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David Anderson

@dmaanderson.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor, Health Services, Policy & Management @ University of South Carolina.
I study individual choice health insurance.

All opinions are mine and mine alone.

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David L. Anderson is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California from 2019 to 2021. Prior to becoming a U.S. Attorney, he practiced law at the law firm of Sidley Austin. .. more

Political science 20%

Sociology 17%

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David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Famine and Uboats

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 2d

When the students don‘t get my pop culture references

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Because I lose them so often I designated a spot in my home solely devoted to housing my work keys

The problem now is I keep forgetting what that spot is

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 6 more Axel Bruns, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Rosemary A. Joyce, Martin Paul Eve, Erol Akçay, David L. Anderson, Kathleen Kennedy, Jeannette Sutton, David Darmofal

Johnathan Lemay @fankuan.bsky.social · 4d

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 4d

i’ll let you guess the dept of origin of the grad student who led the campus-wide grad stud gov push for last stipend increase & then got elected to city council. and how many of us publicly campaigned for that. and which dept multiple grads organizing anti-genocide protests were from.

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BookBanshee @bookbanshee.bsky.social · 4d

Gift article 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

For Some Americans, the End of Obamacare Subsidies Means Falling Off a Financial Cliff

www.nytimes.com

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 5d

Jfc not just loss of funding: UNC will be forcibly *disenrolling* PhD students who are at more than 8 years, rolling cutoff so that the mandatory disenrollment comes at year 6 by 2028. Self-pay tuition not an option. How precedented is this?? Do other US grad schools not allow self-pay completion?

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Not a fan!

Projected snowfall map of Western and Northwestern South Caroline from January 30 to February 1 2026
Range from 2-3 inches on the Gorgia Border to 8 inches near Charlotte.

Reposted by C. Kirabo Jackson, David L. Anderson, Stuart Shapiro , and 1 more C. Kirabo Jackson, David L. Anderson, Stuart Shapiro, David Darmofal

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile the U.S. government just shed **10,000*** STEM PhDs from the federal workforce in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 7d

Get to break brains with judicial realism instead of mythos

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 7d

and this sentence too:

It is, in fact, hard to make sense of the legal merit of some challenges to the ACA—hard, that is, unless one sees the federal courts as partisan and ideological institutions rather than as impartial arbiters of constitutionality.

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 7d

Talking about this paper in class and this sentence is YEESH:

"Building trust with the least trusting members of the US public is a separate, substantial challenge that will require longer-term, bipartisan effort ...

www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Trust In US Federal, State, And Local Public Health Agencies During COVID-19: Responses And Policy Implications | Health Affairs Journal

Public health agencies’ ability to protect health in the wake of COVID-19 largely depends on public trust. In February 2022 we conducted a first-of-its-kind nationally representative survey of 4,208 U...

www.healthaffairs.org

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell , and 27 more Anne Applebaum, Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, David M. Farrell, Brendan Nyhan, Gavin A. Schmidt, Tom Clark, Steve Peers, David Rothschild, Amir Attaran, Martin Tomko, Peter Campbell, Edgar Morgenroth, Daniel W. Drezner, Smith, David R. Miller, R. M. Wilson, Patrick Svensson, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Anne Norton, Zen Faulkes, Lisa Diedrich, Daniel Kuehn, David L. Anderson, Greg Linden, Gerardo Martí, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Fiona Armstrong, David Darmofal

Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 7d

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Cumulative US measles cases
As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year.
Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026.
2026
478 cases
2025
2253 cases
2024
283 cases
2023
63 cases
Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Brokers are a critical component of reducing #AdministrativeBurden in the #ACA and other health insurance markets --- policies to support responsive and honest services are needed

doi.org/10.1093/hasc...

Brokering a New Path: Navigating Administrative Burdens in the Health Insurance Marketplaces

Unstructured Abstract. Millions will become uninsured when Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies expire and new, stricter enrollment regulations take effe

doi.org

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8d

Epstein should stick to epidemiology. He's better at it than English history.

Full brief here: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

www.supremecourt.gov

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 8d

It's Selection, It is ALMOST ALWAYS Selection

Got to figure out how to write up a more helpful version of that in this review, but it is likely a selection story and not a program intervention story.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 9d

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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@NurseTexas1 @nursetexas1.bsky.social · 9d

🦬

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 9d

It’s so frozen the corgis don’t break through the snow!

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 9d

Middlecamp:

The ICE surge shouldn't last “another month, another week, or another single day.”

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Jared Wiener @jaredwiener.com · 11d

Years ago I made a really dumb website for when you just need a break.

www.adoseofdog.com

Refresh for another pic of a random dog.

A Dose of Dog

www.adoseofdog.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11d

no matter what else is happening, if feasible, please share photos of your dogs playing in the snow tomorrow

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Paper officially #Accepted and all abstracts for #ARM2026 evaluated and scored

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 11d

REMINDER:
DO NOT SAY THINGS IN A PUBLIC FORUM THAT WOULD SINK YOUR DEFENSE IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL.
DO NOT PLAN OR PLOT TO COMMIT VIOLENCE AGAINST THE STATE ON HERE.
DO NOT TALK HERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE TO PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT POSSIBLY ILLEGAL ACTIVITY YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE CONTEMPLATING.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11d

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11d

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.

The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.