Tucker Doherty

Writing health care words for @TheHMAcademy. Former reporter for @POLITICO. Views here my own.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

After more than 6 years, last Friday was my final day at POLITICO!

Starting today, I'm taking over a newsletter for @TheHMAcademy aimed at health system executives.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@john_voorheis @JHWeissmann @RocCityBuilt Sure, and probably looks even better for "voters."

The trend is awful though, we'll probably fall below 50% adult homeownership by the end of the decade. My point is just that housing dynamics truly suck in an otherwise great economy.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@JHWeissmann @RocCityBuilt https://t.co/N16fGKD4uB

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@JHWeissmann @RocCityBuilt This is the share of householders who own their home, so a young adult who can't afford to move out of their parents' home is ignored. Trend for "share of adults that own a home" is much bleaker, especially for young. By your metric, Italy has great homeownership.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@riccoja Depends on the publication and coverage area. When I was at Politico, there were plenty of folks joining from trade publications and vice versa. Different audience but a lot of the same skills.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@MichaelSocolow @AliceFromQueens If overall ratio of the pool of elite admission slots vs unique qualified applicants hasn't changed, then I'd say it's not harder to get into "a great school," but certainly harder to get into a specific one if you have your heart set on it. The application signal is weakened.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@MichaelSocolow @AliceFromQueens You need to account for the huge increase in average number of schools applied to per applicant, which brings down those acceptance stats. 4 per student in 2002, vs 7 per student in 2021 (Pew, USN&WP). Large factor is schools making it easier to apply, e.g. the Common App.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@Lexi_Caly The ultimate limits are the laws the president has to work with, and the willingness of the courts to uphold intepretations.

With student loans, there was a law that lets the Ed Dept waive regulations, Biden said sure let's "waive" all student loans then, and SCOTUS said nope.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@Lexi_Caly Sure, "President X bypassed congressional rule Y (using an exception included in the original law that created rule Y) to do Z."

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@Lexi_Caly When the press says the president is "bypassing" Congress, they're almost always referring to the president using existing laws and legal authorities that Congress previously passed, sometimes with a new interpretation or an unexpected bit of legal and administrative creativity.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@Lexi_Caly There's no general rule that presidents can bypass Congress. In this example, there's a specific law (Arms Export Control Act) that requires the president to get congressional approval for arms sales, & the law includes a provision for bypassing Congress in declared emergencies.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@DrewSav If you're interested in a good book on the topic, I really enjoyed "Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War" by Way and Levitsky.

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

NEW: Americans are following the news less closely than they used to https://t.co/qCRJiFxaQD

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@jackshafer "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@hyperplanes Travel distance / comfort with delegating transportation? You drop off your toddler yourself, put the middle schooler on a bus, and the high schooler can get themselves there?

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@AlanMCole @ryxcommar Really it's just that they acquired Sequence, now one of the top online direct-to-consumer prescription services for GLP-1s.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@AlanMCole This is my intuition as well, but apparently there's research suggesting that the mortality benefits of exercise are substantially larger than the mortality harms of potential traffic deaths and air pollution, accounting for years of life lost. https://t.co/mlAkv6edMJ

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@CalebWithersDC @dylanmatt True. On a quick search looks like fatalities per kilometer biked is 7x higher in the U.S., and air pollution 1.5x. Probably narrows but doesn't close the gap.

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@CalebWithersDC @dylanmatt "in the Netherlands"

[Tucker Doherty @tucker_doherty]

@RiverTamYDN "Loves massive levels of immigration coz he’s a cool YIMBY."