackass who is trying to carry out a war against the most effective medical interventions ever devised. There’s no other side to this.

    • lovich 7 hours ago

      you can always add to the discussion and be the agent of change to help improve the situation.

      I'm with the other poster though, there is no nuance here. Sometimes a spade is just a spade, and the HHS is being run by an incompetent jackass with literal insane beliefs about reality who is now forcing those beliefs on us

  • voxadam 12 hours ago
  • qiqitori 11 hours ago

    He also drove his ex-wife into depression, who later committed suicide.

    • viccis 11 hours ago

      The brain worm thing, as much as people think it's a funny stupid little story, was a lie he told to avoid paying any alimony when he divorced her.

      • raverbashing 11 hours ago

        Nah my guess is that it was probably real, obtained from eating undercooked game

        • ortusdux 11 hours ago

          Yeah IIRC it was diagnosed from a brain scan, which would make it easily fact-checked during discovery in a contentious divorce.

  • robomartin 11 hours ago

    Interested in having a greater understanding of the matter. Can anyone point to the HHS order/action/documentation for this?

  • etchalon 12 hours ago

    The era of petty government.

  • buran77 11 hours ago

    Hell of an opportunity to choose to not think of the children all of a sudden.

  • jmclnx 12 hours ago

    What a country, looks like yet another lawsuit for cancelling already allocated funds.

  • Madmallard 11 hours ago

    Where is Dang? Or the other staff? The comments here are embarassing to read as a long time member of HN. The next generation is bringing regression to the mean a little too hard here.