Steffie Woolhandler

Physician, Professor, Single Payer Medicare for All Advocate

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Executives @LillyPad may be raging about losing market cap due to Twitter prank. But how about losing your life because you, like 1.3 million other diabetic Americans are forced to ration insulin? Our research in @AnnalsofIM https://t.co/HZQMihCJSF

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

UPDATE—Just learned that Eli Lilly executives are raging and furious at losing $20 billion in market cap from this stunt with @TwitterBlue. It’s too bad they don’t see their own damn insulin price gouging as the actual problem. Karma @LillyPad, karma.

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Our new study just up in JAMA IM: we track Americans' out-of-pocket health spending longitudinally over a four-year period, showing that risks mount year after year. Whereas 11.8% of adults experience healthcare financial strain after 1 year, risk rises to 26.7% over four years

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Over 4 years more than a quarter of Americans will experience trouble affording healthcare. New study https://t.co/nG9Eec4Lj9

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

@ashishkjha @TheLancet @bhrenton If anyone is interested in understanding why Ashish’s graph is incorrect, we have explained this on Ashish’s Substack where he details his (flawed) methodology. In brief, Ashish and his research associate did not appropriately deal with data discontinuities.

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Our article in Health Affairs Forefront on the “real waste, fraud, and abuse” in healthcare — Medicare and Medicaid privatization — is now up.

MA Overpayments & excess Medicaid managed care overhead could cost as much as $1.9 trillion in coming decade.

https://t.co/6hWEI2OyTt

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Our work on the harmful effects of profit-seeking in American health care, in this weeks Lancet https://t.co/g6KW13SiJm

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Health providers brace for loss of immigrant workers due to Trump’s policies - Marketplace - https://t.co/3itic8apzQ #GoogleAlerts

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Immigrants’ Premium and Tax Payments for Health Care Exceed the Costs of Their Care https://t.co/h0WsW1oa9G

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative Inefficiencies | out today in Health Affairs https://t.co/L8Y7p6BJBZ

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Mortality of Native Americans exceeds that of other Americans by 42%. Our shocking findings in today’s JAMA.
https://t.co/Grh8KckQsx

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

This group is the most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses by far https://t.co/1ZSAlJMhHs

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Heat-Related Illness Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness. New from our group and HMS student Taylor Weckstein https://t.co/6ww4GyWSeK

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US https://t.co/0YfrKL7TpT

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce https://t.co/YX9afqYCGf

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Our group's work in today's JAMA

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Our research group's work on how aggressive deportation policies threaten Americans' health care, in today's JAMA https://t.co/G6lcvR3P0J

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Who Should Own Americans’ Health Care? https://t.co/U3qXSzDLTM

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees: Our new JAMANetworkOpen study https://t.co/FUzsT619Wz

[Steffie Woolhandler @swoolhandler]

Our profit-oriented health insurance system traps parents of kids with cystic fibrosis in dead end jobs: study in @JAMAPediatrics https://t.co/f8i4MwfD0v

[Morning Joe @Morning_Joe]

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital https://t.co/kZSUgFh6EI

[The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @LancetCountdown]

⚡ OUT NOW ⚡

The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action.

Read the latest assessment of the links between health and climate change: https://t.co/FgQsL7nIV3 #LancetClimate24