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
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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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Our article in Health Affairs Forefront on the “real waste, fraud, and abuse” in healthcare — Medicare and Medicaid privatization — is now up. MA Overpayments & excess Medicaid managed care overhead could cost as much as $1.9 trillion in coming decade. https://t.co/6hWEI2OyTt
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Our work on the harmful effects of profit-seeking in American health care, in this weeks Lancet
thelancet.com
Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated...
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Health providers brace for loss of immigrant workers due to Trump’s policies - Marketplace - https://t.co/3itic8apzQ
#GoogleAlerts
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Amid existing staffing shortages, immigration crackdown threatens long-term health care.
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Immigrants’ Premium and Tax Payments for Health Care Exceed the Costs of Their Care
jamanetwork.com
This cross-sectional study uses data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and the Current Population Survey to assess immigrants’ net financial contributions to the US health care system.
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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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The US health care system is already larded with bureaucracy; administrative costs account for nearly a third of total health care expenditures. Medicaid work requirements look set to siphon even...
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Mortality of Native Americans exceeds that of other Americans by 42%. Our shocking findings in today’s JAMA. https://t.co/Grh8KckQsx
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This longitudinal cohort study uses self-identified race and ethnicity data to examine age-specific mortality rates and life expectancy among American Indian and Alaska Native individuals.
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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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This cross-sectional study compares heat-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations among persons experiencing homelessness and nonhomeless populations.
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Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US
jamanetwork.com
This cohort study examines the association between wealth and longevity and estimates changes in longevity that would occur under several simulated wealth distributions among US adults.
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Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce
jamanetwork.com
This study explores the potential for health care staffing shortages in the US by estimating the number of immigrants employed in health care who could be affected by deportation or immigration...
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Our research group's work on how aggressive deportation policies threaten Americans' health care, in today's JAMA
medpagetoday.com
Survey study quantifies the role of immigrants, both documented and undocumented, in healthcare
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Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees: Our new JAMANetworkOpen study
medpagetoday.com
Those with MA and traditional Medicare plans had similar rates of care and spending on 'extras'
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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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A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
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Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat...
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⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. Read the latest assessment of the links between health and climate change: https://t.co/FgQsL7nIV3
#LancetClimate24
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Hard to overstate how disastrous a second Trump administration could be for health & healthcare. His first administration was hobbled by clownish disarray and incompetence, limiting impacts. A second administration will be far more prepared and “effective” - with grave results.
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Private equity: health care’s vampire https://t.co/EkYwuwOucE via @statnews
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Like vampires, private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America's hospitals and nursing homes, and feeding on doctors to generate profits.
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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. https://t.co/6VFF1iN8ni
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