Margot Sanger-Katz
Covering health care at @nytimes.com. Enjoy metaphors. Dislike mixed metaphors.
Reach me on Signal: sangerkatz.01
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- Want to be my boss? @upshot.nytimes.com is looking for a new editor. It's a great job leading a creative, collaborative, fun team, if I do say so myself. t.co/EMsA6p7eSh
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- A bunch of papers cited in the government MAHA report are apparently fake. www.notus.org/health-scien... @emilykennard.bsky.social @margaretmanto.bsky.social
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- If you want to think more about how paperwork can prevent eligible people from getting benefits, this piece 2020 piece with @emmbadger.bsky.social has a fun quiz, a large survey, and lots of research, and features photos of our boss's mail. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Here's a complete list of *everything* in the GOP megabill, thanks to heroic efforts from @aliciaparlap.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social and Josh Katz. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- The Medicaid work requirement in the House bill is a lot stricter than work requirements in previous legislation. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... with Sarah Kliff
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- Congress is looking at major changes to the Medicaid expansion. New research finds it has saved 27,000 lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...
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- Republicans in W&M voted down an amendment that would have permanently extended enhanced Obamacare subsidies. @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social, who introduced it, argued that if Congress was using a current policy baseline for tax cuts, it should also do so for the subsidies.
- In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- Read @tonyromm.bsky.social on the many the ways the Trump agenda will put pressure on state budgets. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- My colleague Claire Cain Miller is hoping to hear from folks about challenges facing boys and young men. Please read her article and share your stories here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- CMS just proposed a rule to make it harder for states to increase their federal Medicaid match by taxing managed care providers. The policy is similar to a provision in the House legislation released last night. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08566.pdf h/t @newscat44.bsky.social
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- The morning after House Republicans release a plan to reduce Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions, Sen. Josh Hawley is out with an op-ed encouraging his colleagues not to cut the program. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...
- Bluesky friends: Any theories about the story behind the special Tennessee DSH policy in this bill?
- Read Phil Galewitz on Medicaid provider taxes, in a story that cites many individual hospitals that enjoy paying them and depend on related revenue streams. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
- Some left-leaning analysts think CBO has underestimated the insurance coverage losses that would be caused by various Medicaid cuts. Read @xpostfactoid.bsky.social for the details: xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2025/05/cbo-...
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- I first learned about Medicaid provider taxes when I was covering health policy in the New Hampshire state legislature in the 2000s. Everyone called them "mediscam." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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- World's weirdest hobby? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h... @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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- If you want to understand the problem of "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal health programs, you should read this great piece by Sarah Kliff and @bykatiethomas.bsky.social on scammy skin substitute companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...
- The House passed the Senate budget. Here's what's in it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aliciaparlap.bsky.social
- Here's what's in the budget the House is voting on today. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aliciaparlap.bsky.social
- Jim O'Neil, Trump's pick for deputy secretary of HHS, was until recently on the board of of the Seasteading Institute, an organization devoted to the "creation of floating ocean cities as a revolutionary solution for poor governance." www.seasteading.org
- Unexpectedly for this event, Trump just promised not to cut Medicaid benefits again.
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- Reading this Paragon report on Medicaid provider taxes, and I have a lot of questions about the art! paragoninstitute.org/medicaid/add...
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- Having trouble understanding what a "current policy baseline" is? Don't worry! We have metaphors for you. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aliciaparlap.bsky.social with A+ illos from Maddy Fischer
- #1: Popcorn www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
- "The picture of these shifting contracts reflects what has become the erratic hallmark of much of the team’s work" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u... @emmbadger.bsky.social @ethansinger.bsky.social
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- Lotta money things happening in government right now--the spending bill, the budget, DOGE. We have a guide to what's what, with great @aliciaparlap.bsky.social charts: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
- In an interview yesterday, President Trump repeated his recent promise not to "touch" Medicaid. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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- One simple way to think about federal cuts to Medicaid is as cuts to state budgets. That reality has consequences for policy--and politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
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- If you wish to understand the gist of that CBO report making the rounds in chart form, @aliciaparlap.bsky.social has you covered. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
