JP Barela

So Senators Hansen, Buckner & Van Winkle are giving up seats to let party insiders choose replacements (VW moving to BoCC). Hansen & VW were originally appointed to Senate seats & Buckner to a House seat. Giving seats up after session starts allows insider chosen replacements to serve 10 years not 8 from my understanding. But will deprive citizens of representation for weeks during session. Anyone see a disturbing pattern here? If only someone had tried to do something. . . oh wait... see HCR24-1004 @KyleClark @CPRNews @MGoodland @McKennaHarford @ColoradoNewsCCM @SethKlamann @DailySentinelGJ

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Great webinar on #AI bias from @MonitaurAI earlier this week. Good combination of the difficulties defining bias as well as a technical description of bias tests.

If anyone wants to know why US healthcare costs are so high, note that our non-profit health systems pay ONCOLOGISTS a production bonus. @SCLHealth sclhealthproviders.org/Opportunities/…

#HealthPolicyValentines roses are red, violets are blue, don’t want to be dead, because of SARS-COV-2. Mask up, distance, hygiene, vaccine

@GovofCO @CDPHE my moms vaccine provider doesn’t have second doses for clinic this week. How is this happening? Please help!

News: @SenatorCollins told me earlier this month in Maine that she would not seat a Supreme Court justice in October. “I think that’s too close, I really do,” she said. She said she’d also oppose seating a justice in the lame duck if there’s a change in presidents.

Alaska's @lisamurkowski said today she won't confirm a new SCOTUS justice until after the inauguration day. Fair is fair, she says. My colleague @kcgrove will have a story shortly.

Here is @LindseyGrahamSC saying he will not confirm a Supreme Court nominee in this exact situation:

Cory Gardner in February 2016, the week Antonin Scalia died: "I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

If @johngloroberts truly cares about the propriety of @Scotus , he will announce that if a @realDonaldTrump nominee is appointed before the election he will ask @JoeBiden to appoint 2 additional members to the court.

A message from our president, Tenesia McGruder

Today is the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre...🖤 vox.com/identities/202…

The latest Colorado model report is now available to the public, as are the presentation slides from today’s media briefing. It provides an estimate of the degree of distancing we've achieved so far, and projections based on various policy scenarios. 👇🏼 covid19.colorado.gov/press-release/…

Trying to understand all the various impacts to COVID on health insurance claims. I created a checklist for some of the possible considerations, bit.ly/3bq6u3Z Contributions welcome!

If you're going a bit stir crazy, I've been very impressed with @LegoHiddenSide, lego's A/R experience. A nice blend of the real and virtual combined with a fun theme in the sets.

I never realized that in becoming a parent I was signing up for 18 years of night guard duty: 3 yr old toss the room for crayons 7 yr old toss the room for random craft supplies 10 yr old toss the room for reading lights 14 yr old toss the room for phones #parenthood

@ASlavitt @marcorubio I disagree with this point. The ACA had built in premium increases in the shrinking reinsurance pool. Keeping the risk corridors might have kept plans in the marketplaces and saved the COOPs from going under. Their design is explicitly premium neutral.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled that @MarcoRubio & Congress were wrong to prohibit the Obama Admin from paying risk corridors to reduce premiums in the ACA in the early years. Congress did anyway, causing insurers to leave & raise rates. This should never have happened.

.@CIVHC_News released initial report on low value care in Colorado. Worrying #opioids #2 highest spend in low value care, bit.ly/3ei3PMo #COHealth

Stages of technological maturity: 1. How do they do that? 2. Here's how I could do that 3. How do they do that at scale? 4. Here's how to do that at scale 5. Here's how to do that in a way you can easily evolve to scale 6. Thank god someone does that for me.