Live footage of conda dependency conflicts

Very disappointed that we couldn’t all agree that allowing our students to be attacked by a mob for hours is not acceptable leadership.

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An extremely important paper! There's a strong publication and media bias towards papers with a negative outlook on corporate owners in healthcare. This is a very careful paper that shows us the ways and contexts that chain ownership can actually benefit consumers. Worth a read!

📢New WP📢 Nursing homes are often severely understaffed, most residents' stays are covered by Medicaid or Medicare. Can policymakers structure payments to ⬆️ staffing? Yes!

How? Tie $ to staffing levels.

The structure of Medicaid payments can alleviate worker shortages in hard-to-staff healthcare jobs, from Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, Krista Ruffini, and Karen Shen nber.org/papers/w32412

Quickly! Everyone go cite this paper so that whoever is running this experiment gets a beautiful event study!

This Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, Krista Ruffini, and Karen Shen paper out today is interesting in light of the various labor shortages people were concerned about earlier in the pandemic. nber.org/papers/w32412

Yesterday: Gene Block creates an Office of Campus Safety run by a former police chief.

Today: we’re arresting reporters for filming police arresting students for violating an *unannounced* curfew by being on campus before 6am.

Apparently we’re now detaining students for being on campus before 6am due to a curfew that nobody (including me) has heard about? This feels like yet another unforced error.

I should install this app. Either I'll get ripped or I'll start being much more productive.

Super important findings, plus I just love the detective work mentality!

Full text of my article Forbes: What Prompted CMS To Change Course With Its Data Restrictions?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the delay of the implementation of its restrictions on accessing Medicare and Medicaid data. Initially, the agency

Really incredible and underappreciated reporting this week from the Daily Bruin and in recent weeks from student newspapers across the country.

A great day filled with high-quality presentations and thoughtful, engaging discussions at today's 2nd Annual Health Economics Day at @NYU Stern. Congratulations and thanks to the organizers Amelia Bond, Sunita Desai, Michael Dickstein, Adam Sacarny and Laura Wherry.

Look, guys… If my take of “only arrest the protesters committing violence/harassment or blocking buildings” is too woke, it’s a hill I’m willing to die on.

We allowed mob violence one night and arrested 200 students/faculty the next. It would be wrong for me *not* to speak out.

Incredible mental gymnastics: “I asked the police to arrest the protesters to protect them from the violent mobs that I refused to use police to stop...”

I’m not a PR expert, but I suspect this argument won’t play well.

Thoughtful write-up of our research by Dylan Scott with careful discussion of what we found, why we found it, and what it means for medical debt relief and healthcare policy.

Thanks Dylan Scott 🙏

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Disappointed that Gene Block chose to arrest >100 students/faculty that were peacefully protesting.

There's room for punishment or even arrest of *specific protesters* that are violent, blocking buildings, etc., but this type of mass-arrest of peaceful protesters is wrong.