Scott Alexander (Astral Codex Ten)

The Medicare fraud rate, for instance, is reportedly 5-10%.

Scott writes, Some private donations are coming in, but not enough and it's not trivial to deploy them.

Here's a tweet from February 24, 2025, from Kelsey Piper.

It says,

and there's some quoted text in the tweet.

It says, In the past few weeks, Ressler was able to raise $10,000 for ARVs, he said.

But the medicines are hard to find, with supply chains broken by the USAID shutdown.

The $10,000 should be enough for three weeks of treatment for its patients.

Still, Ressler said staff members at the clinic were preparing to talk to the children about the possibility of the drugs running out.

Some of the smaller ones won't necessarily understand, Ressler said.

Children 12 and up will know the risks.

They've been told every month their whole life, if you don't take the medicine, you'll die.

The current status of PEPFAR is still unclear.

People are theorising that maybe Trump or Rubio ordered it restarted, but Musk or Doge are refusing to comply?

Whatever is happening, it's too little too late, in quotes, Lincoln Post, and many clinics are already closed.

Here's another tweet from Kelsey Piper.

It says, And there's an excerpt from that article.

Yet none of the HIV treatment programs contacted by CT said they had received funds since then, so groups that proceed must do so in good faith, hoping the US government will pay them for the contract work.

The New York Times reported that Phoenix, the system for dispersing money to partners in the field, remains shut down, and the acting USAID administrator has argued in court that the ongoing freeze in funds is justified.

The tweet continues from Kelsey Piper, Elon Musk should personally look these kids in the face and explain that he's worth $384 billion, but cancelled programs that provide them life-saving drugs for $5 a month because of woke.