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Leslie Walker

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Senior health care reporter and producer at Tradeoffs

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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thank you @dgorenstein.bsky.social and @lesliemwalker.bsky.social for featuring my FDA reporting on @tradeoffs.org! It was a great conversation. Listen to the podcast episode here: tradeoffs.org/2026/07/09/a...
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As Drama at Trump's FDA Subsides, Doubts and Damage Linger
We talk with STAT News reporter Lizzy Lawrence about the agency’s recent turmoil and its hunt for a new leader.
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Tradeoffs @tradeoffs.org · 19/12/2025
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Tradeoffs @tradeoffs.org · 16/10/2025
Want to join the Tradeoffs team? We’re looking for an experienced health care journalist ready to contribute to our distinct footprint at a moment of audience and impact growth for our newsroom. Learn more and apply: tradeoffs.org/reporter-pro... Applications accepted through October 19.
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Reporter/Producer
We're looking for an experienced health care journalist ready to contribute to Tradeoffs' distinct footprint at a moment of audience and impact growth for our newsroom.
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Tradeoffs @tradeoffs.org · 10/07/2025
North Carolina’s former health secretary, Kody Kinsley, explains the heavy lift and hard choices ahead of states as they rush to put Republicans’ new health reforms in place. tradeoffs.org/2025/07/10/b...
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As the Big Beautiful Bill Becomes Law, States Face a ‘Daunting’ Rollout
North Carolina’s former health secretary explains the heavy lift and hard choices ahead of states as they rush to put Republicans' new health reforms in place.
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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Thank you to Bob Langreth, Tanaz Meghjani, and Rachael Dottle for the rigorous reporting and for sharing my family's experience as part of this piece. Especially important as we hear about all of the "breakthroughs" at ASCO.
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Cancer Drugs Cost More Than Ever. They Often Don’t Extend Lives
Pharmaceutical companies are making billions on treatments that can sometimes overpromise and underdeliver for terminal cases.
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Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH @joefigs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
CBO projects that House reconciliation bill will cause 1.38 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries to lose Medicaid coverage We estimate that this will lead to over 18,000 avoidable deaths per year stemming from loss of drug subsidies Link to our memo led by @pennldi.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mwfcDA
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Tricia Neuman @tricia-neuman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Here’s a tidbit from CBO that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. CBO says the House bill will trigger about $500 billion in Medicare savings unless Congress takes action. www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
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House Reconciliation Bill Could Trigger $500 Billion in Mandatory Medicare Cuts
The reconciliation bill reported out of the House Budget Committee would increase the deficit compared to current law by at least $2.3 trillion. If enacted into law in its current form, and Congress t...
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As @lesliemwalker.bsky.social writes for Tradeoffs today, discussing the paper’s findings, that regulation “was poised to help nearly 1 million more duals gain this extra medication assistance, but the latest Republican proposal delays that rule until 2035.”
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Tradeoffs: How Cutting Medicaid Could be Deadly
Two new research papers add important data to the fierce political debate over Medicaid in Washington, D.C. Both offer strong evidence that Medicaid, the public insurance program that covers more than...
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Leslie Walker @lesliemwalker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Also worth noting this suit alleges that MA insurers pressured brokers to enroll fewer disabled beneficiaries, who the insurers “perceived to be less profitable”
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Really terrific @tradeoffs.org interview with my colleague, Ari Ne'eman, on what Medicaid cuts could mean for people with disabilities — and how to think about this moment in the arc of disability rights activism
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What Republican Health Cuts Could Mean for People with Disabilities
We talk with Harvard researcher Ari Ne’eman about why the sharp policy shifts underway in Washington pose a unique threat to people with disabilities.
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