ICYMI:

I’ll be talking about the politics of Medicaid expansion tomorrow, May 2, at 12 pm EST!

To register, get in touch with Andrew Kelly!

It's INCREDIBLE that longitudinal admin data on tax records, recidivism, health, and much more, are now publicly and freely available. Wow! So many diff in diffs to run!! Congratulations CJARS! I am proud to have you as my colleagues!

There’s no bigger health care company than UnitedHealth Group. It’s grown to be the nation’s largest insurer — and largest employer of physicians. It’s bigger than Google and Microsoft.

Now some lawmakers want to chop it down.

washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

NEW: The Mississippi House & Senate have reached a compromise to expand Medicaid. But it includes a mandatory work requirement — something the Biden admin will never approve. It requires the state to keep applying each year until CMS approves it with the work requirements.

We are hiring a Program Coordinator! We are looking for somebody who is obsessed with making health care and coverage more affordable. Please apply if you are interested or share with someone who might be.

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Finally going through the 10 Year War. Jonathan Cohn is a master story teller and does a great job covering the different dimensions of the ACA's history and implementation.

I had a blast chatting with Jason A. Levitis and Health Affairs Jeff Byers for podcast discussion on how the ACA markets have matured. Take a listen here: healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hp2…

Job Alert: I was talking to Melinda B. Buntin and she is hiring for an Senior Modeler to work in her new Center at Hopkins (link below). She's not active on twitter anymore so I offered to tweet. Real cool job: reach out to her directly if interested!
hbhi.jhu.edu/initiatives/ch…

This work would not have been possible under the data policy CMSGov proposed (and thankfully postponed). Under that policy, we'd need to use the VRDC, which was too expensive even with our generous NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research grant. I'm hopeful CMS will keep listening to researchers' concerns here

Come hear me talk about the politics of Medicaid!

In a working paper, we find that Medicaid expansion made a lot of people change parties… but you’ll have to tune in to find out who, where, and how much!

Co-authors: James Jolin & Andrea Campbell

Potentially large ramifications for health care, where noncompetes have become common in physician groups acquired by hospitals & private equity firms.

brookings.edu/articles/priva…

Minimum nursing home staffing rule will soak up lots of attention today but this new Medicaid rule 'requiring providers to allocate at least 80% of home- and community-based payments to direct care worker pay' is HUGE too.

Great hire.

Brookings Center on Health Policy is hiring!

We have 2 openings:

- Research assistant: for folks graduating college to a few years out w/ background in economics, math, CS

careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3428/rese…

- Staff assistant: Administrative support

careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3431/staf…

Hey, nice tweet. The Menswear Guy quote tweeted it, James Medlock is asking if you want to make a bet, and Isaac Chotiner wants to interview you.

🚨New paper in Health Services Research 🚨

w/Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH Melissa Garrido Gretchen Jacobson Mike Adelberg Austin Frakt

Tl;dr: We measure MA network restrictiveness across specialties using a claims-based approach & correlate w/market factors

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Lots of gratitude to the researchers who wrote about — and coordinated letters on — this issue. I'm sure to be missing folks, but: Adam Sacarny Josh Gottlieb (also @GottliebEcon.you.know.where) Lauren H. Nicholas Rachel Werner Sujith Ramachandran Anirban Basu

That said, this is clearly the start of a conversation, not the end of one.