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Tim Waidmann

@tawaid.bsky.social
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Urban Institute Senior Fellow, Medicare, Dual Enrollees, Public Health, Labor, Demography, and Health Policy. Michigan Economics PhD, Sad Dad band lover

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Fun discovery: on an apples-to-apples basis, Trump's tariff taxes are larger than the tax increases in the House-passed version of Build Back Better in 2021. Of course, the distribution of Biden's tax hikes on corporations and millionaires are different from Trump's tariffs.
Build Back Better raises $2.1T and Trump's tariffs raise $2.6T.
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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 25/01/2026
Good for him.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Trump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end. I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/01/2026
The real “domestic terrorists” are in the White House. The victim, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was reportedly a law abiding US citizen & an ICU nurse at the VA. He was licensed to carry a firearm. Trump & Miller are responsible for his killing & are now lying to the American people.
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 22/01/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
When it comes to stock market performance, just like Davos, Trump is a loser. Only India did worse last year, Canada's market rose more than twice as much deanbaker22.substack.com/p/when-it-co...
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When It Comes to the Stock Market, Trump Is a Loser
Only India's market did worse
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Somewhere in the D.C. suburbs, John Roberts is probably watching news reports from Minnesota and thinking, "you know, what we really need to do is give this man and his confederates *even more* unchecked power to act with impunity"
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Murderers and their cheerleaders. A Nuremberg reckoning better come for them all.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Defund. Abolish. Prosecute. ICE is lawless and destructive.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/12/2025
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead: House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New Health Affairs Scholar article on postpartum care under Medicaid. 76% had a visit between 61-365 days after birth, but this varied by state and individual factors. Our findings show benefits of recent 12-mo. postpartum extensions but suggest where gaps in care remain. doi.org/10.1093/hasc...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The deadly and inequitable consequences of U.S. economic stagnation. journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...
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Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational... : Epidemiology
ested. Methods: We exploit spatiotemporal variation in mortality and long-term economic conditions at the year and commuting zone level to estimate the relationship between macroeconomic restructur...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In February, the Urban Institute, in collaboration with Policies for Action, hosted a powerful, solutions-based event on advancing maternal health equity. Recording now available. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/events/advan...
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Advancing Maternal Health Equity: How Can Research, Policy, and Advocacy Inform Solutions?
Maternal and infant health inequities remain a significant challenge in the United States, disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. The Urban Institute, in collaboration wit...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
An assessment of Washington's Financial Alignment Initiative for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Health Care Providers Would Experience Significant Revenue Losses and Uncompensated Care Increases in the Face of Reduced Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🇨🇦😘 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans. Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban
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Downsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income Americans
The Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice features conversations with researchers and legal professionals about how we can reduce widespread disparities in medical care and health in...
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reupping my blog from yesterday. The major #Medicaid cuts under consideration to meet the budget resolution target of at least $880b in cuts are the same Medicaid cuts from failed 2017 repeal bills. House GOP leaders are just trying to disguise them as anti-fraud. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/s...
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The Commonwealth Fund @commonwealthfund.org · 25/02/2025
We already did the research on this. Work requirements jeopardize #Medicaid coverage without achieving meaningful employment gains. See our explainer to understand why work requirements don’t work.
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Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees
This explainer defines Medicaid work requirements, updates their current status at the federal and state levels, and describes their impact on enrollees.
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Lisa Dubay @ldubay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
E&C committee was asked to cut $880 billion to make way for tax cuts. Latest paper from my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues on what would happen to insurance coverage if the 90 percent FMAP for the Medicaid expansion was eliminated. www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Reducing Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion Would Shift Costs to States and Likely Result in Coverage Losses
Leadership in the House of Representatives has proposed substantial federal funding cuts to the Medicaid program over the next 10 years. This report focuses on the proposal to reduce the 90 percent fe...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How do we solve America's Maternal Health crisis? Register to listen in on 2/27. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/events/advan...
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Advancing Maternal Health Equity: How Can Research, Policy, and Advocacy Inform Solutions?
Maternal and infant health inequities remain a significant challenge in the United States, disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. The Urban Institute, in collaboration wit...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 11/02/2025
Welp. Apple didn't even hold out for one Scaramucci. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App
Apple Inc. is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its Maps app, following an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on his first day in office.
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Promising assessment of state innovation in long term care financing. crr.bc.edu/washington-s...
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Washington State Establishes a Long-Term Care Program
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In the 3 decades prior to the pandemic, gaps between black and white life expectancy narrowed, but progress was uneven across the states. We document here. Next step: Did policy produce these patterns? Stay tuned. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @rwjf.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...
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State Variation in Black and White Life Expectancy and Evolving Disparities
In this brief, we quantify differences in life expectancy between and within non-Hispanic Black and white populations over time and across states.
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Meet Bubblegum. Adorable and adoptable in Atlanta adopt.adopets.com/pet/b4f74012...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social work in Health Affairs Scholar exploring how we quantify the full value of social interventions affecting health #HealthPolicy bsky.app/profile/lmni...
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Len Nichols @lmnichols.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
UI Health Policy colleagues (@tawaid.bsky.social,@lisaclemancope.bsky.social,@bowengarrett.bsky.social, and Kima Taylor) and I just published in Health Affairs Scholar, (#HAScholar, @Health_Affairs) Tracing Value From Social Determinant Solutions, academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/01/2025
Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Medicare is more than half privatized, and it's costing taxpayers a lot of money open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race
Forty years of gaming the system
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Whose premiums will rise if enhanced premium tax credits allowed to expire? Well, everyone's, but the increases will vary by income level and state. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...
bar chart showing premium increases by income level if enhanced premium tax credits are not renewed
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Nick Sawyer, MD, MBA, FACEP @nicksawyermd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Trump’s return to the White House w Republican control of Congress may end Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Nine states—Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia—have trigger laws to end their expansion if federal funding decreases.
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9 States Poised To End Coverage for Millions if Trump Cuts Medicaid Funding - KFF Health News
About 3.7 million people are at immediate risk of losing health coverage should the federal government cut funding for Medicaid expansions, as some allies of President-elect Donald Trump have proposed...
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New from @jasonlevitis.bsky.social and colleagues at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Shifting to a state based Marketplace comes with opportunities and risks, but those who would be most directly affected believe that the risks outweigh the likely benefits. #healthpolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Considerations for a Potential State-Based Marketplace in Texas
This study summarizes and analyzes perspectives on a potential Texas transition to an SBM, including risks and benefits, best practices to mitigate risks to coverage if Texas elects to establish an SB...
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥
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Tim Waidmann @tawaid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
T-MSIS analysis of well-child visit rates among Black and white Medicaid-enrolled children before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rates fell for both groups, but fell more for Black children. #healthpolicy @laura-b-smith.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Well-Child Visits in Medicaid in 2019 and 2020
This brief examines well-child visit rates among Black and white Medicaid-enrolled children before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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