News & Press
† quotes or interviews me · ‡ written by me
2026
- Oct 23StateScoop — $11M in AI grants aim to help states modernize public benefits
- Oct 22Center for Civic Futures — Center for Civic Futures Awards $11 Million to Tackle the Toughest Barriers in Safety Net Delivery with AI
- Sep 29Pink Sheet — Hep C ‘Subscription’ Pays Off For Louisiana And Gilead
- Sep 24Yale News — From research to impact: Yale’s Tobin Center drives work that shapes policy and improves lives
- Sep 7Salon — Trump’s weird war against the states
- Aug 20Employer Coverage (Jeff Levin-Scherz) — Subscription model for Hepatitis C medications lowered medical costs in Louisiana
- Aug 3Tobin Center for Economic Policy — Privatizing Medicaid saved money—almost entirely on prescription drugs, not medical care
- Aug 3Yale School of Public Health — New Study Finds Medicaid Managed Care Lowers Some Costs, But Tradeoffs Remain †
- Jul 9American Economic Association — Privatizing Medicaid
- Jul 6The HEAL Network — Health Economics in the Highlands: Key Takeaways from the 5th Annual Highland Health Economics Symposium
- Jun 4Safety Net Response Network — Promising Practices in SNAP PER Reduction: Data-Driven Preauthorization Reviews
- May 29The Guardian — Republican mistrust in healthcare widens US health gap, study finds (via Yahoo News)
- May 26Conversable Economist — How Medicare and Medicaid Rely on Private Health Insurance
- Apr 9Safety Net Response Network — Is This Working? Data-Driven Strategies to Reduce SNAP Payment Error Rates
- Feb 19J-PAL — Affiliate Spotlight: Jacob Wallace on strengthening Medicaid through evidence use and generation †
2025
- Nov 4Salon — Trump’s America is governed by necropolitics
- Oct 9Vox — How everything became left or right "coded"
- Jul 18The New York Times — Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows †
- Jul 18Yale School of Public Health — New Work Requirements for SNAP Benefits Could Hurt Families
- Jun 26NPR, Planet Money — The paperwork trap: A sneaky way to cut Medicaid in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’?
- May 30Tobin Center for Economic Policy — SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
- Feb 28Washington Monthly — Make America Sick Again
- Feb 14The State — Behind South Carolina’s role in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health secretary confirmation
- Feb 12Medicaid Insights Colloquium (OHSU) — Medicaid Insights Colloquium with Dr. Jacob Wallace †
- Jan 29The Conversation — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination signals a new era of anti-intellectualism in American politics
- Jan 29U.S. News & World Report — RFK Jr. Is Not What the Doctor Ordered
2024
- Dec 20Yale News — Yale unites scholars, policymakers to improve Medicaid †
- Dec 17The Nation — RFK Jr. Is Giving Infectious Diseases a Promotional Tour
- Nov 27Vox — America is incredibly polarized. It’s bad for our health.
- NovTobin Center for Economic Policy — SNAP Work Requirements one-pager (JAMA IM study)
- Sep 15The Atlantic — Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?
- Mar 15USA Today — Four years after COVID, misinformation still endangers some Americans’ health. Here’s why.
