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This is way back when when i was a graduate student at the university of california berkeley where secretary napolitano runs these days, we learned about wedge issues. Wedge issues were those things that really divided the electorate, got everyone excited, everyone had an opinion about. Well, immigration has become a wedge issue. Wedge issues kind of come and go, and depending upon the year, and clearly since 2015 when President Trump started to run for office, immigration has been at the forefront in terms of one of the wedge issues. It divides not just democrats and republicans, it divides r...

So to give you a sense of why that really diminishes the incentives, if you think about an aco increasing spending during a Contract Period, medicare shared savings program, aco for example that isnt facing any Downside Risk, they are penalized for doing that. And it increases their benchmark for the following Contract Period and then they can receive a shared savings bonus for doing nothing. Under the pioneer program, they are penalized for doing more, but again theres that offsetting effect by the benchmark going up and the subsequent Contract Period, so for pioneer acos the incentives are m...

Microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw...