Can We All Just Admit 2025 Was a Goddam Shitshow?

If you're not saying it out loud, you're on the wrong side. And I'm calling you out.

Congress left for vacation while ACA subsidies expired. Premiums spiked 114%. Millions of Americans are choosing between insurance and rent.

UnitedHealthcare announced plans to restore "swagger" by dumping seniors who cost too much. They got sued. Remember we started off with their CEO getting murdered? Well, the alleged killer has a seven-figure crowdfunded legal defense and actual groupies. If that doesn't tell you how much pain American patients are in, nothing will.

RFK Jr. fired every scientist on the CDC's vaccine advisory panel. Every. Single. One. Nine former CDC directors called him a threat to public health. His own cousin is died from leukemia while he defunded the CAR-T trials keeping her alive. The man who never worked a day in medicine now controls whether cancer patients live or die.

NIH cancer research grants? Slashed. Clinical trials? Frozen. Labs that took decades to build? Scattered. Because someone decided the word "equity" was too divisive. Courts ruled these cuts illegal. Discrimination wasn't a side effect.

It was the policy.

And where the hell is the advocacy community? Silent, or posting platitudes about "awareness" while the house burns down. I don't see the rage. I don't see the dismay. I don't see the downstream horrors affecting how your work isn't utterly demolished and how your communities will suffer for it.

I am just disappointed. Watching all of this and saying nothing. Choosing proximity to power over honesty.

2026 is my 30th cancerversary and I'm not here to make friends anymore. I'm here to make noise.

So here's your permission slip: BE PISSED.

2025 was a catastrophe for patients. If you can't admit that, you're complicit.

Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.

If this hits home, drop your horror story in the comments and tell me where you have seen it happen. How about a rage repost? Or tag Mark Cuban just for fun.

Are you new here? My condolences and my thanks. Follow along and stay loud with the rest of us. More voices means more pressure on a system that counts on silence.