Hi everyone! Anna here— this is my first time being hospitalized and although insurance should cover a bit of the costs, there’s still some costs I’m expecting not to be covered. If you want to give towards my recovery (which I’ll talk about hopefully soon), please click the link below:

Donate to Help Support Anna During Her Unexpected Hospital Stay, organized by Wilhemina Koomson

Our dear friend Anna has spent the past week in the hospital… Wilhemina Koomson needs your support for Help Support Anna During Her Unexpected Hospital Stay

gofundme.com

SB@stephestellar.bsky.social · last mo.

Sharing here in case folks see - BSky could raise this in a minute I bet. Anna's friends set up a GFM for donations as she continues to seek care www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

reuters.com

The dream team 🥹

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Going to get some great images from NASA in the coming days. Here’s a couple of post-splashdown snaps of actual heroes.

Federal audits show most Medicaid payments (94% in 2025) meet requirements and that most improper payments are due to insufficient documentation. More on Medicaid payment errors as well as upcoming changes and impacts: https://on.kff.org/3MAirwJ

Nice response to that absolutely unserious WSJ editorial. Notably from authors at @brookings.edu and AEI. Not only a "liberal" academic opinion that MA is overpaid (relative to FFS). www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | The Higher Price Tag on Medicare Advantage

The government spends substantially more to cover a beneficiary under a Medicare Advantage plan than under a traditional plan.

wsj.com

First tariffs weren’t a tax… now they’re not a regressive tax Still ignoring basic economics 101. It’s the proportion of spending, rather than the total spending, that matters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on tariffs: "It's not regressive. Most consumption in America is done by the wealthiest people. So the idea it's somehow regressive is just wrong."

Trump RX dot gov is set to launch tonight and this is what you see when you try to go there now 😭

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 In new research, we look at how television DTC advertising for hospitals affects Medicare spending. Using political advertising as an instrument, we find advertising expands patient volume and spending on inpatient care

NBER@nber.org · 9mo ago

Little is known about the effect of hospital advertising despite high spending. Medicare data to leveraged to show that advertising expands net inpatient volume and government spending, from Alpert, Gupta, Richards, @econwithsarah.bsky.social , and @cwhaley.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34657

Iconic

Jomboy Media (Unofficial)@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“I want AJ Brown packing his bags… And I also want Kevin Patullo flipping burgers at the local McDonald’s.”

Dang you caught me 👀

Clayton Becker@cnbecker14.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also, I just *know* there's an economist out there who is looking at the fires like this thinking of all the natural experiment stuff they can do

Nathan Miller has been appointed Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division. A great appointment. I note with particular pleasure that before becoming an academic, he was a Staff Economist in the Antitrust Division. www.nathanhmiller.org

The head of CMS is in control of 1/4 of the federal budget…

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wow... Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead massive Medicare, Medicaid agency CMS www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/t...

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · 2y ago

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Huge, huge thanks to @shooshan.bsky.social who took on the work of compiling many more health economists than I had yet added to the Starter Pack. So many names I recognize for early health econ Twitter, and so many new voices that I don't but look forward to hearing from. bsky.app/starter-pack...

State regulators know health insurance directories are full of wrong information. They’re doing little to fix it.

State Regulators Know Health Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It.

State agencies say they’re holding insurers accountable for errors in provider directories. But ProPublica found that the actual actions taken so far do not match the regulators’ rhetoric.

propublica.org

Opening this account for the first time in months, as a newly fresh PhD! Where are my Econ/health policy folks?

I’m not sure I’d recommend doing a half marathon during the job market, but I had fun!

This is so wholesome 😭

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Because this is Philadelphia, I have seen this alligator in person before…

To my health economists, this is also known as the out-of-pocket price game #econsky

Hi all! My name is Sarah Schutz, and I am an health economics PhD candidate at UPenn. My research interests include healthcare competition and the pharmaceutical industry. Using this site for research, but also Phillies updates and finding good eats. I’m also on the job market: sarahdschutz.com