Anna
@annabmsp.bsky.social
Minnesotan. MPP. Health care is my jam. Proud to be part of the "MN Miracle 2.0"...IYKYK
I overuse the ellipsis...but my Oxford comma game is flawless
I overuse the ellipsis...but my Oxford comma game is flawless
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Roses are red
Carnations are pink
Medicaid work requirements
Don’t do what you think
#HealthPolicyValentines
This is one of mine from 2019, but certainly fits today because some people thought taking a second turn at something that didn’t work the first time was a good idea.
Carnations are pink
Medicaid work requirements
Don’t do what you think
#HealthPolicyValentines
This is one of mine from 2019, but certainly fits today because some people thought taking a second turn at something that didn’t work the first time was a good idea.
February 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Roses are red
Carnations are pink
Medicaid work requirements
Don’t do what you think
#HealthPolicyValentines
This is one of mine from 2019, but certainly fits today because some people thought taking a second turn at something that didn’t work the first time was a good idea.
Carnations are pink
Medicaid work requirements
Don’t do what you think
#HealthPolicyValentines
This is one of mine from 2019, but certainly fits today because some people thought taking a second turn at something that didn’t work the first time was a good idea.
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Roses are red,
Patients are blue,
to see their premiums spike,
now that the bill is due.
The Senate blocked action,
The President, too
to extend the tax credits
to help millions like you.
#HealthPolicyValentines
Patients are blue,
to see their premiums spike,
now that the bill is due.
The Senate blocked action,
The President, too
to extend the tax credits
to help millions like you.
#HealthPolicyValentines
February 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Roses are red,
Patients are blue,
to see their premiums spike,
now that the bill is due.
The Senate blocked action,
The President, too
to extend the tax credits
to help millions like you.
#HealthPolicyValentines
Patients are blue,
to see their premiums spike,
now that the bill is due.
The Senate blocked action,
The President, too
to extend the tax credits
to help millions like you.
#HealthPolicyValentines
Premiums come first
Deductibles come later
We could move beyond all this
If we passed single payer
#healthpolicyvalentines
Deductibles come later
We could move beyond all this
If we passed single payer
#healthpolicyvalentines
February 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Premiums come first
Deductibles come later
We could move beyond all this
If we passed single payer
#healthpolicyvalentines
Deductibles come later
We could move beyond all this
If we passed single payer
#healthpolicyvalentines
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I thought it was love
My heart felt spring-loaded
Turns out our relationship
Was significantly upcoded
Thanks to Andrew Carleen @masshpc.bsky.social 💕
Read the rest of our favorite health policy valentines submitted by readers ⤵️
My heart felt spring-loaded
Turns out our relationship
Was significantly upcoded
Thanks to Andrew Carleen @masshpc.bsky.social 💕
Read the rest of our favorite health policy valentines submitted by readers ⤵️
Health Care Heartaches: Your Winning Health Policy Valentines - KFF Health News
KFF Health News shares our favorite reader-submitted health policy valentines. One struck us in the heart and inspired an original cartoon.
kffhealthnews.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I thought it was love
My heart felt spring-loaded
Turns out our relationship
Was significantly upcoded
Thanks to Andrew Carleen @masshpc.bsky.social 💕
Read the rest of our favorite health policy valentines submitted by readers ⤵️
My heart felt spring-loaded
Turns out our relationship
Was significantly upcoded
Thanks to Andrew Carleen @masshpc.bsky.social 💕
Read the rest of our favorite health policy valentines submitted by readers ⤵️
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Absolutely beautiful Steve Sack
February 14, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Absolutely beautiful Steve Sack
Death by 1,000 cuts for the ACA. The full list of proposed changes is even more insidious this time around. It's weakening coverage in the shadows without needing to "repeal" anything
The Trump administration proposed two new ACA ideas this week:
1. Catastrophic plans with deductibles of $15,600 per person.
2. Qualification of non-network plans, where insurers determine how much to pay and patients shop for providers that accept it or face a balance bill.
1. Catastrophic plans with deductibles of $15,600 per person.
2. Qualification of non-network plans, where insurers determine how much to pay and patients shop for providers that accept it or face a balance bill.
