xpostfactoid
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Blogging mostly healthcare policy at http://xpostfactoid.substack.com. ACA implementation watcher. CSR czar. AKA Andrew Sprung.
The more nuanced but still fallacious claim: because enrollments without claims are far more prevalent in the individual market than in ESI (35% vs. 15%), the enrollments must be largely fraudulent. But that ignores the high incidence of short-term enrollments in the marketplace
Health Affairs Journal
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November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The more nuanced but still fallacious claim: because enrollments without claims are far more prevalent in the individual market than in ESI (35% vs. 15%), the enrollments must be largely fraudulent. But that ignores the high incidence of short-term enrollments in the marketplace
It will likely be Cassidy garbage reheated for maybe the fifth time www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Cassidy Introduces Obamacare Replacement Plan: The Patient Freedom Act is a Conservative Response to King v. Burwell | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy
Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced the Patient Freedom Act, a conservative response to protect millions of Americans who are at risk of losing their health care coverage followin...
www.cassidy.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It will likely be Cassidy garbage reheated for maybe the fifth time www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Let your marketplace premium eat its tail
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Let your marketplace premium eat its tail
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This is apparently a 7 week or so CR. I'll remind everyone that the first-ever extended shutdown, the Newt one, was a two-parter; a short-ish fall shutdown, followed by a CR, followed by a longer winter shutdown. Will this be a two-parter? We don't know yet. *They* may not know yet.
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is apparently a 7 week or so CR. I'll remind everyone that the first-ever extended shutdown, the Newt one, was a two-parter; a short-ish fall shutdown, followed by a CR, followed by a longer winter shutdown. Will this be a two-parter? We don't know yet. *They* may not know yet.
If Rs vote down enhanced subs in Dec, that's political suicide, unless they go all in on stealing/abrogated elections.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If Rs vote down enhanced subs in Dec, that's political suicide, unless they go all in on stealing/abrogated elections.
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Update: Welp. It looks like the Senate GOP is already running with Trumps “HSAs for All!” rant.
It’s 2017 all over again, but even meaner and dumber.
youtu.be/ZBAsIq9UUsg?...
It’s 2017 all over again, but even meaner and dumber.
youtu.be/ZBAsIq9UUsg?...
'A Novel Idea': Marshall Proposes Giving ACA Subsidies Directly To People Instead Of Health Insurers
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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November 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Update: Welp. It looks like the Senate GOP is already running with Trumps “HSAs for All!” rant.
It’s 2017 all over again, but even meaner and dumber.
youtu.be/ZBAsIq9UUsg?...
It’s 2017 all over again, but even meaner and dumber.
youtu.be/ZBAsIq9UUsg?...
Please don't treat Cassidy's warmed-over snake oil with any more respect than this.
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Please don't treat Cassidy's warmed-over snake oil with any more respect than this.
Except us non-experts are now learning the border patrol is worse, and its leadership will make ICE worse.
Useful knowledge. Time to revise our priors and our language.
Useful knowledge. Time to revise our priors and our language.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Except us non-experts are now learning the border patrol is worse, and its leadership will make ICE worse.
Useful knowledge. Time to revise our priors and our language.
Useful knowledge. Time to revise our priors and our language.
The resemblance between Greenblatt and Miller struck me long ago.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The resemblance between Greenblatt and Miller struck me long ago.
I dunno. Some say less exhaust, but there's not a lot of car traffic at other times I occasionally run. Lower humidity, I think, which may help even in cool months.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I dunno. Some say less exhaust, but there's not a lot of car traffic at other times I occasionally run. Lower humidity, I think, which may help even in cool months.
..As even the Supreme Court is implicitly acknowledging today.
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
..As even the Supreme Court is implicitly acknowledging today.