Miranda Yaver
@mirandayaver.bsky.social
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
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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
@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
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!
cup.org/4nfM2IM
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!
cup.org/4nfM2IM
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
This is completely insane and abhorrent.
People will suffer. People will die.
People will suffer. People will die.
Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan
Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is completely insane and abhorrent.
People will suffer. People will die.
People will suffer. People will die.
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UPDATE: Summers’ page is now offline.
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
UPDATE: Summers’ page is now offline.
So many kisses from this sweet creature.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
So many kisses from this sweet creature.
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I think this misses a key part of how academia works in practice. He’s a senior colleague (not at her university) who would have influence over her career. He also described himself as a mentor. You don’t need to be at someone’s institution (in academia) to hold power over someone’s career.
I have no sympathy for any of Summers’ comments. But universities should not cut ties with people whose comments and/or private associations they find odious, even when they are right. If he violated either the law or university regulations, fine. Otherwise, not so much.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I think this misses a key part of how academia works in practice. He’s a senior colleague (not at her university) who would have influence over her career. He also described himself as a mentor. You don’t need to be at someone’s institution (in academia) to hold power over someone’s career.
It’s cold.
I’m sick.
Fuck it, I’m breaking out my new cat slipper socks.
I’m sick.
Fuck it, I’m breaking out my new cat slipper socks.
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It’s cold.
I’m sick.
Fuck it, I’m breaking out my new cat slipper socks.
I’m sick.
Fuck it, I’m breaking out my new cat slipper socks.
I was glad to speak to the Association of Health Care Journalists about this problem (as well as broader funding cuts, namely to AHRQ). The panel on which I spoke got a @medpagetoday.com write-up. It’s hard to overstate the lasting damage of this administration. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I was glad to speak to the Association of Health Care Journalists about this problem (as well as broader funding cuts, namely to AHRQ). The panel on which I spoke got a @medpagetoday.com write-up. It’s hard to overstate the lasting damage of this administration. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Because my Introduction to Health Policy & Management course grew so much in size, we're beginning student presentations of group policy analyses this Wednesday, so today is my last lecture of the semester! Closing out the course content with a discussion of mental health policy, incl. this cartoon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Because my Introduction to Health Policy & Management course grew so much in size, we're beginning student presentations of group policy analyses this Wednesday, so today is my last lecture of the semester! Closing out the course content with a discussion of mental health policy, incl. this cartoon.
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
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We are accepting submissions for two special issues!
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We are accepting submissions for two special issues!
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
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Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Re-upping this for the Monday morning crowd!
Researching the politics of private health insurance? Submit to @jhppl.bsky.social, which is doing a special issue on this very subject, and which I’m pleased to be co-editing with @adrianna.bsky.social. Looking for papers on prior auth, Medicare Advantage, ACA and so much more! Submit by 2/1.
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Re-upping this for the Monday morning crowd!
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that my first cold of the season will be when I’m on an imminent deadline and have teaching to do and interviews to record when my voice is shot to hell.
a man is sitting in front of a computer with a clock on it
ALT: a man is sitting in front of a computer with a clock on it
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that my first cold of the season will be when I’m on an imminent deadline and have teaching to do and interviews to record when my voice is shot to hell.
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We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
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Literally cheering on open racism
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino responds “roger that” to a tweet reading “big or small, deport them all.”
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Literally cheering on open racism
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Harry Truman has entered the chat
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Harry Truman has entered the chat
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Wrote today about the (mostly) myth that military action is good for a president's popularity. Plus the links @mollyereynolds.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social and many more.
Wars and Presidential Popularity
Plus all the links.
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Wrote today about the (mostly) myth that military action is good for a president's popularity. Plus the links @mollyereynolds.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social and many more.
If you have students looking to pursue a PhD in health policy, Pitt HPM is accepting applications! No bias, but we have a great department with faculty studying wide-ranging subjects— opioids, public & private insurance, reproductive health, administrative burden, and more! Plus Pittsburgh is great.
Pitt’s PhD in Health Services Research & Policy is recruiting for Fall 2026 — Dr. Travis Donahoe has funding for a graduate research assistantship to work with him to examine how policy and local economic conditions shape the opioid epidemic.
Info: linktr.ee/pittHPM
@PittHPM
Please repost!
Info: linktr.ee/pittHPM
@PittHPM
Please repost!
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The Department of Health Policy and Management at Pitt
linktr.ee
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you have students looking to pursue a PhD in health policy, Pitt HPM is accepting applications! No bias, but we have a great department with faculty studying wide-ranging subjects— opioids, public & private insurance, reproductive health, administrative burden, and more! Plus Pittsburgh is great.
Cats in cahoots
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Cats in cahoots
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ngl, having awareness of everything that's getting wrecked in public health (as well as a good understanding of the implications) is an actual curse
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
ngl, having awareness of everything that's getting wrecked in public health (as well as a good understanding of the implications) is an actual curse
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i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening