Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

Lawyer, immunocompromised, writer, public health nerd | Then: SSI. Be A Hero. Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare. they 🏳️‍🌈 patreon.com/mattbc Washington DC / Boston MA Joined April 2011

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 hours ago

@ElizIsExhausted !!!!

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Ian M Mackay, PhD (he/him) @MackayIM

21 hours ago

Anyone got any PCR-related questions or doubts based on wild accusations or claims they've seen on social media? I'm here to answer them and have 32 years of experience creating, applying, controlling, publishing, and using PCR methods in a real lab.

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

a day ago

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

a day ago

My worst lawyering, as requested. A bunch of you asked to see the actual letter I sent CareFirst after they "investigated" whether I really live in the Maryland they bill every month. ⤵️

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

2 days ago

@CareFirst Many of the bad faith criticisms would be answered by reading the piece, but I know that’s not cool

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 days ago

@thefemagend @maysoonzayid As one of the 6.6% of Americans who are immunocompromised, I wear an envo in shared, in door air — because my efforts to force the admin to adopt meaningful clean indoor air standards weren't successful.

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 days ago

@thefemagend @maysoonzayid you asked two questions, and the second revealed the first was in bad faith. run along now.

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

4 days ago

first, @maysoonzayid is a friend & the person berating them has also publicly attacked me, so i'm not claiming any sort of removed objectivity here. but i am enough of public health expert to be baffled by this approach — it is not persuasive, it is not successful.

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4 days ago

i see things are going extremely well for taylor lorenz over on ig, accusing a disabled palestinian activist of happily infecting & killing palestinians if it meant getting airtime, all because she didn't wear a mask on a podcast set.

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 days ago

You should not need to be a goddamn lawyer to keep your health insurance in this country. I wrote up the whole thing — what landed in my mailbox, and what I sent back to @CareFirst patreon.com/mattbc/posts/y…

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 days ago

I'm a lawyer. I ran the postal forensics, decoded the smeared barcode, sent a document package by four channels, and filed a complaint with Maryland's insurance regulator. I'll be fine. Other disabled folks who gets this letter and aren't lawyers? Won't. 🧵

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 days ago

My surgeon just scheduled my next surgery. A week later, @CareFirst's "Special Investigations Unit" demanded I prove I live in Maryland within 14 days — or face, in its words, "rescission or termination of your coverage and non-payment of your claims." 🧵

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

3 days ago

@thefemagend @maysoonzayid who are you?

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

a week ago

@NastyOldWomynII @capitolhunters buddy, it was a simple "inspect element"

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

2 weeks ago

From the @DataProgress 2025 archives: Likely voters didn't differentiate between Medicaid "work requirements" and "work reporting requirements" — that's a difference policy wonks see. (All of the differences you see below are within the margin of error)

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

2 weeks ago

PDF available here: filesforprogress.org/datasets/2026/…

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Matthew Cortland, they @mattbc

2 weeks ago

To disability advocates working to preserve #Medicaid, the difference between 'our own homes' and 'nursing homes' is crucial. But new @DataProgress polling shows likely voters do not draw the same distinction when thinking about Medicaid cuts: