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The huge decline in the number of uninsured under Obamacare is in large part (more than half) due to the expansion of Medicaid 1/
Now Trump is trying to strangle Medicaid by converting it into block grants that won't keep up with rising costs 2/ washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
Oh, and the lies the administration is deploying to claim that this isn't a cut are the same as the arguments Newt Gingrich used to pretend that he wasn't trying to strangle Medicare in 1995. Zombies, zombies, everywhere 3/
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Imagine an alternate universe in which Trump posed as the defender of a unified nation against an unexpected threat, the way GW Bush did after 9/11 1/ nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/…
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Boring but possibly useful thread on economics of Trumpvirus. Econ 101 tells us that there are two kinds of macro shocks: demand shocks like 2008 financial crisis and supply shocks like 1979 oil crisis. Policy implications differ 1/
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How Trump and friends have responded to virus:

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