- Mar 11The New York Times — The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic
- Jan 30KFF Health News — Where Are the Nation’s Primary Care Providers? It’s Not an Easy Answer
- Jan 30Scientific American — Disinformation Is the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health
- Jan 22Salon — Ron DeSantis ends the most humiliating presidential run in history with one final disgrace
- Jan 18PBS NewsHour — As COVID cases rise, doctors worry about the consequences of misinformation
- Jan 11MedPage Today — COVID Takes Center Stage at Trump Town Hall
- Jan 3The Washington Post — Florida surgeon general calls for halt on mRNA covid vaccines, citing debunked claim
2023
- Dec 23Salon — "The stock price is down": The biggest Fox News fails of 2023
- DecJAMA Network — 2023 Most Discussed Articles
- Nov 26Doonesbury — Doonesbury Sunday strip, 11/26/23
- Nov 20Journal of Blacks in Higher Education — Government Programs to Attract Physicians to Underserved Areas Have Not Worked
- Nov 17South Florida Sun-Sentinel — Anti-vaccine hysteria makes MAGA ideology a death trap
- Nov 16Sarasota Herald-Tribune — Floridians, please don’t take COVID advice from DeSantis or Ladapo
- Nov 14RevCycleIntelligence — HPSA Program Did Not Affect Physician Shortages or Health Outcomes
- Nov 13KFF Health News — How Lawmakers in Texas and Florida Undermine Covid Vaccination Efforts
- Nov 12The Washington Post — Federal program didn’t make a dent in physician shortages overall
- Nov 9Yale News — Efforts to attract physicians to underserved areas aren’t working
- Nov 7Yale School of Public Health — Alumni Day highlights data-driven leadership
- NovBecker’s Physician Leadership — Health professional shortage area designation not effective, study finds
- NovYale Daily News — Federal program to reduce health disparities is ineffective, YSPH researchers find
- Oct 27Freakonomics Radio — Nate Silver Says We’re Bad at Making Predictions
- Sep 30Salon — There are more of us than there are of them
- Sep 29The Washington Post — The partisan gap on vaccines isn’t limited to covid
- Sep 28Yahoo News — New poll finds over a third of Americans think COVID and the flu are ‘about the same’
- Sep 15South Florida Sun-Sentinel — Most Floridians see COVID vaccines as safe. But many also believe conspiracy theories
- Sep 12El País — Negar las alarmas, dudar de los datos y los expertos: por qué la derecha recela de la ciencia
- Sep 11Tampa Bay Times — COVID misinformation is still killing us
- Sep 10The Washington Post — GOP presidential hopefuls take renewed aim at efforts to combat covid
- Sep 7Medscape — Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine
- Aug 30Yahoo News — New poll finds only 7% of Americans are ‘very worried’ about getting COVID
- Aug 22The Washington Post — Why do Republicans disproportionately believe health misinformation?
- Aug 18WAMC Northeast Public Radio — Climate change and the "culture wars"
- Aug 7The New York Times — Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue
- Aug 3Cleveland 19 News — Study says Ohio’s COVID-19 death rates were higher for Republicans than Democrats
- Aug 3Radio-Canada — COVID-19 : la surmortalité plus élevée chez les républicains en Floride et en Ohio
- Aug 3Yahoo Actualités — Aux Etats-Unis, le Covid-19 a tué beaucoup plus d’électeurs républicains que de démocrates
- Aug 1Spectrum News 1 — Study: Higher death rates in Republican-leaning counties post-COVID vaccine †
- Jul 30NBC News, Meet the Press — The Uneven Toll of the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Jul 27Il Foglio — La tradizione culturale determina la sopravvivenza degli individui
- Jul 26Gizmodo — Excess Deaths Among Republicans Skyrocketed After Covid Vaccine Became Available, Study Finds †
- Jul 25Ars Technica — Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout
- Jul 25Axios — Study: Republican deaths in Florida, Ohio linked to COVID vaccine politics
- Jul 25KFF Health News — Lower Covid Vaccine Uptake Linked To Excess Republican Deaths In Florida, Ohio: Study
- Jul 25MedPage Today — Republican vs Democrat Excess Deaths; New MERS Case; Watch Out for Rocks in Cookies
- Jul 25The New Republic — Vaccine Politics Linked to Excess Republican Deaths During Covid, Study Finds †
- Jul 25NPR — Republicans’ excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says
- Jul 25PennLive — Anti-COVID-19 vaccine talk may have been deadly for Republicans, study finds
- Jul 24CIDRAP — Political party affiliation linked to excess COVID deaths
- Jul 24Esquire — Conservative Political Rhetoric Now Has an Official Body Count
- Jul 24The Hill — COVID-19 vaccine politics could be linked to excess GOP deaths in Ohio, Florida: study
- Jul 24New York Magazine — Democrats Learned From Their COVID Mistakes. Republicans Didn’t.
