Loren Adler

@LorenAdler

Associate Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy | mostly health econ, occasionally budgets or Knicks | he/him

Washington D.C.
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Joined July 2011
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    4 hours ago

    Fun fact: A lot of these rebates will go to people so paid $0 for their premium. Did you know you could get paid to shop on ? Deadline is Jan 15

    Health insurers were so profitable last year (during the pandemic) that they are now issuing $2 billion in rebates to consumers, as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare)
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    12 hours ago

    MA has been doing test-and-stay since Sep. Has made a big difference for our children's education & mental health. I don't know whether to be grateful that the CDC has come around or angry for all the children who suffered because of the caution/delay.

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    9 hours ago

    One step closer to getting my 4 year old a fake id.

    seems like the problem is that the dose is too small, so going for 3 doses instead of 2 larger doses is a little weird
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    14 hours ago

    Had the ongoing studies been positive, an EUA for <5 year olds could have happened as soon as February, in my estimation. So this is a potentially a months-long setback. Ugh.

    Pfizer plans to submit data for its vaccine in kids 6 months - <5 years in the "first half of 2022." It is now evaluating a third mini-dose at least 2 months after the second dose in this group. Pfizer also plans to evaluate a third dose in kids 5 to 11.
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    Dec 16

    New year, new job? MACPAC seeks a policy analyst with around two years of experience. Could it be you? Learn more and apply:

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    Dec 16
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    FDA guidance on variant-specific booster EUAs is encouraging! They don't ask for e.g. phase 3 trials like those for the original vaccines, but rather for "clinical immunogenicity studies" which would hopefully look a lot like 's proposal.

    Clipping from press release with following text highlighted: "For clinical data, the guidance recommends that a determination of effectiveness be supported by data from clinical immunogenicity studies, which would compare a recipient’s immune response to virus variants induced by the modified vaccine against the immune response to the authorized vaccine."
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    Dec 15

    Reporting in Kentucky hospitals, I saw a lot of covid patients. What are they like? One man was in a high-flow oxygen mask. He was lying in bed, making tiny, fast bites at the air, gasping. He looked like he was suffocating, like a dying fish washed up on the beach.

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    Dec 15

    Professor Mark Hall joins this week's meeting to discuss "Private Equity Investment as a Divining Rod for Market Failure: Policy Responses to Harmful Physician Practice Acquisitions" More here:

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    Dec 15

    Know any undergrad or grad students who want a summer internship at or another DC think tank? This is a great opportunity! I supervise these interns every year and they have always been a really fabulous group.

    Interested in fiscal and economic policy? Apply now for a paid summer w/ prestigious organizations like , , , , and more.
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    Dec 14

    100% agree. By extending the debt limit only through the midterms, Dems are just asking to be extorted by Kevin McCarthy and his caucus in 2023.

    If I were the Democrats and hated the debt limit on principle, I'd raise it by $22.5 trillion (or, hell, a googol). In terms of political blowback & GOP attack ads, there is little difference between $2.5 trillion and $22.5 trillion, and a googol sounds silly and made up anyway.
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    Dec 14

    🚨 There's still time to improve SSI benefits for low-income seniors and people with disabilities in ! 1/

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    Dec 14

    Interesting tidbit in press release from today on latest round of provider COVID-19 relief payments going out: M&A activity for providers receiving at least $10K triggers notice and higher likelihood of audit.

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    Dec 13

    Did you know there's a service to order *free* packs of rapid COVID tests to be sent to your home? You can order one pack per day, and each pack contains SEVEN tests! There's just one catch: You have to live in the United Kingdom. Sorry, Americans.

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    Dec 11

    With lots of health care news, strong marketplace enrollment - through & state-based marketplaces - hasn't gotten enough attention! Key stats: - Nearly 4.6m enrollees - Plan selections up 5% in FFM states - Big gains in nonexpansion states - Outperforming 2021 OEP

    In her new blog post, discusses the updated enrollment report from for the 2022 open enrollment period, which shows that nearly 4.6 million people nationwide have enrolled in marketplace coverage during the 2022 open enrollment period.
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    Dec 13

    The Senate Finance Committee's updated text includes some changes to provisions related to long-term care:

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  16. Dec 13

    And the whole point of the No Surprises Act is that all emergency services and nonemergency facility-based services that fall under the law's protections are now effectively in-network for patients. So, in effect, the law gives us 100% in-network care for the affected services.

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  17. Dec 13

    And these network breadth claims make even less sense when simply comparing the effects of the vaguer arbitration guidance the lawsuits are seeking compared to the Administration's more clear rulemaking:

    That, ultimately, is the main tradeoff actually presented by this lawsuit and this debate more broadly. Should prices be higher, benefitting providers, or should prices be lower, benefiting consumers? /end
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  18. Dec 13

    Recent lawsuits against the No Surprises Act claim it'll unwind networks & push a lot of care out-of-network. But a reminder that California's law, which benchmarked to avg in-network prices (the lawsuits' fear), looks to have pushed more care in-network

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  19. Dec 13

    The hospital lobby wins again (at least for now), blocking minor cuts that would have clawed back a small portion of their windfall from the Medicaid expansion to help pay for it

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    Dec 13

    New executive order takes aim at administrative burdens. Have heard this was coming and looking forward to the text. If you are interested, this is part of the broader framework the Biden admin has been building:

    Biden aims to cut bureaucratic runaround for gov't services (from )
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