Even health care policy wonks need love. Valentine’s Day this year comes just one day before the end of Obamacare open enrollment, a combination that has led health care journalists and wonks to get frisky, in their own special way, on Twitter. Below are some of the best tweets using the hashtag #HealthPolicyValentines from those clever, perhaps desperate, souls looking for the tiniest slivers of romance in the arcane, bureaucratic world of modern health care.
Single on Valentine’s Day? There’s nothing wrong with an individual man date. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Eric Schultz (@ericschul) February 12, 2015
I love you so much I'd never repeal or replace you. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Martin Gaynor (@MartinSGaynor) February 13, 2015
I'd spend all my FSA dollars on you. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Beth Braverman (@bethbrav) February 13, 2015
The only thing higher than my love for you is my deductible. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Bob Herman (@MHbherman) February 12, 2015
It's not the size of the data that matters, it's how you use it. #bigdata #healthpolicyvalentines
— Adrianna McIntyre (@onceuponA) February 13, 2015
I love you like an Oklahoma moderate Republican loves Medicaid expansion: Privately, but I'm scared to tell everyone #healthpolicyvalentines
— Jaclyn Cosgrove (@jaclyncosgrove) February 12, 2015
I love you full time. In other words, 30 hours per week. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Families USA (@FamiliesUSA) February 12, 2015
I want to automatically renew my relationship with you. #healthpolicyvalentines #countdown #GetCovered #Feb15 #CoveredCA
— Anthony Wright (@aewright) February 10, 2015
My love for you is like the individual mandate penalty: growing every year. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) February 12, 2015
Won't you 302(b) mine? #healthpolicyvalentines
— Health Funding (@healthfunding) February 13, 2015
I may have a narrow network of Valentines, but you’re my preferred provider. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Caroline Pearson (@CPearsonAvalere) February 13, 2015
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