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There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

I really should read my own blog.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

People are weird.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

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State based markets did fine

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State based marketplaces (SBMs) are the state run exchanges. The outreach is controlled by the state, the plan arrangement is controlled by the state, and the marketing is controlled by the state. There are negative side effects of a general anti-ACA enrollment messaging environment but the SBMs are mostly being run by states with a local elite political consensus towards making the ACA work as well as possible for that state. SBMs held serve or improved total enrollment.

This is in contrast to the Federally Facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs) or the states that used Healthcare.gov. Enrollment on HC.Gov was down this year and it was down last year. In 2017, HC.Gov states were on pace to meet or slightly beat 2016 enrollment until the administrations changed and the messaging changed (I have just submitted a paper on this). Since then the messaging and outreach has been consistently anti-enrollmemt. Good econometricians can try to disentangle enrollment from pricing changes as many states Silver loaded but the comparison of SBMs vs FFMs will point us in the right direction on the impact of the messaging changes.

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    japa21

    Mixed feelings. Glad to see that the state based are doing well as opposed to Federal. But this feeds into the RW thing of it being better to have all things done at the state level and keeping the feds out of everything. This is only working because those states are committed to doing this well. We know the red states really aren’t committed to that. This specially applies to the whole block grant issue with Medicaid.

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    Neldob

    Would the red states citizens miss their healthcare enough to do something about it? Would they note it is the Republican admin taking it away?

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