At Baltimore’s Museum of Industry, where there’s an exhibit on collective action. I love whoever wrote this.
Профиль
Miranda Yaver
Профиль VivelyPolitical scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Has anyone else been thinking about the Monty Python dead parrot sketch vis-a-vis Mitch McConnell?
Monty Python Dead Parrot: It's Resting!ALT: Monty Python Dead Parrot: It's Resting!static.klipy.comThanks so much to @mswinche.bsky.social for the lovely and thoughtful review of my book Coverage Denied at Health Affairs Forefront! I arrived at this scholarly work because of my own encounters with this, so I’m especially glad when it resonates. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Health Affairs Journalwww.healthaffairs.orgOn Tuesday, the Trump Admin announced they were ending the Medicare Part D subsidy program. Touching the third rail of politics is a heckuva strategy going into midterms (part D open enrollment starts 10/15). My latest analysis for @msnowreports.bsky.social. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump’s Medicare change comes at a curious timeLess than three weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs.www.ms.nowIt has been a real treat to get to chat with the Senate Finance Democrats about what my book Coverage Denied found on health insurance barriers and how to mitigate them. Today, they released a Request for Information on private insurance reform, citing my work! www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.govHey, it’s almost like Medicaid and marketplace coverage losses —> hospitals’ uncompensated care —> hospital closures was a completely predictable path amid attacks on Medicaid and the ACA. Spoiler: It’s Republicans who’re getting screwed the most. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities mostTrump’s budget will actively harm the health and incomes of rural communities and Republican voters, well beyond those who themselves are enrolled in Medicaid.thehill.comPhilip GourevitchTrump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
I can’t believe my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States wasn’t on this list. a.co/d/0hirr6J3
Amazon.coma.coThe Obama FoundationPresident @barackobama.bsky.social’s summer reading list is here 📚 This year, President Obama is inviting all of you to come read these picks at the Obama Presidential Center, and we invited a few book lovers to share their first reactions. What are you reading first?
I have a piece coming out on the bad politics & bad policy of the Trump Administration doing this, but I also think this connects to my New Republic piece on Dems’ failure to take victory laps. Did seniors even know the Medicare Pt. D subsidy came out of the IRA? (No) newrepublic.com/article/2125...
Trump’s Budget Bill Has a New Trap for DemocratsBlue state leaders want to mitigate the harms of Trump’s budget bill. But will cleaning up another Republican mess only serve to let the GOP off the hook?newrepublic.comKyle GriffinBREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
Probably because we shouldn’t be administering treatments that sound like they were recommended by Dr. Spaceman
Crystal Meth Very EffectiveALT: Crystal Meth Very Effectivestatic.klipy.comAaron RuparPeter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
Today (day 3 of this superb @cape-team.bsky.social conference), I'm jazzed to present work toward my next book, The Health Care Trap: How U.S. Federal Law Entrenched the Power of Private Insurance (under contract with Cambridge University Press). I also have an SNL reference on one of my slides. 😎
Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE)Live Soon: The annual #APE conference starts today at noon ET! Register (yale.zoom.us/meeting/regi...) and join today's events 👇👇👇
But don’t call it a cult
Aaron RuparHannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
Democrats should have chosen Ben Wikler and I will die on this hill. (Obviously, we desperately need new leadership as well.)
Michael TomaskyThe Democratic Party is broke. Not just broke. In debt. To the tune of $2 million. The Republican National Committee, by contrast, has $128.5 million cash on hand. trib.al/lLMIQt4
I just walked @defendpublichealth.bsky.social members through the dangers of CMS’s proposed rule on Medicaid paperwork reqs, which goes even farther than Congress’s draconian not-so-beautiful bill, esp wrt medical frailty. Submit your comment by Friday, 7/31. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for Certain IndividualsThis interim final rule with comment period (IFC) interprets and implements the community engagement requirement in Medicaid under section 1902(xx) of the Social Security Act. States are required to i...www.federalregister.govWe so often talk about Medicare being the program that's politically too risky to go after because seniors vote at high rates. This Trump Administration has: - Introduced new prior authorization to traditional Medicare through WISeR - Ended subsidies for prescription drug plans Well done, folks.
Kyle GriffinBREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.