The Indiana GOP refuses to allow the state to participate in the SUN Bucks program in 2027.

The event for @valenabeety.bsky.social's new @thenewpress.bsky.social book Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity @bgsqd.bsky.social was fantastic! Vital discussion on queer identity & liberation. Order here: thenewpress.org/books/pink-c...

Great story from @bobjherman.bsky.social on the quiet erosion of employer-sponsored insurance, especially among small businesses www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/s...

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

This is an ongoing and looming national problem but Indiana is terrific example of the horrible health access impacts triggered by Trump's OBBBA + state crackdowns on Medicaid and SNAP access for children and working families. @limestonepost.bsky.social. limestonepost.org/how-federal-...

Doctors interviewed for a new study shared dramatic cases of patients stuck in legal limbo while waiting to receive lifesaving medical care.

First opinion is U.S. v. Hemani. The Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY holds that a man who uses marijuana several times a week has a Second Amendment right to own a firearm, blocking his federal prosecution. Gorsuch writes for the majority. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

My second article, Wellness Influencer Scienceploitation: An American Medicine Show Revival, in my regulating social media wellness grifters series this year is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Thank you to Barbara Zabawa & the UMKC Law Review for hosting a wonderful symposium.

Patients enrolled in some of the nation’s largest Medicare Advantage plans were denied requests for rehabilitation and other critical services at unusually high rates, HHH report finds.

😳Hey @GovBillLee — how is reporting disabled immigrant kids to ICE “pro-life”? (Answer: It isn’t) tennesseelookout.com/2026/06/09/t...

I just commented on the CMS proposed rule on Medicaid state-directed payments, which goes well above and beyond the already draconian not-so-beautiful bill's attacks on Medicaid, tripling the SDP cuts made. Here is my comment. You can comment through July 21 mirandayaver.substack.com/p/my-comment...

The WNBA’s Indiana Fever has banned a longtime beat reporter from media access to the team. The team says Scott Agness reported false injury information about Caitlin Clark. "It's reporting,” said Agness, who still stands by his source and reporting. “It's part of our job.”

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

This should scare everyone. It reveals the lack of rules, lack of plans, and inherent dangers of building out the surveillance tech before the law. www.nbcnews.com/video/how-la...

Today's blog post: "Court of Appeals of Kentucky Finds Criminal Defendant Waived Spousal Privilege by Calling His Wife to Testify at 2 Pre-Trial Hearings": www.evidenceprofblog.com/2026/05/cour...

We love to see it: Federal judge orders IRS case reopened, will investigate if DOJ’s fake dismissal request to create slush fund constituted a fraud on the court, or otherwise sanctionable, “collusive” conduct. Win for former fed judges who moved to reopen: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to Ensar Tota & @theregreview.bsky.social for featuring my Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms work. Relevant papers in the Indiana Law Journal & forthcoming in the @michlawreview.bsky.social are located here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... and here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Feed: "The Regulatory Review" By: Ensar Tota on Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Duaa Eldeib of @propublica.org recently wrote about babies dying from a rare but fatal condition called Vitamin K deficiency bleeding. In almost every case, the deaths could have been prevented with a simple shot of vitamin K at birth. But in recent years, parents have started refusing the shot.

Enjoyed being interviewed for this @chicagotribune.com article about Indiana cannabis law & policy in light of recent federal gov’t moves.

AI is shaping medical coverage decisions. Here’s how to tell the story healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/05... @jennoliva.bsky.social @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social

AI is shaping medical coverage decisions. Here’s how to tell the story healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/05...

After *gestures wildly* everything that's happened, it's hard to imagine being surprised by the scale or brazenness of any discrete instance of new corruption. Yet here we are.

‘I hope it’s not a slush fund’: Hoosier communities struggle to spend opioid settlement funds. Investigation finds not all spending went toward approved uses amid lack of guidance, oversight from Indiana state officials.

In my latest Substack post, I discuss UnitedHealthcare's recent announcement of a 30% reduction in prior auth requirements, and why further reductions across insurers are needed to address physician burden & burnout, drawing on my book Coverage Denied. mirandayaver.substack.com/p/unitedheal...

