I want to highlight something that bothers me about the entire idea of getting massive cost savings from emergency room diversions (via TPM): The example Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) gave in an interview with MLive.com was from his own experience when he waited until the morning after to take his youngest son to the doctor …
Prepping for the future
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish https://t.co/vg1KvReTzr via @ddiamond pic.twitter.com/qiF379l3Uh — POLITICO (@politico) December 21, 2016 I’ll be downloading everything that I can from Healthcare.gov by January 15th. I hope that I’m wasting my time but the cost benefit analysis is clear that downloading and archiving is a plausible choice. …
Odds and Ends
Consider this a proof-of-life post. I went into a renewed Trump slough of despond a few days ago and am only now crawling out. My reaction these last several days is summed up by this, fresh from my son’s vault of amusing internet clutter: I’m climbing out of my funk in a couple of ways: for one, …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Blessed Solstice
So here in the Northern hemisphere the hinge of the year turns over — no sooner than time — and the days, however cold and dreary, grow infinitesimally longer every one. All last week and bleeding into this, we had a team of plumbers in the basement installing a new heating system (the choosing of …
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Open Thread: Nobody Wants Uday & Qusay Trump Repping Them
You can go hunting with Trump’s two sons for $1 million the day after the inauguration. Really. https://t.co/9PXvd87SCh — Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) December 19, 2016 Maybe Dick Cheney will take them up on it. https://t.co/La8tN0ZOW4 — Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) December 19, 2016 Too late! Matea Gold and David A. Fahrenthold, at the Washington Post: The …
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And Then You Have This Idiot
"We also need to keep up the pressure on those damn Viet Cong," Manchin added. https://t.co/rqW6nyDglQ — Jon Campbell (@j0ncampbell) December 20, 2016 Jesus christ: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called for a new “war on drugs” Tuesday to combat the opioid crisis striking his state of West Virginia, eagerly adopting the language of the now …
I am so fucking depressed
Not clinically, and no I’m not suicidal or going to drink or any of that shit, I’m just so disgusted and down about the election still. It just horrifies me that so many people voted for Trump. And the worst thing is now they aren’t paying attention to what he is doing and just think …