Michal Horný
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Michal Horný
@michalhorny.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at @umassamherst.bsky.social * Health care affordability * Private insurance * Patient cost-sharing * Price transparency * Medical billing * (personal account)
Does it matter when patients don’t speak the same language as their physician, especially in critical situation such as ICU stays? It does! They tend to be admitted longer.

Come check out my @umassamherst.bsky.social colleague’s (David Chin) poster A-283 at @academyhealth.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Are politicians who mismanage a public health crisis held accountable in the next election cycle?

No, not really. People don’t seem to remember or care.

(Štěpán Jurajda, @cerge-ei.bsky.social, at Public Health Conference & Policy Forum, Prague, Czechia)
June 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My department at UMass Amherst just launched a new, fully online MHA degree program. More info: www.umass.edu/public-healt...
April 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Apparently, even hand dryers have had enough of this administration. #HandsOff
April 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
On the day the US government launched a trade war, David Card—a Nobel laureate—points out that already Adam Smith in mid-1700s recognized that Mercantilism was a terrible idea.
April 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
So, I went to update my #NIH biosketch using the newly required ScienCV portal...
February 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Olivia Yu is presenting our findings on disparities in appeals of denied insurance claims. And she is doing it so eloquently and in such an entertaining way!! #APPAM24
November 21, 2024 at 7:57 PM
What a profoundly American holiday gift—debt relief.

(landed in my inbox today with the subject line “Ready to start your holiday shopping?”)
November 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM