lorenadler.bsky.social
Fellow and Associate Director, Brookings Institution Center on Health Policy | mostly health econ, occasionally budgets or Knicks
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CBO predicts the House-passed work requirements would cause 4.8 million more people to go uninsured, most of whom the evidence suggests are likely to be working or should be exempt
Excellent op-ed today describing some of the on-the-ground challenges: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
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Cost estimate: www.cbo.gov/publication/...
More coverage detail: www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Plenty of ways to save big $$ w/o taking health insurance from >10 million & ↑ costs for millions more.
Here's one alternative path: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
From a fiscal perspective, even better would be to ditch the bill's net tax cuts that will add trillions to our debt.
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If the government’s position is that being trafficked to El Salvador by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller amounts to a final and irreversible deprivation of all rights, then it seems to me every federal court has a duty to permanently enjoin the practice as soon as it possibly can.
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(Me undoing the invention of Ozempic by deleting silly NIH grants) Jeff’s trying to bottle Gila monster spit again lmao
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There’s a lot of great stuff coming out about “abundance” and meanwhile the titans of the tech industry have embraced bizarro world degrowtherism, blocking housing in their backyards, destroying basic science research, and fearmongering about vaccines. Sad!