I wonder who can do the quarterbacking! 🤔

Our new study just up in JAMA IM: we track Americans' out-of-pocket health spending longitudinally over a four-year period, showing that risks mount year after year. Whereas 11.8% of adults experience healthcare financial strain after 1 year, risk rises to 26.7% over four years

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away. She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her. The profession and the world are poorer without her.

"there's a new serif in town"

Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.

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i mean, as a expert and doctor i'm biased, but this comment is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Medicaid “spend down” — how we force individuals to impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid coverage of long-term care — is one of the most messed up things I’ve learned about the US health care system In a new paper, we look at how often spend-down happens in nursing homes specifically

news story of the year 2025

i don't know the answer to this question, but being a devils advocate - what is a worse way to donate this sum of money: $250 for 25 million not-wealthy children or a huge gift to a couple of universities (the common alternative)?

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This might be the most incredible road safety video you'll ever see.

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough. Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

Trying to assess GOP health plans right now is like “trying to read tea leaves, only the cup is full of mud” — @adrianna.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...

It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Federal court gives go-ahead for settlement in Purdue Pharma opioid case. www.axios.com/2025/11/14/o...

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🚨New Publication🚨 Risk-based provider payment is more common in Medicare Advantage than any other segment of US health care financing. What happens to broad categories of health care utilization, and low-value service use, when provider groups adopt these contracts? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ipsos finds Trump’s approval rating is decreasing almost entirely because of anti-incumbent economic anxiety. Approval rating among people who say the economy is the # 1 issue is -24pts since Jan. It’s stable for people who index on all other issues www.ipsos.com/en-us/lesson...

Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation! Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF #AHA25 @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Why is Trump proposing a weird subsidy program that actually sounds like the ACA?? The truth is that Obamacare is fundamentally very conservative (Mitt Romney's plan!) and any attempt at meaningful reform can only go left ... Who will we buy health insurance from again?

Hey kids the Trump Healthcare Plan just dropped!

Change in Headline

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

also stuck on "fOr"

wild set of results from @atheendar.bsky.social

totally heartbreaking. addiction policy shouldn't be partisan and SAMHSA is such a drop in the bucket, less than 1/3rd of the support given to Argentina this month.

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Excited to share our new study with Professor @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social, and @reinahuang.bsky.social on Public Payment Mandates & Provider Supply: a look at how Medicaid reimbursement helped bring Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) into mainstream U.S. healthcare 🧵

it is coming to my attention that a lot of people in the mid-late career start going insane when they realise that all they have worked to attain is in fact ephemeral and fleeting. adding this to the packet of failure modes to be cautious about.

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

Tired: air traffic controllers calling in sick Wired: orthopedic surgeons canceling hip replacements

It’s hard to put into words how inspiring Dr. Sue Goldie is. An extraordinary teacher, researcher, leader, and mentor to so many of us @hsph.harvard.edu who now shares her deeply personal story fighting against Parkinson’s disease. Her story in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫 At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data. Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

I finally made the switch to R from stata, and as a fierce long-time defender of stata, I can concede that R is leagues better in almost every way. Still, I do wish there was an easier way to diagnose merges w/o complicated code. GPT hasn't helped, and joyn doesn't seem to do it right. Any advice?

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance. Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits. You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222... #Wayback1T 🧵

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physics honors researchers who demonstrated quantum mechanical effects in electric circuits on a chip. https://scim.ag/46T4qQK

Rite Aid closes all remaining stores after 63 years in business

Today's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the discoverers of regulatory T-cells. How could this discovery about our immune systems change the world? Here is one possible way: leading to treatments for terrible neurological diseases. (1/3)

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts www.popsci.com/environment/...

Medicaid work requirements will soon be implemented nationwide Our new @bmj.com study shows what happened to insurance coverage and jobs when Georgia rolled them out in 2023. bit.ly/3VE1QsK Featured in @nytimes.com #medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

Clinicians can enhance patient understanding by using numerical data instead of verbal probabilities, consistent denominators, absolute risk comparisons, and clear context for unfamiliar data types. ja.ma/4pAC3zi