Hoo boy, Betsy DeVos is a real winner. If you are a c-list blogger with a potty mouth or a writer for a comedian/comedy show, her hearing yesterday was fucking amazing. If you care about education policy or have children, well, you know, sorry about that. There were so much fail it’s hard to just …
Open Thread: Little Man in the High Castle
Trump, inaugurated on Friday at noon, tells the Times of London he's going to take the rest of that day and the weekend off. pic.twitter.com/Qae6rW1IMS — Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) January 16, 2017 But I thought his transition team said his inauguration is going to be so short because he wants to "get right to work?" …
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007, 007, and Oceans 11
Al Gore was very fat last year: Average surface temperatures in 2016, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were 0.07 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 2015 If you look at charts, the surface temperatures have gone up about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 25 years. This is even scarier, while oceans have risen …
President Obama’s Final Press Conference: Live Feed
Open Thread: Kiss Me As If It Were The Last Time
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1332 juiced up
Margot Sanger-Katz from the NY Times flags an interesting pre King vs. Burwell Republican plan that is actually interesting in a non-sarcastic manner. The Cassidy Obamacare “replace” plan is interesting: Keeps most of Obamacare, but devolves indiv. market to states. https://t.co/C55kRF0akW — Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) January 17, 2017 Let’s look at it with the 53 …
Fee Schedule
The Society of Actuaries commissioned Milliman to do a great review of the different payment methodologies and their risk profiles for a wide variety of stakeholders in 2015. It is a great read (for the right definition of a great read). One of the things that I want to pull out is the chart below. …