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. …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Smart Takes
We all assume Honolulu will be renamed Barack H. Obama International at some point, right? — Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 17, 2017 @daveweigel My guess is Trump and congressional Republicans will pledge their lives to keep that from happening. — Rob Archer (@RobArcher) January 17, 2017 Obama’s leaving office with Reagan-esque fav ratings; I think …
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Late Night Endless Smoke & Mirrors Open Thread: Anonymous Discusses Wikileaks
Timely! New NBC/WSJ on views of Wikileaks All: 18% positive, 34% negativeTrump voters: 27% pos, 23% negClinton voters: 10% pos, 51% neg — Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) January 17, 2017 . Speaking of subverting the deep state — Commentor Magurakurin flagged this series of tweets a few days ago. Excerpts: .@Wikileaks was built/ created by many …
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I Don’t Have to Outrun the Bull Alligator, I Just Have to Outrun You
This wee fellow was caught on video near Lakeland, FL yesterday. This truly massive alligator was spotted casually walking across a path in Central Florida. The locals call it "Hunchback." pic.twitter.com/yRkXtuDU0K — CNN (@CNN) January 16, 2017 That’s a big boy!
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Open Thread: The Peasants Are Revolting!
Drug testing floated for White House press corps via @PageSix https://t.co/csGwC3hwvg — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 15, 2017 Proposal: in exchange, the WHCA could oversee random drug tests of White House staff. https://t.co/ssNbd9vfB9 — Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) January 16, 2017 . “Well, we don’t actually test it… See that little camera up there? The boss …
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Time to not hate on Manchin
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is in a horrendous political position of dead incumbent walking. He is a Democrat in West Virginia with an election coming up in 2018. West Virgnia has steadily been going Republican for a generation and it went heavily for Trump in 2016. It is also heavily dependent on Medicaid and the …