Heather Barton

Program evaluator working on federal health policy. Hunt for vintage goodness and read books with the rest of my time.

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@abgutman Happened to me too today. Maybe they’re now enforcing their policy? Or, the algorithm got tweaked?

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@TheBloggess Reading @anthonyfmarra Mercury Pictures Presents. Funny, entertaining, and gorgeous prose!

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@the_megalopolis @PodYourselfAGun Wait — can we take a sec to enjoy that the screenshot also informs us that our official (individual) sport is…jousting?!?!? Oh, the reach and power of the MD Ren Fest! 🦀🦀

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@CivilWarHumor This podcast on the links in the white nationalist movements here & in Russia put this reenactment in context…https://t.co/LG7FdgCUuG

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

Anyone else watching#ClickBaitonNetflix? I enjoy trashy shows but this is so heavy-handed and full of tropes. It feels like it was either written for a high school drama class or by aliens who only know about humans from watching other TV shows but have never been to Earth

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@HC_Finance @JusticeOIG @HC_Finance this report is misattributed. It is from @OIGatHHS, not @JusticeOIG. See: https://t.co/hkMZvqXrQC

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@Katieiscrafty “All out of fucks” is more my style but, if we’re being positive, how about “be. here. now.” Or “keep trucking” (because car keys)

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@NewPatTwitty So cringey. So Ugly American. So sad.

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

Did @KaseyKeller18 really just refer to other #Concacaf nations as “lesser countries”?!? Whoa. Sad. The game was played for a century without VAR. We’ll be fine. #USMNT #WCQ2022

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@lindaholmes Not quite a documentary series but lots of tweets about scammy healthcare companies getting caught: @OIGatHHS

[OIG at HHS @OIGatHHS]

New HHS-OIG #COVID19 report found that the overall mortality rate in nursing homes rose 22 percent in 2020 from 17 percent in 2019. Understanding the pandemic's effects on nursing home residents is necessary if tragedies like this are to be averted. https://t.co/KcpbzRZH5b

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@RottenInDenmark This answers so many questions I’ve had. “Caucasian” always seemed so rando

[OIG at HHS @OIGatHHS]

New Report: HHS-OIG recommends that @samhsagov develop methods to better measure how patients with opioid use disorder access buprenorphine. https://t.co/fF6kQzfKpa

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@JInterlandi Same experience here. And on top, people then assume that I can’t stand children. Nope, I don’t hate children just because I decided that parenthood wasn’t for me. So many odd assumptions. Folks take a choice I made about my own life very personally for some reason.

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

Job opportunity!! Calling all health and human services policy evaluators - join the HHS OIG in our Baltimore, NY, Boston, Philadelphia, or KC offices. https://t.co/b0QDDKXgaJ

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@HillaryKelly I can’t listen to lyrics when I write but when I create analysis code listening to go-go music is perfect...that beat keeps my work in rhythm. #GoGo #DC #ChuckBrown4VR

[OIG at HHS @OIGatHHS]

We found that 56 percent of counties with a high need for buprenorphine treatment at doctors’ offices may have low or no access to those treatments. https://t.co/VFRejXuLje

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@JulieDepenbrock @kojoshow Nonfiction: Moneyland by Oliver Bullough. Fiction: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras AND Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@roywoodjr Nope, Bit O’ Honeys are the worst. The worst. https://t.co/EyGqj0wL7P

[Heather Barton @hbarton55]

@MonicaHesse @washingtonpost Glad I’m not only one with that problem today. But, for a second I thought the new NSA chief was this guy: 😬Democratic donor arrested after third man overdoses at his West Hollywood home
https://t.co/qwu2y7T4LP