Andrew Anderson

As Medicare open enrollment begins, consumers should be aware that the star ratings for plans don’t measure what they might think they do, writes Andrew Anderson.

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Andrew is a lifelong lover of stories. Whether it's reading, watching or listening, Andrew has studied the art of good storytelling in all it's forms since childhood.

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Constrained optimization empirically derived social risk weights that gave equal influence to subgroup performance by dual eligibility and disability in overall contract scores.

Research Posted on rand.org Aug 26, 2026 Published in: The American Journal of Managed Care, Volume 32, Issue 8, pages 456-462 (August 2026). DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2026.90001

The cattle markets have been an eventful topic over the past month or so. The list of market-moving news includes slaughter and processing plant closures, the border reopening to Mexican cattle, a tight Cattle on Feed report, and an announced tariff waiver for ground beef imports. Not surprisingly, cattle prices have been volatile. Each of these events has received much commentary, most of which has lacked grounding in estimates of fundamental price impacts. The ground beef tariff exemption has been particularly controversial. Here I hope to add some substance to the public conversation by giving my own estimates of potential price impacts of the announced tariff waiver.

Three plant closures since November 2025 have caused a sudden reduction in U.S. beef slaughter capacity.