Tim Waidmann

With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead:

House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing

Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year

Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

Go Blue! Yay Julie

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations
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Thank you! Proud to call you my senator.

Hello @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov

Figure 1, panel b, Bar chart showing share of Medicaid enrollees receiving services between 61 and 365 days after giving birth.

What types of services are received in the post-partum year, and might be missed without expansions?

Work led by @laura-b-smith.bsky.social with @claire-obrien.bsky.social, @gmkenney.bsky.social , and Keqin Wei. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy

New Health Affairs Scholar article on postpartum care under Medicaid. 76% had a visit between 61-365 days after birth, but this varied by state and individual factors. Our findings show benefits of recent 12-mo. postpartum extensions but suggest where gaps in care remain.
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Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational... : Epidemiology ested. Methods: We exploit spatiotemporal variation in mortality and long-term economic conditions at the year and commuting zone level to estimate the relationship between macroeconomic restructur...

The deadly and inequitable consequences of U.S. economic stagnation. journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...

Advancing Maternal Health Equity: How Can Research, Policy, and Advocacy Inform Solutions? Maternal and infant health inequities remain a significant challenge in the United States, disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. The Urban Institute, in collaboration wit...

In February, the Urban Institute, in collaboration with Policies for Action, hosted a powerful, solutions-based event on advancing maternal health equity. Recording now available. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/events/advan...

An assessment of Washington's Financial Alignment Initiative for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...

Health Care Providers Would Experience Significant Revenue Losses and Uncompensated Care Increases in the Face of Reduced Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion

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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

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Downsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income Americans The Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice features conversations with researchers and legal professionals about how we can reduce widespread disparities in medical care and health in...

Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans.

Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban

Reupping my blog from yesterday. The major #Medicaid cuts under consideration to meet the budget resolution target of at least $880b in cuts are the same Medicaid cuts from failed 2017 repeal bills. House GOP leaders are just trying to disguise them as anti-fraud. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/s...

Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees This explainer defines Medicaid work requirements, updates their current status at the federal and state levels, and describes their impact on enrollees.

We already did the research on this.
Work requirements jeopardize #Medicaid coverage without achieving meaningful employment gains.
See our explainer to understand why work requirements don’t work.

Reducing Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion Would Shift Costs to States and Likely Result in Coverage Losses Leadership in the House of Representatives has proposed substantial federal funding cuts to the Medicaid program over the next 10 years. This report focuses on the proposal to reduce the 90 percent fe...

E&C committee was asked to cut $880 billion to make way for tax cuts. Latest paper from my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues on what would happen to insurance coverage if the 90 percent FMAP for the Medicaid expansion was eliminated. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Advancing Maternal Health Equity: How Can Research, Policy, and Advocacy Inform Solutions? Maternal and infant health inequities remain a significant challenge in the United States, disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. The Urban Institute, in collaboration wit...

How do we solve America's Maternal Health crisis? Register to listen in on 2/27. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/events/advan...

Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App Apple Inc. is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its Maps app, following an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on his first day in office.

Welp. Apple didn't even hold out for one Scaramucci.

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But voters decided to kill the program in November, which likely shifts burden back to Medicaid.

Washington State Establishes a Long-Term Care Program

Promising assessment of state innovation in long term care financing. crr.bc.edu/washington-s...

State Variation in Black and White Life Expectancy and Evolving Disparities In this brief, we quantify differences in life expectancy between and within non-Hispanic Black and white populations over time and across states.

In the 3 decades prior to the pandemic, gaps between black and white life expectancy narrowed, but progress was uneven across the states. We document here. Next step: Did policy produce these patterns? Stay tuned. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @rwjf.bsky.social
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Meet Bubblegum. Adorable and adoptable in Atlanta adopt.adopets.com/pet/b4f74012...

New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social work in Health Affairs Scholar exploring how we quantify the full value of social interventions affecting health
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UI Health Policy colleagues (@tawaid.bsky.social,@lisaclemancope.bsky.social,@bowengarrett.bsky.social, and Kima Taylor) and I just published in Health Affairs Scholar, (#HAScholar, @Health_Affairs) Tracing Value From Social Determinant Solutions, academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race Forty years of gaming the system

Medicare is more than half privatized, and it's costing taxpayers a lot of money open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

bar chart showing premium increases by income level if enhanced premium tax credits are not renewed

Whose premiums will rise if enhanced premium tax credits allowed to expire? Well, everyone's, but the increases will vary by income level and state. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
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