With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead: House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New Health Affairs Scholar article on postpartum care under Medicaid. 76% had a visit between 61-365 days after birth, but this varied by state and individual factors. Our findings show benefits of recent 12-mo. postpartum extensions but suggest where gaps in care remain. doi.org/10.1093/hasc...

The deadly and inequitable consequences of U.S. economic stagnation. journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...

In February, the Urban Institute, in collaboration with Policies for Action, hosted a powerful, solutions-based event on advancing maternal health equity. Recording now available. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/events/advan...

An assessment of Washington's Financial Alignment Initiative for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...

Health Care Providers Would Experience Significant Revenue Losses and Uncompensated Care Increases in the Face of Reduced Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion www.urban.org/research/pub...

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Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans. Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban

Reupping my blog from yesterday. The major #Medicaid cuts under consideration to meet the budget resolution target of at least $880b in cuts are the same Medicaid cuts from failed 2017 repeal bills. House GOP leaders are just trying to disguise them as anti-fraud. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/s...

We already did the research on this. Work requirements jeopardize #Medicaid coverage without achieving meaningful employment gains. See our explainer to understand why work requirements don’t work.

E&C committee was asked to cut $880 billion to make way for tax cuts. Latest paper from my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues on what would happen to insurance coverage if the 90 percent FMAP for the Medicaid expansion was eliminated. www.urban.org/research/pub...

How do we solve America's Maternal Health crisis? Register to listen in on 2/27. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/events/advan...

Welp. Apple didn't even hold out for one Scaramucci. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Promising assessment of state innovation in long term care financing. crr.bc.edu/washington-s...

In the 3 decades prior to the pandemic, gaps between black and white life expectancy narrowed, but progress was uneven across the states. We document here. Next step: Did policy produce these patterns? Stay tuned. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @rwjf.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...

Meet Bubblegum. Adorable and adoptable in Atlanta adopt.adopets.com/pet/b4f74012...

New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social work in Health Affairs Scholar exploring how we quantify the full value of social interventions affecting health #HealthPolicy bsky.app/profile/lmni...

UI Health Policy colleagues (@tawaid.bsky.social,@lisaclemancope.bsky.social,@bowengarrett.bsky.social, and Kima Taylor) and I just published in Health Affairs Scholar, (#HAScholar, @Health_Affairs) Tracing Value From Social Determinant Solutions, academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

Medicare is more than half privatized, and it's costing taxpayers a lot of money open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Whose premiums will rise if enhanced premium tax credits allowed to expire? Well, everyone's, but the increases will vary by income level and state. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...

New from @jasonlevitis.bsky.social and colleagues at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Shifting to a state based Marketplace comes with opportunities and risks, but those who would be most directly affected believe that the risks outweigh the likely benefits. #healthpolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...

🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥

T-MSIS analysis of well-child visit rates among Black and white Medicaid-enrolled children before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rates fell for both groups, but fell more for Black children. #healthpolicy @laura-b-smith.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...

Cool tool for local governments and advocates to assess indicators of upward mobility in their communities, i.e., predictors of long-term economic success, dignity and belonging, and power and autonomy. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #EconSky #healthpolicy upward-mobility.urban.org/dashboard

Research has shown many overpaid services in the Medicare physician fee schedule are due to AMA over-estimates of how long it takes physicians to provide the service. Check out @urbaninstitute.bsky.social evidence that’s been around for a decade. www.urban.org/sites/defaul...

If Congress does not extend enhanced premium tax credits after 2025, 4 million people would become uninsured (most in non-expansion states) and the number of uninsured would increase by 16 percent. Explore the interactive tool created by @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

As the incoming administration thinks about putting an even bigger thumb on the scale for Medicare Advantage, we should understand why these private plans don't work in all markets. @zuckermans.bsky.social @bowengarrett.bsky.social @lauraskopec.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...

By the way, I made this starter pack of some of my colleagues who do health policy related research at KFF and other think tanks & research organizations. If you’d like to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/4qmDL5f

A great resource from my amazing colleagues. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/projects/how...

Can't believe we're back here, but in case you need a refresher on the damage that might be done to the country if ACA repeal gains steam. www.urban.org/research/pub...

New updates to Urban Institute's Debt in America Map show the potential impact of debt on young adults in the U.S. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...

Many working older adults with modest incomes will get slammed in 2025 if Congress doesn't renew enhanced premium tax credits. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...

This one really has me fucked up ya'll. A child is dead because this asshole ordained himself a hero and thought his gun gave him heightened power to issue orders. How badly did America fuck up to live in a reality where dead children are an acceptable cost of letting lunatics keep deadly weapons?

This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

After being a 7-day-a-week subscriber for 28 years (that's more than 10,000 home delivered editions of @washingtonpost.com), it's time to unsubscribe. So sad. Now if the website will only let me do that... www.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

i think it is great that we have an unelected supra-legislature that is completely unbound by precedent or public opinion or tradition or text and that effectively cannot be disciplined or checked by any other political actor in the system

Since some people are reacting to the headline, not the rest: the mystery isn't why rural Americans are feeling bad, it's why they reward politicians who act against their interests www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/o...

Goodhart’s Law xkcd.com/2899

"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Intrusive thought today is what if the NYT covered the Thomas & Alito bribery scandal the way they're covering the college presidents. Not just an endless stream of articles but framing it as though it's a shock and an obvious affront that they haven't resigned yet

somebody who came into my TL with the "NFT's are the future! You'll be able to unlock your car with them!" line reminded me of this cartoon from 2022, specifically the fifth panel.

Well said www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/o...

In Defense of My Students   The idea of the campus as a stronghold of leftwing extremism and authoritarian censoriousness stands in stark contrast to what’s happening inside the classroom   New Democracy Americana: thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/in-defense...

Why is US life expectancy going the wrong way? One factor: Republican politics. GOP state lawmakers have blocked cigarette taxes, seatbelt laws and other lifesavers. And Ohio — where GOP has a stranglehold on the legislature — is Exhibit A. Our deep dive at the Washington Post.

Got a new working paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them w/ appointed city managers design: shift-share IV paper: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r54lw...