Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social

Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MSNBC. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Pre-order Coverage Denied (out 4/23): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM

You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
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It’s moments like this that I regret signing up to spend all day this Saturday judging a bioethics competition. Happy Caturday.
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C’mon, California, support Xavier Becerra. Don’t fuck this up.
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David Noll @david.noll.org
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Pardons can't stop the next president from handing over alleged war criminals to an international criminal tribunal, if they have the political will.
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This is just one part of the physician workforce shortage, but surprise surprise, OB-GYNs aren’t going to want to practice in states that want to criminalize the provision of reproductive health care even in medical emergencies.
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Well that’s one way to get me to dread the next two months of near-constant travel.
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Here sits Maude, guardian of my cough drops.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social
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Gee...*who* fired this immaculate projectile?

Answer: a federal agent.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html
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We have the 25th Amendment for a reason.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net
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Supreme Court justices rarely criticize their colleagues in public, when they do, they never single out any one justice. If Sotomayor's willing to just come out and say it like this, they really, really, really, hate his guts.
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What @janetmillsforme.bsky.social says here speaks to so many Americans' experiences battling health insurers when just trying to get care for themselves and their families. My book on this subject, Coverage Denied, is out in just 2 weeks from today. Give it a read! www.cambridge.org/core/books/coverage-denied/8555CC67A3FF0D1D5AEE942B9BB2CC86
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social
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Amazing that this is going to happen at the same time he announces his new health care plan
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social
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The Trump administration has appointed a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist as an immigration judge in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/right-wing-poster-is-minnesotas-newest-immigration-judge/
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to be clear, rfk jr. is using fake medical astroturf orgs with real-sounding names to try and circumvent the courts/the law (FACA)
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It's called limited government, folks.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social
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Abolishing forms of respectful collective memorialization of the Confederacy are Good, Actually
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Nothing like kicking off the day crying at the dentist and then learning I maxed out on insurance benefits before needing more major work.

It can only go up from here, right? Right?? youtu.be/maoO-kUpOcU?si=1fzrSI4Q7nIvkrRy
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My op-ed in @washingtonpost.com

Sometimes it’s hard to tell how an outbreak could have been prevented. But with raw milk and raw dairy, it’s pretty straightforward. These are preventable and fueled by misinformation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/09/food-safety-raw-milk-outbreaks-rfk-jr-kennedy/
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Today (and all next week) in Health Law and Politics, I'm teaching the book that got me into politics and health policy specifically: And the Band Played On.

I can't think of a more compelling, haunting, infuriating account of a public health threat that devastated communities across the globe.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social
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One of the two specified crimes in the impeachment clause (the other being treason), along with “other high crimes and misdemeanors”
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Another word for this is “bribe.”
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From the man who has whatever the opposite of a voice for radio is
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social
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The scriptwriters merit praise for inventing ever-more creative ways for this administration to insult foreign leaders
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Today, wrapping up teaching on Medicaid and teaching, among other things, the op-ed that @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and I wrote in The Hill about how HR1 was actually most harmful to Republican voters. (But delayed rollout of core provisions demands clear messaging.) thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5325977-trump-budget-impact-rural-medicaid/
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Exactly right. @mirandayaver.bsky.social and I published an OpEd on this very topic back in August 2025.

thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5446315-undermining-affordable-care-act/amp/
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Thanks to @citizencohn.bsky.social for the shoutout of my book Coverage Denied! Really enjoyed discussing these important issues of health care access.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social
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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social
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New U.S. bargaining position has no mention of the strait, or proxies, or ballistic missiles. Basically the president is begging for a return to the Obama nuclear deal but with Iran adding a massive new revenue source.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
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Farr Macro:
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My book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is out on 4/23! It’s available through @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org and Amazon, Strand, Powell’s, etc. Out in less than 3 weeks, it combines survey & interview research to explain health ins barriers. www.cambridge.org/core/books/coverage-denied/8555CC67A3FF0D1D5AEE942B9BB2CC86
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