Re:American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after cr...
by db48x on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:26PM
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They don’t actually treat anybody. They spend $28 million a year on salaries and benefits for people who advocate for improving children’s health, not on treating children. And then some more on offices and software for those advocates to use, for meals and meetings attended by those employees, postage, freight, etc, etc. None of that is related to treating people.
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Re:American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after cr...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:31PM
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> They don’t actually treat anybody
Neither does a pathologist. Or, more removed, anyone in research. Not everyone in medicine who doesn’t see patients is fluff.
I’m open to the idea that they’re a BS organisation. But saying they’re upstream from patient care is naïvely obvious; not every engineer is a car mechanic.