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Deliberately choosing bad risk pools
Bloomberg’s Zachary Tracer has a good review of the impact of Humana leaving the Exchange market with a focus on eastern Tennessee. At least 40,000 people in the Knoxville area may have no health plans to pick from in the Affordable Care Act’s markets after insurer Humana Inc. opted to pull out from all 11 …
A BFD that passed amongst the chaos
In most strands of the multi-verse, the below would have sent the health wonk community ablaze. Instead in this strand, we spent all day yesterday talking about a proposed rule from CMS and generally shaking our head as our government continues to say “Hold my beer and watch this….” But this is normally a BFD: …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Brown Bag Democracy
Donald Trump is unpopular enough that Republicans could lose the House in 2018: https://t.co/8XZOBYt3HV — FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) February 15, 2017 That's the plan. https://t.co/kyVxGbPS7g — Swing Left (@swingleft) February 15, 2017 More immediately, the Resistance targets the expense-account demographic… Roster of DC restos supporting #ADayWithoutImmigrants protest ranges from fast-casual to @beardfoundation nominee https://t.co/0wV3mgD6jQ — Eater …
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Oh, Yay, We’re Gonna Relitigate Watergate Now
Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now: https://t.co/9NCmordowo — Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 14, 2017 Thing is, Nixon didn't need Watergate to win. But Trump needed Russians & Comey to squeak out electoral college win https://t.co/cn4QLCEH4f — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 15, 2017 Sensible people understand that Gerald Ford pardoning …
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Open Thread: Trumpstuntin’ Status, Moving From SNAFU to FUBAR
The day is beginning with people adjudicating which untruths are acceptable and which aren't from White House. Slippery slope. — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 15, 2017 TRUMP: Flynn has been treated badly by the "fake media" and leaks to media are a "criminal act" and a cover-up for Hillary's "terrible loss" pic.twitter.com/mbBPw31Eg1 — Bradd Jaffy …
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I Don’t Even Know What to Fucking Say Anymore
These fucking people: House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz told Fox News’ “The First 100 Days” Wednesday night that he would ask the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate leaks of classified information that led to the resignation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The Utah Republican told host Martha MacCallum that “no …
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