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Wesley Sanders

@wsanders.bsky.social
115 followers 67 following 115 posts

Current: consultant, VP finance, self-proclaimed health policy wonk. past: health plan CFO, United Methodist clergy

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Roger Marshall threatened legal action to suppress an inconvenient truth. Read our response:
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As I wrote this week in @msnowreports.bsky.social this betrays a misunderstanding of the fact that insurance protects against risk and the system depends on there being these low utilizers. Plus, the admin has pushed folks to virtually unusable high-deductible plans. www.ms.now/opinion/vanc...
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Opinion | You should be skeptical of JD Vance’s claims about Obamacare fraud
The vice president's anti-fraud task force may strip health coverage from people who did nothing wrong.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fun fact: despite there being 4.5 million fewer people in the individual market in 2026 versus 2025, total revenue in that market through Q2 is down only 2% (from $75.4B to $73.6B) because insurers raised rates so much to compensate for the expected decline in membership.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My life insurance policy must be fraudulent, because I am still alive.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s also a dangerous path to make ethical status contingent on intelligence - lest we exclude infants, those with severe dementia, those with certain disabilities, etc.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pay them $600k, per year, for life, pegged to inflation. Tax all their other income at 100%. Ensure they never have to work again and make it effectively illegal for them to do so.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bill Graves, the Republican governor of Kansas from 1995 to 2003, writes an oped today endorsing the Democratic nominee for Senate in the state (Adam Hamilton, who's challenging Senator Marshall). www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
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Bill Graves: Elect Adam Hamilton to put Kansans first in the US Senate | Opinion
The former governor says Roger Marshall has turned his back on the people he’s supposed to represent. | Opinion
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19/08/2026
Leaving everything else aside the level of bag fumble from the broad AI industry in terms of PR is absolutely incredible.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Mangione didn’t even have United as his insurer… so claims of some sort of just vengeance are wrong too.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/08/2026
From last fall: acasignups.net/25/09/12/new...
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New York: 450,000 to lose Essential Plan eligibility as state is forced to end expansion due to GOP's #BigUglyBill
I knew this was coming but it's still depressing to see it officially announced. Via NY State of Health: Following Devastating Federal Funding Cuts, New York State Takes New Action to Preserve Health ...
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I don’t think there’s enough vote for Stevens left but this will be a close result. My hope is that the El-Sayed/DSA/far left contingent don’t get despondent but realize that both factions need each other. It’s time to cut the shit and fight MAGA, not Democrats.
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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21/07/2026
I used em dashes in elementary school! AI didn't exist yet. They were something I always saw in books. This is bullshit. "They're a kid, so they must be stupid." I remember my dad of accusing me of plagiarism because I used "maniacal" in a sentence and I poorly explained the word back to him.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I still play StarFox64 on my Nintendo 64, and easily can get 10 hours of enjoyment out of a weekend for something I paid $40 for, once, 30 years ago.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i say this as an extremely avid video game enjoyer: gamers are easily the worst consumer base on the face of the planet, incomprehensibly entitled and insufferable about a miraculously accessible product and industry
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I had my wedding at this aquarium, at night even, and not one of my guests was murdered.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/07/2026
FUCK EVERY FUCKING PERSON WHO SUPPORTED AND EVEN FUCKING ENDORSED GRAHAM FUCKING PLATNER; EVERYONE WHO SHRUGGED OFF, LAUGHED OFF OR BLEW OFF THE *MOUNTAIN* OF MASSIVE RED FLAGS WHICH WE WERE WARNING ABOUT FOR NEARLY A FUCKING YEAR NOW. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES.
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xpostfactoid @xpostfactoid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My response to Paragon's "Obamacare fraud" claims (adopted by CMS and Republicans in Congress), Part 2: Switching to bronze to avoid premiums is not evidence of mass fraud.
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On writing off newly uninsured Americans as "phantoms"-- Part 2
It’s time for Part 2 of our close look at Brian Blase’s claims in The Persistent Obamacare Enrollment Fraud and its top-line claim (heavily relied on by CMS) that in 2026, 6.2 million enrollments were...
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And it all started with the state lotteries that are ”for the kids.“ I think I’m the only one left in the USA who still fundamentally opposes state lotteries. Gambling harms those who can least afford it but no one has the political will to do anything about it.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I didn’t die this year. therefore my life insurance is fraudulent.
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It didn’t used to, but in 2016, when we had a stark choice between moving it left of center or turning it into this, a whole lot of you just made fart noises at anyone who tried to point that fact out.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dude’s wife is the federal judge who struck down the COVID-era masks-on-planes mandate because it ”exceeds the CDC's statutory authority and violates the procedures required for agency rulemaking under the APA.“ reason.com/wp-content/u...
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
On this father’s day, my heart was warmed when my 3 year old daughter asked me to play “the planet song” and was referring to Jupiter: the Bringer of Jollity” by Gustav Holst. As it’s playing she asked ”is this Jupiter?” Never knew she was listening closely as I extolled the virtues of Holst!
