Insane! The @washingtonpost editorial board attacks @revolvingdoorDC research file on Jeffrey Zients for being fair enough to include the positive purpose of Zients in government (seeking efficiency) & ignoring and ignoring... https://t.co/FSktDrjT6p (1/x)

how we found out about Zients' purchase of a surprise medical billing operation. (btw, "long term holdings" wannabe Berkshire Hathaway funds like Cranemere engage in EXTENSIVE due diligence, they knew what they were doing). https://t.co/9bXcWYhg0s (2/x)
How do you write about @revolvingdoorDC criticism of Zients without taking into account Zeints' leading role in NorthStar Anesthesia? (3/x)
Does @DaHalperin maybe have some thoughts about Zients, the predatory for profit Kaplan college empire, and the Washington Post???? https://t.co/u7UIKAZ2bF (4/x)
What did NorthStar -- that Zients buddies at the Post Editorial Board think is unimportant -- do? During Cranemere's due diligence AND post-purchase, they engaged in surprise medical billing. (5/x)
See also (6/x)
Democratic FTC Commissioners have noted the problems with the business model of Zients and NorthStar -- they're actively pursuing violations of the very antitrust laws Americans are relying on the Biden administation toe enforce!!!! (7/x)
So yeah, @revolvingdoorDC is worried about government by people who do due diligence and buy into a business that does surprise medical billing (DEEPLY unpopular, even Republicans pretend to oppose)....

and seek to violate antitrust laws! Wow, we're fringe crazies, huh? (8/x)
For more context on the substance, read @EileenAppelbaum & Rosemary Batt here: https://t.co/0IaWWS9tRO (9/x)
Here is Democratic FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra: https://t.co/S56PhsqE6v (10/x)
There's a bipartisan Senate bill on the topic (not endorsing, just noting the odd bedfellows): https://t.co/Dex1381Y1V (11/x)
Again--as we exposed in the New York Times, this is what Jeffrey Zients' business DID. Something no defends. It's a highly germane political issue. his goal was to undermine antitrust laws. Shouldn't that concern us about he would approach the health care industry in government?
Again, as someone who benefits from being a colleague of @EileenAppelbaum: The entire "medical practice group" system of provision is gross. It's a symptom of creeping financialization. It should not be. It exists to extract rents. https://t.co/0IaWWS9tRO (13/x)
Zients CHOSE to outbid other bidders in this space beloved by private equity, which kinda has to mean he expected to surprise medical bill at least as well as the standard in this HORRIFYING field. https://t.co/0IaWWS9tRO (14/x)
Zients has been worth 9 figures for at least a decade.

9 figures! Cranemere didn't buy NorthStar Anesthesia so Zients could help his struggling family lift itself from poverty. He did it because he can.

And government should exist to stop such predation. (15/x)

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Funny, before the election I recall lefties muttering the caravan must have been a Trump setup because it made the open borders crowd look so bad. Why would the pro-migrant crowd engineer a crisis that played into Trump's hands? THIS is why. THESE are the "optics" they wanted.


This media manipulation effort was inspired by the success of the "kids in cages" freakout, a 100% Stalinist propaganda drive that required people to forget about Obama putting migrant children in cells. It worked, so now they want pics of Trump "gassing children on the border."

There's a heavy air of Pallywood around the whole thing as well. If the Palestinians can stage huge theatrical performances of victimhood with the willing cooperation of Western media, why shouldn't the migrant caravan organizers expect the same?

It's business as usual for Anarchy, Inc. - the worldwide shredding of national sovereignty to increase the power of transnational organizations and left-wing ideology. Many in the media are true believers. Others just cannot resist the narrative of "change" and "social justice."

The product sold by Anarchy, Inc. is victimhood. It always boils down to the same formula: once the existing order can be painted as oppressors and children as their victims, chaos wins and order loses. Look at the lefties shrieking in unison about "Trump gassing children" today.

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"I lied about my basic beliefs in order to keep a prestigious job. Now that it will be zero-cost to me, I have a few things to say."


We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.

Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)

It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.

Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".