# star rating (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover star rating. Page: Feed: --- ## [The MA Reset One Year On: Three Shifts the Stabilization Story Misses](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/the-ma-reset-one-year-on-three-shifts) _2026-08-18 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ What the SNP composition rotation, the Star Ratings program breakdown, and the January 2027 supplemental benefit deadline change about how plans buy, vendors sell, and investors position for 2027. ## [What the Q2 Health Plan Earnings Calls Locked In for CY 2027](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/what-the-q2-health-plan-earnings) _2026-08-11 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ Six of the largest publicly traded health plans raised guidance in Q2. The commitments they made underneath the raise are why vendor deals are stuck right now. ## [CMS Just Set the Template for the Next High-Cost Specialty Category. GLP-1 Is the First Test Case.](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/cms-just-set-the-template-for-the) _2026-08-04 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ A new CMS demonstration is reshaping how your buyer thinks about 2027 coverage decisions, across every line of business. ## [One Year Into OBBBA, the Medicaid Market Is Repriced. Here's What Changed.](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/one-year-into-obbba-the-medicaid) _2026-07-28 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ One federal law, three markets absorbing it three different ways. What each is producing for members, providers, plans, and vendors. ## [What the Failed Elevance-Louisiana Blue Deal Still Explains About Blues Consolidation in 2026](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/what-the-failed-elevance-louisiana) _2026-07-21 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ A $2.5 billion sale collapsed on Mardi Gras night two years ago and ended a 28-year for-profit playbook. The nonprofit affiliation wave that replaced it is the story of Blues consolidation now. ## [What the ACCESS Model Signals About Where CMS Wants Outcome-Based Chronic Care to Go](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/what-the-access-model-signals-about) _2026-07-14 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ Fourteen major health plans just signed a pledge to align by January 2028. Here's what changes about how health plans evaluate outcome-based pitches through the deadline. ## [Early 2026 Hit Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, ACA, and Employer Coverage. Health Plans Are Absorbing It All at Once.](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/early-2026-hit-medicare-advantage) _2026-06-30 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ Each line took major pressure. The second half turns on how the four collide inside health plans operating across all of them. ## [Three Things MedPAC Just Told Congress That Will Change What Health Plans Buy](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/three-things-medpac-just-told-congress) _2026-06-23 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ MedPAC put $45 billion in MA overpayments in front of Congress this week. Plans are about to evaluate vendors differently. ## [The 2027 Star Ratings Tripled the Weight of Member Experience. Here's What That Changes About Selling to Health Plans.](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/the-2027-star-ratings-tripled-the) _2026-06-16 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ Why every health tech vendor that touches a member is now in the Stars math. ## [Clover v. HHS Is Not Just Another Star Ratings Lawsuit. Here's Why It Matters Even If You Don't Live in Stars.](https://upwardgrowth.substack.com/p/clover-v-hhs-is-not-just-another) _2026-06-09 · Ryan Peterson · Upward Growth Substack_ One plan's 2026 Star Rating got set aside. The reasoning asks if large parts of the program were ever legal. What that means for people who sell to, invest in, or advise plans. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bxBP6GsS23Qm) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Basic role management](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2026/04/01/basic-role-management/) _2026-04-01 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ Believe it or not, I don’t only work on or write about SQLite, and today I want to share a simple pattern for role management in Rails inspired by the rolify gem . I have been using this setup in the Rails app I am currently working on, and it has been a lovely experience. I’ve also had to evolve the pattern a bit recently, so I thought now was a great time to share the current state of things.