Andrea Harris

[Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab]

@zackcooperYale @bethanymac12 @zingales Check out the full podcast here: https://t.co/z7zxM4wmFN

[Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab]

The health care industry spends more on lobbying than any other sector of the U.S. economy.

But who is lobbying for efficiency?

On Capitalisn’t, @zackcooperYale spoke with @bethanymac12 and @zingales about the voice missing in DC.

[Zack Cooper @zackcooperYale]

Got a new essay out today in the The New York Times . The argument: we should address issues like prior authorizations and care denials, but if we want to lower premiums and health spending, we need to focus on hospital pricing. Cite a a book called The Silent World of Doctor and Patient by Jay Katz that Lainie Ross assigned when I was an undergrad that gets at why it’s hard to both be grateful for care and hold health care providers accountable. Let me know your thoughts.

https://t.co/5csAIqyzFV

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab]

This week, Dr. Zack Cooper testified on the drivers of rising health care spending before the Texas House of Representatives Select Committee on Health Care Affordability, led by @RepJamesFrank and @RepToniRoseTX. Watch the full hearing here: https://t.co/Y99D6j3vm3.

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

Today, I signed the Momnibus — a package of bills to improve healthcare coverage for moms and babies.

No mother should have to fear dying from childbirth. We have the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country, and we know Black women are at greatest risk.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Americans spend more on healthcare than anyone else in the world. Here’s why. https://t.co/EQWXBZo9s9

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Hospital costs are rising far faster than inflation and drowning Americans in debt. https://t.co/0AP5zLsSHc

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A big reason is the high prices Americans pay for surgeries and drugs. https://t.co/8q5LXCPm7A

[Zack Cooper @zackcooperYale]

Health care in the US is unaffordable. We - the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale - are a new initiative trying to change that.

You can learn more about our work here: https://t.co/7aiNH301zC

We're pairing amazing policy, communications, and political talent with rigorous scholarship in order to make evidence-based change happen.

Join us. If you’re a policymaker, tell us about the challenges you face, and we’ll help track down the best evidence to solve those problems. If you're a researcher, share your work. We want to see world class scholarship get out into the world and make a difference in people's lives.

[Axios @axios]

The states where hospitals are most concentrated https://t.co/1gAWeCT3Ey

[Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab]

👋We’re the Health Care Affordability Lab at @Yale — a new initiative that pairs rigorous academic scholarship with strategic policy engagement to curb rising health care spending at every level of government.

Read more: https://t.co/khKVwdkB6F

[Matt Lewis @mattklewis]

During times like these, responsible leaders calm things down. They deescalate. They work to unite Americans.

Trump doesn’t want that. He sows chaos and acrimony. He stokes anger and division.

This is who he is — and that’s why something like this was utterly predictable.

[Protect Our Care @ProtectOurCare]

Dan Pfeiffer: Health care affordability is on the agenda. It was not even being talked about before. ... Jeffries has played his cards very, very well and put the democrats in a position of maximum leverage for next year.

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

I really appreciate @zackcooperYale's insights: $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? https://t.co/DdWO1mshgT

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Excellent piece from @zackcooperYale on why US health care costs are so high — prices, admin costs from tying coverage to your work, expectation to adopt the newest tech regardless of value — and the choices available to address them. https://t.co/R6hEcNbfSg

[Alice Miranda Ollstein @AliceOllstein]

NEW w/ @rking_19: Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month, hitting the rich, the poor and the middle class alike. A lot of Republicans, however, aren't eager to cut a deal. Here's why: https://t.co/FQKNeoDFO3

[Larry Levitt @larry_levitt]

It is insane. ACA plans are no more expensive than employer provided health plans, though the premiums vary by age. They’re all just insanely expensive.

[Tobin Center for Economic Policy @YaleTobinCenter]

Watch @zackcooperYale on CNN:

"I think we need a real plan, and we need a real plan that says insurance is really expensive. Let's subsidize it for the people who can't afford it. And let's have a real conversation about how you lower health care costs in this country."

[Tobin Center for Economic Policy @YaleTobinCenter]

The Tobin Center is pleased to welcome Andrea Harris as the new Managing Director of the Health Policy Impact Lab.

Harris brings to Yale two decades of experience driving legislative and regulatory policy change in Washington, DC.

More: https://t.co/54hXHFgSzB