Steffie Woolhandler
@swoolhandler
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Physician, Professor, Single Payer Medicare for All Advocate
Joined December 2012
Executives @LillyPad may be raging about losing market cap due to Twitter prank. But how about losing your life because you, like 1.3 million other diabetic Americans are forced to ration insulin? Our research in @AnnalsofIM
UPDATE—Just learned that Eli Lilly executives are raging and furious at losing $20 billion in market cap from this stunt with @TwitterBlue. It’s too bad they don’t see their own damn insulin price gouging as the actual problem. Karma @LillyPad, karma.
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Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative Inefficiencies | out today in Health Affairs
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Mortality of Native Americans exceeds that of other Americans by 42%. Our shocking findings in today’s JAMA.
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This group is the most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses by far
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Heat-Related Illness Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness. New from our group and HMS student Taylor Weckstein
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Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce
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Our research group's work on how aggressive deportation policies threaten Americans' health care, in today's JAMA
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Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees: Our new JAMANetworkOpen study
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Our profit-oriented health insurance system traps parents of kids with cystic fibrosis in dead end jobs: study in @JAMAPediatrics
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RT @Morning_Joe: A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital .
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RT @LancetCountdown: ⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ . The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing record-breaking threats fro….
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RT @awgaffney: Hard to overstate how disastrous a second Trump administration could be for health & healthcare. His first administration w….
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New research, led by Harvard General Medicine Fellow @emily_lupez , from @LabCambridge.
In this study representing 1.4 million+ people in US prisons, there was high, and possibly increasing, prevalence of mental health and chronic physical conditions, as well as poor access to care. Co-payments were associated with worse access.
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New research from our group @LabCambridge Health, Access to Care, and Financial Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons
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RT @awgaffney: We (@labcambridge) have a new study just up examining how healthcare spending at the state level (1991-2019) in the Medicare….
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RT @PNHP: “Project 2025 proposes making privatized Medicare Advantage the ‘default enrollment option’ for seniors, which would no doubt be….
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