What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Catastrophic coverage is "really designed for someone who has access to a large amount of financial assets or credit, and could cover about $9,000 in healthcare spending as an individual or $18,000 as a family" -Keith Ericson www.newsweek.com/health-cover...

Suggests anything that the FTC has done without Slaughter can be challenged as invalid and without legal authority. Good scope for some creative attorneys…

Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.

Here’s the link to comment on the rule. Please do comment. They can make a difference in litigation. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I am honored to be appointed to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. I look forward to helping our Commonwealth get better healthcare at lower cost. @masshpc.bsky.social
#mapoli #HealthPolicy @buquestrom.bsky.social insights.bu.edu/professor-ke...

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

"The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.

Glad to see @aoc.bsky.social drawing attention to this.

bsky.app/profile/aoc....

Please, join a protest for democracy this Saturday, June 14th. America deserves better and can be better. www.nokings.org

That's fair. Perhaps norms became more professional as medium matured. I live-tweeted a conference years ago. I probably wouldn't do it now- a permanent record, broadcasted to the world, of my unformed thoughts on a paper? Has impact & I want to put more time, like spoken comments & referee reports

In a free society, we could speak openly and publicly about our most important problems. We live in a regime where academics and universities are repeatedly targeted for based what should be protected speech. Casual engagement with social media becomes that much more costly.

I'm sorry, Michael.

Reducing Administrative Barriers Increases Take-Up of Subsidized Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from a Field Experiment url:https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01573/128264/Reducing-Administrative-Barriers-Increases-Take-Up

Summary, video, and ungated paper: practicingeconomist.com/2024/01/25/w...

www.forbes.com/sites/brucej... Aetna is out of the ACA in 2026

🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.

The highlights, like the title and abstract, are important in shaping how a paper is read. I'm not sure why one would want to troll them.

Therefore, the House must impeach this President and the Senate vote to convict. The way not to normalize this is to enforce the law.

I am proud of economist and Stanford President Jonathan Levin for speaking out in defense of liberty. Let's see more universities follow suit! "Harvard’s objections... are rooted in the American tradition of liberty, a tradition essential to our country’s universities, and worth defending".