This week on Paging America, Miles and Dr. Rob break down the devastating implications of the “Big Beautiful Bill” moving through Congress. Then, discuss RFK Jr.’s latest move: a massive federal push for health wearables led by his Surgeon General nominee, and how listeners, especially physicians, can organize, take action.

Background reading:

• The Washington Post: Here’s what’s in Trump and Senate Republicans’ tax and immigration bill

• CNBC: Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will leave millions uninsured, threaten rural hospitals

• STAT: Senate GOP tweaks health care measures in tax bill to win holdouts, please parliamentarian

• The Washington Post: NBC News: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis won't seek re-election in North Carolina after drawing Trump's ire

• The Washington Post: Republican Rep. Don Bacon, a vocal Trump critic, won’t seek reelection

• The Hill: Senate defeats Collins proposal to raise taxes on highest earners to help rural hospitals

• STAT: Senate GOP tweaks health care measures in tax bill to win holdouts, please parliamentarian

• NBC News: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis won't seek re-election in North Carolina after drawing Trump's ire

• The Washington Post: Key quotes: Tillis floor speech after announcing retirement

• The Washington Post: Republican Rep. Don Bacon, a vocal Trump critic, won’t seek reelection

• Delaware Online: What is a wearable? Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tracking device proposal explained

• CNET: RFK Jr. Announces All Americans Need Health Tracking Devices: Here Are the Pros and Cons

• Financial Times: Robert Kennedy’s touting of health ‘wearables’ sends medical device makers’ shares higher

• Levels Podcast: New Continuous Glucose Monitoring Innovation – Dr.Casey Means

• Levels’ WeFunder page is HERE

• ZDNet: US government wants health trackers for all? What it means for your health, privacy, and wallet

• LifeHacker: Wearables Aren't Going to 'Make America Healthy Again'

• CDC’s website: Thimerosal and Vaccines

• Reuters: Exclusive: US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

• The New York Times: Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines

• Reuters (via MSN): US CDC report shows no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism

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