Steffie Woolhandler@swoolhandler

Physician, Professor, Single Payer Medicare for All Advocate

Joined December 2012
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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 acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/…

Prevalence and Correlates of Patient Rationing of Insulin in the United States: A National Survey |...

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Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
11 Nov 2022
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.
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Adam Gaffney@awgaffney
22 Dec 2025
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
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Over 4 years more than a quarter of Americans will experience trouble affording healthcare. New study jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Burdensome Health Care Spending Over Time in the US

This cohort study assesses burdensome out-of-pocket health care costs over a 4-year period among individuals in the US.

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You've all seen this viral graph on social media Shows healthcare administrators have increased 5000% since the 1970s! Hey, even @TheLancet published it In the past, I've tried to replicate it and failed So this time, I asked @bhrenton to do it right
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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.
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Adam Gaffney@awgaffney
7 Nov 2025
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. healthaffairs.org/content/fo…
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Our work on the harmful effects of profit-seeking in American health care, in this weeks Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Health care in the USA: money has become the mission

Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated...

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Health providers brace for loss of immigrant workers due to Trump’s policies - Marketplace - goo.gl/alerts/Vd7vZK #GoogleAlerts

Health providers brace for loss of immigrant workers

Amid existing staffing shortages, immigration crackdown threatens long-term health care.

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Immigrants’ Premium and Tax Payments for Health Care Exceed the Costs of Their Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Immigrants’ Premium and Tax Payments for Health Care and the Costs of Their Care

This cross-sectional study uses data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and the Current Population Survey to assess immigrants’ net financial contributions to the US health care system.

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Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative Inefficiencies | out today in Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/content/fo…

Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative...

The US health care system is already larded with bureaucracy; administrative costs account for nearly a third of total health care expenditures. Medicaid work requirements look set to siphon even...

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Mortality of Native Americans exceeds that of other Americans by 42%. Our shocking findings in today’s JAMA. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Life Expectancy of American Indian and Alaska Native Persons and Underreporting of Mortality in...

This longitudinal cohort study uses self-identified race and ethnicity data to examine age-specific mortality rates and life expectancy among American Indian and Alaska Native individuals.

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This group is the most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses by far muckrack.com/link/zBJjhU/thi…
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Heat-Related Illness Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness. New from our group and HMS student Taylor Weckstein jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Heat-Related Illness Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness

This cross-sectional study compares heat-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations among persons experiencing homelessness and nonhomeless populations.

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Steffie Woolhandler@swoolhandler
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Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US

This cohort study examines the association between wealth and longevity and estimates changes in longevity that would occur under several simulated wealth distributions among US adults.

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Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce

This study explores the potential for health care staffing shortages in the US by estimating the number of immigrants employed in health care who could be affected by deportation or immigration...

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Our group's work in today's JAMA
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Our research group's work on how aggressive deportation policies threaten Americans' health care, in today's JAMA medpagetoday.com/publichealt…

Over 350K Health Workers Face Deportation Risk

Survey study quantifies the role of immigrants, both documented and undocumented, in healthcare

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Who Should Own Americans’ Health Care? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Who Should Own Americans’ Health Care?

This Viewpoint discusses the collapse of the Steward Health Care system as a case in point of the salience of proprietorship in health care, the problem of private equity firms’ business models...

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Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees: Our new JAMANetworkOpen study medpagetoday.com/publichealt…

Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees

Those with MA and traditional Medicare plans had similar rates of care and spending on 'extras'

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Our profit-oriented health insurance system traps parents of kids with cystic fibrosis in dead end jobs: study in @JAMAPediatrics urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2…
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Morning Joe
@Morning_Joe
31 Oct 2024
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital propublica.org/article/josse…

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas...

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat...

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⚡ 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: thelancet.com/journals/lance… #LancetClimate24
Report cover image reads: 'The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action'

ALT Report cover image reads: 'The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action'

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