Miranda Yaver

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

UnitedHealth isn't usually accused of improper claim *approvals*. Interesting case on how UHC's automated claim processing is leading to approval of claims missing key information, for uncovered services, or having other issues... with a side of UHC self-dealing. www.beckerspayer.com/legal/kraft-...

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

Happy publication to @alicemiranda.bsky.social, whose book Side Effects is out today! It's a critical examination of the health care ripple effects of the Dobbs ruling, and I cannot wait to assign this in my Health Law & Politics class. thenewpress.org/books/side-e...

Maine, it's a tie game. But the game isn't over yet. We have a chance to win our government back, but we all have to get out to vote. Make a plan to vote today: jacksonformaine.com/vote Thank you, @hannahpingree.bsky.social! I'm so excited to do great things for Maine together.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The staggering sweep of cuts made by this admin is hard to keep track of, but @scottlgreer.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social & I did our best, examining health policy effects of executive actions, rescissions, the OBBBA & the budget requests. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And we know Trump is a stickler about proper handling of national security information…

My wonderful coauthors @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social and I have a new Lancet piece on the health policy effects of budgetary mechanisms under this Administration. It comes with my favorite spite graph I’ve ever made

What a nice way to find out the paper is online! Seriously, this was a tough paper to write- so many negative findings for health. But we really believe it’s important to document these harms in peer reviewed papers.

My wonderful coauthors @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social and I have a new Lancet piece on the health policy effects of budgetary mechanisms under this Administration. It comes with my favorite spite graph I’ve ever made

Ever wonder about the effects of budgetary processes, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, on health policy & the social determinants of health? With coauthors @hjarman.bsky.social, @mirandayaver.bsky.social, & @scottlgreer.bsky.social, in Lancet RHA, we show there's little good news.

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

I am here for the Shakespearean humor.

Excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social piece on Congress's power of the purse, how that intersects with its oversight power, and how Dems might use them newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Arizona Democrats may be on the verge of passing sweeping expansions to voting access if they win. Arizona Republicans have relentlessly tried to suppress voters, leading to the Supreme Court’s 2021 Brnovich ruling where Alito gutted Voting Rights Act section 2 protections for voting access

Many seniors in traditional Medicare receive remote health monitoring services but will lose access, yet seniors -- esp those in rural areas -- may struggle to get in-person appts. It also undercuts the Rural Health Transformation Fund's goal of tech-based solutions kffhealthnews.org/medicare/rem...

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

This is a must-read piece on coverage denials and the ways that AI can exacerbate health insurance barriers, from health-endangering prior auth to burdensome appeals. And if this piqued your interest, read my book Coverage Denied (www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...). www.fastcompany.com/91623819/dea...

Seven musicians to get to know you: Bruce Springsteen Bob Dylan John Lennon Joni Mitchell Warren Zevon Lou Reed Paul Simon

Brazil. Absolutely amazing. Let's do it here next.

If you had told me at any point in Lula's 1st or 2nd term not only that I would be rooting for him in the future ... but also that I'd be rooting for his *4th* term, when he's *80*, after multiple corruption convictions... and that I would think it was of *urgent global importance* for him to win...

Derek Muller, not one for hyperbole, on DOJ's frivolous Alaska lawsuit, whose legal argument he calls "one of the worst I've ever seen." electionlawblog.org/2026/citing-...

Democrats saying we shouldn’t prioritize accountability for this administration’s corruption and authoritarianism. “The meanies are coming!” “Not now, Young Fred.” “They would! They are! What are you going to do?” “Finish the quartet.”

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

Most prior authorizations are already electronic, and these large employers design their self-insured health plans, including when and whether to rely on prior authorization in the first place. www.healthcaredive.com/news/five-ma...

Unfortunately Republicans hv been even harder @ work raising costs+ making life harder for Americans They hv already increased gas prices and imposed tariffs and cut Medicaid and SNAP Grassley helped each step along the way

Cheesecake Factory discourse and going all in on racism are both signs of having nothing to offer and a fundamental disrespect for the electorate so that you think such rhetoric will overcome having nothing to offer.

Jake Tapper, u up?

Randy Villegas is running to unseat David Valadeo, who voted for the not-so-beautiful bill despite nearly two thirds of CA-22 being on Medicaid. If you’re looking for a House seat to focus on trying to flip, look no further.

I usually set my alarm clock for 6:30 but wake up between 4:30-6. This AM, for the first time in ages, I slept past 6:30. Miss Maude correctly ascertained that this was unusual and incorrectly ascertained that this was impermissible on Sunday. Needless to say, she made for a cute 6:40 alarm clock.

Friendly reminder that despite some conservatives’ assertion that people will come to the US to take advantage of our health care system and run up a big tab, immigrants tend to be healthier than Americans. (The health divide narrows the longer they’re in the U.S. but hey, American exceptionalism!)

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

Send lawyers, guns, and money The shit has hit the fan

I’m glad Obama is out there campaigning, but because I dearly want @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social to win and because @atrupar.com deserves to get to cover non-noxious speeches.

The attacks on @ilhanmn.bsky.social and Somalians more generally are so blatantly racist. There is little substance by suggesting Somalians are more likely to be criminals and demeaning their country. It's as gross as it gets.

Happy Caturday, one and all. Miss Maude is spending the day in a board game box. As one does.

Props to the headline writer

I can confirm. Indivisible Action spends about a dime of every dollar raised on fundraising costs, which is very efficient. They are a good example of what a genuine grassroots operation looks like.

I don’t know why Democrats should care in the slightest what someone at the National Review thinks about their strategy.

This is the bad place.

Happy start to the World Series, to all who celebrate! Go Brewers.

Adding one more thing here: We did a survey experiment in May 2025 that showed that when people heard more about ICE overreach, they moved against the president on deportations. Then the news coverage of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia story verified this finding www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny