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Arnold Ventures
@Arnold_Ventures
Maximize opportunity and minimize injustice.
Jun 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
44% of people sentenced to jail have a diagnosed mental illness
63% have a substance use disorder
45% suffer from chronic health problems

Jail often makes these conditions worse.

So how should cities respond to people in crisis? With data-driven justice. 1/ Today @Arnold_Ventures released the final reports from a multiyear pilot site test of using coordination and data to divert people in crisis away from jails and toward the services they need, such as healthcare or housing. 2/
Oct 8, 2020 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
As the nation grapples with unemployment & state budgets shrink amid #COVID-19, Nevada has a model that policy officials could implement and test to reemploy dislocated workers: It’s helping millions find jobs faster AND saving state money. arnoldventures.org/stories/nevada… #VPDebates #COVID19 is also exacerbating our nation's retirement crisis in a very different way than the Great Recession: washingtonpost.com/business/2020/… #VPDebate
Oct 1, 2020 • 45 tweets • 16 min read
“I’m so grateful for #Gleevec. It keeps me alive. But the price tag ($10k/month) constantly hangs over my head.” "When I'm on Enbrel, I don't have symptoms... But I also have to carry the fear knowing all this could be ripped away." Enbrel is priced at $6k per month.
Sep 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Medicare spent hundreds of millions of $$$ more on Copaxone each year because of its inability to negotiate directly @46brooklyn @akesselheim Even Teva’s own employees could not afford Copaxone at its price. One said she could no longer afford Copaxone because she would have to pay $1,673.33 out of pocket as compared to $12 for Mylan’s generic product.
Sep 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
First up: #Revlimid, a drug that costs $20k for a 28-day supply. The Committee reviewed more than 50k pages of internal communications & data from 2009 to now. Since Revlimid launched in '05, Celgene raised the price 22 times (1/) oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat… After Bristol Myers Squibb obtained the rights to Revlimid last November, it raised the price again to $763/pill. The price has tripled in 15 years (2/)
Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pres. Trump, touting his record on drug prices, pledges to issue $200 cards to all seniors. Reality check 👇 1) The legal authority to issue these cards is questionable, at best.
Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pres. Trump’s executive order on surprise billing just punts the issue back to the Congress. The White House & Congress need to stop dithering and agree to a comprehensive legislative solution. (1/) Pres. Trump *should* throw his weight behind the existing bipartisan agreement to end surprise billing that Congress has *failed* to pass (2/)
Sep 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
[THREAD] The new @dataforjustice report examining enforcement in New York City from 2003 to 2018 is out!

Read the top findings below ⬇️ Overall, enforcement increased sharply between 2003 and 2011 and then dropped from 2011 to 2018. Despite the declines observed, arrest rates are notably still higher than the lows recorded in the 1980s. /1
Sep 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Prices paid by private health plans are higher & growing faster than #Medicare. Why care? "Rising healthcare costs are eating into wages." @CM_Whaley @RANDCorporation The gap between employer plans & Medicare has increased year-over-year -- swelling from 224% of Medicare to 247% of Medicare from 2016 to 2018 @CM_Whaley @RANDCorporation
Sep 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
We’re following up on Josue Perez, a former Latinx student scammed by a #4profit college, and his federal student loan debt.
arnoldventures.org/stories/in-pur… .@EdDebtJustice fought to have his student loan canceled and this summer a judge ordered @usedgov to cancel his student loans along with 7,200 former Corinthian students in Mass. marketwatch.com/story/judge-or…
Sep 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New report from the @SourceOnHealth summarizes the anticompetitive contracting clauses used in contracts between providers and insurers resulting in consolidated markets and high health care prices. sourceonhealthcare.org/just-published… (1/) The report finds that current state and federal antitrust laws are woefully inadequate to address the widespread use of anticompetitive contract terms. (2/)
Sep 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the early days of the coronavirus’ arrival in the U.S., nursing homes quickly became epicenters for the pandemic. By mid-July, 51,000 residents of long-term care facilities had died, representing approx. one-quarter of the total deaths in the U.S. (1/4)
arnoldventures.org/stories/hotspo… Pre-pandemic, private equity-owned long-term care facilities were short-staffed & provided a lower quality of care. According to a Gupta study, the total nursing & staff hours fell by 1.4 & 2.4 %, mostly driven by cuts to those providing “front line” care like CNAs and LPNs (2/4)
Jul 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
🚨TODAY: Join @BPC_Bipartisan at 9:30 a.m. CT for the release of their new health report discussing ways to improve the integration of #Medicare and #Medicaid. Our VP of Health Care @ariellemir02 is a featured participant!

Watch the live webinar ➡️ bit.ly/3jNVHGm Image "AV’s health care work is motivated by a deep concern about the affordability of #healthcare for individuals, our governments and employers. You may be familiar with AV’s work to lower drug prices and address #surprisebilling." - @ariellemir02 #BPClive
Jul 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 If you’re passionate about lowering health costs in the U.S., stop what you’re doing and bookmark the info for @NASHPhealth’s new health system costs Center (1/) nashp.org/policy/health-… From a legislative tracker to a breakdown of hospital bailout funds by state, this resource is a useful source on state health care costs – with new information and tools to come (2/)
Jul 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Private insurance paid 160% to 250% more than Medicare for the exact same hospital services, according to a new @KFF analysis of inpatient claims (1/) kff.org/medicare/issue… Medicare has built-in controls to keep prices down, but private sector prices are set at the whim of hospitals w/ large market power, resulting in sector price growth as high as 6X the rate of inflation, while Medicare rates have stayed flat. (2/) Image
Jun 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Enough is enough. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland and too many other Black Americans and people of color at the hands of those charged with protecting them are unconscionable. Even before the tragic death of #GeorgeFloyd, it was clear that policing in the U.S. is deeply troubled.
May 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We are appalled and deeply saddened by the harrowing death of #GeorgeFloyd, who died while in police custody on Monday. We extend our deepest condolences to Mr. Floyd’s family, friends, and the larger Minneapolis community. What happened to #GeorgeFloyd is not consistent with the mission of policing. No police protocols condone kneeling on a human being's neck until he passes out and dies.
May 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
In the latest example of predatory billing, Texas hospitals filed more than 1,000 lawsuits against their patients over 2 years, with many targeting low-income families, according to a new report from @MartyMakary & team (1/) Worse yet – hospitals continued to sue their patients in the middle of the deadly #coronavirus pandemic, Shannon Najmabadi of the @TexasTribune reports (2/) texastribune.org/2020/05/27/tex…
Apr 16, 2020 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
#COVID19 has underscored the health care affordability crisis facing Americans & the need for #surprisebilling protections. Congress has already developed effective bipartisan compromise solutions that can be enacted now. (Thread)
arnoldventures.org/stories/debunk… @MarkMiller_DC @a_spratt President Trump said providers receiving funds from the $100 billion #COVID19 bailout fund must refrain from #surprisebilling, but questions remain on implementation, and even with that, major gaps in patient protections remain.
Apr 9, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
ICYMI -- @monthly’s piece on surprise medical billing is a quarantine must-read (1/) washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april… Surprise medical billing is a fatal flaw in the U.S. healthcare system, affecting 1 out of every 10 insured people last year. The emergence of #COVID19 means more people may get hit with surprise bills (2/)
Apr 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Amid #COVID19, the U.S. must address needs of the 2.3M people incarcerated & working in jails & prisons, implement safeguards, and transfer to home confinement those locked up on nonviolent charges and susceptible to disease. @REFORM @USJusticeAction
arnoldventures.org/stories/corona… These facilities are #COVID19 breeding grounds. It's already there:
>300 people in NY system
>130 in Chicago's Cook County
Dozens in a federal Louisiana prison
22 in Georgia, including staff
In NYC 2 corrections staff died, as have incarcerated people in Louisiana, Illinois