One week from today!

Story by @peterwhoriskey.bsky.social about a new KFF poll: health care costs are top of voters' minds. #Medsky #healthpolicy #medicine

Next week, Dr. John Kitzhaber and Bruce Goldberg join Oregon Health Forum and City Club of Portland (in-person) to learn what’s driving Oregon’s health care access crisis. 🔗Register: tinyurl.com/46uatunx #OregonHealthForum #CityClub #HealthPolicy #Oregon

New reporting on our latest study: capping graduate nursing student loans threatens access and quality of care. #healthpolicy www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-...

Without the right data we can't address the #maternalhealth crisis. What Is the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, and Why Is It at Risk? www.commonwealthfund.org/publications... by @jamiedaw.bsky.social @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social @lauriezephyrin.bsky.social via @commonwealthfund.org

Follow the link for advice on what to do if your doctor is suddenly out-of-network, including from Professor Jason Buxbaum. He examined 3,714 hospitals across the US and found that most disputes between hospitals and insurance companies are ultimately resolved.

"The fact that it still went though…was a real sense of disconnect with what our legislators are doing and what we as a health care community feel like is the reality on the ground." www.npr.org/sections/sho... #Medicaid #OBBBA #healthpolicy

Rising health care prices continue to challenge affordability and access. This recap covers insights from NASHP’s annual conference, featuring strategies from Rhode Island, Indiana, Colorado, Oklahoma, North Carolina & Connecticut. Review the blog post loom.ly/-XLt-4k #HealthPolicy #Affordability

New FDA CDER director George Tidmarsh had some pretty interesting remarks at BIO's patient advocacy event yesterday. He pushed industry to up their standards, called for review of surrogate endpoints in accelerated approval, & no crossover in cancer trials... #healthpolicy

A #publichealth disaster unlike anything we've seen. In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured kffhealthnews.org/MjA1MTc2OQ by @samuelwhitehead.bsky.social via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social @mfcannon.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social

“FQHCs are going to have a dramatic increase in volume of care,” said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy @ Johns Hopkins. “They’re going to be stretched even more thinly than they have been,” he added. “It’s going to be a nightmare.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy

New research in the 'Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine' reveals that #MentalHealth patients face 120% longer emergency department boarding times than non-mental health patients—highlighting urgent inequities in care and resource allocation. bit.ly/4owCr0l#MentalHealth🩺📊 @cjemonline.bsky.social #EMedsky 🧪

Really good overview of health insurance pricing. Basically, all health care is subsidized! And expensive! @sangerkatz.bsky.social #healthpolicy @reedabelson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Patient navigation helps people move through the health system, improving outcomes and cutting costs. But implementation is uneven. It’s time to make patient navigation a standard part of person-centred care. #HealthPolicy #PatientNavigation #HPP www.healthpolicypartnership.com/patient-navi...

We’re paying high premiums + tax/hidden subsidy via employer insurance. A universal system could reduce total spending while covering everyone. The evidence is not perfect — but strong enough that it deserves serious consideration.

Kevin Nguyen, Leesh Menard, @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social & Gilbert Gonzales examine the changing landscape of LGBTQ health politics/policy, including developments in LGBTQ health data collection & research, and the role of developments like marriage equality & ACA read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Great thread for Medicaid researchers using or considering using TMSIS 🧵 So glad to have have helped support this work! #Medicaid #healthpolicy

Opt-in apps/web-based tools will not be sufficient to reduce the anticipated loss of coverage expected when Medicaid work requirements are implemented. They also ignore areas with limited or no internet access. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy

Great News from #Colorado! Their Prescription Drug Affordability Board (#PDAB) set an Upper Payment Limit on the expensive prescription medication, #Enbrel! www.koaa.com/news/local-n... #PrescriptionDrugPrices #AffordableRX #UpperPaymentLimit #Oregon #ORPol #OCAP #HealthPolicySky

The projected $911 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending over the next decade puts immense pressure on states to reduce costs, disproportionately threatening coverage for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).

The @commonwealthfund.org is now accepting applications for its Hospital Pricing Strategies Technical Assistance Program. States working on hospital pricing policies can receive expert support and join peer learning sessions. Apply by October 27. bit.ly/48TkmVJ #HealthPolicy #StatePolicy

New resource from NAMD explains provider taxes and key HR 1/OBBBA changes - concise & easy to understand breakdown of a complex issue medicaiddirectors.org/resource/how... #Medicaid #healthpolicy

For many years, the Clark Center at Chicago Booth has regularly surveyed leading economists to assess consensus on timely economic policy issues. We are excited today to launch the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel, where we extend that model to health policy. 1/N ⬇️

We’re LIVE! But there is still time to join “What the South Tells Us About Medicaid’s Future.” Hear Roy Mitchell, April Simpson & @acvollers.bsky.social on what policy shifts mean for access and equity. Join now: bit.ly/FutureofMedicaid #webinar #Medicaid #HealthPolicy #Journalism

Flagging this new TFAH report for other health policy/politics syllabi-updaters www.tfah.org/wp-content/u...

