Catherine Arnst
@catherinearnst.bsky.social
Journalist and media spokesperson, current freelancer, specializing in health and medicine. Formerly RWJF, Businessweek, Reuters.
For NYers in the performing arts having a tough time finding health insurance, here's a useful guide from the non-profit United Hospital Fund: A Guide for Dramatists (and Other Theater Workers) on Finding Affordable Health Coverage and Care uhfnyc.org/publications...
Risky Business: A Guide for Dramatists (and Other Theater Workers) on Finding Affordable Health Coverage and Care | United Hospital Fund
With support from Venturous Theater Fund, UHF has released a guidebook to help dramatists navigate the world of health insurance.
uhfnyc.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
For NYers in the performing arts having a tough time finding health insurance, here's a useful guide from the non-profit United Hospital Fund: A Guide for Dramatists (and Other Theater Workers) on Finding Affordable Health Coverage and Care uhfnyc.org/publications...
“History will see this as a huge mistake. The FDA as we’ve known it is finished.” Must-read by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on how the Trump Administration is dismantling the once gold-standard @fda.gov & endangering public health. 77mln people voted for this? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...
Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“History will see this as a huge mistake. The FDA as we’ve known it is finished.” Must-read by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on how the Trump Administration is dismantling the once gold-standard @fda.gov & endangering public health. 77mln people voted for this? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...
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I can't remember a more transparently, insultingly, and groaningly false pretext than idea that WH is attacking Harvard et all because the Trump guys are so deeply worried about antisemitism.
GMAFB.
Rather: tell it to Proud Boys, Nick Fuentes, Charlottesville "fine people," Pepe, etc.
GMAFB.
Rather: tell it to Proud Boys, Nick Fuentes, Charlottesville "fine people," Pepe, etc.
So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building
for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem
for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem
what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
June 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I can't remember a more transparently, insultingly, and groaningly false pretext than idea that WH is attacking Harvard et all because the Trump guys are so deeply worried about antisemitism.
GMAFB.
Rather: tell it to Proud Boys, Nick Fuentes, Charlottesville "fine people," Pepe, etc.
GMAFB.
Rather: tell it to Proud Boys, Nick Fuentes, Charlottesville "fine people," Pepe, etc.
Reposted by Catherine Arnst
When to call in the Marines
June 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
When to call in the Marines
According to the CareScout survey, in 2024 the monthly median cost for assisted living nationally was $5,900/month, homemaker services cost $6,292/month, while a private nursing home room cost $10,646. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
Retirees, Get Ready to Need Long-Term Care. Here’s What to Know.
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
According to the CareScout survey, in 2024 the monthly median cost for assisted living nationally was $5,900/month, homemaker services cost $6,292/month, while a private nursing home room cost $10,646. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
Medicaid expansion under the ACA reduced mortality of low-income adults by 2.5%, with direct budgetary costs of $5.4 million/life saved. Findings suggest lack of health insurance explains about 5 to 20% of the mortality disparity between high and low-income Americans. www.nber.org/papers/w33719
Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Medicaid expansion under the ACA reduced mortality of low-income adults by 2.5%, with direct budgetary costs of $5.4 million/life saved. Findings suggest lack of health insurance explains about 5 to 20% of the mortality disparity between high and low-income Americans. www.nber.org/papers/w33719
Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/c... via @statnews.com
Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’
The Office on Smoking and Health at the CDC is no more, putting state quitlines and national data on youth tobacco use at risk.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/c... via @statnews.com
The cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling LGBTQ-focused health research, built out of nothing over a quarter-century. More than 270 grants have been eliminated. by @benryanwriter.bsky.social @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter-century.
www.nbcnews.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling LGBTQ-focused health research, built out of nothing over a quarter-century. More than 270 grants have been eliminated. by @benryanwriter.bsky.social @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Thank Trump voters: Braun, shirtless, entered the room, pulled her onto her bed and put her into a headlock, she said. Then he pushed her hand over his bare genitals as he groped her breasts, telling her he had always wanted to have intercourse with her. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
Freed From Prison by Trump and Now Facing the Prospect of Going Back
At a hearing this week, witnesses described behavior by Jonathan Braun that could result in his being locked up again.
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April 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thank Trump voters: Braun, shirtless, entered the room, pulled her onto her bed and put her into a headlock, she said. Then he pushed her hand over his bare genitals as he groped her breasts, telling her he had always wanted to have intercourse with her. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
New analysis by @commonwealthfund.org shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in health care systems, even those that are top-rated www.statnews.com/2024/04/18/h... via @statnews.com
Health disparities and premature deaths run deep, even in best-performing states
A new analysis of health inequities shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in the performance of their health care systems.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New analysis by @commonwealthfund.org shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in health care systems, even those that are top-rated www.statnews.com/2024/04/18/h... via @statnews.com
At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.
