I've been sending out these weekly digests to my mailing list for months now, but figured some here might be interested in it as well (and most of the compilation work is already done so what the heck!)
It there seems to be enough interest I'll keep posting the weekly digests here at dKos as well; let me know!
SATURDAY: --In which Luis Lang appears to call for Single Payer, and other interview insights (NOTE: See important update to his story on Thursday!)
SUNDAY: --Sunday Short Cuts
MONDAY: --Pro tip: When you invite 200 people to your wedding, don't be surprised when 200 people show up. --Which Mystery States have dropped their exchanges when I wasn't looking? --DC 2016 Rate Requests: 5.3% individual, 2.6% small group (with major caveats)
TUESDAY: --Vermont 2016 rate requests: 7.8% individual, 8.1% small group --Maryland: UNWEIGHTED 2016 rate requests: 9.3% (WEIGHTED more likely 22.5%) --DON'T PANIC! Four questions to ask when reading a Scary Rate Increase® headline --Minnesota: 64K QHPs, 192.4K Medicaid/MNCare --Final HC.gov #ACATaxTime: 147K QHPs; grand total: 12.0M CONFIRMED --UPDATE: Well I'll Be Damned: Luis Lang quits GOP, openly calls for Single Payer --I wish sincere good luck to Mr. Lang; he's going to need it.
WEDNESDAY: --10% of the country is now enrolled in ACA-enabled healthcare coverage. --Remember this tweet 5 weeks from now. --This July, up to 14 million people could be in Luis Lang's shoes...even if they did the right thing. --Updated: #ACATaxTime Wrap-up: ~210K QHPs should put the kibosh on the "move Open Enrollment to Spring" movement
THURSDAY: --Updated: I don't want to hear one more "Obamacare is 2,000 pages long!!" attack. EVER. --Kaiser Family Foundation releases a mountain of 2015 ACA data. --California: Holy Smokes! CA's total number may not impress, but have they managed a 95% payment rate this year?? --Mid-Day Moment of Zen --King v. Burwell: Jeffrey Toobin may or may not be correct about his larger point, but he sure got one fact wrong.
FRIDAY: --One More Important Question to ask re. 2016 Rate Filings... --WSJ openly admits what we already knew: GOP's King "fix" is a complete sham --WSJ story illustrates most of my points re. 2016 rate increase requests