Harold Pollack
@haroldpollack.bsky.social
University of Chicago Professor. Posts are my own. Reposts do not imply endorsements. Oh--Pay your credit card off in full every month. That's the best risk-free,-tax-free investment available on Planet Earth.
Prooreading posts is apparently for the little peop3le......
Concerning esults reported by Nagler et al: 59% of Americans are neutral/display some degree of support for cutting funds for work that "provides the foundational knowledge about how the natural world works, which might lead to future discoveries about human health www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Public Concern about Threats to Public Health and Science Remains Modest | Milbank Memorial Fund
US adults’ awareness of actions threatening public health and science declined between March and September 2025, according to a new survey.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Prooreading posts is apparently for the little peop3le......
Concerning esults reported by Nagler et al: 59% of Americans are neutral/display some degree of support for cutting funds for work that "provides the foundational knowledge about how the natural world works, which might lead to future discoveries about human health www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Public Concern about Threats to Public Health and Science Remains Modest | Milbank Memorial Fund
US adults’ awareness of actions threatening public health and science declined between March and September 2025, according to a new survey.
www.milbank.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Concerning esults reported by Nagler et al: 59% of Americans are neutral/display some degree of support for cutting funds for work that "provides the foundational knowledge about how the natural world works, which might lead to future discoveries about human health www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
My most recent column in Milbank Quarterly Opinion. Medicaid’s Essential Investments to Address Health-Related Social Needs www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Medicaid’s Essential Investments to Address Health-Related Social Needs | Milbank Memorial Fund
nsider the story of John Miller, a fictionalized Chicagoan, who lives with a serious mental illness and co-occurring addiction disorders. He recently left a psychiatric inpatient facility. Estranged ...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My most recent column in Milbank Quarterly Opinion. Medicaid’s Essential Investments to Address Health-Related Social Needs www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Listening to a podcast where Jon Stewart is saying that the ACA is just subsidies to insurance companies. That’s akin to saying that SNAP is just subsidies to supermarkets.
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Listening to a podcast where Jon Stewart is saying that the ACA is just subsidies to insurance companies. That’s akin to saying that SNAP is just subsidies to supermarkets.
Racing to my train today, I pulled over halfway there with an "oh-f***k" realization: I forgot my phone. Just then, I looked up to see @veppol.bsky.social pull up behind, the phone in hand. Those of us blessed in this life to have folk who have our backs need to earn this out.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Racing to my train today, I pulled over halfway there with an "oh-f***k" realization: I forgot my phone. Just then, I looked up to see @veppol.bsky.social pull up behind, the phone in hand. Those of us blessed in this life to have folk who have our backs need to earn this out.
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Let's talk about the grotesque Führerprinzip sweeping Republican institutions. With receipts.
This is one of my favorite documents from the Reagan Library: a White Paper prepared for him that led up to one of the ideas he was most impassioned about, a "North American Free Trade Area."... 1/x
This is one of my favorite documents from the Reagan Library: a White Paper prepared for him that led up to one of the ideas he was most impassioned about, a "North American Free Trade Area."... 1/x
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Let's talk about the grotesque Führerprinzip sweeping Republican institutions. With receipts.
This is one of my favorite documents from the Reagan Library: a White Paper prepared for him that led up to one of the ideas he was most impassioned about, a "North American Free Trade Area."... 1/x
This is one of my favorite documents from the Reagan Library: a White Paper prepared for him that led up to one of the ideas he was most impassioned about, a "North American Free Trade Area."... 1/x
The Real Patriots Will Be Marching Saturday—Against the un-Americans newrepublic.com/post/201921/... via @newrepublic.com
The Real Patriots Will Be Marching Saturday—Against the un-Americans
Republicans are calling the No Kings marches the “hate America” rallies. Let’s ask James Madison who really hates America. It’s obvious what he’d say.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Real Patriots Will Be Marching Saturday—Against the un-Americans newrepublic.com/post/201921/... via @newrepublic.com
Any followers happen to have at hand recent life tables for Black men in U.S. Urban settings? An authentic Pollack Bird Photography Mug on offer for this....
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Any followers happen to have at hand recent life tables for Black men in U.S. Urban settings? An authentic Pollack Bird Photography Mug on offer for this....
Yet another attempt to share our piece on neuropsychiatric disorders among emergency department patients with intellectual and developmental disorders..... I"m struck by the prevalent early-onset dementia among patients w/Down syndrome. This graph speaks for itself.… link.growkudos.com/1f3s851ezgg
September 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Yet another attempt to share our piece on neuropsychiatric disorders among emergency department patients with intellectual and developmental disorders..... I"m struck by the prevalent early-onset dementia among patients w/Down syndrome. This graph speaks for itself.… link.growkudos.com/1f3s851ezgg
Beth McGinty and Magdalena Cerda in Milbank Quarterly-- Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis | Milbank Memorial Fund
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cuts to Medicaid will heighten the nation’s behavioral health crisis. Nationally, each year an estimated 20 to 25% of children and adults have a mental illness1 and 17...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Beth McGinty and Magdalena Cerda in Milbank Quarterly-- Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Went to a real gym for the first time in a long while. I turned out to be rusty and complacent in the sparring and physical combat dept. Came away with some impressive bruises in various places from hard contact and a dramatic taikedown. I had just forgotten how tough those treadmills can be .
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Went to a real gym for the first time in a long while. I turned out to be rusty and complacent in the sparring and physical combat dept. Came away with some impressive bruises in various places from hard contact and a dramatic taikedown. I had just forgotten how tough those treadmills can be .
80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson www.commondreams.org/opinion/80-y...
