“It is time to set aside our myths and have a thoughtful national dialogue about the Medicaid program.” - Heidi Allen (
@Prof_HeidiAllen
) |
#TEDMED
2017
I'm just heard my 11 year-old tell his math teacher "I'm having a day when I just can't seem to do math."
Her response: "Then put your math book away and go outside and play."
A lesson for us all.
🥰🥰🥰
When we ask Black junior faculty to take on big projects to address racism in our universities, how are we going to honor that? Does this work count as first-author peer-reviewed publications when it is time to go up for tenure? This is a serious question.
Coming out caused me massive heartache, so I don’t take
#NationalComingOut
day lightly. But I have zero regrets (except for that year we took engagement photos in March).
They put my suicidal 13 y.o. in 6 days of isolation (of a total 9 day hospital stay) as a covid "precaution" in late 2022. When I said I wanted to bring him home because this was cruel and causing harm, they implied "leaving AMA" could trigger a call to CPS.
Health policy is housing policy. Health policy is anti-poverty policy. Housing policy is health policy. Anti-poverty policy is health policy. And so it goes for education, criminal justice, food, climate, transportation, etc.
I have lately had the unfortunately opportunity to deeply interact with the health care system. The difficulty folks have with understanding that a child could have four moms (when a lesbian couple has a kid, they divorce, and both remarry) is causing my family real distress. 1/6
To: Medicaid non-expansion states
You’ve been playing hard to get so I will sweeten the deal. A 5% increase in FMAP might change how you feel. This offering of love is in lieu of a shove, so come now, let’s make it real.
#HealthPolicyValentines
One of the things my dad said to me when I came out was “I just don’t want your life to be harder.” I responded, “Then don’t make my life harder.”
He hasn’t, which I’m telling you, *makes all the difference in the world.*
Science is built on failure as is the career of any successful scientist.
Becoming a scientists is learning to deal with setbacks, rejections, criticism and failed experiments. Thick skin is what lies under those shiny CVs.
@DrHowardLiu
I’m so happy for one of my all-time fav collaborators, Ben Sommers, the new Deputy ASPE. He is truly perfect for this role and the country’s health policy is in good hands! 🤗🤗🤗
I’m a PROFESSOR. I love HEALTH POLICY. I drink
@lacroixwater
. I like STUDENTS who read the syllabus. I OWN my white privilege. I love my GAY family. If you don’t like it, MOVE.
This was my experience
@JFKairport
last night, coming in from Amsterdam. We had a sick passenger sitting directly behind us on the airplane. NO screening done whatsoever as we came into the U.S.
Arrived at O’Hare, the worlds busiest airport today from Madrid, a hot bed of
#CoronavirusPandemic
and sailed right thru passport and customs. There is NO protocol. Not one question asked, no temperatures being taken. Pandemic? What pandemic?
@choo_ek
Here is another thing to know about
@choo_ek
, J. Bob: if you were wheeled into her ER as a Level 1 trauma, she would do everything she could to save your life (so you could live to troll another day). She's what makes America great. Shame on you.
MACPAC welcomes our newest commissioners Heidi L. Allen, Robert Duncan, Dennis Heaphy, Laura Herrera Scott, and Verlon Johnson! And congrats to Kisha Davis for her new appointment to vice chair, and Melanie Bella for her reappointment as chair.
Hi, I’m a social worker turned health policy researcher. You may know me from my hits “The medical model is failing patients”, “Medicaid and Medicare are not the same program” and the chart-topping “The answer is Systemic Racism”.
Hi, I'm a trauma surgeon.
You may know me from my hits “Yes, I am a Surgeon” “No, really, I am a Surgeon,” and the chart-topping “Let me introduce myself Again (I am not your nurse, although yes your nurse is fabulous).”
Many people think they have really good private health insurance until they get sick. The limits of their coverage are revealed at a time when they are most in need.
Now would be a good time for all states that haven’t expanded Medicaid to do so. This will increase access to health care, make sure providers get paid, and protect low-income families from medical debt. Trust me, I’ve studied this.
#medicaidmatters
I volunteer for a suicide hotline that serves trans youth. I wish that everybody who supports this ban could spend just one shift with me. Here is what I know to be true: gender affirming health care, especially during puberty, saves kids’ lives. This is just cruel.
Would love to see mobile vaccination clinics driving into these communities. So much more efficient and so much more equitable. We just finished a census. We can do this! We can go door to door!
