1. Since the 1970s, college student goals have shifted away from "finding meaning" to financial and family goals. Most of this shift occurred in the 70s and 80s. Finding meaning used to be the #1 goal in our data, now it's last.

The School of Public Health here at Memphis is hiring a health economist! Not my department, but would love to have someone who can come collaborate with the econ department (where we have a couple of health people too). www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

New presentation on my experiences and thoughts about the roles for AI in #Statistics: fharrell.com/talk/ai #LLM #ai #StatsSky

Looking for a faculty job in an awesome department? Might I suggest Vanderbilt Health Policy? We are searching for a tenure track faculty member, all ranks considered! Please apply - it is an outstanding department and Nashville is a great place to work and live! apply.interfolio.com/185527

If you're in Nashville on Thursday there's still time to register -- event is open to the public!

Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD@zekeemanuel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Looking forward to speaking with Dr. Jeffrey Balser about “Eat Your Ice Cream” at the @vanderbilt.edu Owen Graduate School of Management this Thursday, April 23. See you there. vanderbilt.alumniq.com/index.cfm/ev...

Regression Modeling Strategies 4-day virtual course May 14-15, 18-19. More than regression:principled flexible modeling, accuracy, interpretation, selection, stability, validation, Bayes, contrast w/ML &more. hbiostat.org/course @amstatnews.bsky.social @instats.bsky.social #Statistics #StatsSky

Amitabh is a coauthor on arguably the best paper on high-deductible health insurance that we have (link to thread from a few months ago to follow)

Dan Weissmann@danweissmann.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“Nobody wants that product,” said Amitabh Chandra, a Harvard health economist who has studied high-deductible plans. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...

Come work with me! I'm hiring for a post-doc position with expertise in health economics, to work on projects about healthcare markets and organizational form. Apply at academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31702

We would like to recruit a stellar junior faculty member in the Division of Child Health Research and Policy @deptpopmed.bsky.social at Harvard. Please circulate this announcement widely! www.populationmedicine.org/divisions-ce...

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute@deptpopmed.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 We’re Hiring! @cherpdpm.bsky.social is recruiting for a full‑time position with a proposed academic appointment as Instructor or Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Full job details: tinyurl.com/233s3vjm Questions? Contact cherp@hphci.harvard.edu. Apply today!

Thanks to claude code, I wrote my first iphone app: apps.apple.com/us/app/time-... It's what I have always wanted for a talk timer (as both a speaker and a chair). It's very minimal, designed to be read from across the room, and make it clear when you're running out of time.

Time Will Tell App - App Store

Download Time Will Tell by Hadley Wickham on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Time Will Tell.

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Really enjoyed this candid ("Because I’m rich as fuck and I didn’t care about the money") conversation between @citizencohn.bsky.social and @mcuban.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-cuban...

Mark Cuban Tells Us How He Can Fix America’s Shitty Health Care

The entrepreneur wants to do what many in his position have tried and failed to accomplish.

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The Yale crew is awesome and doing incredibly innovative things in the Medicaid and SNAP space. If you're interested in health policy and a predoc, run, do not walk, to apply for this!

Jacob Wallace@jacobwswallace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 Predoc Opportunity at Yale! 🚨 Care about research that changes policy? My research team works within state government to advance evidence and learning for a smarter safety net! And our predocs have excellent PhD placements. Apply here! #EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs #HealthPolicy

ACA enhanced subsidies cap the maximum percent of income all Americans pay for non-group premiums at 8.5% income. But that doesn't mean everyone gets a subsidy. What's the maximum income you could have and still get a tax credit? The attached shows that max income for a single 57 year old in '26

This proposal is worth engaging for an under-appreciated reason.... H.R.1., passed this past summer, eliminates tax credit overpayment safe harbors for advance credits that end up too large relative to realized income the individual has during the coverage year www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown

GOP senators have proposed sending money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies.