80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson | Common Dreams
The little known story about Sam Nahem, Leon Day, and Willard Brown who in 1945 played on a field in the shadow of Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany and broke down historic barriers.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson www.commondreams.org/opinion/80-y...
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All articles are freely available now, so check them out. There's still time to add them to your fall syllabi!
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
All articles are freely available now, so check them out. There's still time to add them to your fall syllabi!
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Finally there are two book reviews that are especially timely: Ann Keller's review of Pamuk's "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" and Robert Ostergard's review of Dahl's "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough"
August 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Finally there are two book reviews that are especially timely: Ann Keller's review of Pamuk's "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" and Robert Ostergard's review of Dahl's "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough"
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In the Tracking Health Reform section, Gusmano and Thompson analyze the Biden administration's efforts to minimize losses of Medicaid enrollment during the "great unwinding". read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Medicaid and the Great Unwinding: The Administrative Presidency Meets Federalism | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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August 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In the Tracking Health Reform section, Gusmano and Thompson analyze the Biden administration's efforts to minimize losses of Medicaid enrollment during the "great unwinding". read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Last, Hemauer and Warner examine the dynamics of public support for school-based mental health services, an increasingly critical point of access. They offer recommendations for policymakers and local school administrators based on the public opinion findings. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Analyzing Public Support for School-Based Mental Health Services
Abstract. Context: Public schools play a central role in addressing the mental health crisis among American youth, but most schools are limited in the services they provide. As of 2019, 44% of adminis...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Last, Hemauer and Warner examine the dynamics of public support for school-based mental health services, an increasingly critical point of access. They offer recommendations for policymakers and local school administrators based on the public opinion findings. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Next, Sprague et al. also examine state policy, looking at variation across state-level paid leave policies to assess inequities in access and coverage of these policies in the absence of a federal policy. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Paid Leave for Personal and Family Illness: Impacts of State Policy Design on Coverage and Access by Race, Gender, and Education Level | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Pr...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Next, Sprague et al. also examine state policy, looking at variation across state-level paid leave policies to assess inequities in access and coverage of these policies in the absence of a federal policy. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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The next article, by Erickson and Meyer-Gutbrod, examines the interactions between news attention to opioids, overdose rates, and state-level political attention to opioids mortality. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
It’s Only a Crisis if It’s Fit to Print: Examining the Relationship Between Overdose Rates, News Coverage, and the Presence of the Opioid Crisis in State Legislative Campaigns | Journal of Health Poli...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The next article, by Erickson and Meyer-Gutbrod, examines the interactions between news attention to opioids, overdose rates, and state-level political attention to opioids mortality. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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The first article by Gudiksen et al. is a qualitative study examining employers' and insurers' perspectives about hospital consolidation. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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August 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The first article by Gudiksen et al. is a qualitative study examining employers' and insurers' perspectives about hospital consolidation. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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New issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped (Volume 50, Issue 5). Check it out, for a set of wonderful articles on topics that span health care, opioids, paid leave, and mental health, a great representation of the diversity in JHPPL. Thread here:
August 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped (Volume 50, Issue 5). Check it out, for a set of wonderful articles on topics that span health care, opioids, paid leave, and mental health, a great representation of the diversity in JHPPL. Thread here:
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A new editorial in @addictionjournal.bsky.social warns that US state and insurance provider policies are limiting patient access to higher doses of buprenorphine, one of the main medical treatments for opioid use disorders: doi.org/10.1111/add.... | DOI: 10.1111/add.70127
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August 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A new editorial in @addictionjournal.bsky.social warns that US state and insurance provider policies are limiting patient access to higher doses of buprenorphine, one of the main medical treatments for opioid use disorders: doi.org/10.1111/add.... | DOI: 10.1111/add.70127
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Someone asked for my 4 fave aphorisms in English prose:
1. Hurt people hurt people
2. Where your treasure is, your heart will be there also
3. Watch the way he treated his last girlfriend. That's the way he'll treat you
4. If you sit down at the poker table and don't know who the sucker is--you do
1. Hurt people hurt people
2. Where your treasure is, your heart will be there also
3. Watch the way he treated his last girlfriend. That's the way he'll treat you
4. If you sit down at the poker table and don't know who the sucker is--you do
August 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Someone asked for my 4 fave aphorisms in English prose:
1. Hurt people hurt people
2. Where your treasure is, your heart will be there also
3. Watch the way he treated his last girlfriend. That's the way he'll treat you
4. If you sit down at the poker table and don't know who the sucker is--you do
1. Hurt people hurt people
2. Where your treasure is, your heart will be there also
3. Watch the way he treated his last girlfriend. That's the way he'll treat you
4. If you sit down at the poker table and don't know who the sucker is--you do
Removing arbitrary limitations on Buprenorphine is one piece of the puzzle in addressing the opioid epidemic. Nicole Gastala, Brianna Hudak, Mai T. Pho, Katharine Wilcox, and I in Addiction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/A6UWCB...
Removing arbitrary limitations on buprenorphine for opioid use disorder
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August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Removing arbitrary limitations on Buprenorphine is one piece of the puzzle in addressing the opioid epidemic. Nicole Gastala, Brianna Hudak, Mai T. Pho, Katharine Wilcox, and I in Addiction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/A6UWCB...
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“This is one more basic test for the media. Are they going to focus on the pretextual attacks to discredit Cook —the mortgage allegations, or her qualifications — or will they recognize the pattern of a government using its powers to crush any independent sources of power?” *obviously racist attacks
New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick.
Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵
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Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵
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Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign
Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern
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August 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“This is one more basic test for the media. Are they going to focus on the pretextual attacks to discredit Cook —the mortgage allegations, or her qualifications — or will they recognize the pattern of a government using its powers to crush any independent sources of power?” *obviously racist attacks
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My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.