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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 · Aug 31

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at
@uscarnoldschool.bsky.social

We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly

#HealthPolicy
#AcademicSky

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

uscjobs.sc.edu

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 19h

They have a time and place.... Great for flag planting and "hmmm this factoid is weird and useful"

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

[Frangibly; visibly trembling; near tears] “Oh like you don’t have any ‘issues’” — Cloudflare Global Network

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Folks in the Triangle

Know your rights when ICE is around

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David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Informed consumers don't consistently make strictly dominated choices

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

Unbelievable is an accurate description.

www.reddit.com/r/sports/com...

From the sports community on Reddit: Ireland score in a winner at the death to reach the world cup qualifying playoff.

Explore this post and more from the sports community

www.reddit.com

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Zoë McLaren, PhD @zoemclaren.bsky.social · 2d

Pitt’s PhD in Health Services Research & Policy is recruiting for Fall 2026 — Dr. Travis Donahoe has funding for a graduate research assistantship to work with him to examine how policy and local economic conditions shape the opioid epidemic.
Info: linktr.ee/pittHPM
@PittHPM
Please repost!

pitthpm | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

The Department of Health Policy and Management at Pitt

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 2d

The biggest criticism of the ACA from the start was that health insurance still wasn't affordable for many. The enhanced premium tax credits, slated to expire at the end of this year, helped address that. But, the tradeoff is higher federal spending.

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

The value is getting into programs/training progressions that then matter to employers

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

.3 GPA points is pretty substantial (** not an education economist) esp near thresholds line a 3.0

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed... But economists not writers

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Correct

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Traditional way these events study plots are presented in econ/econ adjacent fields

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

I am happy with moving them to the food court in Union Station with a 40 per week in person requirement for 48 weeks per year

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cuppycup @cuppycup.bsky.social · 3d

Professors at Texas A&M required to obtain prior approval from administration to discuss this half of football in class.

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imabigdeal.bsky.social @imabigdeal.bsky.social · 4d

Such an amazing experience at #2025APPAM — learning, connecting, and stepping into new spaces.
Honored to meet incredible leaders, including incoming APPAM President Kosali Simon, who was so inspiring and welcoming.
Feeling grateful, energized, and excited for what’s next. @appam.bsky.social

David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

Easiest way to bring down premiums is to either only cover people who never submit claims or to not cover anything expensive.... but stating that directly is walking into a buzzsaw of public opinion.....

#JustInTime

www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

Republicans scramble for health care plan, as Democrats eye midterm battle | CNN Politics

Republicans in Washington successfully defused the 43-day government shutdown without surrendering to Democrats’ demands to spend billions more to offset spiking health insurance costs.

www.cnn.com

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 4d

I’ve had a lot of frustusaring conversations about this. Especially surrounding the pipeline for talent to pursue topics around health equity.

Private schools and private lenders will provide funding but what will the terms be?

Who can afford to pursue this career, especially if the topics where…

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

Drake Maye is good

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 5d

FWIW Americans can go to college in Sweden, studying in English, while enjoying things like safety, gender equality, quality of life, and constitutional rights – and without breaking the bank: utbildning.su.se/english/educ...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Mark A. Lemley, Steve Peers , and 25 more Jonathan A. Eisen, Mark A. Lemley, Steve Peers, Alistair Munro, Michael A. Clemens, Rosemary A. Joyce, Joshua Goodman, Shelly Lundberg, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi, Patrick S. Forscher, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Amy W. Ando, Anne Norton, Sebastian Karcher, Brian Keegan, William Myers, Jason Lyall, Catherine J. Frieman, David L. Anderson, Simon Lester, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Lorna Hughes, Antonio Fatás, Peter Bergman

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 6d

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Epstein Document Search

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 6d

The U.S. is on track for another record year for clean electricity in 2025: 59 GW additions, which is 92% of new builds. Solar leads again, and storage nearly doubles. The grid is changing fast.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨

November 12, 1970:

A 40 ton whale carcass lays, rotting, on an Oregon beach.

A crowd has gathered to watch the whale carcass be dynamited to dispose of it.

HILARITY*. ENSUES.

*”blubber snowstorm”

REMASTERED VIDEO!

www.youtube.com/embed/V6CLum...

A clean shaven white man in a suit is holding a microphone and standing upon a beach during the day in front of a large grey shape that is a rotting whale carcass.

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 7d

📣 OK, as promised, here's my *deeper* dive into how 14 states have instituted #ACA pricing policy which will *dramatically* mitigate the expiring tax credits for a significant portion of enrollees...IF enrollees take advantage of it:

acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...

There Will Be Graphs: A deeper dive into how 14 states are dramatically mitigating the expiring tax credits

Last week I posted a deep dive into how a bunch of states are taking action to at least partially cancel out the impact of the impending end of the enhanced federal Advance Premium Tax Credits (APTC) ...

acasignups.net

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 7d

There Will Be Graphs: A deeper dive into how 14 states are dramatically mitigating the expiring tax credits

open.substack.com/pub/charlesg...

There Will Be Graphs: A deeper dive into how 14 states are dramatically mitigating the expiring tax credits

tl;dr version: A lot of people are eligible for Gold plans at a bargain or dirt-cheap Bronze plans

open.substack.com

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 7d

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!

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Sylvia Pellicore @roenok.bsky.social · 7d

And very importantly to me—this is good food. Name brand cereal! Full-size peanut butter! Canned vegetables that aren’t expired!

My family sporadically depended on food aid when we were kids, and what we got was often total crap. Poor kids also deserve palatable food they actually want to eat.

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 8d

Actuarial insurance is something you hope never to use. Social insurance is something you expect to (and should) use at different points in your life. Health insurance is a funny combination of both those things.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 8d

Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 8d

As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance.

academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 8d

This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What Did Men Do to Deserve This?

Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

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