Dahlia Remler

Professor, Baruch Public & Intl Affairs, CUNY. Health care policy, higher education, research methods. Goal: eclectic, iconoclastic analysis.

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Thanks also to AJE Editor in chief @laurarpeck

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This paper took us years and many iterations to work out the ideas, with helpful feedback and advice from @_Oliver_James_ @SebJilke @InkyuKang1 @DFEpstein and many colleagues and friends @BaruchMarxe @RutgersSPAA @AarhusUni_int @appam @PMRA1991 @IRSPM

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@AlisonCuellar12 Thanks, Alison!

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@ChloeNEast Moop for Medicaid recipient is zero!

SPM Threshold Implies they have no need for health care or insuranceMedicaid reduces SPM poverty only to extent it reduces OOP payments. Not how it reduces unmet care needs or less than adequate care or avoiding (some) bad debt.

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@ChloeNEast See any of our publications on this. https://t.co/PK4hX46pmd

Latest PPM includes health insurance benefits using our method.

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Poverty followers interested in HIPM look out for Korenman's & my forthcoming handbook chapter: https://t.co/Hr1FuDDmNA on health insurance & poverty measurement
& our forthcoming @JHPPL paper discussed in exchange with @kevincorinth on recent NAS chapter

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@ChloeNEast SPM does not include Medicaid! Or any HI benefits. Health-inclusive poverty measure by me & Sanders Korenman does.

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Here is another link to our paper:

https://t.co/vvQNYWfhiV

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Listening to https://t.co/jnmF8lx7OL # poverty conference @AEI

Rich Burkhauser made several good points. But major problems w/ treatment of health insurance in his Full-income poverty measure

See forthcoming @JHPPL https://t.co/vvQNYWfhiV by me & Sanders Korenman

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To hear a recommendation that has our approach to adding health insurance benefits to poverty, come to Improving how #Poverty is #Measured: A Recommendation to better reflect Households' Basic Needs and Resources
RSVP here: https://t.co/G2toBSVpTc…

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📢Join this exciting event on Sept. 28 @BaruchMarxe: Improving how #Poverty is #Measured: A Recommendation to better reflect Households' Basic Needs and Resources with @CIDR_NYC's poverty measurement experts Sanders Korenman and @DahliaRemler! RSVP here: https://t.co/hvHPt8FLuj

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@ole_petter @delong I read that the original The UK versions had 7 episodes but US version had 6 episodes. I binge watched them over the weekend and reached the conclusion after 6 episodes.

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Here it is. https://t.co/kvHRNUuEmn

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Poverty followers interested in HIPM look out for Korenman's & my forthcoming handbook chapter: https://t.co/Hr1FuDDmNA on health insurance & poverty measurement
& our forthcoming @JHPPL paper discussed in exchange with @kevincorinth on recent NAS chapter

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@kevincorinth @NASEM_DBASSE @JHPPL But it's not value. It's not utility. Poverty is not about willingness to pay. It's about the resources to obtain a socially defined set of basic needs.

I need to finish my unfinished blog piece addressing this issue...

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@kevincorinth @NASEM_DBASSE @JHPPL .@jefflarrimore emphasis on consistency over time rather than consistency or resources & threshold at a point in time helped us understand your views and approach more. But it doesn't get rid of the fungibility problem.

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@kevincorinth @NASEM_DBASSE @JHPPL Great! Poverty researchers in different camps seem to talk past each other. I hope that you (& your co-authors) will engage with Sandy & me on the fungibility issue.

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@kevincorinth @NASEM_DBASSE Multidimensional measures are fine for researchers but not ok for general policy discussion. too much detail. And you can get to yes/no with care on the big ticket in-kind benefits, health insurance and housing, since others largely effectively fairly fungible.

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@kevincorinth @NASEM_DBASSE Exactly!!!!!

That's why poverty is CONCEPTUALIZED as lacking resources for a socially defined bunch of goods and services. However it is operationalized.

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@kevincorinth @NASEM_DBASSE Disagree. You can't just measure in-kind resources in dollars. They are not fungible. Most people do not conceptualize needs as just a bunch of dollars but as specific goods and services. It's a (paternalistic?) socially determined view of an adequate standard of living.