#Taxpayers

1/ Brief thread on our latest in @JAMAInternalMed, where we look at the potential effect of steering patients from Medicare to ACA-compliant individual market planshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/27778
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THREAD: I don’t agree Mikakos was thrown under a bus. She was the minister in charge of DHHS. On 11/6, two days before @theage ran the first story on hotel
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I respect John Piper but I think his political theory is confused in this article. The purpose of civil govt. in a mod. secular state is not the same as
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On this day 60th years ago, one of the darkest days in Jacksonville’s history almost went unnoticed by the media. We call this day “Ax Handle Sunday” It’s no secret
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I imagine the feds are reading this tweet but fuck it. I’m a low budget sleuth.Last night, I entered this rabbit hole of MKUltra literature and let’s just say i
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I've read @PNPChiefGamboa has ordered the investigation of this incident somewhere.Wasn't the guidelines clear? No "MASS GATHERING"?Si PRRD nga hindi nagcelebrate, especial ka? Di sana pwede na rin magchurch pwede
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Me and @asiddons watched yesterday's nine hour FDA advisory committee meeting so you don't have to. Because these are important for transparency and public trust, here are some moments that
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Leaving qualified immunity to the side, the limitless indemnification of police officers - literal moral hazard - is an even bigger issue, and taxpayers foot the bill (the people who
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1/6The music fountains in #KwunTong Promenade, which costs taxpayers ~HK$50m, is temporarily closed 4 maintenance after 5 days since it opened on 22/AprHKSAR Government claimed that closure was due to
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This sounds familiar and quite close to views held by my Dad’s generation of Chinese intellectuals esp his Uni classmates frm 1960s who had experienced Cultural Revolution. I agree w
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148 people died from Covid in the UK yesterday. 147 of them in England.In Taiwan, another densely-populated island, they've had 7 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Their last
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Both @LeoVaradkar and @PatKennyNT were on #Newstalk today complaining about lazy people on €350 a week who don't want to go back to work. Isn't it amazing people on €200,000-plus
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On #Insiders @David_Speers makes the searing observation to @JoshFrydenberg that now is exactly the worst time to be taking $14m away from National Audit Office. When government is spending eye-wateringly
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So I have been thinking about angry dad @BrianPallister yesterday scolding the people of Manitoba and getting angry about #Covid19 spread in the province. I want to respond in a
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Maryland has a lot of "halfway houses", such as VOA. These are for prisoners, mostly Federal, who have been released early, for whatever reason. These houses receive a lot of
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As a former secretary of labor, I can tell you that we shouldn't be talking about stimulating the economy or going back to work.We should be talking about shutting down
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