Just finished teaching a class where we covered tips for evaluating credible research when writing to inform policy. I had a slide on impact factors, h-index, citation metrics, etc. 1/5
Next level pandemic: After a tiring day of work I went to change into something more comfortable, only to realize I was already wearing sweats. I don’t know where to go from here.
#COVID19
Oh my heart. Oldest son (15) was giving me a hug and youngest son (13) joined in. Then our little dog demanded to be in the middle. We stood there in the kitchen, the four of us, hugging. These moments are what it’s all about. 🥰
My 14 y.o. son just joined Twitter and so this is my chance to say to the world how much I love his anti-racist, social-justice-loving, make-the-world-better heart.
@Magicaxolotl7
Today at lunchtime I wandered into the kitchen singing “I’m a hungry hungry hippo!”, not aware my wife was in there on a zoom call.
I’ve been told this behavior is quite mortifying when someone is trying to be a lawyer.
Somebody had the nerve to clone my Twitter account without offering to do any of my work. We have an overdue peer review they could be working on! Listen
@profheidiallen
, you can’t be me unless you are willing to carry some weight.
#dishesneeddoing
#papersneedwriting
@KatecBowler
When my oldest was little we were talking about his grandma who had died recently of cancer. Son: I think it’s okay really. She is in heaven with Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr. (pauses and then with a dramatic whisper) did you know they did NOT die of natural causes??
As a freshman I sold plasma twice a week. Bought groceries on a gas station credit card until they cut it up. Dropped out mid-semester when I was a junior because I needed to work full time to eat. Drove cab for a year until I could afford to go back. Honestly? It was tough.
After being fired at Hamburger Connection on my second day for “not being a fast enough learner”, I worked at
@McDonalds
for the next two years while finishing high school. Now a tenured professor
@Columbia
.
PA school funding lawsuit really illuminating what policy makers think of poor kids’ career potential: “What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for Algebra 1?”
We have amazing data.
We have close collaborations with 6 states and NYC.
We care about postpartum health and eliminating disparities.
Our goal is to influence state and federal policies.
We are fun!
Come be our postdoc!
@jamie_daw
Coming out caused me massive heartache, so I don’t take
#NationalComingOut
day lightly. But I have zero regrets (except for that year we took engagement photos in March).
I'm reading a student paper about her internship where a patient is being held in the hospital until her Medicaid can be activated, because hospitals get retroactive payment, but rehab facilities don't. I wonder how often this happens and at what expense to the Medicaid program?
It is utterly exhausting and demoralizing. And we are already exhausted and demoralized. This kind of repeated astonishment isn't helping us or our kid. (Hospitals: train your staff, ALL of your staff). 6/6
My favorite part of being a professor is happening right now: my former student has the podium and I'm in the learning seat. Proud of you and glad to be here.
@builtfoesuccess
#antiracistSW
Two years ago I found a blurry picture online of a small dog in the Bronx who was being re-homed. I caught my first break in a year of conniving and my wife agreed to “just take a look”. Before she could blink, the dog was in the car heading home with us. My best scam ever.
1/3 Somebody emptied my son's high school checking out using
@Zelle
. We reported it to
@chase
right away, while the transaction was pending. They let the transaction go through. We filed a dispute and
@chase
decided it wasn't fraud.
I live in faculty housing and it took me awhile to figure out why students were breaking out in cheers outside - Monday and Tuesday midterms were just cancelled.
Seemed inevitable but it is still surreal that Columbia is canceling in-person classes. Gunna have to pick up this remote teaching thing pretty darn fast
#onetwothreezoom
I have such a tenuous hold on my domestic life. We are always on the brink of running out of milk or clean clothes. The kids homework gets lost and the dog is a clandestine pee-er on rugs. But it’s cool. It’s the best we can do and it’s enough.
#academicmamamantras
Today I was scheduled to be "professor" until about 9 pm. Instead, I was "mom" - making tea, wielding thermometer and ibuprofen, rubbing a bony back and tucking in over and over again. It isn't lost on me how lucky I am to be able to take off one hat and firmly put on the other.
Working from home in 2021, three weeks into the semester:
My wife just read an email over my shoulder and said "You need to say no to that. You don't have time."
Bet she asks me to unload the dishwasher though.
😐
Last night I dreamed I was being vetted as a health policy advisor to President
@JoeBiden
. I was asked to speak on broad Medicaid reforms.