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@allanmjoseph.bsky.social has been telling me there needs to be a "Dartmouth Atlas, but for pediatrics" for maybe a literal decade? And now there is! (h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)

Development of an Atlas for US Pediatric Acute Care

This cross-sectional study offers a national US atlas of pediatric acute care centers in the US.

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When is the point of no return for extending ACA tax credits? They expire 12/31, so that’s a drop dead date. Open enrollment starts November 1. If they’re not extended by then, enrollees may start dropping out. Even if open enrollment is extended, people could be hard to reach.

What's at stake in the debate over enhanced subsidies? The "average" American will spend about five years of their pre-Medicare lives in privately-purchased coverage. But these are often short spells, where marketplace plans provide a critical "bridge" at key transitional moments in life.

A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited to share new research led by Jessica Harvey exploring the budget impact of gene therapies for sickle cell disease, with a focus on Medicaid programs. Co-As: @ankurfactorial.bsky.social, @leah-rand.bsky.social, @akesselheim.bsky.social, & George Goshua. 🔗: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Modeling the Budgetary Impacts of Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapies on State Medicaid Programs - Journal of General Internal Medicine

Journal of General Internal Medicine -

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Overall, we estimate that longer hospital stays for Medicare Advantage patients are contributing to close to 2 million extra hospital bed days occupied by people who don't need to be there any more annually. This is a huge waste and bad for patient care. Why is this happening?

Next year, Marketplace enrollees are going to have a pay a larger percentage of their income in premiums (assuming Congress doesn't extend the current subsidy enhancements). Here's my overview of how it all works, including examples: www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/is-the-...

Does the IRS change how much I'll have to pay for my health insurance each year?

Unless Congress extends the subsidy enhancements, the percentage of income that you have to pay for self-purchased (individual/family) health coverage is going to increase significantly in 2026. This ...

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Until this year, consumers were largely shielded from rising premiums in exchange plans because enhanced premium tax credits capped premiums at no more than ~9% income for everyone. But not next year: premium tax credits will be lower & consumers will additionally shoulder the premium increases.

George Pearkes@peark.es · last yr.

Cost trends in general for patients on ACA exchange and Medicaid plans. Basically the premiums they set aren't high enough to cover the actual health care utilization of those to groups. Policy changes in Medicaid payouts are also playing a role.

New teaching hook for covering "job lock" in health economics courses just dropped.

The Tennis Letter@thetennisletter.bsky.social · last yr.

Venus Williams after becoming the oldest WTA match winner since 2004: “I had to come back for the insurance, because they informed me this year that I’m on cobra. So it’s like, I got to get my benefits on” 😭😭😭😭

Nearly everything I do today is empirics and coding. But my English degree is unquestionably the most important thing I took from (liberal arts) undergrad.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last yr.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Trump's bill could strip Medicaid from 12 million Americans. Repeal isn't enough. Democrats must use this opportunity to propose bold reforms that truly fix Medicaid’s core problems. In @thebulwark.com, I share how to build a system that actually works: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Dems Must Really Fix Medicaid, Not Just Undo Trump’s Damage to It

The party should use this as an opportunity to build toward universal coverage—working from these seven principles for reforming health care.

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Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it. Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)

Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries | NEJM

A total of 14 million Medicare beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), which reduces cost sharing in Medicare Part D. Losing the LIS may impede medication access and affect mortality. U...

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ADVISEES: YOUR MENTORS WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU'RE DOING. (And, yes, I know I could do better with reaching out to you, but leave that aside for the moment.) Please don't ever think you're bothering your former mentors with requests to catch up. They are not a bother. They want to hear from you.

The Value Zeitgeist — Considering the Slowdown in Health Care Spending Growth | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @melindabbuntin.bsky.social , Carrie Colla, and I argue it's too soon to give up on value-based care.

The Value Zeitgeist — Considering the Slowdown in Health Care Spending Growth | NEJM

Over the past two decades, the health care spending growth rate in the United States has declined. But reducing the emphasis on value-based care could lead to a resurgence in spending growth.

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