…benchmark policy, and risk adjustment scores (total = $143 billion). Source: The MedPAC Blog, March 3, 2021 (authors’ conversion of MA overpayments to dollars from percent of FFS payments as calculated…

…not hearing him. The man repeated himself: “You should’ve gotten thrown off the bridge.” The System Falls Apart What divides the Republican Party of 2024 is not any one policy…

…burdens imposed on physicians before they could prescribe suboxone. The current access to suboxone policy has been in place for less than 2 years. Correlation is not causation (and in…

…language.  Using Klein’s label – calling him an abundance liberal – seems much more consistent with ordinary usage, and thus less likely to cause confusion. Second, I see little evidence…

…New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. Other states would still be subject to the Trump administration’s new policy. States like Alabama, where the University of…

…did not help either as it resulted in more spending. Food companies also added to the issues with increasing prices and cutting package sizes. Can’t label them Schooner Tuna examples,…

…Action was required.  Wealth’s response was to pejoratively label these threats as socialism, communism, or un-American.  And, to get organized.  The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (1938) and the House Un-American…

…to the forefront of U.S. health policy. In an extraordinary news conference at the White House, the Republican president delivered medical advice to pregnant women and parents of young children,…

…refocused message that appeals to the masses. I struggle with the concern of whether Democrats can clarify and better define their misleading “woke/progressive” label. There are so many explanations of what…

…view into just how the ultra-rich have bought them- selves a seat (if not a couch) in the Oval Office. When billionaires and corporate interests are shaping policy, it’s no…