Account of the Cambridge Health Justice Lab. Committed to revealing and eliminating health inequalities. Based in @Challiance and @Harvardmed.
Joined May 2021
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Adam Gaffney (@awgaffney), David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler (@swoolhandler) on Trump’s destruction of America’s health care system
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The Atlantic notes our finding on the bureaucratic costs of Medicaid work requirements, i.e. each “appropriate” disenrollment will cost the public $5,000 in admin expenses.
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See below for a link to the Cambridge Health Justice Lab study study that projected more than 16,500 deaths from the House's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" due to Medicaid cuts alone.
Trending at Annals.org: #Medicaid cuts in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could undermine the coverage, financial well-being, medical care, and health of low-income Americans. bit.ly/445tFhg @awgaffney @labcambridge
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Trending at Annals.org: #Medicaid cuts in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could undermine the coverage, financial well-being, medical care, and health of low-income Americans. bit.ly/445tFhg @awgaffney @labcambridge
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Mortality of Native Americans exceeds that of other Americans by 42%. Our shocking findings in today’s JAMA.
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New study from @LabCambridge published in @JAMAInternalMed, led by @harvardmed student Taylor Weckstein, finds that homeless people are 27x more likely to wind up in the ER for heat-related illness.
Heat-Related Illness Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness. New from our group and HMS student Taylor Weckstein jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Taylor's study was covered in the Washington Post, linke below:
washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
New Study from the Cambridge Health Justice Lab finds that states with abortion bans/restrictions also provide worse general medical care to pregnant women, including those with chronic diseases — differences largely explained by generosity of state Medicaid eligibility.
Our new study just published in @AmJPrevMed. Many states have imposed new bans or restrictions on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We examined healthcare access among pregnant women in these (compared to other) states …
New @LabCambridge study out at @JAMA_current finds that a large number of healthcare workers face deportation risk — likely exacerbating already severe staffing shortages.
Article in @medpagetoday: medpagetoday.com/publichealt…
Link to study in @JAMA_current : jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Disparities in asthma burden emerge in the earliest years of life, new Cambridge Health Justice Lab study finds, published in @AnnalsATS.
These findings underscore need for policies that support health during gestation and early childhood to mitigate inequities in lung health.
New study from Cambridge Health Justice lab explores how having a child with cystic fibrosis affects "job lock" and financial security of parents.
Our new study in @JAMAPediatrics from @LabCambridge — led by Lenore Azaroff — examines how parents/families with a child with Cystic Fibrosis fare economically
Short answer: they more often experienced job lock, curtailed their employment, or struggled to pay medical bills
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Private Equity is "Health Care' Vampire".
New Op-Ed in @statnews from @LabCambridge's @swoolhandler, David Himmelstein, Elizabeth Schrier, and @hopeschwartzy.
statnews.com/2024/08/19/priv…
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Our new study just up in @JournalGIM looks at RSV vaccine uptake in MA towns — finding *lower* uptake in communities with *higher* pulmonary risk (e.g. COPD prevalence), & higher uptake in wealthier towns. In other words, not going where it's needed
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New @LabCambridge study examines RSV vaccination across Massachusetts. Finds that rates are worse in places with higher risk of severe respiratory disease, and better in wealthier places. Current approach doesn't appear to target to where most needed.
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New @LabCambride study examines differences in state-level healthcare spending over 20 years. States with more hospital beds and doctors have higher healthcare spending, both under Medicare and for other patients.
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