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Miranda Yaver

@mirandayaver.bsky.social

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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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 15d

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

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Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 8h

Even if you don’t like the Yankees (and I know most people don’t), don’t you want more baseball? A three-game sweep is boring.

The world is broken. We deserve more baseball in the ALDS.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9h

American exceptionalism, Onion edition.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

The quiet part out loud

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 12h

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11h

Combing through the FY26 budget request and effects on health, and I haven't read many of these over my career, but it's really shocking how much they read like Trump's social media posts. The word "woke" is used 12 times, "DEI" is used 31 times, and random words are put in quotation marks. Oy vey.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Here lies Maude, keeper of vinyl.

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, it’s nuts how little push-back he gets on the reality that the fraud is on the provider side, not the patient side. (And the fact that they’re undermining the ability to detect that, but minor details…)

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 14h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states.
It included illegal immigrants and handed
Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 13h

A student from Virginia came to my office hours today to proudly share with me that they voted.

The kids are alright.

a cartoon sun holding a ballot with the words " i love voting early " below it

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 20h

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14h

It is not a happy little accident that we have arrived at this place. We need to fund public television.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15h

Always cool when the Trump administration explicitly signals it won’t follow the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

MTG saying all medical insurance is a scam.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

Trump made him popular by supporting his opponent

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "It's an honor to have the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who I have made very popular. He's an extremely popular prime minister and I'm very honored to do it because I like him."

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19h

Only graded a few op-eds so far, but I've already had a student write about prior authorization and other insurance barriers related to accessing their costly prescription drugs. Hey, I think I know a forthcoming book that helps explain this health policy problem! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

I suppose “bucking tradition and legal precedent” is one way to describe authoritarianism.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

Drowning in grading, but I must say, I really love having my students write op-eds on health policy problems that keep them up at night. Kept it open-ended in terms of directions they can go in, and it's fun getting to see their takes on problems facing our health care system. I've got good kiddos.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h

And they were all really restricted in terms of the number of characters. I spent almost as much time adapting it as I did writing the original draft. (It was for the Fulbright.)

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22h

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22h

TFW you write a glowing letter of rec for a student and then realize it's a bunch of short answer questions instead.

Just let us write the damn letter!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t a thing. He’s making shit up, very unconvincingly, I might add.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Some of the reasons that premiums are going up is because if you take people who didn't know they had insurance and therefore never put in any claims off the rolls, then you still have people who are charging enough to make up the difference. But I do think there are criminal elements."

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

I am soooo here for the passive aggression of referring to Oz as a “former talk show host” rather than his current title.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Former talk show host Mehmet Oz was questioned about his citation of a study on the television-watching habits of Medicaid recipients.

Dr. Oz Called Out on Crazy Claim Medicaid Goes To TV Addicts

The Health and Human Services official said there’s potential for some Medicaid recipients to do more.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

SUE. HIM.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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