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Our new JAMA paper is out today. Medical debt: 1-Now exceeds all other debt in collections combined 2-Most concentrated in low-income communities and in South. 3-Disparities worsened in 12 holdout states that didn't expand Medicaid. See Neale's great summary of our findings.

Check out this great summary of our new paper in JAMA in the The Upshot by Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz

COVID precautions have caused a 65 cargo ship backlog off the SoCal coast, waiting to dock at SanPedro. CA's full vax rate: 58%. Imagine production delays/human toll in manufacturing countries w/ vax rates <30%. Prices/wait times won't fall until workers everywhere are vaxed.

It's a bittersweet day. I'm delighted that the Nobel Prize was awarded to three brilliant economists, but sad that Alan Krueger isn't here today. He most certainly would have shared the prize. Photo from President Obama's 2013 CEA, which Alan chaired.

My Briefing Book piece on danger the bill’s poses to US economic and fiscal resilience The impact of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill on national debt would be larger than debt increases following all but the largest recessions briefingbook.info/p/comparing-th… Kevin Rinz Gopi Shah Goda Jeff