We talked about the private insurance market yesterday and how the PCARE proposal would change it compared to the baseline of Obamacare (as that is where we are today.) Today let’s review government programs that provide healthcare. Section 301 Capitation payments for Medicaid The most important thing about 301 is it is the implementation of …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread
(Many thanks to commentor Reality Based) Don’t know that this can be done “with a pen and a phone”, but it would probably improve President Obama’s approval rating among music critics: In less than one week a petition to deport Canadian-born pop star Justin Bieber has more than 100,000 thousand signatures on the White House’s …
Late night musing about personal tech
Over the last year or so I have noticed that the iPad Mini with keyboard case has become a sort of standard equipment for research academics. It seems to hit a sweet spot between small laptops that everyone used to take to meetings (too big except the MacBook Air, which was slightly too big and …
Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Activism Works!
Didn’t get to use this yesterday, but a victory is a victory, and Rep. Ellison deserves some props (along with President Obama, of course). Via Dave Weigel: … Where did this idea come from? We actually know. Forty-nine members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Democratic group that spent much of 2013 denouncing any possible …
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Long Read: “How Republicans Lost the Farm”
A most interesting report on the other side of the horrible botched farm bill, from the always-readable Molly Ball, at the Atlantic: …. The members of the Farm Bureau—an overwhelmingly conservative, strongly Republican group—have traditionally gotten what they wanted, between all that lobbying and politicians’ never-ending appetite for paeans to the nobility of rural life. …
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Only 364 days until the next State of the Union address. Post your speculations here.
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Tomorrow Night, written and directed by Louis C.K. in 1998 is now a $5 download at his site.