Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

The willow is too close to the house.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

People are complicated. Love is not.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

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Risk adjustment update

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received an interim final rule from Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the retrospective justification of the risk adjustment process in the ACA:

 

 

This is good news.

I have not been too worried about the risk adjustment suspension. My concern-o-meter had been at 3% for the past two weeks. Everyone who I have talked to who is clued in with CMS has said that the risk adjustment hold was highly likely to be temporary and it was the results of internal idiosyncratic processes and not deliberate policy to mess up the market.

The easiest solution to the entire mess would be for an interim final rule to be issued that basically copies and pastes the NBPP2019 risk adjustment language for previous years. That is what looks like is happening.

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    Aardvark Cheeselog

    “Interim final rule?”

    It seems like there can be interim rules, and there can be final rules, but how can an interim rule be a final rule?

    They should steal a term from software development, where (when we think we’re getting close) we have “release candidate” versions. “Proposed final rule” would be better. Even though there are probably already such things as “proposed rules.”

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