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Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. Promoting policy-minded and public-facing academic work across central and western PA. Co-leaders: @cmwitko.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
As I wrote in @medpagetoday.com, if we're meant to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, we need boots. America's safety net (e.g. Medicaid) is the boots, and the additional changes headed Medicaid's way will further undercut the security of vulnerable patients. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | Cutting Medicaid Funding Isn't the Only Worrisome Change to the Program
Restrictions on demonstration projects will further hinder access to care
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Sobering analysis of Trump’s first 100 days for healthcare by @scottlgreer.bsky.social Jarman, Kulikoff and my Central PA SSN codirector @mirandayaver.bsky.social @ssncentralpa.bsky.social @scholars.org www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Trump's second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system
The first hundred days of the second Trump administration was unprecedented, with the administration taking remarkably aggressive, often questionably …
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform - Journal of Academic Ethics
Student evaluations of teaching are ubiquitous in the academe as a metric for assessing teaching and frequently used in critical personnel decisions. Yet, there is ample evidence documenting both meas...
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Will democratic backsliding lead to outmigration from US or from particularly backsliding states to others within the US? Yeah, I think so. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My MSNBC debut, on the rising ACA premiums. The Trump Admin is letting the Biden Admin's enhanced subsidies expire, making marketplace ins prohibitively expensive (so younger/healthier people will drop out, leaving the rest costlier to insure), & tariffs aren't helping. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Republicans are trying to turn their attacks on Obamacare into self-fulfilling prophecies
For those who buy insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act, premiums are about to get much more expensive.
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 18/06/2025
📢The Senate Finance Committee released its "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," with major #Medicaid changes from the House version. For reporters covering what these proposed changes could mean for healthcare access & public health, these experts are available. ⤵️ 🔗 Connect: scholars.org/features-exp...
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 23/06/2025
"Republicans are being very selective in the budget numbers they highlight. They claim that almost all Americans will receive a tax cut. What they don’t mention is how huge those tax cuts will be for the rich compared to everyone else," — @chris-howard.bsky.social in this @pilotonline.com op-ed. ⤵️
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Column: Republican budget has a few big winners, many losers
Virginians must make their voices heard if they want a smarter, fairer budget from Washington, William & Mary professor Christopher Howard writes in a guest column.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Thanks Miranda and thanks @scholars.org for the help getting this placed. This is indeed a big, very bad, bill.
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SSN Central PA @ssncentralpa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Miranda Yaver, co-leader of the Central PA chapter of @scholars.org, spoke with Newsweek about the public health challenges under RFK Jr. "This trust will be difficult to rebuild, especially as we see the continued hollowing out of the public health bureaucracy. www.newsweek.com/rfk-maha-rep...
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Everything new in RFK Jr's MAHA proposal
"The trust issues are quite far-reaching" and impact public perception towards health-based changes across the U.S., a health professor told Newsweek.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I spoke with Newsweek about how RFK Jr./MAHA have quickly eroded trust in health communications and data, and why that's especially dangerous in the setting of vaccines. www.newsweek.com/rfk-maha-rep...
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Everything new in RFK Jr's MAHA proposal
"The trust issues are quite far-reaching" and impact public perception towards health-based changes across the U.S., a health professor told Newsweek.
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 22/05/2025
📢 The House has passed the #BigBeautifulBill, introducing several proposed changes to #Medicaid. For reporters covering these proposals and their potential impact, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️🧵 🔗 Connect: scholars.org/features/exp...
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here is a blog post with a quick summary of this article: medium.com/3streams/cul...
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Culpability and Redistribution Concerns in Support for Struggling Workers and Firms
Affluent democracies, including the United States, recently experienced the two largest recessions since the Great Depression. During such…
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 18/02/2025
#Tariffs are promoted as a way to protect American workers—but do they work? In this No Jargon podcast ep, Erica Owen (University of Pittsburgh) discusses the shifts in U.S. #tradepolicy under #Trump & the effects they’re having on businesses, workers & consumers. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/4k0RfmD
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I wrote this based on my JHPPL article on inequitable administrative burdens of appealing coverage denials, incorporating a new interview I did with a doc who reviews claims for a major insurer and who said, "We’re told denying things is OK because people can appeal" www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/h...
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‘Rationing by inconvenience’: Health insurers count on customers not appealing denials
Call it “rationing by inconvenience”: Health insurers save money when customers are too exhausted to bother appealing denials.
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 16/01/2025
#Trump has bold plans for a second term in office, but how feasible are they? In this No Jargon podcast episode, @donmoyn.bsky.social helps separates fact from fiction to explore what Trump’s plans could mean for the future of the country. Listen now: buff.ly/4j17MXh
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Suzanne Mettler. @smettler.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Excited & honored to lead the Scholars Strategy Network! A wonderful organization, uniquely prepared for this moment, w/37 chapters nationwide!
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I have a new op-ed in The Hill on a less discussed aspect of the health insurance coverage delays and denials we've been talking about the last several weeks, and why ERISA reform is needed to deliver the health insurer accountability that these conditions demand. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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This nightmare delay and denial shows why patients need a bill of rights
Reform didn’t come in time for Frank Wurzbacher, but it might help to prevent future tragedies.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Blog post on research with Toby Heinrich on how self interest and knowledge of AI shape preferences for AI regulation @ssncentralpa.bsky.social #AI #artificialintelligence
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CT SSN Chapter @ctscholarsnetwork.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
📅 Interested in joining @scholars.org ? Join our info session on Wednesday, December 18th at 2pm ET to learn about our mission, membership benefits, and how to get involved. Already a member? Share this with your colleagues! scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...
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SSN Central PA @ssncentralpa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
@mirandayaver.bsky.social highlights the large scope of health insurance coverage denials (36% of survey respondents, most of whom experience multiple denials) & how insurers' reliance on AI in claim processing can exacerbate this health policy problem (lawsuits allege 90% reversal rate on appeal!).
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you are interested in the work of a group of engaged policy scholars in Central and Western PA, give us a follow!
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SSN Central PA @ssncentralpa.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hello! We are the Central PA chapter of @scholars.org, co-led by @cmwitko.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social. We'll be posting updates about our members' work (ranging from health policy to inequality to labor and more), and stay tuned for updates about a spring health policy event!
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