AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
1d ago
enhanced ACA subsidies might be on the way out, which were new in the last few years. The status quo subsidies I have seen nothing about cutting.
I too would like to see our gerontocracy see deeper cuts but that seems to be politically untenable, to say nothing of the giant wealth transfer to them that was our COVID policy...
AnonymousActuary
1d ago
Not commenting on your main question, but when it comes to whether someone gets help with Medical expenses I'm confused what you are referring too.
- ACA plans are heavily subsidized for (currently) everyone regardless of Income, and pending ARPA subsidy expiration will stilly very heavily subsidized for people <250% FPL and somewhat subsidized for under 400% FPL.
- If under <100% FPL Medicaid exists and is heavily subsidized care
- Children with serious chronic illnesses (from Cancer to more substantial handicaps) can be eligible for Medicaid including at-home nursing at no cost to their parents.
Texas has not expanded Medicaid, so if this person is somehow <138% FPL but not eligible for Medicaid otherwise they might be in trouble (weird coverage gap thing Congress should absolutely fix by just making everyone <138% FPL eligible for CSR 94 plans + highest level of APTC subsidies), but #3 would still apply.
AnonymousActuary
2d ago
what substance he had was quite partisan - he argued against Little Sisters of the Poor, for instance
AnonymousActuary
8d ago
I tend to think some of healthcare spend could be simplified as we regulate supply, subsidize demand, and then go shockedpikachuface.jpg when costs increase faster than inflation.
But the loop she identifies of admin is definitely not nothing and contributes to the regulation of supply.
I'm not sure there's an easy fix, I end up wondering if you just hope pharmacy innovation eventually gets you out of some of the trend (hep C drugs, HIV drugs, RSV vaccines, etc)
AnonymousActuary
10d ago
This was great - reminded me of Siderea's great blog series on the spiral of admin that afflicts modern healthcare: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1179450.html
AnonymousActuary
16d ago
Whatever Florida is doing is clearly right and everyone else should copy them.
AnonymousActuary
21d ago
if you read any coverage of DeSantis back when he seemed like the rising star you would realize it is beyond likely, it is certain.
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21d ago
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22d ago
I swear someone had a comment thread recently about late term abortions, reasons for them, how many are motivated by maternal health/health of the fetus versus otherwise...I thought I had saved it but cannot find it. Anyone have any ideas?
AnonymousActuary
23d ago
all well and good, as long as we recognize the official state religion as such and express the same degree of concern wrt it, as OP suggests
AnonymousActuary
24d ago
honestly on these hail Mary's I never understand why they don't rush 5. 6 should be enough on the back-end anyways? I guess maybe you are worried about hook and ladder type stuff but Washington kept 6 back to block + the QB = only 4 players downfield anyways. Make him get it out early and there's not a lot that can go wrong (Miami against NE a few years back being one potential counterpoint).
This play was weird though because of the spy, but 6 should be able to block 4 for a while even if they hadn't had the weird spy option.
AnonymousActuary
24d ago
protest to WWI, was it not?
AnonymousActuary
29d ago
Anytime election stuff comes up I feel like it is at least worth mentioning that Democratic-aligned bureaucrats conspired to delay the vaccination trial results coming out, preventing an October surprise that quite plausibly would've tipped the election to Trump, at the cost of 4-digit numbers of American lives and this is generally acknowledged and somehow not seen as a huge deal.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Did not have "read a decade+-old order of the stick quote at the motte" on my bingo card for today.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
oh interesting - I view CBS much more positively than I do CNN.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I feel like every study I have read has found very little impact on deaths pre-vaccine, with almost all differences being post vaccine. This would seem to go against your thesis?
In addition, you seem to be missing that people would engage on some level of precautions regardless of what is mandated, just by looking around (for example, restaurant reservations dropped drastically in NY while De Blasio was still telling people to go celebrate Chinese New Years)
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
There's a billion possible things ThisIsSin could be referring too, but a simple one would be delaying the COVID vaccine trials so it could not be an October surprise thereby dooming high 4 digit to low 5 digit elderly Americans to dying in winter 2020-2021.
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
I'll die on the hill that Red is actually just a great album. All Too Well (the original, not the far-too-indulgent 10 minute remix from later) remains a very good song, probably the best she's made.
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
(I'll always think there was more to Scalia's death)
uhhh you can't just say that and not elaborate haha
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
wait I want to read 4 more paragraphs on the A-10!
AnonymousActuary
4mo ago
I think there have been inroads in some areas, ie school choice that are more red-state coded, while still taking your overall point
any D appointee would have, maybe, but he was the one who actually had.
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