- Jul 24The Washington Post — Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds †
- Jul 3NBER Digest — Medicare and the Incidence of Household Financial Distress
- JulScimex — Republicans were more likely to die from COVID-19 than Democrats once vaccines became available
- Apr 24The New York Times Magazine — Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Clearly Something Went Wrong’
- Apr 23American Journal of Public Health — Republicans Die More From COVID-19: Why We Care
- Mar 16Yale School of Public Health — 3 Essential Questions: The End of Medicaid Continuous Enrollment
- Mar 15Annals of Internal Medicine — A Fresh Look at Medicaid
- Jan 25MSNBC, All In with Chris Hayes — All In with Chris Hayes, 1/25/23
- Jan 6The Nation — Why Are So Many People Dying? Reaping the Anti-Vaxx Whirlwind
2022
- Dec 232 Minute Medicine — Medicaid is a long-term source of insurance coverage for low-income families
- Dec 14CBS, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — DeSantis Goes Full Vaccine Conspiracy Mode | Musk No Longer On Top | Rubio’s Push To Ban TikTok
- Dec 14Medical Economics — More Republicans than Democrats died after COVID-19 vaccines were available
- Dec 13MSNBC, Alex Wagner Tonight — Alex Wagner Tonight, 12/13/22
- Dec 2Yale Daily News — Yale study identifies partisan disparity in excess COVID-19 death rates †
- DecHealth & Veritas (Yale SOM) — Alan Friedman: To Err Is Human
- Nov 22Futurity — More Republicans died than Democrats after COVID vaccines came out
- Nov 21La Prensa San Diego — Yale Study: More Republicans Died of COVID After Vaccines
- Nov 15Yale Insights — Once COVID Vaccines Were Introduced, More Republicans Died Than Democrats
- Nov 3Yale School of Public Health — Study Finds Large Gap in Excess Deaths Along Partisan Lines After COVID-19 Vaccines Introduced †
- Oct 26The Washington Post — Biden officials worry pandemic exhaustion could lead to bad covid winter
- Oct 19Baltimore Sun — Tom Zirpoli: What would Mark Twain say about today’s liars?
- Oct 19Governing — Vaccine Skepticism Spreads from COVID to Other Diseases
- Oct 16Dayton Daily News — Ideology is killing people
- Oct 16Miami Herald — Florida surgeon general’s COVID vaccine ‘study’ is politics dressed up as science
- Oct 16The Star Press — Partisan effect of disinformation on COVID deaths
- Oct 14Financial Times — Tragic fallout from the politicisation of science in the US
- Oct 12The New York Times — The Inadequacy of the Stories We Told About the Pandemic
- Oct 11theGrio — Studies show Republicans had higher COVID-19 excess death rates than Democrats †
- Oct 11The Washington Post — Experts slam Florida surgeon general’s warning on coronavirus vaccines
- Oct 10The Intercept — The Right’s Anti-Vaxxers Are Killing Republicans
- Oct 10The Washington Post — How much of right-wing opposition to vaccination was Fox News’s fault?
