Update on the DeSantis/Florida legislature effort to stop businesses -- including cruise lines -- from requiring customers show proof of vaccination.

Norwegian Cruise Lines sought an injunction blocking the law. Tonight they got it. (1)

politico.com/states/florida…
One part of the ruling from Judge Kathleen Williams jumped out at me:

"The unvaccinated population is not a protected class that enjoys a fundamental Constitutional right to remain unvaccinated." (2)

politico.com/states/f/?id=0…
Notable because I've heard this argument in a few places now, not just from DeSantis -- i.e., that vaccine requirements are discriminatory.

It didn't persuade Judge Williams and I'm guessing it won't persuade others on appeal -- though, to be clear, I'm not a legal expert. (3)
More background here, on why even skeptics of government power think there's a case for vaccine mandates. (4) huffpost.com/entry/vaccine-…

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25 Jul
ACA improvements?
Medicaid for holdout states?
Dental coverage for seniors?

There’s a case for all of the items on the Democratic health agenda. But probably not enough money — or votes.

A look at the tough choices ahead:
huffpost.com/entry/biden-ob…
Two key questions will help define boundaries of what’s possible:

1. To what extent are Dems determined to finance new health care spending w/savings they find elsewhere in health care?

2. How willing are Dems to find those savings from Rx reform?

huffpost.com/entry/biden-ob…
The importance of those Rx savings to other initiatives is one reason I continue to think — and continue to hear from some veteran operatives and staff — that ambitious reforms could actually pass despite all of the familiar obstacles
huffpost.com/entry/prescrip…
Read 6 tweets
16 Jul
Via multiple sources, Dem budget negotiators may scale back funding increase for home and community-based care. Like, by more than half -- from $400B, which was what Biden proposed, to below $200B.

Very much in flux, nothing decided. (1)
This is the initiative to boost funding of home care aides and other services that let the elderly, people w/disabilities live at home, stay in labor force, etc. (2)

huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
Medicaid funds these services, but with limited allotments. That creates long waiting lists, plus the care workers are famously underpaid. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide… (3) Image
Read 8 tweets
22 Jun
In case you thought conservatives were done with the "death panel" smear, here's the Wall Street Journal editorial page this morning. (1) wsj.com/articles/the-a…
The subject of the editorial is the outrage over a new Alzheimer's drug that will cost $56,000 with scant evidence of benefit.

Editorial sneers about "experts" making that case. Also takes a swipe at Sen. Ron Wyden, who has spoken out against the drug. (2)
Wyden has spent his career as an advocate for seniors & their health care, going back to 1970s when he was with Oregon's chapter of the Gray Panthers.

Also his mother had Alzheimer's, a fact he's cited repeatedly when making the case to help patients & their families. (3)
Read 8 tweets
27 Apr
@JHWeissmann ...although I really think it depends on the issue. With a lot of these, you can dial it down, one way or another, and still get serious benefits.
@JHWeissmann And then you build on later. Make paid leave longer, expand child care to more kids or make it more generous, add dental now and visual later, etc.
Read 4 tweets
24 Apr
Lots of chatter about what Biden will say on health care, and lots of anxiety too. I tried to sort out what it means, what's happening etc.

As always, hard to be sure. Depends a bit on who you ask. Etc.

huffpost.com/entry/biden-he…
On the policy side, I think there's a lot of common ground among Democrats -- more than it might seem. And I'm including the White House in that.

At the same time, some of these ideas are difficult political lifts.
For more background reading, start with the latest @JStein_WaPo article that I reference in mine: washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…
Read 12 tweets
11 Apr
Why are Michigan's COVID numbers so scary?

What is Gov. Whitmer doing and what is she *not* doing? And why?

Here’s an article on that -- and a thread (1)

huffpost.com/entry/michigan…
It’s not just the caseload numbers that are spiking. It’s also the hospitalizations.

Facilities are filling up, delaying elective procedures, etc.

Via @KristenShamus @HealthBridgeMI (2)

freep.com/story/news/loc…

freep.com/story/news/202…
You may have seen this desperate tweet from @umich surgery chairman @jdimick1 (3)

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