Gil Lancaster
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Gil Lancaster
@drgil.bsky.social
Doctor, educator, health care reform advocate.
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#FixUShealthcare
Author: "Building a Unified American Health Care System: A Blueprint for Comprehensive Reform"
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In the US, politics is entrenched in our healthcare system
-Commercial insurance has a huge lobby in DC
-MCR is overseen by HHS secretary (& POTUS)
-We need independent oversight- separating healthcare from gvt will insulate it from politics
-Find out how: www.theembraceplan.com
The EMBRACE- A Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Plan
EMBRACE: the ONLY healthcare reform proposal offering free basic universal coverage and a modern infrastructure separating healthcare from politics.
www.theembraceplan.com
Just posted the first post on my new Substack series "EMBRACE American Healthcare System Reform Journal." Subscription is free!
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#FixUShealthcare #Healthcare #HealthPolicy #PublicHealth
Fixing U.S. Healthcare: The Federal Reserve System as a Model For Healthcare System Reform
This year’s autumnal equinox comes exactly six weeks before the midterm elections.
gilmd.substack.com
September 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
#Canada has announced it is #renaming the legendary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to Kilometres Davis.
August 28, 2026 at 1:41 AM
-Doctor here 👋

-Let's be clear, when scientists and doctors like #Fauci say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DON'T mean we did too much.

⬇️ 1/2
July 31, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Highlight of today’s #Worldcup France-Iraq game today:
In the middle of a deluge, there was an “hydration break.”

Let’s call these hydration breaks what they are: American TV advertising break.
June 22, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Doctor Here 👋
-RFK, Jr says measles patients should be treated “decently” & with “compassion” -regardless of their vaccination status

-Imagine thinking that the
kids who died of measles weren’t treated with compassion!

-Disgusting implication & another undeserved knock to pediatricians
#medsky
April 21, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth were just DUI hires.
April 19, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Doctor here 👋

-CDC's acting director delayed release of a publication showing that last winter, COVID vaccines cut the risk of ER visits & hospitalizations in HALF in healthy adults

-An inconvenient truth...

-This is politics winning out over evidence

#publichealth #medsky #FixUShealthcare
April 9, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The only good thing about the American #healthcare system is that it makes for good television.
#FixUShealthcare #medsky #thepitt
April 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Ridgefield, CT says:
No Kings!!
#NoKings #Connecticut
March 29, 2026 at 2:26 AM
-“Stay out of politics, stick to medicine”

-If politics affects access to vaccines, chemo, insurance, Medicaid, disability, scientific research, misinformation…
I won’t shut up!

#medsky #publichealth #fixUSHealthcare #healthpolicy
March 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
-A suggestion to air travelers during these hard times for #TSA workers:

-Buy a gift card and give it to your TSA agent as you’re going through screening.
March 18, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Is it a coincidence that TCM is running the movie “Gaslight” at the same time slot as the State of the Union?

#SOTU #gaslighting
February 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Doctor Here 👋

Withdrawing from the World Health Organization leaves us with fewer data, slower warnings, and fewer tools when the next outbreak hits.

Not good for our country’s health.
#medblue #publichealth #WHO
January 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Doctor Here 👋

Just a reminder to the current federal administration:

"It is a poor government that does not realize that the prolonged life, health and happiness of its people are its greatest asset."

DR. CHARLES H. MAYO
January 8, 2026 at 9:35 PM
-Stop asking Jews when Hanukkah is.

-We don't know either.
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Doctor Here 👋

- #RFKJr: "We need to prevent disease, not just treat it."

-Agreed. That's why we need vaccines, evidence based science, universal healthcare & your resignation!

-We need theembraceplan.com

#medsky #publichealth #vaccines #universalhealtcare #fixUShealthcare
theembraceplan.co
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Doctor Here 👋 (again)
- To Linda McMahon & the US #DoE
- No matter the level of expertise, #Nursing is a profession
- Nursing is the backbone, muscles & heart of the US healthcare system
- Educating & advancing #nurses in their profession should be your top priority!
#Medsky #publichealth
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Doctor Here 👋

-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.

- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.

- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!

#medsky #publichealth
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Doctor Here 👋

-Mike Johnson says the GOP’s “healthcare plan” is too classified to share.

-Trump said he has a “concept of a plan.”

- Translation: There is no #GOP plan other than to let commercial insurance companies do whatever they want.

#fixUShealthcare #medsky
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Doctor here 👋

-Today President Trump said he got an MRI during a routing follow up

-An MRI is not part of routine screening or physical

-Also, Trump say he took an IQ test & then describes a test that sounds like a cognitive function scale, maybe the MoCA?

-Houston we have a problem
#medsky
October 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Doctor Here 👋
-Six former Surgeon Generals have asked for #RFKJr to resign.

-The American College of Physicians called for removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS

-Medicine is under attack. We need more of this kind of resistance!

#medsky #publichealth @acpimphysicians.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Doctor Here 👋
FYI: #CDC director Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company #iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = #leucovorin)

The disinformation about #Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.

#medsky #publichealth
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I took Tylenol when I was autistic and now my son is pregnant.

#Tylenol #autism
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Doctor Here 👋

IT'S OFFICIAL: CT, ME, MA, NJ, NY State, PA, RI & New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

#medsky #publichealth #healthpolicy
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
ABC needs to sue Brendan Carr and the FCC for free speech violation. Threatening to revoke their license unless the take Jimmy Kimmel off the air is a violation of 1st amendment rights!

#JimmyKimmel #FCC #ABC
September 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM