Emma Weil

Cover of Upturn's new report titled "Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care. A Comparison of Five States' Eligibility Algorithms." The authors are Miriam Osman, Emily Paul, and Emma Weil. Published in October 2025.

1/ NEW: Read our new report, “Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care.” We show how automated eligibility determinations are political tools that draw a subjective line between who is deserving and undeserving of getting care in their home. www.upturn.org/work/calcula...

Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds A federal investigation has found that a Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law.

If you haven’t read this Associated Press story about a Texas woman repeatedly refused treatment for her ectopic pregnancy, please take a minute.

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Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

About one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage & there are no legal standards or universal guidelines for how people should dispose of fetal remains. Yet, time & again, people face criminal charges for this:

Check out the latest episode of @citationspod.bsky.social. Who knew talking about tech dystopia could be so fun!

In all seriousness, grateful to Citations Needed for helping us make sense of the current moment we're living in. We talk about the grift of AI and the real harms it enables.

I have more on EMTALA at the newsletter but please make sure people know about this:

Filling out re-enrollment paperwork & collecting financial statements to submit yearly was already extremely difficult for my single-parent & disabled family! In these 700,000 are other disabled caretakers, but even if everyone to be cut off could work I wouldn't care bc healthcare is a human right!

700,000 people at risk of losing health insurance in New Jersey alone from Medicaid/Medicare budget cuts & work requirements! I grew up in NJ on Medicaid (NJ Family Care) and that is how I was able to get a diagnosis for my autoimmune disease as a teenager nj.gov/humanservice...

Tens of thousands of federal employees and contractors have lost their jobs in recent weeks. As a result, many of these workers and their families may now be navigating a loss of job-based health insurance. Here are a few tips for people in this challenging situation.

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