A good guy with… bare hands.

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

So thrilled!! @mirandayaver.bsky.social

MEPS seems to be gone as of now. This is very bad. These are critical pieces of data about health care and they belong to the American public.

Latest study by SPHERE postdocs A. Ali & @emilydore.bsky.social finds that expansions of EITC for young adults w/out kids boosted mental heath. This group is often excluded from safety net policies, but they are at a critical juncture of life course. doi.org/10.1111/1468... @mdrc-news.bsky.social 1/

Do you have a paper on health insurance policy in the Marketplace, MA, or group markets that you would like to present @ashecon.bsky.social in a panel with @dmaanderson.bsky.social @paulshafer.bsky.social sky.social and me? If so, please shoot me an email or DM!

Health care: the only product that you can buy while unconscious.

I wouldn't mind if this is how we get a single-payer health care system...

Tired: “Financial toxicity” Wired: “Financial hardship” (based on research) #PIC25

“More patients worry about medical bills than about dying.” #PIC25

“Why is crowdsourcing the [health care] payment model?” #PIC25

“When insurance was expanded [ACA], we saw fewer people with perforated appendix, because they came to get care sooner.” #PIC25

Annual premium of $26,211.60, plus $8,000 deductible, plus co-insurance (most likely 20%). That is brutal!

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Postdoc @emilydore.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu provided an interview to @healthyfutures.bsky.social discussing the findings of this study, highlighting the importance of social policy design for improving #healthequity. www.healthyfutures.blog/p/how-social... @rwjf.org @policies4action.bsky.social

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Contrary to what Trump is saying, there is a “down side” to separating MMR into three separate vaccines. That’s three unnecessary office visits and three unnecessary copays. This type of policy puts up more barriers to vaccination.

I’m so sad to hear this! Allan was such a wonderful colleague and mentor, and I am glad I had the honor to work with him. Rest in peace, Allan!

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

Our new study shows that policy changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that increased access during the COVID-19 pandemic increased breastfeeding: tinyurl.com/ycxpf2cn @ritahamad.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu @pamherd.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social

Our latest study @jamahealthforum.com shows the harms of work requirements for safety net programs. Women who were subject to harsher requirements and who received less cash assistance from TANF were less likely to breastfeed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu 1/

The designer who created the terrible (but now ubiquitous) design of public bathrooms where the faucet, soap, and hand dryer are all hidden behind a mirror (so everyone has to bend over to find where these things are) should be sentenced to life in design hell.

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.

Does it matter when patients don’t speak the same language as their physician, especially in critical situation such as ICU stays? It does! They tend to be admitted longer. Come check out my @umassamherst.bsky.social colleague’s (David Chin) poster A-283 at @academyhealth.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 New white paper on Episode-based cost-sharing 🚨🚨🚨 Unpredictable out-of-pocket costs are a major problem for BOTH patients AND providers. When patients can't afford to pay unexpectedly high medical bills, it means that health care providers are not getting paid. vbidhealth.com/wp-content/u...

"Patients with household incomes less than $50,000 annually were least likely to have denied claims contested and, conditionally, have cost-sharing obligations reduced." www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Are politicians who mismanage a public health crisis held accountable in the next election cycle? No, not really. People don’t seem to remember or care. (Štěpán Jurajda, @cerge-ei.bsky.social, at Public Health Conference & Policy Forum, Prague, Czechia)

It seems like someone’s scared of peer review.

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The land of the free

This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.

The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.

Weird how we don’t have discussions of work requirements for the substantial government subsidies of employer-sponsored insurance for spouses and dependents, either…

"Health care consumers prefer cost-sharing models that prospectively guarantee out-of-pocket costs for entire care episodes." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All those DOGE "savings" come at a significant cost.

To be fair, they are cutting health care (just not health care costs).

Investors are suing UnitedHealthcare because "the public backlash prevented [UnitedHealthcare] from pursuing 'the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve' its earnings goals." www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

"If this is true, it is concerning evidence..." 🤦‍♂️

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie A Hundred Shades od Grey

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

My department at UMass Amherst just launched a new, fully online MHA degree program. More info: www.umass.edu/public-healt...

Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this: The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.

“with very large numbers of n’s you don’t need randomization”

But the pause had also been a part of the strategy since the very beginning.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.