Update 2/15: below is this year's complete harvest, as it grew from Feb. 10-14. Last year's trove is here. Love, 2015, here. First love, 2014, here.
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I felt this afternoon I was getting quick-pitched on HealthPolicyValentines. But matron saint of the tradition, Emma Sandoe, tells me it's always kicked off on the Thursday before V-Day. So, like a loved one rushing to the scene of elopement, here am I (and see bottom for past years):
With this ring I thee wed;
with this kiss doth thou grace me.
Now promise you'll never
repeal and replace me.
* * *
I can't call you true
on this true lovers' day.
You swapped my CSR
for this crummy HSA.
* * *
Affordability and access!
We could eat our cake and have it
if we put our healthcare system
in the hands of Andy Slavitt.
* * *
Acknowledging that love
will carry us just so far
I'm putting my John Hancock
on this DNR
* * *
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
For you, something terrific...
Nah, that isn't true.
* * *
Lilies are white,
Tulips are pink.
Republican "replace" plans
are wink wink wink wink.
* * *
The ACA tragedy
now enters its fifth act
where #healthpolicyvalentines
are a suicide pact.
* * *
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A star-crossed health reform law takes its life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrow
Bespeaks the decay of our public life.
* * *
The man whom I marry
must have respect for facts, sir.
That's why I won't tarry
with thee, anti-vaxxer.
* * *
You're okay with the ACA,
but you hate Obamacare.
Step away from the gaslight,
my poor befuddled cher.
* * *
I can't profess love
for this passel of fools
that's touting HSAs
and high risk pools.
* * *
Flexibility for states!
That's how they bill it.
The truth: "First we block-grant it --
then we kill it."
* * *
A few for select heartthrobs of healthcare (whose names lend themselves to rhyming):
Read 400 pages of regs?
Nah, I'll wait for the post
sure to pop up on Health Affairs
by -- who else? -- Tim Jost
* * *
Some say, "It's a matter of time."
Some say, "Aim higher"
to HHS Sec-in-waiting
Adrianna McIntyre.
* * *
You'll never find a gentler way
to call repealers bollocks
than this regretful roundelay
of Harold Pollack's.
* * *
When it comes to healthcare regs
who doesn't know what "ignore" is?
That Colorado font of info:
Louise Norris.
* * *
Affordable care for all?
If anyone state can do it
it'll be Minnesota
with help from Lynn Blewett.
* * *
Federalist nostrums
look especially scraggly
when placed 'neath a spotlight
by Nicholas Bagley
* * *
And, sweeping out to consider "health policy"in the broadest sense:
Roses are blue,
Violets are red.
Believe this gaslighter?
We'll all wind up dead.
Last year's trove is here. Love, 2015, here. First love, 2014, here.
----
I felt this afternoon I was getting quick-pitched on HealthPolicyValentines. But matron saint of the tradition, Emma Sandoe, tells me it's always kicked off on the Thursday before V-Day. So, like a loved one rushing to the scene of elopement, here am I (and see bottom for past years):
With this ring I thee wed;
with this kiss doth thou grace me.
Now promise you'll never
repeal and replace me.
* * *
I can't call you true
on this true lovers' day.
You swapped my CSR
for this crummy HSA.
* * *
Affordability and access!
We could eat our cake and have it
if we put our healthcare system
in the hands of Andy Slavitt.
* * *
Acknowledging that love
will carry us just so far
I'm putting my John Hancock
on this DNR
* * *
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
For you, something terrific...
Nah, that isn't true.
* * *
Lilies are white,
Tulips are pink.
Republican "replace" plans
are wink wink wink wink.
* * *
The ACA tragedy
now enters its fifth act
where #healthpolicyvalentines
are a suicide pact.
* * *
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A star-crossed health reform law takes its life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrow
Bespeaks the decay of our public life.
* * *
The man whom I marry
must have respect for facts, sir.
That's why I won't tarry
with thee, anti-vaxxer.
* * *
You're okay with the ACA,
but you hate Obamacare.
Step away from the gaslight,
my poor befuddled cher.
* * *
I can't profess love
for this passel of fools
that's touting HSAs
and high risk pools.
* * *
Flexibility for states!
That's how they bill it.
The truth: "First we block-grant it --
then we kill it."
* * *
A few for select heartthrobs of healthcare (whose names lend themselves to rhyming):
Read 400 pages of regs?
Nah, I'll wait for the post
sure to pop up on Health Affairs
by -- who else? -- Tim Jost
* * *
Some say, "It's a matter of time."
Some say, "Aim higher"
to HHS Sec-in-waiting
Adrianna McIntyre.
* * *
You'll never find a gentler way
to call repealers bollocks
than this regretful roundelay
of Harold Pollack's.
* * *
When it comes to healthcare regs
who doesn't know what "ignore" is?
That Colorado font of info:
Louise Norris.
* * *
Affordable care for all?
If anyone state can do it
it'll be Minnesota
with help from Lynn Blewett.
* * *
Federalist nostrums
look especially scraggly
when placed 'neath a spotlight
by Nicholas Bagley
* * *
And, sweeping out to consider "health policy"in the broadest sense:
Roses are blue,
Violets are red.
Believe this gaslighter?
We'll all wind up dead.
Last year's trove is here. Love, 2015, here. First love, 2014, here.
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