Michael Johnson

Ex-Blue Shield of CA public policy director, whistleblower, advocate.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

Drawing on some personal experience, I wrote this about the need for stronger whistleblower protection. https://t.co/5Hz5be2Zeo

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@mattyglesias And Newsom

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@davidsirota @GavinNewsom Just like his support for single payer while campaigning for governor, which evaporated once he was elected. Newsom is all performance.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@mirkel @mattyglesias What’s the connection with Grim? Don’t see him or his outlet mentioned in the article.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@mattyglesias Would this also be true in the upcoming midterm elections?

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@AaronParnas @iGardon Does that include the copy I got by making a $1 contribution?

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it.

Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@dillonliam @GavinNewsom Meanwhile, yesterday on Ezra Klein's podcast Newsom was touting his YIMBYism: "We began a process of working with carrots and sticks to move from NIMBYism to a YIMBYist mind-set, which I think we have demonstrated in meaningful ways, in substantive ways."

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@JeremyBWhite Like you could about people when tech boomed in the mid-90s who referred to Silicone Valley.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@larry_levitt So if the credits are extended insurers will reap a windfall since the locked-in 26% increase assumes that not extending the credits will lead healthier people to drop coverage?

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@JoyceCarolOates Dems should be nonstop celebrating and playing up Kirk as a champion of free speech, whose legacy Trump and Vance are desecrating.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

This is California, but it’s as if DOGE took control of the agency. https://t.co/OOUVPsalzo

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

Nonprofit Blue Shield of CA is evading its charitable trust obligations, but perhaps even worse, CA’s health plan regulator is helping them do it.

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

And it did that without conducting any review at all of the Delaware company. It didn’t bother to look even at the company’s articles of incorporation or bylaws, so knew nothing about who owns the company, what its declared purposes are, or who it is intended to benefit.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Blue Shield's restructuring is reviving a debate about whether one of the state's largest insurers is reinvesting enough of its profits to lower its rates, better serve low-income residents and provide coverage for underserved areas of the state. https://t.co/cZyeKnsSTn

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

Here are the details behind the story, including links to the previously secret Blue Shield tax-audit documents revealing the misinformation Blue Shield fed to regulators. https://t.co/LX2m8P8fs5

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

Blue Shield, where I was an executive for 12 yrs before leaving as a whistleblower, tried to sue me into silence. But the story is out now.https://t.co/fjzbOTfHR6

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis.

Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.

1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
https://t.co/2KaPRykzs3

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@elonmusk The one thing Trump cares about is getting the debt limit raised on Biden's watch rather than his. If you separate increasing the debt limit from funding the govt it gets defeated and Trump gets screwed. You wanna screw Trump?

[Michael Johnson @MJohnsoninLA]

@jonathanchait You say you don't support disqualification b/c there's a "wisp of reasonable" doubt that Trump's actions qualify as insurrection. What if no doubt existed?