Physician, Professor, Single Payer Medicare for All Advocate
Joined December 2012
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Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
Our new study just up in JAMA IM: we track Americans' out-of-pocket health spending longitudinally over a four-year period, showing that risks mount year after year. Whereas 11.8% of adults experience healthcare financial strain after 1 year, risk rises to 26.7% over four years
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
Our article in Health Affairs Forefront on the “real waste, fraud, and abuse” in healthcare — Medicare and Medicaid privatization — is now up.
MA Overpayments & excess Medicaid managed care overhead could cost as much as $1.9 trillion in coming decade.
healthaffairs.org/content/fo…
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Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital propublica.org/article/josse…
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⚡ OUT NOW ⚡
The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action.
Read the latest assessment of the links between health and climate change: thelancet.com/journals/lance… #LancetClimate24
ALT Report cover image reads: 'The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action'
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Hard to overstate how disastrous a second Trump administration could be for health & healthcare. His first administration was hobbled by clownish disarray and incompetence, limiting impacts. A second administration will be far more prepared and “effective” - with grave results.
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We (@labcambridge) have a new study just up examining how healthcare spending at the state level (1991-2019) in the Medicare and non-Medicare population corresponds with supply (e.g. bed/doctor #) and demand factors (e.g. insurance).
1/3
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“Project 2025 proposes making privatized Medicare Advantage the ‘default enrollment option’ for seniors, which would no doubt be the death knell for public Medicare.” - Dr. @awgaffney
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Our new study is just up in Medical Care. It is an examination of the distribution of US physical hospital resources, i.e. capital assets, and their correlation with community health and use/cost of hospital care.
1/2
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Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
About half of "lower income" US adults — and nearly a third of those with "higher incomes" — go without needed medical care due to cost.
These rates are 3-fold higher than adults in the UK.
Really egregious stuff.
commonwealthfund.org/publica…
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
Black- & Hispanic-serving hospitals have fewer oncologic resources compared to other hospitals — another reminder of the disparities in the distribution of healthcare infrastructure endemic to the US
New study by Gracie Himmelstein & Patricia Ganz
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
It should not be controversial to assert that Palestinian lives matter just as much as Israeli lives.
Or that Black lives matter just as much as white lives.
These are matters of fact.
The equality and value of human lives should never be up for debate.
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
📣 "Policymakers must find new solutions to protect health systems and health."
Read the new article "Medicines for the People, not the Financial Markets" by Beat Ringger.
👀 bit.ly/3ODdhOw
#pharmaceuticals #healthpolicy #healthjustice #SDOH #medication
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
The residents and fellows of @MassGenBrigham, one of the largest residency programs in the country, just won our union!!!! 💪💜
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Our research group brought to together experts on firearm injuries, abortion policy, and COVID-19 from multiple institutions, including David Himmelstein, Samuel Dickman, Caitlin Myers, David Hemenway, Danny McCormack, and @swoolhandler.
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
Our new study just up in @JAMANetworkOpen :
We modeled health outcomes from three 2022 Supreme Court Decisions with major ramifications for health, finding that they could lead to nearly 3,000 deaths over a decade and many other adverse health outcomes.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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MGB VOTES YES! 1,215-412
After years of organizing and a week-long election, housestaff at Massachusetts General Brigham have voted for representation in the form of a union.
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
Supporting doctors supports the patients they treat. I applaud the residents and fellows of @MassGenBrigham as they unionize with @cirseiu and advocate for the conditions they need to provide exceptional care for our communities. These workers don’t agonize—they organize.
Steffie Woolhandler retweeted
What my father would be deeply concerned about is the harmful, discriminatory legislation in Florida.
