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I suppose that most are paired with insurers but only two are described as Managed Care organizations. www.mass.gov/info-details...
www.mass.gov
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I suppose that most are paired with insurers but only two are described as Managed Care organizations. www.mass.gov/info-details...
It’s part of a 5-year 1115 waiver. Not in your data and not getting paid for “visits”.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It’s part of a 5-year 1115 waiver. Not in your data and not getting paid for “visits”.
It’s a sub-capitation for primary care through accountable care organizations. Private practices not participating in ACOs are paid considerably less. www.mass.gov/info-details...
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It’s a sub-capitation for primary care through accountable care organizations. Private practices not participating in ACOs are paid considerably less. www.mass.gov/info-details...
I am told that in MA our state Medicaid program (MassHealth) pays community health centers enough to cover their costs while private insurance does not. Would your finding hold if you focused only on primary care visits in community health centers? @aaronschwartz.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I am told that in MA our state Medicaid program (MassHealth) pays community health centers enough to cover their costs while private insurance does not. Would your finding hold if you focused only on primary care visits in community health centers? @aaronschwartz.bsky.social
Wait, I’m sympathetic if you’re talking about political employees. But a NASA scientist can’t be married to someone who has a coffee roasting business?
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Wait, I’m sympathetic if you’re talking about political employees. But a NASA scientist can’t be married to someone who has a coffee roasting business?
But I can’t deny that there is also an aesthetic revulsion. Bad writing and bad communication is part of the work product in a lot of contexts.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
But I can’t deny that there is also an aesthetic revulsion. Bad writing and bad communication is part of the work product in a lot of contexts.
They also resist debate. This makes me distrustful of the people and, by extension, the entire AI enterprise.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
They also resist debate. This makes me distrustful of the people and, by extension, the entire AI enterprise.
I am not an academic, so this is not completely on point, only analogous. But I often feel in work contexts that the people using AI the most (certain admin types) are hiding the work and providing me with work product that I am unable to evaluate.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I am not an academic, so this is not completely on point, only analogous. But I often feel in work contexts that the people using AI the most (certain admin types) are hiding the work and providing me with work product that I am unable to evaluate.
That might be true. If I’m not competent to evaluate work in an area, then I need some heuristics for how to believe if the person presenting it is likely trustworthy, so that may be what’s at play here.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
That might be true. If I’m not competent to evaluate work in an area, then I need some heuristics for how to believe if the person presenting it is likely trustworthy, so that may be what’s at play here.
Ooh - how long is each one? I should do that. I wonder if my library has that as an ebook
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Ooh - how long is each one? I should do that. I wonder if my library has that as an ebook
When the FDA, as opposed to the CDC, makes the changes, it’s harder for states to go their own way.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When the FDA, as opposed to the CDC, makes the changes, it’s harder for states to go their own way.
Kennedy brought more votes. If only Trump had felt that Operation Warp Speed helped him win.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Kennedy brought more votes. If only Trump had felt that Operation Warp Speed helped him win.
Sometimes the utility of shame is underrated. (Not discounting the capacity it has for harm).
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sometimes the utility of shame is underrated. (Not discounting the capacity it has for harm).
Non-profit” health systems too?
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Non-profit” health systems too?
Pancreatic cancer especially, because it’s basically a death sentence now.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Pancreatic cancer especially, because it’s basically a death sentence now.
The possibility of mRNA vaccines for cancer is one of the most hopeful developments I’ve seen in medicine.
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The possibility of mRNA vaccines for cancer is one of the most hopeful developments I’ve seen in medicine.
Mamdani didn’t deny that Trump was a fascist in that meeting.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Mamdani didn’t deny that Trump was a fascist in that meeting.
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social in the 90’s it happened to girls from fancy-ish families at private schools too. Mostly boarding schools.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social in the 90’s it happened to girls from fancy-ish families at private schools too. Mostly boarding schools.
I can check Gmail on the web at a windows computer, and my husband and I can have a shared calendar for things we do together. I suppose I could pay Apple for iCloud space to do that.
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I can check Gmail on the web at a windows computer, and my husband and I can have a shared calendar for things we do together. I suppose I could pay Apple for iCloud space to do that.
Even if individuals can’t afford it. Society can through progressive taxation. If we want better primary care, we have to decide that’s what we want as a society and set up a system to reward it.
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Even if individuals can’t afford it. Society can through progressive taxation. If we want better primary care, we have to decide that’s what we want as a society and set up a system to reward it.
I have thoughts, but no matter what we do healthcare will never be affordable to individuals and families because o Baumol’s cost curve.
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I have thoughts, but no matter what we do healthcare will never be affordable to individuals and families because o Baumol’s cost curve.
Didn’t know that. I’d love to have their social insurance policies though.
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Didn’t know that. I’d love to have their social insurance policies though.