Once in a while I remember that 2022 higher ed life has been so wild that we literally found out that **several** current academics had *actual* skeletons in their closets (and desks and houses and offices) and it’s barely registered on the discourse-o-meter. What a world. Well, there was the whole Penn museum holding human remains from children killed during the 1985 MOVE police firebombing which has had a lot of resist and turns but were returned to Penn from retired professor’s house thing.
Here’s a summary: hyperallergic.com/725976/philade…

We could write a book about this short article:
1) explaining complex insurance terms— ok good
2) using a healthy white married man with f-t employment and a wife with access to excellent benefits at work as your lead example — wow *lots* to unpack there: nytimes.com/2022/09/30/bus… 3) Array of brokers & financial advisors weighing in as experts.
4) None of the 26yos featured in the article are parents, which is telling.
5) Are we finally witnessing a normalization of ACA marketplace plans as part of ins landscape rather than a new experiment?
#healthpolicy

Hey wow do you know what image I've been using to teach with FOREVER that hits really different right now? It's this one, of a mob protesting and threatening workers and patients outside a hospital, just before setting the place on fire: You can read a nice quick synopsis of that debacle here: daily.jstor.org/when-new-yorke…

Finalizing my syllabus for an intro to US health policy course that starts next week. Amused by how many readings/discussions that used to take weeks of staging and scaffolding on my part can more or less be subbed out with HEY STUDENTS JUST LOOK OUT THE WINDOW ON 2020. PRE-2020 course: Did you know that despite the availability of impressive & highly technical medical care for those with access, the US' ability to manage relatively simple *public* health risks is far beneath where it should be?
2020 Students, behind cloth masks: NO KIDDING.