Happy birthday to my naughty little nugget. Love you Aspen, even if you do get up at 5 am every day!

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, @alicemiranda.bsky.social, and @rachelcohrs.bsky.social on the Makary ouster, the Trump Administration push for procreation, and an interview with @baldwin.senate.gov. kffhealthnews.org/podcast/what...

new #WTHealth podcast up! abortion pill politics + fruity vapes + a new Surgeon General nominee. With @shefali.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @jessiehellmann.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/podcast/what...

I listened to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new HHS podcast so you don't have to: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: hospital prices on the hotseat, plus a policy success on 988. With @shefali.bsky.social, @rachelroubein.bsky.social, and @joannekenen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/podcast/what...

Good and important thread 👇

on this week's #WTHealth: @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @sherylnyt.bsky.social, and Victoria Knight watched all the RFKjr. hearing so you didn't have to! Plus, "How Would You Fix It?" interview with @davidblumenthal.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/podcast/what...

No. Just no. That's a 98% decrease. I get that algebra can be hard for many people. But if you can't do the math yourself, there are easy online calculators to help. www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/...

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

This is the consequence of a views-and-clicks-above-all media landscape, and the utter destruction of American journalism. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

President Donald Trump has nominated Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hey we are Taping this week’s #WTHealth pod Friday this week to cover the RFKjr hearings. I’m still corgi-ing, So Mary Agnes Carey will fill In. And here’s Wally with today’s winnings…

Wally had a blast in Veterans rally. 99 and 2nd place .

Our haul from the brown bag raffle at the corgi show:

If you don’t like corgis you should stop following me for the next few days - we are at our annual corgi show. First class - Aspen won the recall contest and Wally was third.

So there's still no actual "Trump phone" or release date, all promises of this being "made in the U.S." are gone, and the device has already seen a steep price hike. Also the phone, should it ever be released, appears to be a lazy rebrand of the two-year old HTC U24 Pro. Very on brand.

The Year We Lost Medicaid A Conversation between Professor Heidi Allen and WashU Dean Sandro Galea, editor of JAMA Health Forum edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...

Work Experience of Medicaid Recipients in Missouri About 67% on Medicaid are already employed About 20% of the others may be exempt from a work from reporting requirements Only about 11.5% may not have such an exemption and are not working New brief: cahsper.wustl.edu/files/2026/0...

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, and Maya Goldman on abortion pill litigation, Trump's budget, and Medicare and Medicaid cuts. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

Love this!

The Saudi govt will soon be part owners of CNN and CBS it seems. But this is not expected to target a mandatory CFIUS review or FCC review www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Still celebrating Michigan bball's natty, but meanwhile back to work, I was on @wamu.org's 1A yesterday with the great @thehowie.bsky.social: wamu.org/story/26/04/...

Trying to manifest a replacement for this national championship sweatshirt. #GoBlue

After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down childhood vaccine recommendations, plenty of questions remain — like how annual vaccines for the flu will get approved. @julierovner.bsky.social spoke about the confusion with @wamu.org 🎧 ⤵️

new #WTHealth podcast up! @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @jessiehellmann.bsky.social on R's pondering more health program cuts, SCOTUS on conversion therapy, and the politics of MAHA... kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

ICE detained and deported a man with severe mental disabilities, apparently gaining his "consent" for removal without notifying his caretakers. A judge has barred ICE from redetaining him when he returns from Mexico today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you weren't able to make it to @wbur.org for our live show, you can watch my interview with Sally Kornbluth here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ET...

same, but 6 am.

welcome back, I think?

New #WTHealth podcast up! @shefali.bsky.social, @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, and @rachelcohrs.bsky.social on the latest from HHS, threats to the health/science workforce, and a new anti-abortion bill dividing Republicans. Plus Katie Keith on the ACA at 16. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

As a reminder: Flynn pleaded guilty in the first Trump term; was pardoned by Trump; he sued for politically motivated prosecution; and now Trump II admin settled and agreed to pay him an undisclosed sum of taxpayer $$$

Excited to see this piece with @michaelannica.bsky.social and @rachelsachs.bsky.social out We looked at the Rural Health Transformation Program: Its funding formula had a clear small-state bias; we ask whether its scoring methodology also perhaps favored red states academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

On this week's #WTHealth pod: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, @alicemiranda.bsky.social, and @sangerkatz.bsky.social on vaccine policy, ACA, and more. Plus @drewaltman.bsky.social helps kick off our new series: "How Would You Fix It?" kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

Today's #SCOTUS ruling is the 15th merits decision of the term, and the 11th of the 15 that was unanimous. For those wondering why the messy cases (in which we expect strong dissents and lengthy separate opinions) are taking so long, it's for the non-conspiratorial reason that they ... take longer.

Trump found a new way to raise prices. For no apparently reason we're losing 200,000 commercial truck drivers in one fell swoop, thanks to rule barring immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial licenses

This very good boi turns 29 today and is still in full work! Love you Hopper horse!

Spotted today at the Crufts Dog Show (in England)

This month is 40 years since @julierovner.bsky.social began reporting on health policy in Washington. To mark the anniversary, Rovner speaks with two longtime sources to discuss what has — and has not — changed since 1986.

Spending the week at the Crufts Dog Show. 18k plus dogs doing every sport you can imagine. Heaven.

Gas at my local station jumped 14 cents per gallon between yesterday and today...

Better news from today: Aspen earned her Fetch Novice title!

This is an enraging, heartbreaking story.

After urging Republicans to make health care a central issue in midterm campaigns, Pres. Trump gave the issue only passing mention in his record-long State of the Union speech. “Trump doesn’t really care that much about health care. He finds it complicated," says @sherylnyt.bsky.social🎧⤵️

Amitabh is a coauthor on arguably the best paper on high-deductible health insurance that we have (link to thread from a few months ago to follow)

Ars Technica issues an apology for publishing an article "containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them."

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

The way the Olympics works is exactly like this: one of the worst days of one kid’s life is one of the best days of somebody else’s.

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?

Because Congress won't act on it, the administration seems keen to use these catastrophic plans — which offer a fair bit of regulatory flexibility — to shoehorn in various policies that are loosely/symbolically aligned with Trump's "Great Healthcare Plan"

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, and @jackie-fortier.bsky.social on the controversies at FDA, new bill from Sens. Warren and Hawley (!) and more on immigration and health. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...