Dan Munro

Author of Casino Healthcare w/ bylines in Forbes, Newsweek, re/code, Techonomy and healthcare specific publications.

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

Staggering - AND sobering.

Average cost of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance (ESI) for an American Family of 4 is now $37,824 - per year.

Sidenote: The employer contribution declined from 61% in 2005 to 58% in 2026

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

“I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners….”

They’re setting up Vance to take the fall.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Deposing Attorney: Do you regret that people lost income to support their lives? 

DOGE Bro: “No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero.”

Deposing Attorney:  Did you reduce the federal deficit?

DOGE Bro: “No, we didn’t.”

Deposing Attorney: So you weren’t able to reduce the federal deficit and you still don’t regret that people lost some of their livelihood based on your actions?

DOGE Bro: “No.” 🤦‍♀️

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

It means you live in an aurhoritarian political climate with a mob boss style leader.

[Bluebird pooped an X @bluebirdpoopies]

This is not residual algae. This is not sabotage. This is not sea monkeys. This is not going away. This is the result of incompetence and creating a heat sink in a shallow non chlorinated pool.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Some of you were alive when that happened.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the official channel of the United States Army broadcasting a private corporations live feed. This is illegal. No one in the Republican Congress will lift a finger.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

We spent over $70B bombing them.
We will spend $300B to rebuild them.
We lost this war, and now we will be funding Iran.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

original iran nuclear deal:
“under no circumstances will iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapon.”

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

... that history prof at Yale must be *so* proud.

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

The Vice President of the United States thinks WWII ended through a negotiation

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[Washington Week with The Atlantic | PBS @washingtonweek]

"Peter, small question for you: Is the post-World War II international liberal order created and maintained by the United States over?" @JeffreyGoldberg asked.

"Yes," said @peterbakernyt. "Our understanding of what we thought the world order was for the last 80 years is over."

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.

James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.

Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.

[Praise @tufpraise]

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

@snappercreek @TopherSpiro ... it is absolutely "zoomable." Just use the + icon in the top right corner and then move to any state/region ...

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

@TopherSpiro But will breaking up hospital systems have enough of an effect?

Doubtful - b/c "competition" won't lower prices dramatically - and another big culprit is Fed tax policy favoring ESI - which supports uncapped pricing.

We need to end ESI.

https://t.co/rR3YTtAnOY

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

we have the money, we can pay the benefits. If our kids have trouble it will be because of Elon Musk and the billionaires, not Social Security. FWIW, if Musk's trillion dollars makes sense, then the country will be very rich, not poor as Jason implies.

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

Yea - let's find *more* ways to fleece Americans with their healthcare.

~1/3 GoFundMe listings are med related
~27M uninsured
~60-70M underinsured
~$200+B med debt in active collections
~$30K = Avg cost of ESI (family of 4 - PPO coverage)

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.

Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.

Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.

A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.

The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.

https://t.co/V5mCfnmOLS

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

@johnrgraham @ahahospitals I think it's a big distraction b/c it isn't agency to influence price - just see it.

Medicare/Medicaid don't care - and commercial coverage is entirely dependent on coverage tier - which is highly variable and uncapped ;-(

Won't influence this chart at all ;-(

[Dan Munro @DanMunro]

GOP loves to rally around this battle cry but "pricing transparency" is just a big distraction b/c seeing a price isn't agency to influence it and "shoppable" healthcare isn't a big healthcare cost category.

[John R. Graham @johnrgraham]

@ahahospitals report calls for price transparency! https://t.co/ki8zMhnjXI. "Improve access to reliable, upfront pricing information for services considered to be “shoppable”. Hospitals have been the primary culprits blocking patients from knowing prices. @DrOzCMS wins again.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.

I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:

There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.

The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.

This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:

A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.

Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.

State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.

Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.

Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.

Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.

What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?

Ask The Heritage Foundation.

For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”

The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”

It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.

That’s billions and billions of American votes.

Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:

1620.

That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:

1. Some individuals commit election fraud.

2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.

The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.

It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.

Stop trying to subvert our democracy.

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