This story is mostly about a plastic surgeon who has trademarked the name "Dr. Penis." Yet the headline does not include that moniker or any dick puns. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

A $440,000 Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed In on a Consumer Protection Law

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The One Big Beautiful Bill ratchets up work requirements for Medicaid. In the process it will force states to pay millions more to Equifax to verify that residents qualify for the program. Wild story by @sangerkatz.bsky.social @asmaaelk.bsky.social and Sarah Kliff www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

‘A Big Positive’: How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts

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Want to be my boss? @upshot.nytimes.com is looking for a new editor. It's a great job leading a creative, collaborative, fun team, if I do say so myself. t.co/EMsA6p7eSh

How the GOP mega-bill bill finds its savings: piling more paperwork on the poor. w/ @sangerkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork

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Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits for the rich. The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (Gift Article)

Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.

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A Complete List of Everything in the Republican Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save (This very long list is now updated with Congressional Budget Office estimates) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A bunch of papers cited in the government MAHA report are apparently fake. www.notus.org/health-scien... ‪@emilykennard.bsky.social‬ @margaretmanto.bsky.social‬

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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Easily one of my favorite stories we've ever worked on. Have you ever... not gotten around to opening your mail for a week or two? That's the kind of thing that will get a low-income family kicked off benefits. The GOP reconciliation bill would ramp up such hurdles.

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If you want to think more about how paperwork can prevent eligible people from getting benefits, this piece 2020 piece with @emmbadger.bsky.social has a fun quiz, a large survey, and lots of research, and features photos of our boss's mail. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you want to think more about how paperwork can prevent eligible people from getting benefits, this piece 2020 piece with @emmbadger.bsky.social has a fun quiz, a large survey, and lots of research, and features photos of our boss's mail. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Take the Quiz: Could You Manage as a Poor American? (Published 2020)

See whether you make the kinds of mistakes that can cost poor families food or health insurance.

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Here's a complete list of *everything* in the GOP megabill, thanks to heroic efforts from @aliciaparlap.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social and Josh Katz. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Complete List of Everything in the Republican Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save

We highlighted the substantive changes made by House Republicans to secure the support of several holdout members.

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NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Medicaid work requirement in the House bill is a lot stricter than work requirements in previous legislation. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... with Sarah Kliff

Republicans Pass Strictest Medicaid Work Requirement They Have Ever Put Forward

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If House Manager Amendment ending #Silverload is signed into law I expect numerous insurers to leave the ACA market in 2026... Pay particular attention to Texas

If a non-expansion state newly adopts expansion, hospitals/other providers see those SDPs at 110% of Medicare fall to 100%. Creates another disincentive for states to take up expansion along with other provisions including elimination of existing fiscal incentives to encourage expansion (7/x)

Scalise says 2027 is the new target date to implement Medicaid work requirements

Congress is looking at major changes to the Medicaid expansion. New research finds it has saved 27,000 lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...

As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives

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As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...

As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives

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Republicans in W&M voted down an amendment that would have permanently extended enhanced Obamacare subsidies. @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social, who introduced it, argued that if Congress was using a current policy baseline for tax cuts, it should also do so for the subsidies.

In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Millions Would Lose Health Coverage Under G.O.P. Bill. But Not as Many as Democrats Say.

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Read @tonyromm.bsky.social on the many the ways the Trump agenda will put pressure on state budgets. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Chasing Tax Cuts, Trump and Republicans Want to Make States Pay

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My colleague Claire Cain Miller is hoping to hear from folks about challenges facing boys and young men. Please read her article and share your stories here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

What’s Going On With Boys and Young Men? We Want to Hear From You.

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CMS just proposed a rule to make it harder for states to increase their federal Medicaid match by taxing managed care providers. The policy is similar to a provision in the House legislation released last night. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08566.pdf h/t @newscat44.bsky.social

There's relatively little substantive content in the text of the MFN EO, but this section is emblematic of the many, many questions people should have about its scope. Where will the Secretary get this pricing information? How will they decide "price targets"? For which drugs? Which countries? Etc.

The morning after House Republicans release a plan to reduce Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions, Sen. Josh Hawley is out with an op-ed encouraging his colleagues not to cut the program. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

Bluesky friends: Any theories about the story behind the special Tennessee DSH policy in this bill?

Read Phil Galewitz on Medicaid provider taxes, in a story that cites many individual hospitals that enjoy paying them and depend on related revenue streams. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Seeking Spending Cuts, GOP Lawmakers Target a Tax Hospitals Love To Pay - KFF Health News

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers.

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Some left-leaning analysts think CBO has underestimated the insurance coverage losses that would be caused by various Medicaid cuts. Read @xpostfactoid.bsky.social for the details: xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2025/05/cbo-...

CBO lowballs coverage losses if Republicans defund the ACA Medicaid expansion

CBO underestimates coverage losses if Republicans defund the ACA Medicaid expansion

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I expect this newsletter to be dollar-positive before it becomes dollar negative. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Medicaid Taxes Pay for Themselves

Also tariff loans, OpenAI/Microsoft and stock buybacks.

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In some states, provider taxes and related payments bring in more than a third of overall federal funding for Medicaid. If Republicans end the tactic, red states could feel the most pain.

G.O.P. Targets a Medicaid Loophole Used by 49 States to Grab Federal Money

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I first learned about Medicaid provider taxes when I was covering health policy in the New Hampshire state legislature in the 2000s. Everyone called them "mediscam." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

G.O.P. Targets a Medicaid Loophole Used by 49 States to Grab Federal Money

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