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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump: "Windmills give you cancer from the infrasound." Liberals: "That's ridiculous." Also Liberals: "Data centers give you cancer from the infrasound." Other Liberals: "WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!!!!!!"
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This system is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, two rather liberal denominations neither of which have objections to abortion or fertility treatment. Why the hospital system acted this way I can’t understand…
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Look, many years ago Susan Collins captured a leprechaun and hexed the Maine Class II Senate Seat so that no Democrat could ever win it, once you understand that you can stop getting so upset and just accept the cruel inevitability of fate, or put that energy into capturing a leprechaun of our own.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
this is all a right-wing conspiracy to make Platner look bad based on nothing more than his own words and actions.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It should be a crime to tell me you’ve shipped something when all you’ve done is create a label.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Google equity raises. $GOOGL
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Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We just moved a step closer to a Medicaid work requirement, a major cut made by last year’s Republican reconciliation law that will take away health coverage from millions of people. The Trump administration issued a rule that makes bad policy even worse. www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac...
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Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement for Certain Individuals Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (CMS-2454-IFC) | CMS
Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement for Certain Individuals Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (CMS-2454-IFC)
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Currently reading ”Magnifica Humanitas” while listening to Holst’s “The Planets“ and awaiting the birth of our child. Finally found a recipe for some brief hope in these dark times!
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every well-intentioned insurance coverage mandate is also followed by private equity swooping in, extracting rents, and exploiting patients. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/h...
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Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It was another wild week on Capitol Hill. Sign up for my newsletter - 'Regular Order.' Get a front row seat on what's happening and support independent journalism on Capitol Hill. jamiedupree.substack.com/p/gop-stumbl...
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GOP stumbles over immigration enforcement, Iran war
Republicans send House & Senate home until early June
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
good LORD @ossoff.bsky.social
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Ora Tor @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
FB Jacobin on Platner saying "the Mainers who voted for him" as if we've had any election at all. "Platner embodies that spirit, and so did the Mainers who voted for him despite the smear campaign highlighting his youthful missteps." @charlesgaba.com @hrryan.bsky.social @henrythedog.bsky.social
Jacobin magazine on FB on 7 May: "Platner embodies that spirit, and so did the Mainers who voted for him despite the smear campaign highlighting his youthful missteps."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’ll be in the same big tent with Zohran Mamdani, but there’s no tent big enough for me and Graham Platner. And I know the vast majority of Democrats probably disagree with me. That’s ok, I can only tell you what I think. Let me explain.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
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I’ll Be in the Same Big Tent with Zohran Mamdani, But There’s No Tent Big Enough For Me and Graham Platner
You don’t have to agree with me, but hear me out.
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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In Huge Blow to Democrats, Virginia Court Strikes Down House Map
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
maybe we should’ve asked jeeves how he was doing
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The flight attendants union for Spirit Airlines, Spirit AFA-CWA, confirms that the carrier will permanently shutdown at 3 A.M. EDT. t.co/LlH3OjOg2j
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I thought a run as an independent would just siphon potential democratic votes away but I feel better about this possibility. Funnily enough, if he wins the nomination he’ll be the second KS democratic senate nominee in a row who is a United Methodist pastor.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 30/04/2026
An interesting update to a story I wrote the other day. Pastor Adam Hamilton will run (!) for U.S. Senate in Kansas as a Democrat (!!), even though polling suggested an independent run might be more successful. He may be a surprisingly strong candidate. apnews.com/article/meth...
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The pastor of the nation’s largest Methodist church is running for the US Senate in Kansas
The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. has launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas. The Rev.
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Alexander Heistermann @alexheistermann.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
For real on the political nihilism here, look no further than anti-electoral far-left here.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 22/04/2026
Why the current "no" lead in Virginia's redistricting referendum is likely a mirage.
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
DDHQ Race Update (est. 65% in): Virginia Congressional Redistricting Amendment No (N): 1,017,482 (52.3%) Yes (N): 929,453 (47.7%) First votes are now in from Fairfax. Mix of vote types, but very few votes overall. Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/606382
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
idea for a scam: startup for an all ai newspaper that’s actually just a real one. use the insane valuation to pay living wages and invest back into it
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Wesley Sanders @wsanders.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
margins may not even be that much of an improvement over 2024. Fuller is already leading and its still mostly early / absentee which have leaned much more Dem.
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