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April 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c... via @statnews.com
It was the fifth time that Mr. Braun had been arrested since Mr. Trump commuted his 10-year sentence just before leaving office in 2021...Mr. Braun’s sentence was commuted after his family used a connection with Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/n...
Felon Freed by Trump Is Sent Back to Prison After Child Assault Charge
Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.
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April 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It was the fifth time that Mr. Braun had been arrested since Mr. Trump commuted his 10-year sentence just before leaving office in 2021...Mr. Braun’s sentence was commuted after his family used a connection with Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/n...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
In Arizona, @culdesac.bsky.social is what its developers call the country’s first neighborhood purposely built to be car free. by @carabuckley.bsky.social, part of 50 Fixes in 50 States series in the NY Times.. Worth following www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/c...
Living Car-Free in Arizona, on Purpose and Happily
One community near Phoenix is taking a “completely different” approach to development.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In Arizona, @culdesac.bsky.social is what its developers call the country’s first neighborhood purposely built to be car free. by @carabuckley.bsky.social, part of 50 Fixes in 50 States series in the NY Times.. Worth following www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/c...
Must-read about the o-called medical freedom movement: "In the neat little narrative I had crafted in my head, Ms. Kali’s innate goodness meant that she would defy the odds stacked against her, indefinitely. Cancer is not like that." by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | The Story of One Woman Who Fell Prey to the Medical Freedom Movement (Gift Article)
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, what was once a fringe movement now controls the halls of power.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Must-read about the o-called medical freedom movement: "In the neat little narrative I had crafted in my head, Ms. Kali’s innate goodness meant that she would defy the odds stacked against her, indefinitely. Cancer is not like that." by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
More than a dozen people in the cancer field told STAT that government and congressional actions since Trump's inauguration are threatening treatment for cancer patients and the development of new therapies. by @angusrohan.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via @statnews.com
Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
More than a dozen people in the cancer field told STAT that government and congressional actions since Trump's inauguration are threatening treatment for cancer patients and the development of new therapies. by @angusrohan.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via @statnews.com
Now we are siding with the Taliban: At the Security Council this week, the US refused to join Denmark, France, Greece, Guyana, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and the UK in a joint statement condemning the Taliban’s treatment of women. via @markleongoldberg.bsky.social
Trump's War on Women Comes to the UN
And he's also gunning for the SDGs!
www.globaldispatches.org
March 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Now we are siding with the Taliban: At the Security Council this week, the US refused to join Denmark, France, Greece, Guyana, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and the UK in a joint statement condemning the Taliban’s treatment of women. via @markleongoldberg.bsky.social
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For the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/
@nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
@nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
February 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/
@nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
@nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
Five years after the pandemic began, public health officials say the entrenched politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools to respond and fresh challenges. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Public Health Survived the Pandemic. Now It Fights Politics.
Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools and fresh challenges.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Five years after the pandemic began, public health officials say the entrenched politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools to respond and fresh challenges. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
New study in British Journal of Sports Medicine: "these results should caution against precautionary bans and sport eligibility exclusions that are not based on sport-specific (or sport-relevant) research." via Lindsey Darvin @forbes.com @bmj.com
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Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows
An IOC-funded study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this month suggests transgender athletes could be at a physical disadvantage.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New study in British Journal of Sports Medicine: "these results should caution against precautionary bans and sport eligibility exclusions that are not based on sport-specific (or sport-relevant) research." via Lindsey Darvin @forbes.com @bmj.com
www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...
www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...
Women’s health is finally receiving the attention it deserves from VCs. Over the past five years, investments in startups in the women’s health space have surged to unprecedented levels-Elizabeth Bailey, Foreground Capital www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/w... via @statnews.com
The women’s health sector is on the verge of a pivotal transformation
The private sector's role in driving and sustaining women's health innovation has become even more critical, writes Elizabeth Bailey of Foreground Capital.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Women’s health is finally receiving the attention it deserves from VCs. Over the past five years, investments in startups in the women’s health space have surged to unprecedented levels-Elizabeth Bailey, Foreground Capital www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/w... via @statnews.com
From leopards-ate-their-face dept: Investors believed Trump would follow through on the parts of his agenda that they liked and scale back the more disruptive policies like tariffs if financial markets started to get spooked. It is increasingly clear they were wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...
Trump Tariffs and Trade Wars Leave Investors, Once Optimistic, Feeling Apprehensive
On Tuesday, President Trump sent markets into another tailspin by announcing additional tariffs on Canada, suggesting a falling stock market is no longer the bulwark investors had hoped.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
From leopards-ate-their-face dept: Investors believed Trump would follow through on the parts of his agenda that they liked and scale back the more disruptive policies like tariffs if financial markets started to get spooked. It is increasingly clear they were wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...
How so many of us are feeling. Thank you @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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March 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
How so many of us are feeling. Thank you @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. 430,000 people were hospitalized. Expect those numbers to skyrocket next year. @fda.gov Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. 430,000 people were hospitalized. Expect those numbers to skyrocket next year. @fda.gov Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...