Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Let there be snark.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Second rate reporter says what?

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

You cannot shame the shameless.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

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The important thing to remember is that 2014 was a beta test year for Obamacare.  Some insurers went into the market with loss leader membership build strategies, others went in with a reasonable price sustainability model, others went in with a hyper cautious approach.  Some insurers had optimistic pricing models, others projected a much sicker enrolled population than they actually got. 

2015 is the first significant readjustment and the market is acting pretty much as we should expect markets for minimally differentiated products.  Plans that were underpriced are seeing their pricing go up, plans that are overpriced are seeing cost reductions.  It is almost like the market structure could work.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    Did you write about this yet (via WaPo)?

    President Obama’s top health official announced that the new health insurance marketplaces have seen a 25 percent increase in the number of insurers planning to sell coverage in the upcoming 2015 enrollment period, which administration officials cited as a sign of the private market’s confidence in the Affordable Care Act.

  2. 2.

    Richard Mayhew

    @Baud: Not yet, as I don’t have a particularly good or unique hook on that type of story. I know my market area is seeing a new entry (a national company with local infrastructure that stayed out in 2014), and all of the incumbents are offerning more flavors, but this is a story but I don’t know how to make it particularly interesting.

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    Wag

    The Invisable Hand. How does it work?

    The only people surprised by this are “free market ” republican shills. For the rest of us, this is about what we were expecting.

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    gratuitous

    A very useful little bit of information to keep filed away. I know that I’ve already seen ads yawping about premium increases (from PACs, not candidates). The ads are, of course, carefully barbered of any context that might indicate the plan was underpriced to begin with.

  5. 5.

    different-church-lady

    Plans that were underpriced are seeing their pricing go up, plans that are overpriced are seeing cost reductions.

    I am looking forward to the day when we all pay the same amount for our overpriced, overrated, under-competent heath care.

  6. 6.

    Frankensteinbeck

    It is almost like the market structure could work.

    I can’t help but see Obamacare as the triumph of the center-left. Regulations do work, it’s never too late to make a difference, helping people helps people, the poor are not the enemy, competition is a good thing, ‘free’ markets destroy competition, and it’s amazing what you can do if you think carefully and don’t take your ball and go home just because you can’t get your dogmatic ideal. There are a Hell of a lot of problems left to fix, but this attempt did what it was meant to and helped a lot.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Angela:
    Per the TPM story, Holder has been planning to resign since at least February, but back then DoJ disputed New Yorker’s story reporting this. I suspect he has already stayed on, at Obama’s request, longer than he wanted to.

  11. 11.

    Angela

    Thanks all! I wasn’t able to do the research, but I knew where to go for a quick answer. BJ community for the win.

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