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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

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:

gofundme.com

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

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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."

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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.

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KFF @kff.org · 27/02/2026

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: on.kff.org/3MAirwJ

The image is a line graph from KFF titled "The Medicaid Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) Program Finds that Medicaid Pays Most Outlays Properly." It displays a comparison of Medicaid overall improper payment rate estimates, showing two lines: "Proper payments" in blue and "Improper payments" in green. The graph covers the years 2009 to 2025 on the x-axis, with a percentage scale from 0% to 100% on the y-axis. A note at the bottom clarifies that "improper payments" are not indicative of fraud.

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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-...

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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.

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🚨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

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Nathan Miller | Professor, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business and Department of Economics | Economist -- Antitrust Division (U.S. DOJ)

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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Ari B Friedman @abfriedman.com · 15/11/2024

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...

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

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

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 09/10/2023

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

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

Caption reads “emotional support alligator denied access to the Phillies game” with a photo of an older man holding an alligator on a leash

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

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

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Sarah Schutz @econwithsarah.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

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

Scene of Philadelphia from the south street bridge, including major skyscrapers and the schuylkill river

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