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“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Iran is learning why we can't have Medicare for All

Federal audits show most Medicaid payments (94% in 2025) meet requirements and that most improper payments are due to insufficient documentation. More on Medicaid payment errors as well as upcoming changes and impacts: https://on.kff.org/3MAirwJ

🚨New research in Health Affairs Scholar! Arkansas had some of the nation's strictest Medicaid eligibility rules, and the highest rates of uninsurance among low-income adults. What changed after their unique 2014 Medicaid expansion? 🧵 LINK: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

🚨New research in Health Affairs Scholar! Arkansas had some of the nation's strictest Medicaid eligibility rules, and the highest rates of uninsurance among low-income adults. What changed after their unique 2014 Medicaid expansion? 🧵 LINK: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The farther down this rabbit hole I go the crazier it gets. The WSJ *editorial board* smeared Stacie and called for defunding MedPAC on the basis of a single Health Affairs Scholar paper coauthored by four people at CMS — including politicals, maybe all politicals? — none of whom has a PhD.

‘I Felt Like a Factory Worker.’ Why VA Psychologists Are Burning Out

Register for our upcoming webinar with @joannespetz.bsky.social! healtheconomics.org/events

Has anyone implemented fused LASSO in Stata to group or bin coefficients for dummy variables? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

One week from today!

I've had so many conversations with people who are worried about the direction of #healthequity research -- the lack of rigor, the lack of theory, and overstatement of findings. Worse yet is the defiant attitude by some that any effort to push on nuance or causality undermines the project.

"When researchers cannot specify and be transparent about what equity means in their work, it risks becoming an aesthetic rather than a commitment." Sharp piece by Choi et al outling several issues with contemporary research that have increasingly troubled me. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Assuming our history isn't sanitized, this period will be remembered as one of national shame. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Five classes I took in university (that I realize most people could use right now): Research methodology Statistics Logic Epistomolgy Abnormal psychology

How it started / How it's going

They're trying so hard to justify a murder. And every American should know: if they kill you, this is what they'll do to you.

Good time to brush up on what the experts say on the topic: Central bank independence in practice www.piie.com/publications...

45 minutes until markets open

Now would be a really great time for Congress to reassert itself as a co-equal branch of government

You know you're in the south when the walk home from #NashvilleNYE is a cacophony of (hopefully) celebratory gunfire 🎉

Actual 2025 tariff rates are, to date, far less than statutory rates, but the costs of the tariffs are mostly borne by the US – estimated tariff pass-through to US prices in 2025 is 94%. Tariffs on imports act like a 1 to 2pp tax on US manufacturing. brentneiman.com/research/GN2...

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

Looking for examples of published health policy studies with clear methodological flaws. Preferably from a med or health policy journal. Send me your favorites!

Apparently, Vanderbilt no longer allows the use of Rev for transcription because the data are sent outside the U.S. Qual researchers, what services for human transcription (not AI) are you using and like?

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

🚨New VA research now out in Medical Care Tldr; patient satisfaction was similar regardless of whether the anesthesia was completed by a physician anesthesiologist, CRNAs, or a combo (anesthesia care team or ACT) Open access link: journals.lww.com/lww-medicalc...

@allanmjoseph.bsky.social has been telling me there needs to be a "Dartmouth Atlas, but for pediatrics" for maybe a literal decade? And now there is! (h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)

Apparently, Vanderbilt no longer allows the use of Rev for transcription because the data are sent outside the U.S. Qual researchers, what services for human transcription (not AI) are you using and like?

Spotify Wrapped of a health policy nerd 🤓

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

One challenge with getting older is fewer friends are willing/able to go on crazy adventures with you Hiking the Wind River High Route, 2017

The Census Bureau is back releasing data that was delayed during the government shutdown. Click the tracker link for the latest additions. 👇

Finally, evidence of voter fraud

30 is the new 40? Not how the saying is supposed to go, but that is an apt description of America's #population #health challenges. The share of working age adults from the 1971-1975 birth cohort reporting excellent health at age 30 = share from 1991-1995 cohort reporting same at age 40.

Ok this made me literally lol But in truth VA outperforms private sector in terms of wait times jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Does anyone have a copy of the NSDUH State Prevalence Table for 2019-2020?

Raccoon jackpot

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

Once upon a time, @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy & I did a podcast about a ten-novel epic series where -- I am not kidding -- "dying of the weather on top of Mount Washington" was plan B in case the initial murder attempt didn't work. Nerds know not to go on that mountain unprepared.

If this ever happens to me, let me die and then lie about how it happened to save my ghost the embarrassment abcnews.go.com/US/mount-was...

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The ACA did lead to increased individual health insurance premiums in 2014. That was because insurance before that generally didn’t cover pre-existing conditions or benefits like maternity care, and it had lifetime and annual limits on how much it would pay.

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

I'm having an incredibly hard time publishing a paper, and I can't help but think it's because it upsets the political opinions of medical researchers. The level of methodological nitpicking exceeds anything I've encountered previously.

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Approximately .05% of U.S. CO2 emissions per year. Is JAMA just publishing work showing medical care has environmental costs now? Were medical reviewers even equipped to assess their methods? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...