Michael Anne Kyle

Health Subcommittee: Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

Honored to be testifying before the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce today to discuss the role of the prescription drug supply chain in drug affordability. My testimony is linked below. energycommerce.house.gov/events/healt...

Administrative burdens: policymaking by other means

How One Study Saved Preventive Care When a federal court case threatened to virtually eliminate free preventive care in the U.S., two scholars used their research to effect change.

“I’m applying this dissemination approach to every piece of work I’m doing,” Dr. Jalpa Doshi said. “I’m choosing what I’m going to be working on based on its potential for impact.”

@pennldi.bsky.social

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My heart is breaking for all the parents who are desperately trying to figure out how to protect their children from their own government. My heart is breaking even more for those who came to the US to avoid this exact situation.

As an example of these dynamics, if the administration is concerned about the perception that these deals are unlikely to be meaningful, I don't know if it is helpful to center at the press conference the price reduction for brand-name Plavix, a drug which has had generic competition since 2012.

Being a patient with a chronic illness, or their caregiver, is a full time job. Health systems do not run themselves with the patient’s time in mind.

Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy

Recommend this excellent thread from Rachel, with additional observation that several scoring components of the RHTP incentivize workforce/scope of practice efforts which are undermined by this concurrent policy change: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

eagles are 8-2 and winning their division

consequentialism

Deontology: bsky.app/profile/bran...

To anyone who teaches ethics - the current Eagles team drama is a perfect case study of deontology vs consequentialism.

Fortunately, PTSD is a condition whose treatment is covered under the essential health benefits that remain in place thanks to the progress of the Affordable Care Act.

3) If you are donating items, please inspect them to be sure the packaging is fully intact.
4) Please check expiration dates. All food items have a "use by" date on the box/can. Writing the expiration date (MM/YY) on the box with a sharpie helps (I need to check every item).
Thanks.

As a food bank volunteer , some tips on how to be most helpful during this challenging time (personal views only):
1) If you can, avoid calling or emailing. Food banks are overwhelmed and are often staffed by volunteers. Most have websites with FAQs.
2) Prioritize $ donations when feasible.

Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo... Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
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Coverage restrictions aren’t free. Such a creative study - with super important implications!

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.

There's still time to sign! And please share.

#EconSky

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I found some of my papers in LibGen

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

A must-read piece. The part that resonates most for me personally is the importance of being in community - it means more than ever to give myself reminders of who I am working with and working for 🩷

Dropping my teen off at work shortly. This week they were scheduled for 23 hours, got sent home 2 hours early 2x this week as place was empty

Doesn't matter for them except slightly less thrifting

But this scenario will play hell with people w/ #Medicaid as work requirements are imposed.

The Safety Net Is There for a Reason It is hardly uncommon in certain political circles to hear that people ought to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn to thrive through their very own Horatio Alger story. But what's too often left out is that the American safety net - namely, Medicaid, CHIP, SSI, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- are the boots. And in this fallout from historic funding cuts, millions of Americans will now find themselves in even more precarious positions with respect to both their health and economic security.

Medicaid is under attack, despite its importance in helping many of the most vulnerable Americans in some of their hardest times trying to make their lives better

by @mirandayaver.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I wish we could get people to understand that there is enough for everybody on this earth if we do right by each other. Like there is plenty bro. More than plenty. We could all be great together, with full bellies and energized minds.

Important new review of ways researchers may be able to understand family #caregiver roles - and the need for more data on this “invisible” labor

My research was possible because of a career development grant from the NIH. The NIH directly and indirectly (via training grants) supported much of the work in this article.

The NIH supports basic science...and it supports research to make sure all of us can benefit from those discoveries.

I’ve spent my entire life working to improve the lives of people who are living in poverty. The need continues to get greater every day. I hope you join me in this drive because days like today make me want to fight harder for our collective humanity. I 💙 you, Medicaid.

Wulf: The 1976 protest that helped define Title IX movement Fed up with the inequalities they faced, 19 members of Yale's women's crew held a protest. That day helped define a moment.

I was a direct beneficiary of Title IX in college sports. Parity in women's sports is so recent that my college coach was coaching at Yale and present for this protest that led to Title IX. I'm sad this thing that gave me opportunity was used to deny the same to others.

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GitHub - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm: Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm

Trying to identify opioids and other drugs in pharmacy data (claims, PDMP, etc.)? Use my code to quickly build a list of national drug codes (NDCs) using the free public database RxNorm.

I wrote this code to replace the CDC's now-discontinued opioid NDC dataset.

github.com/asacarny/dru...

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

Please read this @khoureld.bsky.social story about the consequences of USAID cuts.

Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses.

(No paywall)