February 14, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Death by 1,000 cuts for the ACA. The full list of proposed changes is even more insidious this time around. It's weakening coverage in the shadows without needing to "repeal" anything
Roses are red
Vaccines are effective
More kids get to grow old
When we share this perspective
#healthpolicyvalentines
Vaccines are effective
More kids get to grow old
When we share this perspective
#healthpolicyvalentines
February 14, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Roses are red
Vaccines are effective
More kids get to grow old
When we share this perspective
#healthpolicyvalentines
Vaccines are effective
More kids get to grow old
When we share this perspective
#healthpolicyvalentines
Really hope there was a huge shockwave through ICE today after their leadership was finally forced to investigate agents for shooting through the door of a home full of children and lying about it. They will not protect you from your crimes if it is not in their interest. Never too late to quit
February 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Really hope there was a huge shockwave through ICE today after their leadership was finally forced to investigate agents for shooting through the door of a home full of children and lying about it. They will not protect you from your crimes if it is not in their interest. Never too late to quit
They will not be happy until they crush all that is good in MN about how we care for each other and our communities. And everything put in motion the last few months is calibrated with particular cruelty toward the most vulnerable
The ICE surge may be ending, but retribution comes in many forms- including selective termination of funding. This is retaliation, and will harm Minnesotans
February 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
They will not be happy until they crush all that is good in MN about how we care for each other and our communities. And everything put in motion the last few months is calibrated with particular cruelty toward the most vulnerable
The only way to have mass deportations is what it looks like here in MN. Huge win they claim to be leaving. But as the next city gets terrorized know they have learned from their mistakes. Nat'l media left after Bovino but the chaos and injustice didn't. We can't lose the thread on what's happening
Homan: "We're gonna have a mass deportation. President Trump promised that and we're committed to that."
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The only way to have mass deportations is what it looks like here in MN. Huge win they claim to be leaving. But as the next city gets terrorized know they have learned from their mistakes. Nat'l media left after Bovino but the chaos and injustice didn't. We can't lose the thread on what's happening
I drive this street almost daily. It is absolutely reckless to engage in a "high-speed" chase in this area. High-traffic but small neighborhood street with pedestrians everywhere, cars parked on both sides at all hours making it feel very narrow. That someone was not killed is a damn miracle
A high-speed car chase involving a federal agent in St. Paul ended with a multi-vehicle crash and injuries to the fleeing driver, who was taken away in an ambulance. bit.ly/4kvJo0M
📸: Leila Navidi
📸: Leila Navidi
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I drive this street almost daily. It is absolutely reckless to engage in a "high-speed" chase in this area. High-traffic but small neighborhood street with pedestrians everywhere, cars parked on both sides at all hours making it feel very narrow. That someone was not killed is a damn miracle
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The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
A high-speed car chase involving a federal agent in St. Paul ended with a multi-vehicle crash and injuries to the fleeing driver, who was taken away in an ambulance. bit.ly/4kvJo0M
📸: Leila Navidi
📸: Leila Navidi
February 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
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Minnesota still needs your attention
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Minnesota still needs your attention
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
Appreciate NPR for highlighting this, but it is not a new revelation nor is the GOP genuinely surprised it doesn't work. They know. It allows them to put the burden and blame on patients as "shoppers" rather than fix real issues
The Trump administration pushed for price transparency in health care. But instead of patients shopping for services, it's mostly health systems and insurers using the information for negotiations. n.pr/4amoc8P
Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data
The Trump administration pushed for price transparency in health care. But instead of patients shopping for services, it's mostly health systems and insurers using the information for negotiations.
n.pr
February 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Appreciate NPR for highlighting this, but it is not a new revelation nor is the GOP genuinely surprised it doesn't work. They know. It allows them to put the burden and blame on patients as "shoppers" rather than fix real issues
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You don't fight this hard to hide nothing
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
You don't fight this hard to hide nothing
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If CSR funding was reinstated (as Trump/GOP are now pushing), it would immediately kill Silver Loading (SL) and would make Premium Alignment (PA) a shadow of its current strength.
SL/PA are the reason why GOLD plans cost LESS on average than SILVER plans in that liberal bastion known as...TEXAS.