Thread on highly inadequate and flawed "rural health transformation" fund intended to prevent rural hospitals from closing or cutting services/staff in face of draconian #Medicaid cuts in Senate reconciliation bill. Details from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social here (1/x): punchbowl.news/rural-health...

Wow, Zohran won the democratic primary 🔥 AND I have a new paper out today, which I argue is extremely on topic for our future mayor. We find cost and affordability were the most common reason for returning to work from postpartum leave. Let's get into it 🧵 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Re-upping some 2019 analysis about challenges with safeguards intended to protect coverage for people with disabilities from losing #Medicaid coverage due to work and reporting requirements in Arkansas - it was very complex! www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Looking for state-level cost and coverage estimates of #Medicaid reductions in the E&C reconciliation bill? See new new analysis: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Work requirements in #Medicaid account for nearly half of the savings in the CBO estimates of E&C provisions. Check out our brief if you need a refresher on the data and summary of existing research: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

“work requirements” are nothing more than red tape to block people from accessing their benefits

1. Planned Parenthood of Arizona has "paused" gender affirming care for transgender adults. It appears to be a case of massive over compliance. This kind of move could threaten the majority of trans people's medication in the US. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Mike Johnson spent the wknd talking up his Medicaid cuts Once, Medicaid cuts might have been an easy sell to Rs Today, it’s tougher New in @briefingbook.bsky.social w @mikegeruso.bsky.social and Daniel Posthumus on the rise of Medicaid in red districts 🧵 👇 www.briefingbook.info/p/cutting-me...

Some exceptional excerpts from the Trump admin letter to Harvard 1/N Disempower students and untenured faculty

✏️ Want to learn more about key public data resources for reporting on prescription drug policy issues? Join our inaugural session of the Cornell Health Policy Center Journalism Series “Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Prescription Drug Policy” 🖱️Register now: lnkd.in/eQWqmBte

Just one example: In the past 2 weeks, NIH has terminated dozens of programs to support students pursuing scientific careers. These MARC or U-RISE (T34) grants provide rising undergraduates with opportunities and stipends to participate in science. Where are these programs? Not in the Ivy league:

Harvard’s Letter to Trump Admin, if you haven’t seen it.

One thing life gave me is resilience. Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life. Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

ACOG joins @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social in observing #BlackMaternalHealthWeek. Black women are 3–4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This isn’t just a statistic—it’s a public health crisis. ACOG is committed to fighting inequities in maternal care. #BMHW25

NYC Health Econ Day is coming May 9 @ NYU Wagner! We'll have 6 great papers + lots of time to chat. Folks in the greater NYC area are invited! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-s... Organizers: @ambond.bsky.social, Mike Dickstein, Jessica Van Parys + me

Cynthia Williams from California relies on Medicaid in her role as a caregiver to her adult daughter, a disabled veteran. Read more about why #MedicaidMatters to caregivers and veterans like Cynthia and her daughter: bit.ly/3FQ8BmA

of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states

Columbia tried appeasing the Trump admin and the result was not the government backing off, but attacking harder? Gee, if only someone said that’s what usually happens with appeasement, and that this attack on higher ed is fanatically ideological. Wait, many did, and Columbia appeased anyway? Oh.

As someone who has spent my career in health care, I know what’s at stake when we dismantle systems that protect people’s lives. The recent HHS layoffs risk undoing years of progress. Find my full thoughts over on the @commonwealthfund.org blog.

Check out our 23rd annual #Medicaid eligibility and enrollment survey report. Many states emerged from the unwinding with more efficient processes by maximizing the use of technology to verify income, reduce returned mail, and improve communications with enrollees. www.kff.org/medicaid/rep...

HELP! I'm being inspired against my own will! I'm feeling seen! I'm uncovering hope under layers of cynicsm! Who is this spokesperson for a self-reflective party that is committing to fight back, and what does he think he's doing??

Found out GAO is working on a time-sensitive audit of (at least) 8 federal agencies, including DOL, to better understand DOGE's actions. They asked us to share all systems and information accessed by DOGE, how DOGE accesses those systems, and what safeguards we have in place by 3/31.