- Oct 8The Guardian — The Breach review: ex-January 6 staffer on how Republicans lurched into madness
- Oct 7Deseret News — Are Republicans more likely to die from COVID-19 than Democrats? Here’s what researchers found
- Oct 7The New York Times — The Power of Paxlovid
- Oct 7Slate — A Study Finally Shows Just How Much Deadlier COVID Has Been for Republicans
- Oct 6NBC News — Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows †
- Oct 6Vox — A wave of anti-vaccine legislation is sweeping the United States
- Oct 5NBC Miami — Gap Between Democrat, Republican Deaths After COVID-19 Vaccine Release Highlighted in Study
- Oct 4Can We Still Govern? (Don Moynihan) — Republican elites killed their own followers
- Oct 4CIDRAP — COVID-19 Scan for Oct 04, 2022 (Ohio and Florida data show more Republican excess COVID-19 deaths)
- Oct 4MarketWatch — Study confirms Republican-leaning counties suffered more COVID deaths than Democrat-leaning ones
- Oct 4Ohio Capital Journal — Study: More Republicans than Democrats likely died of COVID
- Oct 3The Washington Post — After vaccines became available, a partisan gap in deaths emerged
- OctACA Signups — New NBER study confirms pretty much everything I (& others) have been saying for the past year & a half
- Sep 27Health Affairs Forefront — As Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement Ends, Randomized Controlled Trials Can Minimize Churn ‡
- JulCommonwealth Fund — Reducing Disparities Among Medicaid Enrollees: What Can States Do? ‡
- May 12New England Journal of Medicine — Supporting Innovation in Medicaid Policy - Interventions to Increase Adoption of RCTs ‡
- MayFierce Healthcare — Study: Only small amount of docs in some Medicaid managed care networks offer care to Medicaid patients
- Feb 2Yale Daily News — Medicare could help close racial gaps in healthcare, Yale study finds
- Jan 24Yale Insights — Medicare Helps Close Racial Gaps in Access to Healthcare
- Science Feedback — Evidence suggests that political partisanship is associated with higher COVID-19 mortality rates among Republicans compared to Democrats †
2021
- Nov 9Public Health Post — Quality Over Quantity
- Aug 16Lown Institute — Hospitals that advertise aren’t necessarily better
- Aug 5Medicare Rights Center — New Study Connects Medicare with Reductions in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Insurance Coverage
- Aug 2Healio — Expanding Medicare eligibility may reduce health care disparities †
- Jul 29HealthDay — Lowering Medicare Age Could Help Close Racial Gaps in Health Care: Study (via OrthoAtlanta) †
- Jul 28AHA News — Study finds Medicare eligibility corresponds to decreases in health disparities along racial, ethnic lines
- Jul 27AARP — Expanding Medicare Eligibility Could Help Reduce Minority Health Disparities
- Jul 27Axios — Study: Expanding Medicare eligibility may shrink racial disparities
- Jul 27Contemporary OB/GYN — Medicare closes gaps in racial and ethnic health care disparities †
- Jul 27HealthPayerIntelligence — How Medicare Eligibility Impacts Racial Coverage Disparities
- Jul 26Healthcare Dive — Medicare eligibility erases many healthcare disparities in US
- Jul 26Yale News — Expanding Medicare would reduce racial and ethnic health disparities †
- JulFierce Healthcare — Study: Medicare access narrows racial gaps in coverage, healthcare costs
- JulKFF Health News — Lowering Medicare Age Requirements Could Help Reduce Racial, Ethnic Disparities, Study Finds
- JulMedical Xpress — Expanding Medicare would reduce racial and ethnic health disparities †
- JulPNHP — Medicare Reduces Racial and Ethnic Disparities
- May 4Discoveries in Health Policy — Brief Blog: Two JAMA Articles On Out-of-Network Laboratories
- Jan1% Steps for Health Care Reform — Improving Auto-Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care ‡
2020
- Sep 1Healthcare Dive — Medicaid managed care plans’ cost-controlling efforts are blunt, research suggests
- SepHealth Affairs Forefront — Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines—The Role of Medicaid ‡
- SepPNHP — Medicaid managed care plans reduce spending by providing less of everything
- Jul 16Harvard Medical School News — Out-of-Network Care
- Jul 8Liberty Street Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) — Medicare and Financial Health across the United States ‡
- Jun 2Health Affairs Forefront — Paying Their Fair Share: States Should Require Increased Medicaid Health Plan Payments To Support Safety-Net Providers In The Age Of COVID-19 ‡
- Jun 2Health Affairs Forefront — Out-of-Network Spending: Why Growing Attention Is Focused On A Small Share Of Medical Spending ‡
- Jun 1Health Care Cost Institute — Health Affairs: Out-Of-Network Spending Mostly Declined In Privately Insured Populations…
- Feb 25KFF Health News — Needy Patients ‘Caught In The Middle’ As Insurance Titan Drops Doctors †
2016
- May 6PBS NewsHour — Are there hidden costs if Medicare eligibility age goes up? †