Yearly Archives: 2023

‘This Should Be a National Scandal’: Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI for Denials

Medicare Advantage is neither Medicare nor an advantage.

As Russia Signals It Can Achieve Maximalist Aims in Ukraine, How Would Russia Manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?

Russia is presumably thinking hard about not just how to conclude the war in Ukraine, but what happens the morning after.

We Are Seventeen Years Old

Thank all of you for keeping us fit and feisty after so many years!

The Trouble with Nouns

Classification struggles in the Harvard-Harris poll on Israel.

Links 12/17/2023

As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads

Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.

Links 12/16/2023

Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s 15-Year Slump

The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/15/2024

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Western Policymakers Are Panicking Because There Was No Plan B if the Counteroffensive Failed

A recap of how the US and NATO painted themselves in a corner with Project Ukraine.

Links 12/15/2023

Who Is Luis Caputo, Argentina’s New Economy Minister (Who Is Already Making the Economy Scream)?

Meet the new boss, same as the old.

Hungary Vetos €50 Billion EU Funding Package for Ukraine; Fuming EU Leaders Promise Workaround, but How?

Yet another shot below the water line for sinking Project Ukraine.

CDC’s Weak and Vague N95 Guidelines Endanger Health Workers, Conflict with Cal/OSHA Standards

In the Covid version of fiddling while Rome burns, cheap hospital systems hide behind the CDC to avoid issuing N95s to front line workers