… ## [Writing Tailwind-compatible Semantic CSS](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2026/01/02/writing-tailwind-compatible-semantic-css/) _2026-01-02 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ Building HTML UI forced me to figure out how to write reusable CSS classes that play nice with Tailwind. Along the way, I looked at how other libraries tackle this. Spoiler: most of them get it wrong. Let me show you two approaches I found, then I’ll show you what I landed on. Here’s how Basecoat defines a badge: @layer components { .badge, .badge-primary, .badge-secondary, .badge-destructive,… ## [2025 in review](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2025/12/31/year-in-review/) _2025-12-31 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ On September 23rd, 2025, in a Berlin hospital room, I became a dad. Emma Elanor Margheim entered the world and promptly rearranged every priority I thought I had. She’s currently asleep, so let me tell you about the rest of the year. Becoming a Family The year began with a milestone: on January 13th, Geniya became a German citizen. After oodles of paperwork and appointments and waiting, she walked… ## [Dialog Animation Gotchas](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2025/12/19/dialog-animation-gotchas/) _2025-12-19 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ I spent way too long getting the animations right for my dialog post . Chrome’s documentation on entry/exit animations made it look simple—define your open state, your starting state, your closed state. Three blocks of CSS. Done. The entry animation worked immediately. The exit was a disaster. The dialog snapped to full width mid-animation, jumped around, then vanished. The backdrop lingered after… ## [Stylish <dialog>s](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2025/12/18/stylish-dialogs/) _2025-12-18 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ Campsite has some of my favorite UI styling on the web. Naturally, I cracked open their source hoping to learn something. What I found: React components rendering \ s inside \ s, with piles of JavaScript doing what \ does for free. So I borrowed their visual design and rebuilt it with semantic HTML and CSS using affordance classes . I want to walk you through all of the choices I’ve… ## [Confirmation dialogs with zero JavaScript](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2025/12/16/turbo-confirm-dialogs-without-javascript/) _2025-12-16 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ Turbo’s data-turbo-confirm attribute is convenient for quick confirmation dialogs, but the native confirm() prompt it triggers looks dated and out of place. If you want a styled confirmation dialog that matches your app’s design, the traditional approach recommends a lot of JavaScript—a Stimulus controller to open and close the dialog, event listeners for keyboard handling, and coordination… ## [Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2025/12/01/ui-affordances/) _2025-12-01 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ I was building a form with a file input. Nothing fancy—just a place for users to upload a document. I wanted the trigger to look like the other buttons on the page: the same subtle shadows, the same hover effects, the same spacing. I was using Catalyst , the component kit from Tailwind Labs, so I had a \ component with all those styles baked in. But I couldn’t use it. A file input needs a… ## [CSS-only Star Rating Component with Half Steps](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2025/06/19/css-only-star-rating-component-with-half-steps/) _2025-06-19 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ After some experimentation, research, and AI being stupid, I finally have a simple, clean implementation of a star rating component that uses only radio inputs and labels and allows for half steps. 50 lines of beautiful CSS. Let’s break it down piece by piece. Before I dove into the code, I did some research on how others had tackled this problem with pure CSS. I found two implementations that I… ## [The "best" git log command](https://blog.petefowler.dev/the-best-git-log-command) _2025-05-05 · Pete Fowler · blog.petefowler.dev_ git log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue) %Creset' --abbrev-commit It gives you a graph, commit hash (red), decorations like branch names (yellow), commit subject / message (white), relativ... ## [Always use flex-wrap: wrap on flex containers](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/12/12/responsive-design-tip-flex-wrap/) _2024-12-12 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ I spent a bit of time this morning make some improvements to sqlite.directory , and I found myself needing to make a number of fixes around the mobile responsiveness of the UI. So, I thought I would take a moment to catalog a few common patterns and tips I have found useful when working with responsive design. This first tip was one that I found myself using quite a bit today. I use flex… ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9xex0P5BtkQj) _2024-12-11 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [sqlite.directory updates](https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/12/11/sqlite-directory-updates/) _2024-12-11 · Stephen Margheim · Fractaled Mind_ After the initial launch of sqlite.directory , I have been working on a few updates to the site. Here are some of the updates: Show count of apps ( 59ba725 ) Show favicon of app ( d89dfbe ) Randomize the order of app entries ( d703bf9 ) Validate that even the optional Repository URL is a valid URL ( 15ad911 Make the application more responsive ( 07a5a3d , ea01025 , e370f9d , daed3ab , 5568fdd ,…