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I was 18, an teenager in India, anxiously searching online communities- “can you become a doctor with a stutter”? Found no answers. During med school, I was advised to apply to non-patient facing specialties; not to be ambitious and apply for residency in the US - “too risky”. 1/4

New op-ed in @crainsnewyork.bsky.social!

@mihirkakara.bsky.social examines NY’s proposal to end subminimum wages for disabled workers under Section 14(c) - a policy that still allows people with disabilities to be paid less than minimum wage.

Read here: www.crainsnewyork.com/op-ed/op-ed-...

Wrote something for @pennldi.bsky.social based on our recent paper on perceptions of culturally responsive care among people with disabilities

Link:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

#disability

In our recent paper looking at perceptions of care received by people with disabilities (PwD), we found that:

-A higher proportion of PwD felt that they were not treated with respect by their healthcare professionals, not asked for opinions about their care, nor given easy to understand information

In @jama.com, results from the first 1.5 years of NC #medicaid Healthy Opportunities Pilots. We find evidence supporting the central idea that addressing #foodinsecurity, housing instability, and other health-related social needs can improve health.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Meanwhile…

Can’t wait to dive into this holiday gift , written by @katherineschof8.bsky.social

The @inquirer.com dives into the debate over Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which allows subminimum wages for workers with disabilities.

Research by @atheendar.bsky.social & @mihirkakara.bsky.social shows repeal could boost job participation.

www.inquirer.com/business/wag...

This rule was just released yesterday.

Findings from our recent paper provides the first evidence on this.

It suggests that after repealing these subminimum wages, labor force participation actually rises at a population level

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

@atheendar.bsky.social #disability

1/ Sometimes our #policies encode assumptions about people that need not be true.

I'm really proud of @mihirkakara.bsky.social led this study on a hard question (conceptually+empirically):

Would repealing sub-minimum wage allows adults for #disability improve or worsen #labormarket outcomes?

1)For 86 yrs, it's been legal for people with disabilities in certain jobs to be paid subminimum wages. The assumption: they're less productive & if not for these jobs, they would be unemployed.

In this @JAMAHealthForum paper, @atheendar.bsky.social & I ask if it’s true.

tinyurl.com/23yu86jf

1/ I've been practicing #medicine, as a #primarycare doc and then a #hospitalist, for over a decade.

Cross-cutting any #social or #partisan divides is an increasingly common feeling: people are feeling #stuck and #trapped.

I think we are seeing the reverberations of that feeling everywhere.

Excited to delve into this new work by @lendavis.bsky.social