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Tim Waidmann
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Urban Institute Senior Fellow, Medicare, Dual Enrollees, Public Health, Labor, Demography, and Health Policy. Michigan Economics PhD, Sad Dad band lover
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With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead:

House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing

Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year

Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
June 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.
May 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:23 AM
New Health Affairs Scholar article on postpartum care under Medicaid. 76% had a visit between 61-365 days after birth, but this varied by state and individual factors. Our findings show benefits of recent 12-mo. postpartum extensions but suggest where gaps in care remain.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In February, the Urban Institute, in collaboration with Policies for Action, hosted a powerful, solutions-based event on advancing maternal health equity. Recording now available. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/events/advan...
Advancing Maternal Health Equity: How Can Research, Policy, and Advocacy Inform Solutions?
Maternal and infant health inequities remain a significant challenge in the United States, disproportionately affecting historically marginalized communities. The Urban Institute, in collaboration wit...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
An assessment of Washington's Financial Alignment Initiative for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #HealthPolicy www.urban.org/research/pub...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Health Care Providers Would Experience Significant Revenue Losses and Uncompensated Care Increases in the Face of Reduced Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion

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March 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans.

Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban
Downsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income Americans
The Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice features conversations with researchers and legal professionals about how we can reduce widespread disparities in medical care and health in...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Reupping my blog from yesterday. The major #Medicaid cuts under consideration to meet the budget resolution target of at least $880b in cuts are the same Medicaid cuts from failed 2017 repeal bills. House GOP leaders are just trying to disguise them as anti-fraud. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/s...
February 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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We already did the research on this.
Work requirements jeopardize #Medicaid coverage without achieving meaningful employment gains.
See our explainer to understand why work requirements don’t work.
Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees
This explainer defines Medicaid work requirements, updates their current status at the federal and state levels, and describes their impact on enrollees.
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February 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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E&C committee was asked to cut $880 billion to make way for tax cuts. Latest paper from my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues on what would happen to insurance coverage if the 90 percent FMAP for the Medicaid expansion was eliminated. www.urban.org/research/pub...
Reducing Federal Support for Medicaid Expansion Would Shift Costs to States and Likely Result in Coverage Losses
Leadership in the House of Representatives has proposed substantial federal funding cuts to the Medicaid program over the next 10 years. This report focuses on the proposal to reduce the 90 percent fe...
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February 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Promising assessment of state innovation in long term care financing. crr.bc.edu/washington-s...
Washington State Establishes a Long-Term Care Program
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January 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In the 3 decades prior to the pandemic, gaps between black and white life expectancy narrowed, but progress was uneven across the states. We document here. Next step: Did policy produce these patterns? Stay tuned. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @rwjf.bsky.social
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State Variation in Black and White Life Expectancy and Evolving Disparities
In this brief, we quantify differences in life expectancy between and within non-Hispanic Black and white populations over time and across states.
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January 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Meet Bubblegum. Adorable and adoptable in Atlanta adopt.adopets.com/pet/b4f74012...
January 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social work in Health Affairs Scholar exploring how we quantify the full value of social interventions affecting health
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UI Health Policy colleagues (@tawaid.bsky.social,@lisaclemancope.bsky.social,@bowengarrett.bsky.social, and Kima Taylor) and I just published in Health Affairs Scholar, (#HAScholar, @Health_Affairs) Tracing Value From Social Determinant Solutions, academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
January 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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UI Health Policy colleagues (@tawaid.bsky.social,@lisaclemancope.bsky.social,@bowengarrett.bsky.social, and Kima Taylor) and I just published in Health Affairs Scholar, (#HAScholar, @Health_Affairs) Tracing Value From Social Determinant Solutions, academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
January 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034
January 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Medicare is more than half privatized, and it's costing taxpayers a lot of money open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race
Forty years of gaming the system
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January 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Whose premiums will rise if enhanced premium tax credits allowed to expire? Well, everyone's, but the increases will vary by income level and state. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
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December 11, 2024 at 6:29 PM
New from @jasonlevitis.bsky.social and colleagues at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Shifting to a state based Marketplace comes with opportunities and risks, but those who would be most directly
affected believe that the risks outweigh the likely benefits.
#healthpolicy
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Considerations for a Potential State-Based Marketplace in Texas
This study summarizes and analyzes perspectives on a potential Texas transition to an SBM, including risks and benefits, best practices to mitigate risks to coverage if Texas elects to establish an SB...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:36 PM