Chris Conover

Retired research scholar at Duke University; currently AEI adjunct fellow and Forbes contributor. Tennis lover. Blue Devils fan.

[Christina Hoff Sommers @CHSommers]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@shellenberger Accurate

[Will Saletan @saletan]

Haley's vote share among GOP primary voters who say Biden legitimately won in 2020:

Iowa 53%, NH 76%, SC 81%

% of GOP primary voters who say Biden legitimately won:

Iowa 29%, NH 46%, SC 35%

She does well among sensible people. But there aren't enough of them in GOP primaries.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@shellenberger This shouldn't be that surprising: this is the same CIA whose unchecked behavior was revealed in spades by Church Committee in the 1970's and whose dissembling about JFK assassination continue to stymie efforts to solve it. Who will guard the guardians is a perennial question.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@YFeyman The health policy world is stuffed with examples of what amounts to lying with statistics by people preferring to make a problem or policy impact considerably larger than it actually is.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@YFeyman Congrats. With your PhD in hand, I'm confident the quality of your work going forward will rise by at least 100%.🙂 Keep up the great work.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@BaldMove @HBO @TrueDetective I'd be astonished if author of True Detective, season 4, wasn't partly inspired by a mysterious true crime case involving scientists found frozen in snow: was culprit a freakish act of nature or a science experiment gone bad that Soviets tried to cover up? https://t.co/QFYJ1ooGaY

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

Great news for economics as a discipline: Papers carefully reexamine data, methods, and results; end up questioning the widening inequality narrative; are published in the top journals; by people who keep jobs. Replication, not prizes wins. Try this, other social sciences.

[Boris Vabson @borisvabson]

Recent Senate testimony of @MattAFiedler cites my recent working paper on prior auth w/@zarekcb @Samantha_Burn @timothyjlayton https://t.co/SqTAZVRpU9

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@greg_fann @DavidBalatHC @Cmillernd2005 @jgmcglamery @standorn @xpostfactoid @TheDaduary @colinbaillio @cynthiaccox @larry_levitt @patpaule @LouiseNorris @RepStephMurphy @TomOliverson @NathanForTexas @Sick_of_Bias @blahblahKC @phillyrich1 imagine if Obama had used his undisputed political gifts to reach across the aisle and secure sweeping bipartisan passage of the McCain health plan. How much better our health system (and political system) might have been. ACA arguably biggest missed opportunity in my lifetime.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@greg_fann @DavidBalatHC @Cmillernd2005 @jgmcglamery @standorn @xpostfactoid @TheDaduary @colinbaillio @cynthiaccox @larry_levitt @patpaule @LouiseNorris @RepStephMurphy @TomOliverson @NathanForTexas @Sick_of_Bias @blahblahKC @phillyrich1 i won't continue the rant, but informed readers should ponder this: in 2008, Democrats nominated the candidate with the least ambitious health plan. Republicans nominated the candidate with the most ambitious plan.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@greg_fann @DavidBalatHC @Cmillernd2005 @jgmcglamery @standorn @xpostfactoid @TheDaduary @colinbaillio @cynthiaccox @larry_levitt @patpaule @LouiseNorris @RepStephMurphy @TomOliverson @NathanForTexas @Sick_of_Bias @blahblahKC @phillyrich1 ACA did NOT bend the cost curve, it did NOT improve quality (life expectancy has DECLINED since 2010, not improved). The lion's share of improvements in access were through expanding Medicaid, the least desirable form of coverage!

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@greg_fann @DavidBalatHC @Cmillernd2005 @jgmcglamery @standorn @xpostfactoid @TheDaduary @colinbaillio @cynthiaccox @larry_levitt @patpaule @LouiseNorris @RepStephMurphy @TomOliverson @NathanForTexas @Sick_of_Bias @blahblahKC @phillyrich1 The resultant partisan rancor has precluded all but the most minor improvements in the law. At the end of the day, Obamacare grossly over promised and greatly undelivered.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@greg_fann @DavidBalatHC @Cmillernd2005 @jgmcglamery @standorn @xpostfactoid @TheDaduary @colinbaillio @cynthiaccox @larry_levitt @patpaule @LouiseNorris @RepStephMurphy @TomOliverson @NathanForTexas @Sick_of_Bias @blahblahKC @phillyrich1 They were egregiously wrong in thinking "pass it now, fix it later" would ever work. By passing such sweeping legislation on a pure party line vote, especially when coupled with unprecedented questionable tactics, Pelosi and company essentially divided the nation into two teams.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@greg_fann @DavidBalatHC @Cmillernd2005 @jgmcglamery @standorn @xpostfactoid @TheDaduary @colinbaillio @cynthiaccox @larry_levitt @patpaule @LouiseNorris @RepStephMurphy @TomOliverson @NathanForTexas @Sick_of_Bias @blahblahKC @phillyrich1 Greg, thanks for shout-out. With ACA now in adolescence, here's my 2 cents. The champions of ACA were correct in their strategic assessment that once they got Obamacare on the books, it could never be repealed.

[Daniel Polsky @healthecon_dan]

Congratulations to @DavidCGrabowski for his election into @theNAMedicine!

A true leader in health economics who has elucidated novel trends in long-term and post-acute care quality, and identifying contradictory payment policies for Medicare and Medicaid.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@ben_ippolito @borisvabson Great stuff helping to prove the efficiency advantages of MA plans and undercutting claims that cost differences can merely be chalked up to selection effects. We should be encouraging policy reforms that allow FFS and MA to compete on a truly equal playing field.

[Ben Ippolito @ben_ippolito]

Full white paper is here, including discussion of adjusting for baseline differences in enrollees

https://t.co/XGPcqqt4AB

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@GOTGOONED @nytimes "We were at war" does not justify mistreatment of Americans (which is why U.S. later paid reparations to the huge numbers of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps). But in the minds of policymakers, we were in an existential race against Germany. Some eggs got broken etc.

[Chris Conover @ConoverChris]

@GOTGOONED @nytimes c) this history is hardly "hidden" given that I found this detailed account on National Park Service website! https://t.co/IpWSgDwOmx; d) the same site gives detailed story about Trinity test and radiation risks to many NM cities