SL/PA are the reason why GOLD plans cost LESS on average than SILVER plans in that liberal bastion known as...TEXAS.
February 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
If CSR funding was reinstated (as Trump/GOP are now pushing), it would immediately kill Silver Loading (SL) and would make Premium Alignment (PA) a shadow of its current strength.
SL/PA are the reason why GOLD plans cost LESS on average than SILVER plans in that liberal bastion known as...TEXAS.
SL/PA are the reason why GOLD plans cost LESS on average than SILVER plans in that liberal bastion known as...TEXAS.
Gaba has the data here-
Screaming this from the rooftops today. This is a ploy to save money in the federal budget, not a solution to high premiums. They have no new ideas, they are repackaging an old one they use to hate because right now it's advantageous to THEM
Screaming this from the rooftops today. This is a ploy to save money in the federal budget, not a solution to high premiums. They have no new ideas, they are repackaging an old one they use to hate because right now it's advantageous to THEM
😡 OH DEAR GOD.
CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR.
Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.
CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR.
Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.
BASH: Can you give me one specific example of a solution the president has put forward that is lowering healthcare costs, beyond prescription drugs?
DR OZ: There's something called a CSR
DR OZ: There's something called a CSR
February 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Gaba has the data here-
Screaming this from the rooftops today. This is a ploy to save money in the federal budget, not a solution to high premiums. They have no new ideas, they are repackaging an old one they use to hate because right now it's advantageous to THEM
Screaming this from the rooftops today. This is a ploy to save money in the federal budget, not a solution to high premiums. They have no new ideas, they are repackaging an old one they use to hate because right now it's advantageous to THEM
CSRs were originally NOT funded by the GOP after passage of the ACA
The market has adapted since then
Funding CSRs now SAVES the GOV'T MONEY, has mixed and sometimes terrible results for people's premiums due to how premium tax credits layer in
If this is all they got, they got nothing
The market has adapted since then
Funding CSRs now SAVES the GOV'T MONEY, has mixed and sometimes terrible results for people's premiums due to how premium tax credits layer in
If this is all they got, they got nothing
BASH: Can you give me one specific example of a solution the president has put forward that is lowering healthcare costs, beyond prescription drugs?
DR OZ: There's something called a CSR
DR OZ: There's something called a CSR
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
CSRs were originally NOT funded by the GOP after passage of the ACA
The market has adapted since then
Funding CSRs now SAVES the GOV'T MONEY, has mixed and sometimes terrible results for people's premiums due to how premium tax credits layer in
If this is all they got, they got nothing
The market has adapted since then
Funding CSRs now SAVES the GOV'T MONEY, has mixed and sometimes terrible results for people's premiums due to how premium tax credits layer in
If this is all they got, they got nothing
The way these ghouls treat children makes sends me into a fiery rage. They aren't even trying to hide it. There is no reforming this!
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
The way these ghouls treat children makes sends me into a fiery rage. They aren't even trying to hide it. There is no reforming this!
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Looks like the TrumpRX rollout is at best a massive policy failure and at worst a deliberate attempt to confuse people who desperately need affordable meds
Do not use that site
Do not use that site
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Looks like the TrumpRX rollout is at best a massive policy failure and at worst a deliberate attempt to confuse people who desperately need affordable meds
Do not use that site
Do not use that site
They did not care if they murdered him-they almost did. They must be prosecuted
Was he released from the hospital too soon for not having health insurance once stable? And we were forced to end coverage for our undocumented neighbors last year!
Beating people who can't seek care for their wounds 🤬
Was he released from the hospital too soon for not having health insurance once stable? And we were forced to end coverage for our undocumented neighbors last year!
Beating people who can't seek care for their wounds 🤬
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked trib.al/j4Lw5wr
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
They did not care if they murdered him-they almost did. They must be prosecuted
Was he released from the hospital too soon for not having health insurance once stable? And we were forced to end coverage for our undocumented neighbors last year!
Beating people who can't seek care for their wounds 🤬
Was he released from the hospital too soon for not having health insurance once stable? And we were forced to end coverage for our undocumented neighbors last year!
Beating people who can't seek care for their wounds 🤬
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A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
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They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.