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Friends in Santa Fe (or friends who have friends in Santa Fe), this Monday, May 11th, I will be speaking about “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” at Collected Works Bookstore. 6pm. www.collectedworksbookstore.com/events-1/and...

Now up at Health Affairs Forefront, @michaelannica.bsky.social and I analyze CMS's proposed rule regarding prior authorization for prescription drugs, contextualizing it as an extension of the 2024 prior auth rule and considering its broader implications. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

I'm really proud to have submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court today in the case concerning access to an abortion pill, mifepristone, on behalf of FDA Law Scholars. TLDR: the 5th Circuit's order is inconsistent with FDA law. Check it out 👇 www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

“Many dermatologists were dismayed when Kennedy abruptly withdrew a proposed FDA rule that would have banned minors from using devices that mimic sunlight — indoor tanning lamps... [the rule] would have also required indoor tanning facility users to sign a form acknowledging the risk of cancer”

“For every $1 collected in premiums, insurers reimbursed 62 cents for claims in 2024, down from an average loss ratio of 80 cents in the 1980s and 1990s… “The fact that the loss ratios are so low means that the insurance industry is charging too much,” said Brian Shearer”

A conservative federal appeals court just reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone—effectively shutting down telemedicine abortion providers nationwide. "There's no world in which this genie goes back in the bottle."

Accessing healthcare in Alaska is harder than most people in the Lower 48 can even imagine. For families, getting care can mean long travel, delays, or no access at all. That’s why telehealth is essential for so many Alaskans.

in a world of tech oligarchy, intermediated surveillance, and AI nationalism, organizing by tech workers (and whistleblowers) is really, really important.

“Side effects such as muscle loss and nutritional imbalance have been reported with long-term use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) class obesity drugs like Wegovy.“ www.dongascience.com/en/news/77663

I just had the pleasure of attending @mirandayaver.bsky.social’s book launch via Zoom, and friends, while watching her excellent presentation I realized how much I need to read her book, Coverage Denied. It’s about one of my favorite topics to bitch about, the Health Insurance Cartel.

New from @kff.org. Fewer than half of voters approve of the Trump administration’s handling of cost of health care (33%) and the cost of prescription drugs (41%). www.kff.org/public-opini...

“Among 40 new and reappointed directors, none were women.”

CDC delay of infant hepatitis B shot likely to "will likely lead to hundreds of additional infections among children, along with more cases of liver cancer, deaths and millions in added health care costs," studies show wapo.st/4t0n564 via @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

“The studies are precisely the type of research that previous iterations of the ACIP would have pored over before making any decision about changing the hepatitis B birth dose recommendation, said Arthur Reingold… but there is no indication that the Kennedy-appointed ACIP did anything of the sort.”

Here’s the paper Dr. Bhattacharya would not publish. Via @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Tasha Shelby has spent 27 years wrongly convicted for a crime that never happened; I've represented her for 15 years. Hear from her yourself in the podcast series "Unshakeable Science," One Minute Remaining: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social @innocencenetwork.bsky.social

Brittany Goldberg, another FDA senior leader, just left the drug center, according to an email viewed by STAT. She previously worked as Vinay Prasad's deputy at the biologics center. She spent around 13 years at the agency. www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...

Just heartbreaking: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

This is an excellent concept and a great paper: "The case for information environment as a major independent social determinant of health" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sorry college students in the Hoosier State. Your college ID 🪪 is once again not allowed to use to vote 🗳️.

FDA leadership has pushed back against concerns from outside observers about the politicization of FDA's new Commissioner's National Priority Voucher program. Today, the President ordered that FDA "shall provide" such vouchers to certain psychedelic drugs. 1/2 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Good news for collegian voters in the Hoosier State! You can use your College I.D. to vote 🗳️ — for now.

An FDA decision to place 19 peptides on the “unsafe” list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, there’s been little new science.

Two categories to note: "I didn't want to pay for a doctor's visit" and "I was unable to pay for a doctor's visit." apnews.com/article/ai-c...