I'm a research associate at Duke University Margolis Center. I used to be Richard Mayhew, a mid-level bureaucrat at UPMC Health Plan. I started writing here and have not found a reason to stop.
Josh Marshall makes a very good point this morning about Trump’s toxicity: Every president has these industry councils like the ones we’ve been talking about in recent days. They range from meaningless to not terribly important. They’re mainly symbolic. With everything that’s happened in recent days, I don’t want to make it out like the […]
Andrew Sprung at Xpostfactoid has pushed back on my argument that Democrats have the advantage of inertia on the CSR funding argument. He raises an excellent point. 1. Cost. CBO projects premium increases of 20% right off the bat in 2018 and 25% by 2020. Higher premiums mean more people qualify for subsidies, and those […]
My little girl is getting bigger every day. I just needed to share one of my prouder parenting moments as a momentary break from current event craziness: Baby’s first keg stand from oh so long ago. Open thread
Axios is getting fed a line of bull: The White House chief strategist has told associates he never intended to do an “interview” with an editor at the American Prospect, a left-wing publication. Bannon has told associates that he admired the author’s stance on China, and so called the journalist, Robert Kuttner, on Tuesday, to […]
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/liWE4rlleF — Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) August 16, 2017 Update Thank you to Adam for finding live footage of Trump’s current Cabinet meeting:
NBER has a fascinating new working paper out by Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendron and Mark Shepherd. They look at the discontinuities in the Massachusetts Health Connector data to estimate willingness to pay for health insurance on the individual market. As subsidies decline, insurance take-up falls rapidly, dropping about 25% for each $40 increase in monthly […]
Kevin Drum asked for a blog post instead of a tweet storm regarding my argument that over the long run not paying the Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) subsidies is a massive liberal policy win. So here it goes. Under current law, there are two sets of subsidies. The first is Premium Tax Credits. These apply […]
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