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Now available from HSR: Articles on #ReproductiveWellness for women with #ChronicConditions from a special section supported by WKKF and Jordan Institute UNC-Chapel Hill. Watch the space! New papers will be posted regularly bit.ly/3ze9izV

Champagne is synonymous with celebration and beer with Sunday football. But the data are clear that alcohol isn't good for us. Why won't we give it up?

My latest on TIE! Incidental Economist theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/alco…

.Walgreens: I 'love'* typing in all my info to sign up for vaccinations and then having to fill out, by hand, a form with the same information. Come on!

* 'love' = do not like at all

I'm going to make up a term for a thing that might exist (and you should tell me if it does and where): 'prescription alignment.' It would allow a patient a one-time shift *earlier* of prescriptions so they align for renewal on the same day.

Innovation's benefits (especially short-term) tend to 'flow to those already privileged by the system... innovation is only accessible to those who can afford it.'

The (in)equity dimension of the innovation/access tradeoff deserves more attention.

New PEPReC policy brief on the Stratification Tool for Opioid
Risk Mitigation - peprec.research.va.gov/PEPRECRESEARCH…

What did I take away from recent NEJM colonoscopy trial and ensuing debate?

THREAD

This is important and not about me, despite starting out that way. Read to the end and stop dismissing patients you don't know.

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(Also, stay seated while sitting.)

I get questions.

It's largely fine, just different.

Read the plain language summary reviewing research published in Health Services Research on the present and future of rural America’s hospitals.

From former AcademyHealth public policy fellow @KaleighLigus: academyhealth.org/blog/2022-09/p…

What are the lessons of Medicare's decade+ experience w/ ACOs? New in @jhppl advanced pubs, Valerie A. Lewis, PhD Steven Spivack, PhD & Genevra Murray explore whether ACOs have met their promise (ungated)

bit.ly/ACOs-in-Medica…

CC Duke University Press Harold Pollack UNC HPM UNC Public Health

tfw your NCBI My Bibliography matches your CV list of pubs. (What a pain this is!)

Didn't everyone know this would happen? It's kind of par for the course for software vendors, no? (I've seen in many times.)

I have a single bin marked 'Austin's childhood' and it includes the copy my parents read to me.

Creating a freshman econ elective 'Current Issues in US Healthcare'. #econtwitter what are your fav podcast/ blog/ video explainers on this topic that are not super research-y?

(I'll put the syllabus online - those making suggestions can copy 100% of it, no attribution needed!)

I think I can sum up a lot of commentary thusly:

She was queen for a long time. A lot happened. Good times. Bad times. Here are some pics.

Now he is king and things are uncertain. (Sad or angry pic here.) It could be a rough ride. We'll see!

Medicare coverage increases health care use. But are these changes due to use of high-value or low-value care??

In Health Services Research paper, Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP, JeahJung, and I examined the effects of Medicare coverage at age 65 on use of high-value and low-value care (bit.ly/3BpOoye)