I study administrative burdens in health insurance coverage, strategies to reduce these barriers, and the politics of health reform also @adrianna.bsky.social
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When we talk about health insurance premiums, we typically frame them as financial burdens, because they often are!
But—absent auto-pay—paying premiums is also a hassle, and I had this nagging question: what do tiny premiums do to enrollment?
We try to answer that here. 🧵
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The Trump admin announced they canceled ACA coverage for 760,000 people. Insurers were asked to reach out to these people and they didn't respond w/in 30 days. Some were likely fraudulently enrolled, some were likely legitimately enrolled. We don't yet know the collateral damage.
can’t believe Dan is back on the “sus HHS Secretary flights” beat
Exclusive: The White House has given RFK Jr access to military aircraft as the health secretary has criss-crossed the country.
RFK Jr used private flight to join GOP candidates in Iowa last month.
w @rachel_roubein @abtran
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Adventures in "arbitrary and capricious" land!
“What if Trump said, ‘I want to do these [$500 ACA refunds], but only in states that voted for me in the last election’? What is stopping him from doing that, but not stopping him from doing this?” statnews.com/2026/09/10/trum…
Medicaid is an animating issue in the Georgia gubernatorial race — even the GOP candidate is saying that he would (kinda, sorta, maybe, partially?) expand the program.
georgiarecorder.com/2026/09/…
No state has yet been successful in partially expanding Medicaid — that is, pulling down enhanced match for enrollees up to 100% FPL, while keeping 100-138% FPL folks in the Marketplaces — but Utah came close in 2019 under the prior Trump administration
politico.com/story/2019/03/2…
#tbt to this NEJM perspective I wrote with @nicholas_bagley and @allanmjoseph nine(!!!) years ago
nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJ…
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Sad to share that Peter Barton Hutt, the longtime food and drug lawyer who charmed his Harvard students (and our readers) with scorpion lollipops and the code of Hammurabi, passed away this morning at the age of 91, according to a family member.
wsj.com/health/calories-food…
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A thread of Dean Karlan trolling Elsevier's stupid required "article highlights"
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Georgia is facing a Medicaid funding shortfall because the state has to adapt its work requirement policies to new federal standards, which are more lenient than what the state had implemented and budgeted for in their partial expansion (receiving only standard FMAP).
Link to story: georgiarecorder.com/2026/08/…
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“Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures.”
A brave and elegant piece.
Even though she knew the mob would come for her and her job, she kept serving her country. You have to read this. Gift link.
How Trump fired the person worthy enough to brief VP Mike Pence over a bathroom rule.
theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
Back in 2013, GOP officials in AR made the case for budget neutrality of its "private option" 1115 waiver by arguing the state would otherwise need to stand up a costly new managed care regime to expand Medicaid.
Now it's the first state to face waiver non-renewal under OBBBA.
Medicaid coverage for low-income Arkansans next year is in question, owing to an arcane change under congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
@philgalewitz reports⤵️
kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/t…
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An update on what I'm changing for my intro stats Fall course for MPPs. TL;DR work at home is for learning, work in person is for assessing. Front-loading development of statistical intuition and domain expertise, followed by facility with AI tools.
tedsvo.substack.com/p/puttin…
Now that he's secured the nomination, I do wonder if we're going to see AES's discussion of Medicare for All take a more pronounced incrementalist posture, leaning into affordability and populism — rein in prior auth, reduce deductibles, break up big corps
El-Sayed has described Medicare for All as his Mount Everest
I asked him how he imagines scaling it
thebulwark.com/p/the-medicar…
ALT Quote from El-Sayed For sure. I’ve been very clear that I want to get to Medicare for All, and I also believe that we’ve got to take a pathway there. To me, as long as it reduces the power of the health care corporations, expands health care, and does so publicly, I’m for it, and would be glad to work with likeminded partners on that path. I think the mistake is sometimes to say, ‘Okay, we’ve made these changes and therefore we’re good to go. We’re not good to go until we have Medicare for All. But you know on the pathway—the steps along the way—I’ll be working hard with my colleagues to try to get those things done too. . . . When it comes to making the VA whole, when it comes to funding our investment in affordable prescription drugs, when it comes to our investment in medical science, you’re going to see me right at the forefront.
I’m stuck on the presumption that one-third of parents believe their children can afford routine therapy.
In this health care system?
(The actual figure was 8.5% of adults in 2021, up from 6.5% in 2018: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…)
