Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

From Paul Kim on leucovorin: "Proffering a proactive guarantee of approval on the basis of a limited, non-trial-based dossier effectively broadcasts that the FDA is prepared to approve new drugs without clinical trials." www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

Col. Steven J Lockjaw vibes

In a new Milbank Quarterly Opinion, Lawrence Gostin argues that the mass firings across federal agencies and the appointment of ideologically driven advisors represents an unprecedented assault on the independence/credibility of science that threatens the health of populations in the US and abroad

We are excited to announce that Debra Lubar, PhD, who served in leadership roles at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under five administrations, will become the Milbank Memorial Fund’s 11th president on December 1, 2025.

Super excited for this discussion on the structural determinants of health, moderated by Paula Braveman. A powerhouse panel - @tyson-brown.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social and Jonathan Heller

Good news for puffin fans. Here are a few on Skellig Michael from 2019. They are goofy and beautiful little birds.

thanks to the New Yorker

“Medium income” 🤡 @megancnbc.bsky.social

segregationists basically acknowledging that structural racism exists while also claiming there is NO racism except antisemitism

Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."

After mismanaging the MTA for 10+ years as Governor, Andrew Cuomo would now like to mismanage it as Mayor.

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Instagram channel @Art_DailyDose Jo Hobbs, is a UK needle-felting artist known for crafting realistic miniature animal figures from wool Artist: @jurlyjocreation #art #needlefelting #dog #sculpture #animals #UnitedKingdom #UK #artist

War on universities, war on science, war on knowledge

We’re collecting stories from population health researchers about the impact of the Trump administration’s funding cuts and other actions on their work and the potential impact to health. Read these stories and share your own www.milbank.org/stories-from...

In a new Opinion, Sara Rosenbaum of the George Washington University & coauthors found 15% of “able-bodied” working-age Medicaid enrollees are not working, and that many of these enrollees are very poor older women, with limited education, who left the workforce to provide care to family members

Given the number of federal actions threatening public health and science in the first three months of the Trump administration, @rebekahnagler.bsky.social of the University of Minnesota and colleagues conducted a survey in March 2025 on public awareness of these actions and their consequences.

From @paulalantz.bsky.social: Trump’s "scorched-earth strategies for decreasing federal spending, gutting our nation’s public health infrastructure, and halting all efforts aimed at addressing undeniable social inequality are not going to make America healthier." www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

"Death by a thousand federal cuts" is exactly where we're headed three months into the Trump Administration. @paulalantz.bsky.social lays out how it's happening www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

Millions spent on projects that will not be finshed now. Throwing money down the drain in the name of efficiency. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

The Long Arc of Substance Use Policy Innovation in Medicaid: Looking Back, Looking Forward - By Brendan Saloner - The Milbank Quarterly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

$11 billion in state health funding (broader than Covid) pulled with zero notice. This is having a huge and immediate impact on states as they scramble to make cuts and layoff staff/contractors. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

In a new Milbank Quarterly guest Opinion, Michael D. Stein of Boston University School of Public Health discusses federal budget cuts to biomedical research & identifies potential threats to population health research like the politicization of research areas + data accessibility: buff.ly/D6lMKYu

With the Agency for Healthcare [sic] Research and Quality on the chopping block, I thought it might be useful to highlight a few ways in my own research on efficiency and access in the U.S. health care system has benefited from AHRQ data, collaboration and funding.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a stop to mass firings in federal agencies (except Pentagon, OPM and NARA) saying the so-called “reductions in force (RIFs)” broke the law. “Employees purportedly terminated … are returned to government employ.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shout it from the rooftops

How’s the health of US primary care? Find out in the latest US Primary Care Scorecard Webinar moderated by @joannekenen.bsky.social on Feb. 18 at 12 pm ET. With The Physicians Foundation and the @aafp.org's Robert Graham Center us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

The #Medicaid work requirement train is revving up again. Let's be clear about this: Medicaid is a health insurance program, not a jobs program. There is no evidence that Medicaid work requirements improve health or produce other benefits. They are a barrier to care & a driver of inequity (1/n)

No questions from Whitehouse! So disappointing.

RFK Jr claimed people don’t like Medicaid. 77% of Americans have a favorable view of the program: www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...