Lawson Mansell
@lawsonhmansell
healthcare policy @niskanencenter | alum @pepperdinespp | former: @milkeninstitute, south carolina think tanker, SC-01 staffer | Pgh sports | @usmnt apologist
Introducing the @NiskanenCenter healthcare abundance agenda! The US limits the supply of doctors and facilities and incentivizes behavior that distorts the market through payment policy. The result is a scarce and ineffective healthcare system🧵: niskanencenter.org/healthcare-abu…
Our housing-transpo team at Niskanen applauds Chairman @SenatorTimScott and Ranking Member @SenWarren for this ambitious markup addressing the housing crisis! There's a lot of good stuff in here—we're happy to see Build More Housing Near Transit included
It's difficult to underscore just how many ideas and reforms are inside this big bipartisan housing bill. And it's a huge achievement that its got full buy-in from the leadership of the Senate Banking Committee. Here's just a taste:
🏥 When Medicaid expanded, physicians in CON states couldn’t fully respond to rising demand. Rigid regulations blocked flexible labor supply. CON laws are a barrier to care. #endCON
Make sure you follow @rohanaras for all your housing and transportation needs.
🧵A hospital in West Virginia wants to move 4 miles. Another hospital is suing to stop it. Why? Because CON laws give competitors the power to block progress. #endCON 👇 wvnews.com/news/wvnews/we…
We should just compensate donors until the point where we eliminate the shortage. The crazy thing is it would actually save money (bc dialysis costs are so high) AND we'd no longer have to aggressively pursue organ procurement to the point where we risk the life of the donor.
Under @SecKennedy's leadership, HHS is restoring integrity and transparency to organ procurement and transplant policy by putting patients’ lives first. These reforms are essential to restoring trust, ensuring informed consent, and protecting the rights and dignity of prospective…
First, @RadWill_ has a strong piece noting that the impact of AI on recent grads is less clear than some have suggested (including our piece). It raises a number of good points about the murkiness of the data and I recommend reading it. 2/ employamerica.org/labor-market-a…
A lot of people are blaming AI for grads’ poor outcomes, but I find the evidence for this claim is surprisingly thin. Excited to release a new analysis w/ @employamerica on the labor market performance of recent college grads. 🧵
Big thank you to @PrestonMui at @employamerica for his input throughout the process! This analysis was made stronger because of him. Special thank yous to @mtkonczal @apmechan @GabeMenchaca @lawsonhmansell @marthagimbel for taking early looks and giving feedback as well!
A lot of people are blaming AI for grads’ poor outcomes, but I find the evidence for this claim is surprisingly thin. Excited to release a new analysis w/ @employamerica on the labor market performance of recent college grads. 🧵
The Trump admin's proposed changes to Medicare physician payments are a step in the right direction, potentially ending decades of payment advantages for specialists over primary care physicians. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/ups…
New from me and @RuthReader in @POLITICOPulse today: CMMI is on a hiring spree looking for about 100 people to help with an aggressive rollout of new payment models. politico.com/newsletters/po…
🚨🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨🚨 Together with an awesome crew, I've got a fun new paper analyzing whether hospital acquisitions of physician practices raise prices by lessening competition. @stuartcraig Aristotelis Epanomeritakis, Joe Martinez, Matt Grennan, @ProfFionasm, and…
First, physicians who were already integrated saw their prices go up when their system acquired more physicians. This can’t be quality changes, so it’s a key sign that it’s a lessening of competition
Just Out: Updated version of the "Chart of the Century" with data through June 2025. It should be noted that the consumer goods that have become more and more affordable over time -- e.g., cars, household furnishings, clothing, toys and TVs -- are either imported or subject to…
Our next era of politics will be defined by building institutions worthy of trust For @NiskanenCenter's Hypertext, I'm curating essays about how Abundance's attack on growth control, broken government, and stalled progress can be part of this mission DM if you are interested!
Hypertext—Niskanen’s intellectual journal—is turning two! We launched it to tackle one big question: How do we make America’s institutions work for the 21st century? Now we’re sharpening that mission 🧵
50 years ago, hospital care was relatively low-tech everywhere. But as the sophistication of surgical technology and physician specialization has surged, rural patients have become increasingly willing to travel to cities to get better treatment. manhattan.institute/article/assuri…
