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    1. Justin Wolfers‏Verified account @JustinWolfers 29 Apr 2020

      This is stunning: Nearly half of the Q1 decline in GDP can be attributed to healthcare, which is presumably delaying of elective procedures. It's a strange reality that in the midst of a pandemic, we have a healthcare-led recession.pic.twitter.com/G3IezQkEzX

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

      Some healthcare firms are in fact cutting pay for staff -- in the middle of a pandemic. It's nuts.

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        2. Matt O'Brien‏Verified account @ObsoleteDogma 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers

          I know doctors who are worried about getting furloughed right now. They live in parts of the country that aren’t swamped with covid-19 cases right now so they haven’t been called in to the ERs yet, and work in things like pediatrics that have seen demand collapse.

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        1. Peter Ginna‏ @DoctorSyntax 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          Peter Ginna Retweeted Wendell Potter

          On the other hand, insurance companies, and execs are making bank: https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1255220080629219328?s=21 …https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1255220080629219328 …

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          Wendell PotterVerified account @wendellpotter
          JUST IN—While the nation’s largest health insurer, @UHC, is slashing many doctors’ pay up to 60% and kicking others out of network during #COVID19, its CEO just grabbed a 233% raise. Nice reward for raking in record profits during a pandemic. #StopUHCgreed https://www.startribune.com/ceo-pay-watch-unitedhealth-s-david-wichman-made-more-than-52-million-last-year/569920832/ …
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        1. Otter Pop‏ @QueerHope 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          Most are. We just got announcements today from the hospital I work at. Everybody's taking a cut. MDs, RNs, support staff--everyone.

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        1. Dolly Madison  ✌🏻‏ @dollymad1812 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          Yes local non profit hospitals in San Diego County who serve a quarter of the County’s population just laid off 317 workers & cut community health programs for pregnant & post partum women❗️https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/palomar-health-to-lay-off-317-workers-due-to-financial-strain-of-pandemic/2314719/ …

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        1. Bill‏ @drbill1908 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          No, it’s not nuts. Covid precautions have drastically reduced many non-urgent medical services.

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        2. Esther C, MD MPH‏Verified account @choo_ek 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          Are there healthcare firms that are not? 😢

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        1. Tusker‏ @Tuskertoo 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          We have furloughed incredibly specialized and very intelligent nurses that are responsible for assisting in these elective procedures...such as open heart surgery.... Yeah, gonna need them again eventually so why do they have to suffer now?

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        1. Jimmy Gandhi‏ @jimmygandhi 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JustinWolfers @ObsoleteDogma

          Non covid-19 patients have plummeted so it makes for employers to furlough or cut pay for non-covid 19 workers.

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