Sherry Glied was there and when I finished she said “Wow! I learned so much!”
And that, my friends, was when I realized I was asleep. 😂
Measuring the impact of health insurance on actual health is tricky. In this JAMA Viewpoint, we attempt to summarize what is known (in 1500 words!) and what it means for Medicaid.
Assessing Health Outcomes Attributable to Medicaid Expansion At 5 Years
We are hiring! Come be my colleague. You don’t have to identify as a social worker, just willing to embrace our values! Also, we offer a degree in policy. Also, also, HARD FUNDING.
#healthpolicytwitter
Faculty search
@ColumbiaSSW
: scholars of race and racism, particularly anti-Black racism. We are adopting a “systems thinking” approach to analyzing the complex, interrelated forces that drive disparities (e.g., economic, education, criminal justice, technology, & health systems)
This is a song I will be singing for awhile - traditional Medicaid is going to need more support from the feds but Medicaid expansion is still a great deal for states. Ben Sommers and I discuss the future of Medicaid financing here:
The next 12 months will be a time of reckoning for
#Medicaid
. The program is a critical tool in the economic and public health response to
#COVID19
#Coronavirus
Anyway, I’m thankful for the first year MSW curriculum that taught our students to ask the right/tough questions, the courage of the student to challenge me, and the opportunity to do better. 5/5
I came of age in Idaho in the 80-90’s. Never met an out gay person. Never heard a positive word about the LGBTQ+ community. I’m the GAYEST. Good luck with this stupidity, Florida. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Even though we live in NYC, it is literally blowing people's minds that gay people exist and that we have kids. One provider explained "your son has an unusually complex family situation". Oh? Does he? I didn't realize that divorce and remarriage were that uncommon. 4/6
What I should have said is YOU ARE RIGHT. We need new approaches to assessing the credibility and contribution of research. If we are studying Black maternal mortality, let’s turn our attention to the literature by Black scholars in this area. 3/5
After I left my job as a social worker
@OHSUEmergency
, it took several years to process all of the deaths, the families I supported in the worst moments of their lives. Hospital SWs are going to need trauma counseling when this is over.
#coronavirus
#medicalSW
Q: Does hugging my dog every fifteen minutes while working from home increase or decrease my overall productivity?
A: Who cares. I'm doing it.
@KffDogs
@RWJF
just waived narrative reporting for their grants until the end of 2021. I could not love them more for recognizing the toll of this pandemic and actually doing something constructive to make life easier. Thank you RWJF!
The Milbank Quarterly is pleased to announce its new Editorial Advisory Board. Thank you to all of the distinguished scholars and thought leaders who have joined us.
Happy Pride!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈SCOTUS will be ruling this month on if it's okay to discriminate against same-sex adoptive parents. My kids are wonderful young people. They are openhearted, responsible, kind, funny, and a joy to be around. I'm proud of them and of our family.
@Magicaxolotl7
I'm teaching a dissertation seminar for the first time and would love to hear your best "developing a research question" advice and resources. Let's help these awesome PhD candidates launch!
#AcademicTwitter
Vacations are so good for the soul. I just spent five minutes wondering if there’s anything I can do to make my dog happier. As a wife, mother, professor, sister, and friend, that’s the kind of bandwidth I need. After I attend to the dog, of course.
We co-parent really well and we all show up for our kid; that seems more unusual to me. Listen, I get needing to know who should sign the forms but it doesn't need to be a circus. What message is this sending our son? 5/6
Explaining to 12 y.o. how snow days were announced when I was a child:
“School closures would scroll underneath whatever was on TV ...it would be dark early morning and kids would huddle there, watching and waiting with anxiety and hope...”
12 y.o.: “What? I don’t get it.”
I was in an Uber this morning on my way to the airport in Porto, Portugal. The driver asked me where I was headed and I told him NYC. He looked at me in the rearview mirror, sighed, and said “America is so scary.”
Ain’t that the truth.
One of the first things we need to do to prepare for this likely pandemic is to remove cost barriers to health care. This isn’t the time for people to have to choose between getting tested or paying rent.
14 y.o. and 12 y.o. have vaccine appointments in the morning. There were plenty of slots available but I had to lie about their ages to get past the screening questions (which haven’t been updated). Fingers crossed!!
Microsoft Word is killing me with the constant accusations that I'm using "passive voice" in my writing. Is there an academic version I can download?
What do you think Academic Word would flag?