Nathaniel Weixel (@nateweixel) 's Twitter Profile
Nathaniel Weixel

@nateweixel

Health reporter @thehill, former Hill Extra, former @BloombergBNA. New England transplant. RTs ≠ endorsements. Send tips to [email protected]

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xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While this ghoul boasts about keeping Texas's uninsured rate the highest in the nation, the state's refusal to enact the ACA Medicaid expansion means it spends *more* fed $ in the ACA marketplace (100% fed funding) than any state but fellow nonexpansion state Florida.

David Weigel (@daveweigel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The ballot measure didn't mention "Medicaid" - Republicans have done a lot of work redefining Medicaid (popular) as "welfare benefits" (not popular). ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Ques…

Drew Altman (@drewaltman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CBO can’t predict individual state responses to Medicaid cuts but says there would be significant coverage losses. Perhaps optimistically, “CBO expects that, on average, states would replace roughly half of the reduced funds with their own resources.” finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

Drew Altman (@drewaltman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The question to ask when the CBO score of new Medicaid work requirements comes out. Not are there real savings, there will be. Not even the impact on the uninsured. But, do the they produce new jobs people didn’t already have? With health benefits?

House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some Republicans in Congress are defending Obamacare policies like Medicaid expansion. Unless we end the higher reimbursement rates for the able-bodied adults & discrimination against the most needy, there will be pressure on states like Texas and Florida to expand Medicaid in

Nathaniel Weixel (@nateweixel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Comes ahead of markups next week, while members still don't seem to know what's going to be in the bill. Text expected late Sunday night

Patrick T. Brown (@ptbwrites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As Cardinal, Robert Prevost didn't tweet a bunch, but his RTs tell a story of someone who sees the role of the Church as speaking up for the marginalized

As Cardinal, <a href="/drprevost/">Robert Prevost</a> didn't tweet a bunch, but his RTs tell a story of someone who sees the role of the Church as speaking up for the marginalized
Edward-Isaac Dovere (@isaacdovere) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is it possible that the new leader of a 2,000 year old religion, selected by 131 men from all over the world, does not fit neatly and fully into the agendas of either major American political party

The FAA ✈️ (@faanews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FAA Statement This information is preliminary and subject to change. There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace. The

Steve Forbes (@steveforbesceo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Most favored nation” is code for “least favorable to us.” The White House’s proposed plan for drug price controls is unfortunately a huge potential help to China, who is working at breakneck speed to overtake one of our most important industries in the race for cures.

Jerome Adams (@jeromeadamsmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is from the website of the USPHS- which the U.S. surgeon general legally must be a member of, and is charged to lead (SG is not just a communications job- you are the leader of America’s “health army”). I hope this doesn’t get taken down/ disappear. dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/Licensur…

This is from the website of the USPHS- which the U.S. surgeon general legally must be a member of, and is charged to lead (SG is not just a communications job- you are the leader of America’s “health army”). 

I hope this doesn’t get taken down/ disappear. dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/Licensur…
CRFB.org (@budgethawks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING🚨 The House Ways & Means Committee released a preliminary draft of its tax legislation last night. By our preliminary rough & rounded estimates, the bill released would add over $5 trillion to primary deficits through 2034 as written, and over $5.5 trillion to primary

🚨BREAKING🚨 The House Ways &amp; Means Committee released a preliminary draft of its tax legislation last night.

By our preliminary rough &amp; rounded estimates, the bill released would add over $5 trillion to primary deficits through 2034 as written, and over $5.5 trillion to primary