Stacie Dusetzina

This has been one long year.

Better news from today: Aspen earned her Fetch Novice title!

Tune in Friday, March 13 for our virtual seminar exploring whether Medicare Advantage is delivering on its promise and what reforms are needed to ensure a sustainable, affordable Medicare program for taxpayers and beneficiaries. This event is free and open to the public.
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Amid drastic Medicaid cuts, Ohio Department of Health director lays out rural program funding plans • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff laid out plans for a $202 million federal award aimed at rural health, following drastic Trump/Republican Medicaid cuts that will hit Ohio to th...

Ohio to lose 33 billion to Medicaid cuts. It will get, at most, 1 billion in rural health funding.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/27/a...

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

LOL. Would not be surprised at this point.

I appreciate receiving multiple copies of my abstract rejection after having received two notices previously of the same rejection. I get it. It is rejected. Please stop. 😭

They have long been a reliable source for training grants in my field so I can't imagine how it impacts PhD and post-doc funding in the next few years. Really sad.

That is what it sounds like. AHRQ funded for the T32 but no personnel to release funds is what I have heard.

Understanding the Impact of H.R.1 on Older Immigrants’ Access to Health Care - Justice in Aging H.R. 1 limits older immigrants’ access to Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA tax credits, leaving many uninsured and unable to afford care.

Later this year, a new law will end Medicare eligibility for hundreds of thousands of lawfully present older immigrants, including some refugees and asylees.

Here's what advocates need to know:

look all i fucken care about is that whoever buys warner brothers renames hbo again

Yep. Funding is about a year late for a post doc program that was supporting one of my fellows. An award already made, but no dollars released. Also hearing similar things from faculty about R01s.

If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

@charlesduan.bsky.social, @akesselheim.bsky.social, Sean Tu and I filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to open the “skinny label” pathway to generic competition that the Federal Circuit has effectively closed. To the 76 professors who signed the brief, thank you!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Guinea-Bissau officials stop CDC-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial The country's foreign minister told Reuters the controversial trial is "not going to happen."

BREAKING NEWS: Unethical, CDC Infant Hep B Vaccination Study Cancelled!

The study was cancelled after Stand Up for Science held a closed door briefing with Congress last week, with an investigator on the ground in Guinea Bissau.
(1/2🧵)

www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/gu...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Will Novo Nordisk’s slashing of obesity drug prices save patients’ money? It depends Will Novo Nordisk’s slashing of obesity drug prices save patients’ money or expand access? It depends.

Novo obesity drug list pricing change in Jan. 2027 not expected to change net price so experts told STAT not to expect it to lead to coverage expansion.

www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/n...

As my colleague Andy Schneider explained there is a complex administrative process CMS has to follow to preemptively withhold or retrospectively disallow federal #Medicaid funding for a state like MN. It would be unlawful to just unilaterally halt federal funding: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/16/c...

Thanks, Robin. Lots of love to you. 💜💜

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS The Polio Crusade | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS

On this day in 1954, children at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh received the first injections of Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine. Dr. Salk displayed his confidence in the vaccine by using it on his family during the trial stage.
#trustscience

We are set to spend $10 trillion on the military over the next decade

The Trump plan would make it $15 trillion - a $5 trillion increase

Expanding Medicare to cover dental/vision/hearing care was estimated to cost ~$400 billion over a decade

Read that and thought it was a cookie (the oreo-like, but not really oreo cookie).

Read that and thought it was a cookie (the oreo-like, but not really oreo cookie).

"Those fears are beginning to come true, according to executives and investors involved with companies that develop & sell vaccines... At conferences & in interviews, they described the emerging consequences of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the longstanding federal support for vaccines."

The $1,000 Cancer Test That Makes Us Feel Safer, But May Not Make Us Healthier A major trial failed to show fewer late-stage cancers. So why are we so eager to buy tests that reassure us?

The $1,000 Cancer Test That Makes Us Feel Safer, But May Not Make Us Healthier
A major trial failed to show fewer late-stage cancers. So why are we so eager to buy tests that reassure us?
Read & subscribe (for free!) www.celinegounder.com/p/the-1000-c...

Always love reading @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.

Opinion | ICE Is Watching You - The New York Times share.google/RZ3ofRqOD1R4...

Is It Worth It? | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Check out the costs of proposed policies, tax breaks, and federal spending in the U.S. budget. Compare the annual or total cost with the cost per person, per taxpayer, or per household to see if you t...

For less than 18% of that cost, we could do universal
- Pre-k
- Child care
- National paid family leave program
- Free community college
www.crfb.org/interactives...

My dad died 5 years ago yesterday. I really miss him. He was a one of a kind person.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

One Pivotal Trial, the New Default Option for FDA Approval — Ending the Two-Trial Dogma | NEJM This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.

This is just needless, self-destructive, and problematic as regulatory policy. Also there never was and isn’t a two trial “dogma.” Bad headline, NEJM.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....