Sure, WSJ. Shame on me for worrying about patient access to care and taxpayer spending over for profit companies. As long as the system works for the wealthy it must be fine with you. Enjoying the comments on the piece, though. Trouble With MedPAC - WSJ share.google/M9VyVAt9V255...

meanwhile, at the MA State House, my colleagues and I made the case for why primary care physicians need to unionize www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/b...

I'm at the power plant I'm at the fish disco I'm at the combination power plant fish disco www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Immigrants save Americans' lives: "...a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide. We identify reduced use of nursing homes as a key mechanism driving this result." www.nber.org/papers/w34791

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Doctors nationwide are seeing patients avoid care amid ICE crackdowns, sometimes with dire consequences. Health providers are now employing pandemic-era tactics to keep care accessible. How immigration policy is changing American health care: www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Checks out

BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.

I am so proud and excited for my friend Dr. Alister Martin @alisterfmartin.bsky.social, NYC’s next Commisioner of Health. The city is in great hands!

In case it helps, you can use HTML code (e.g., <p> <b> <i> <u>) to format the text blocks on your biosketches in SciENcv

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

📖 Our new study in @jamainternalmed.com examines the primary care workforce serving fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries using a pragmatic, patient-centered measure: clinicians available for new patient visits per beneficiary. 👉Article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... (1/5)

this will haunt my nightmares tonight

New QJE for the minimum wage literature uses IRS data to study effects on small and medium size businesses. The effects seem…very good academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

One of the most honest answers in medicine remains: “We just don’t know.” Especially true for the flu -- timing, transmission, vaccines, all still full of surprises. Five questions, five reflections on why the flu keeps humbling us. #IDsky #Medsky blogs.nejm.org/hiv-id-obser...

In a new, timely project led by @nathanlo.bsky.social, we collected vaccine exemption rates (mostly) at the county-level for nearly all states. Now up at @jama.com: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

SNF capacity is the bottleneck that keeps people waiting in ER hallways and make-shift hospital rooms. SNF beds are crucial to our health system. Since 2020, capacity is down 5%, with less slack, due to staffing shortages. @jamainternalmed.com @mlbarnett.bsky.social: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

new paper from my team!!

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

IT LIVES! First draft: 2011 This draft: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xh3sg... In between: 12 years of being under review (of which half are on us). +1 coauthor. For me personally: a few moves, a few jobs, a few kids.

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.

🚨 Predoc Opportunity at Yale! 🚨 Care about research that changes policy? My research team works within state government to advance evidence and learning for a smarter safety net! And our predocs have excellent PhD placements. Apply here! #EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs #HealthPolicy

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!

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