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I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.

Watching a medical expert try to navigate the nation's response to a deadly pandemic? ENRAGING Hearing your daughter describe how her ex-husband put a gun to her head? Boooooooorrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnngggg

Sen. Bernie Moreno Doesn't 'Know' if Embattled Rep. Max Miller Should Stay on BallotThe senator’s daughter accused Miller of domestic violence. Miller denies the allegations, but they’re making his reelection race tighter.www.notus.org

A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.

Max Miller, Bernie Moreno's former son-in-law, abused his ex-wife and child, but Moreno hasn't made up his mind on whether or not Miller should stay in Congress. What a terrible human being. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

Sen. Bernie Moreno Doesn't 'Know' if Embattled Rep. Max Miller Should Stay on BallotThe senator’s daughter accused Miller of domestic violence. Miller denies the allegations, but they’re making his reelection race tighter.www.notus.org

It should haunt her everywhere.

She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.www.nytimes.com

pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky

I read @mirandayaver.bsky.social's excellent book on insurance denials and you should too! Review below:

"The White House’s new policies, however, suggest a willingness to expose Medicare enrollees to greater financial and administrative burdens in the name of fiscal restraint. In a critical election year, the Trump administration appears intent on testing whether this third rail still shocks."

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

Watching the show trialsAnthony Fauci and the politics of retributiondonmoynihan.substack.com

I could barely afford vibranium as it was

On Tuesday, the Trump Admin announced they were ending the Medicare Part D subsidy program. Touching the third rail of politics is a heckuva strategy going into midterms (part D open enrollment starts 10/15). My latest analysis for @msnowreports.bsky.social. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Opinion | Trump’s Medicare change comes at a curious timeLess than three weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs.www.ms.now

It has been a real treat to get to chat with the Senate Finance Democrats about what my book Coverage Denied found on health insurance barriers and how to mitigate them. Today, they released a Request for Information on private insurance reform, citing my work! www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

“In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The lone exception was New Mexico, the only state that has used its own money to fully replace the expired aid”

Obamacare enrollment declines in 49 states • Michigan AdvanceIn 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The lone except...michiganadvance.com

America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.

I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.

I guess Blanche can't depend upon the kindness of strangers

Yeah that'll hurt the nation that is sanctioned from doing essentially any trade with the US

Exactly. We are already seeing what would happen

a) when people talk about pandemic learning loss from distant learning, what is the counterfactual? what would have happened if kids kept going to school where lots of people got sick all the time? b) vaccinating kids & teachers sounds like a great way to do in-person school safely

Medicaid program integrity expert Andy Schneider points out that combatting fraud requires collaboration between federal and state officials to hold bad actors accountable. CMS did not provide evidence that withholding federal matching funds from states actually reduces fraud against Medicaid.

Weaponizing Fraud Against Medicaid in California and Minnesota: Another Quarter, Another Round of DeferralsAt a July 21 press conference, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced that his agency was deferring payment of $1.1 billion in federal Medicaid matching funds to California and Minnesota “pending revie...ccf.georgetown.edu