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beastcoaster.bsky.social
Health economist by training, HRQOL researcher by profession. Developer of discrete choice experiments. Lifelong resident of the Atlantic side of the map.
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The effects of Medicaid expansion under the ACA from Wyse and Meyer (Dartmouth): 1. *Lives saved*: 21% reduction in the mortality hazard of new enrollees. 2. *Cost-effective*: $179,000 per life-year saved.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

submitted 24 days ago • 119 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 26 days ago • 812 comments

[the great recession in a world where everyone is a drag queen] this is fed chair slay bootsnanke and I have to tell you, lehman mothers bank is flopping... people divafaulted on their slayprime mort-gag-ges, and now we need cuntitative teasing

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

“Now students are being violently arrested and disappeared in the name of fighting antisemitism—and American Jews are left holding a gun a majority of us never asked for.” Must read from @marisakabas.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

On End Times Fascism: "We simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before. The 'end of history' swagger of the post-cold war era is rapidly being supplanted by a conviction we are in the actual end of times." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

look if you want a realistic understanding of how healthy cocaine is for your heart you have to interview a lot of cartel leadership, otherwise you're just not armed with the information you need to make that judgement

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

submitted 33 days ago • 237 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 33 days ago • 433 comments

Conservatives waiting to post the second the market is up before it inevitably crashes again in ten minutes is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. Father Trump is doing a fine job, they say, yes a fine job

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

i 100% think that the whole democratic party should make this clear.

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

submitted 34 days ago • 75 comments

I know this is going to hurt us a lot more than it’ll hurt him and I’ll look back at this moment with no small amount of grief but Caveman Brain is happy to see Bad Tribe Chief bleed.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

the stock market is already wishing that the president had announced a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

A single point estimate for demand elasticity for all imported goods is just so wild. As if demand elasticity for pharmaceuticals is going to be the same as it is for funko pops? Christ alive.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments