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Miranda Yaver

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Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt. Roosevelt Institute Author-in-Residence. Cal bear/Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MSNBC. Writing on health insurance and administrative burden. Pre-order Coverage Denied: https://cup.org/4nfM2IM

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15d

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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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 15d

Coming 2026!

@mirandayaver.bsky.social's Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States is a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities.

Pre-order now! 🗺️ 🩺📊

https://cup.org/4nfM2IM

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 25m

Happy Caturday from our home to yours.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 10h

Typos aside, there is simply no such thing.

ECGs are not an indicator of age.

They literally do not contain that information, either directly or indirectly.

This is just made up gobbledygook.

So, my question is: why?

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1h

I taught Constitutional Law during the first Trump Administration.

I’m teaching public health during the second Trump Administration.

This is worse.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, that’s our hope too.

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@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social looking in your direction!

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1h

I am officially rooting for the Mariners to win the World Series.

Circling Seattle Sports @circlingseasports.bsky.social · 8h

MARINERS WIN

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 11h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 2d

How weak must your beliefs be if you think a kid reading a book is going destroy those beliefs

Matt Cohen @mattcohen.bsky.social · 2d

I spotted Marlon Bundo on the "Children's Banned Books" display at The Strand this weekend. It's so sad that we live in a world where this is a real category.

Some of the books in the "Children's Banned Books" display in The Strand bookstore include Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi, Sylvester And The Magic Pebble by William Steig, A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundt by Jill Twiss (illustrated by EG Keller), When Aiden Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff (illustrated by Kayla Juanita), It's Perfectly Normal by Robin H. Harris and Michael Emberley, The Amazing Bone by William Steig, No, David! by David Shannon, Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, Green Eggs And Ham by Dr. Seuss, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (illustrated by Clement Hurd), The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak, The Family Book by Todd Parr, The First To Die At The End by Adam Silvera, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (pictures by Garth Williams), Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. (art by Eric Carl), Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love, and many others.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Maude has spent most of the last 24 hours hiding under the bed in fear of a friend staying with us (she’s shy around strangers, even though this friend is a cat lady), but she’s decided that now she’s brave enough to be sociable with the humans.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Oh that’s delightful

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Come to Pittsburgh! We’ve got a good cocktail scene.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Had a ladies night with a good friend who’s in town and a good friend in my apartment building. This tequila-based cocktail was delectable and bird-shaped, complete with a feather.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

Well fuck

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23h

Dear NYT: When an anti-education fuckwit billionaire submits an op-ed on why we should dismantle higher education as we know it, you aren't obligated to print their nonsense.

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Ronald W. Berkowsky, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @ronaldberkowsky.bsky.social · 23h

A glaring example of how attacks on DEI can significantly impact infrastructure development and keep underserved populations without needed resources. In this case, canceling the Digital Equity Act’s funding on grounds of “racism” limits rural communities in addressing/closing the digital divide.

KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 1d

A 91-year-old learns to check health portals; a 7-year-old finally can do homework. They were among rural residents helped by a digital navigator, until President Trump abruptly canceled the Digital Equity Act’s dollars.
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Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

In this case, they're being cited for EMTALA violations. But they have other hospitals where the patient abuse has been so bad that DCFS has refused to send adolescents to their hospitals.

This would be a good time to have a DOJ that was inclined to investigate these kinds of problems.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

When I saw this headline, my first thought was, I'll bet dollars to donuts that this is Universal Health Services. And it is.

UHS owns hundreds of for-profit behavioral health hospitals, most of which deliver substandard care, and many under DOJ investigation for fraud and patient abuse.

An Arm and a Leg @armandalegshow.bsky.social · 1d

According to this @propublica.org investigation, psychiatric hospitals are denying care to patients they are legally required to treat. And 80% are owned by for-profit corporations.

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.

www.propublica.org

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

We're close to completing our list for September. Look for it on our site next week. If you need a refresher, or, you know, lean toward masochism, here are all 416 atrocities committed by the Trump administration since the reality TV star/steak salesman/convicted felon took office.

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Still amazed that the Vatican has been more responsive to the threat Trump represents than the vast majority of American institutions.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

I am so in love with this critter.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

The Onion is so damn good.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d

This new piece for @rooseveltforward.org by @resnikoff.bsky.social combines two of my favorite things: building housing and building community. Come for the scaffolding; stay for the Skocpol.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/yimbytown-...

The Place Where Civic Life Still Feels Fun—And What It Teaches Us About YIMBYtowning Our Politics

A visit to YIMBYtown tells you why the movement has been so successful. The lessons it offers may even point the way to a broader democratic renewal. Progressive groups and policymakers should study Y...

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