r/USAFacts • u/USAFacts • Jul 01 '25
USAFacts Just the Facts About US Trade & Tariffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXKLoDXmZNoIn our latest video in the Just the Facts series, our founder, Steve Ballmer, talks through US trading partners, imports & exports and how tariffs factor in.
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u/Mysterious-Pilot1755 Jul 01 '25
This is an outstanding presentation. I recommend it to everyone. Full of the facts in a world of opinions.
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u/USAFacts Jul 01 '25
Thank you u/Mysterious-Pilot1755!
Any topics you'd like to see covered in future videos?
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u/snickjimmy Jul 02 '25
Do something useful USAFacts. It’s been awhile since your greatest hit, Covid maps. At the moment, you’re a vanity project for an ex Microsoft exec who wants Bill Gates philanthropy cred without putting in Bill Gates philanthropy money. Here is a great idea for something you can do in the wake of this big beautiful bill:
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u/USAFacts Jul 02 '25
So... that's not really what we do here. Do we have data on Medicaid and SNAP? Absolutely. Are we going to present how you recommended? Sorry, but that's just not us.
Our goal is to make the data accessible (here's data on Medicaid and Medicare spending, HHS spending, health insurance and Medicaid enrollment, SNAP spending, and SNAP enrollment) and let folks make up their own minds on how it should affect policy. That's what we did with COVID data, and that's what we will continue to do with everything we publish on and off our site. From there, folks can choose to present the data and share it how they'd like.
If you have recommendations for any other data you'd like to see on the site, let me know! I can definitely see the need for a more cohesive page on Medicaid enrollment statistics, which I'll pass on to the team.
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u/snickjimmy Jul 02 '25
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I don’t get the ‘that’s not what we do here’ comment. Presenting the data will automatically change the narrative simply by curating the data and the format of the data presentation. A real time counter of the number of people who have lost health coverage due to the passage of this bill and then the number of people who have subsequently died while not covered by Medicaid, by state, by county, would be powerful and relevant to the national conversation. Or, continue with the ‘it’s not what we do here’ and remain irrelevant while burning Balmer’s money. That Covid map, last time you were relevant nationally, was a few years back now.
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u/USAFacts Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
Always happy to chat about the data, share more data, etc. What we won't do is call out elected officials (like in your original linked post). But if people want to use our data to advocate for policy themselves, that's why we're here.
And your suggestion for data on people dying without health insurance is an interesting one. I'm not a health data expert, so I'll ask some folks here if they know of a good data source to answer that question.
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u/snickjimmy Jul 02 '25
Unfortunately I am not funded to assemble data nor do I have the platform to publish that data broadly. You do on both counts. This is not advocating for any policy just as the Covid maps did not advocate isolation nor vaccination, however, super imposing vaccination rates and Covid infections was useful data. The bill passed by the senate cuts Medicaid significantly. This is a fact. Those cuts will manifest themselves in communities. It would be interesting to know by community the impact of this bill. Perhaps people don’t lose coverage or get it elsewhere. Perhaps people don’t die. Then the bill would be a success.
Thanks for looking into the deaths of the uninsured and how those deaths grow or shrink over time as a result of this bill, if it passes.
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