health care comms and speechwriting | views here are my own, but they should be yours too
Lake Barcroft, VA
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Nathan Fielder: do you see how, when you say “$108 million in revenue”, people could understand that to be more than $100,000?
Elizabeth Holmes: I don’t understand
Billy Evans: you have your own beautiful view on the world and that’s why I love you
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
.@MikeRogersForMI is desperately trying to distract voters from rising gas and health care costs. Unfortunately for him, it’s not working.
cbsnews.com/video/republican…
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
Grateful for this level of support going to Dems. Amazing! But to everyone complaining about campaign spending: you plan and staff a race with zero money, then get hit with a tidal wave of cash in the final weeks that's almost impossible to spend efficiently. We should talk about this more!
NYT: Bloomberg Gives Democrats $80 Million in 11th-Hour Midterm Push
The money from the former New York City mayor and megadonor, who is focused on ensuring a sizable Democratic House majority, will help cut into Republicans’ financial advantage.
nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/bl…
this is so important.
take Virginia for example. for every $1 in “rural health transformation” the feds gave, they cut $30 from Medicaid.
the feds are *barely* propping up rural health. more like they want to look like they’re propping it up, for now.
New blog from @adamsearing dives into the challenges of giving birth in rural areas.
Federal Government is Propping up Rural Health with Grants, Knocking it Down with Medicaid Cuts ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/10/1… via @GeorgetownCCF
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
It should haunt Republicans. It was ghoulish policy to cut Medicaid and give tax breaks to rich people. The public was clearly opposed to such a cartoonishly bad law and yet Republicans enacted it anyway.
Trump-GOP Medicaid cuts are haunting Republicans.
They voted to take hundreds of billions from the program, and now they can’t talk about anything else without being asked about it.
politico.com/news/2026/10/19…
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
Vagueposting-to-English translation: he’s saying that Spanberger 2025 is the floor in Virginia.
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
Did Elizabeth Holmes coming after me and my sources with everything she had and threatening to sue us out of existence bias me? Yes.
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
My interpretation of “I trust you” is “I hope you didn’t betray me. I trusted you to rehabilitate my image.” apple.news/A4M18-XpJRaOgY6Ve…
Not only is constituent services good government and good for persuasion, it’s a gold mine for effective comms.
"After weighing these factors, Paulk has decided for the first time in his life to cast a ballot for a Democrat -- incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff. He doesn't agree with the Democrats on all issues -- notably, abortion -- but it's Ossoff's help in getting federal aid after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on Paulk's grape crop that won his vote"
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
CONSTITUENT SERVICES ARE SO IMPORTANT AND UNDERRATED AND IT'S SO IMPACTFUL IN ELECTIONS AND IT DRIVES ME CRAZY HOW MANY OFFICIAL SIDE OFFICES DON'T FOCUS ON IT
"After weighing these factors, Paulk has decided for the first time in his life to cast a ballot for a Democrat -- incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff. He doesn't agree with the Democrats on all issues -- notably, abortion -- but it's Ossoff's help in getting federal aid after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on Paulk's grape crop that won his vote"
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
I’ve been doing a bunch of thinking, and I’ve come around to the idea that we should raise some taxes
Brian Chiglinsky retweeted
First lady Melania Trump is calling today's executive order a "transformative moment" for women's health. But this is a topic Jill Biden spearheaded back in '24. The Trump administration subsequently made cuts to programs impacting women's health research:
cnn.com/2024/12/11/politics/…
states’ rights!
(to create a public option on the health insurance marketplace)
The public option got cut from the Affordable Care Act, but an obscure waiver that was included has since been used by 3 states to launch their own public options.
I wrote about these policy experiments and what they could mean for 2028 and beyond:
vox.com/policy/506744/health…
🤞 Will Mark Warner be able to pull this one off?? 🤞
VA early voting update:
- 2024 early voters at this point broke 55% D to 40% R, according to L2’s party model..
- 2026 EV so far is 60% D to 36%.
- Among 2024 early voters who are modeled D, about 44% have voted early for 2026. Among R, just 38% have.
gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-ea…
every administration runs into this moment when blaming the last guy sounds tone deaf and it’s tough to turn the ship of the US economy in 2 years
the problem is that the policy decisions they made have tangibly made people’s lives worse in the short term, too
WELKER: What do you say to voters who say they're struggling and want change?
BESSENT: Well, why don't we revisit the Biden-era policies
WELKER: President Trump has been in office now for 636 days, and inflation was at 3% when he took office, it's 3.7% now. At what point does the administration take responsibility?
I also loved the movie and recognize that having Nathan Fielder on screen really downplayed how dangerous these people are.
A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.