Like I’ve been saying: I think one of the big political stories of the year is going to be non-conservative Christians getting loud.

This is welcome from the Pope, and also man, any Christian that needs to be reminded of one of the most famous of Jesus’s sentiments, Matthew 25:40, needs to do some real soul searching.

I honestly can’t take a fourth presidential election cycle in a row in which privileged white leftists claim that the Democratic Party doesn’t do anything because they’re too lazy to spend 5 minutes doing a Google search.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Moved my intro philosophy class to all analog blue book exams. Been one of my better decisions...

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

This is a crock of shit. The ACA already prohibits federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion. ACA plans which cover abortion even include a separate $1/mo fee which the insurance carriers have to be kept segregated from the rest of their revenue in a separate bank account. I’m serious.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

“The ballroom is really the president’s main priority” is also what Bill Moyers said when audio of LBJ speaking with his tailor about his special pants request leaked.

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

Anyway, what we're talking about is, this is what you wrote about one of the most important legislative achievements since the 1960s, which is responsible for over 40 million Americans currently having health care. And yet, NYT is somehow paying you to be an economics reporter. This is not normal.

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

The House has passed the giant GOP tax and budget bill - next stop is the White House. The final vote was 218-214. 2 GOP lawmakers voted 'No' - Massie KY and Fitzpatrick PA. No Dems voted for the bill.

Only "winners" from draconian #Medicaid cuts are firms like Deloitte getting contracts to design complex, burdensome work reporting requirements. Beneficiaries, providers and states are all big losers. My colleagues @joanalker1.bsky.social & Andy Schneider explain: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/06/26/o...

www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb... CSR funding dies a victim of the Byrd Bath.

I’m thinking of how one would structure a database of state policy decisions affecting the ACA. I.e. Medicaid expansion enactment date, FFM v SBM dates, new EHBs, 1332 reinsurance, silver loading rules, etc. What other kinds of policy data points am I missing?

Reading the CBO estimates on BBB and this part surprised me: it seems to me they’re saying CSRs wouldn’t be funded in states where non-Hyde abortion is required to be covered, so silver loading would continue.

Latest House bill text includes another blow to the ACA, ending “silver loading.” That would increase premiums by $350 for a hypothetical family. Here’s why: www.brookings.edu/articles/und...

After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66

OEP 2025 PUF Dropped: www.cms.gov/data-researc...

www.forbes.com/sites/brucej... Aetna is out of the ACA in 2026

Reading my print edition of the Onion is one of the highlights of each month for me.

Somehow I missed a treasure trove of data that CMS dropped days before Trump took office (under the reports section): www.cms.gov/marketplace/... Graph showing enrollment by channel (EDE, passive enrollment, call center, etc.), details on ARPA v non-ARPA plans, some SEP data.

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

What is actual waste in Medicaid? Exhibit A: Georgia's "Pathways to Coverage" which has spent million$ on contracts w/ Deloitte for a system that blocks people from getting health care. Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Blocks Its Most Vulnerable From Coverage www.propublica.org/article/geor...

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

I guess you could say everything isn’t up to date in Kansas City.

The new CCIIO administrator wrote an article last month on some of the policies of the Biden administration he takes issue with. This is probably a roadmap for future rulemaking under a Trump CMS. files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/u...

I’m wondering if APTC payments to insurers (paid around the 20th) might be at risk.

In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.

Folks (and this thing has gone around quickly), it's still unclear *what* has been "deleted"; as many of you have noted DirectFile remains active. Part of the danger of Government-By-Unelected-Nutball is that what's actually *true* is a moving target. If you RT'd my initial post, RT this as well.

Anyone else pondering the risks that DOGE cuts off APTC?

I am a university professor in a very red town with high rates of gun ownership. "Guy reads about something online, gets outraged, decides to shoot one of The Bad People" is... not something I want to see established as a pattern.

Welp. The CMS Administrator oversees Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Affordable Care Act. Combined they provide healthcare coverage for ~160 million Americans, or nearly half the population.

Really thought we had this on lock once the Cheneys, America's favorite political family, were on board.

ICHRAs were on the front page of the Dalton Daily Citizen today (below the fold… above the fold was the antics of our congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene). People will look back on this day as the day ICHRAs went mainstream. www.dailycitizen.news/news/local_n...

Anyone know why CMS hasn't released the 2022 MLR filings yet? They were duly to them on July 31 2023 and in prior years the PUF was out by September. The trick of sticking the new year into the URL doesn't work anymore... www.cms.gov/marketplace/...

Nice work by Zac Hall of UC-San Diego on dominated plan choices in Covered California and the role of assistance on getting people out of those choices acsweb.ucsd.edu/~z1hall/pdfs... Builds on some of my work with Petra Rasmussen after Silverloading #HealthPolicy

2024 URRT PUF has dropped. www.cms.gov/marketplace/... @charlesgaba.bsky.social

Anyone know when the URRT PUFs usually get released? @charlesgaba.bsky.social @dmaanderson.bsky.social

It's clear to me that every state exchange I've looked at is worse at steering people to CSR plans than Healthcare.gov. Virginia's new site doesn't even show CSR plans before Bronze plans when both have $0 premiums!

ACA's #RiskAdjustment formula leads to 2 types of systemic risk 1) Dump and Run (BRIGHT FRIDAY) 2) VC funding allowing loss-leader/invest & harvest forcing higher risk incumbents to subsidize VC carriers balloon-juice.com/2023/10/30/s... #HealthPolicy

This is truly a life changing update. The federal exchange has leading 0s on the identifiers which was always the bane of my existence in cleaning up member data.