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judging by how many posters in this thread keep forgetting the subsidies part of it, yes, he did a poor job of selling it. Plus negativity bias

I feel like I don't even remember what it's like to have Rose on the team. I wouldn't mind sitting Noah until Christmas to help with his foot come playoffs, though you can't really plan for anything with Plantar Fasciitis.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Sep 26, 2013 -> 06:53 AM) I made a trade. Danny Amendola and Anquan Boldin for Roddy White and Larry Fitzgerald I think I won considering one guy called collusion aha Oh man, I can't believe someone would take that deal. What was that, like their second and third round picks for people probably in 9-10 rounds for you?

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 09:11 PM) President Obama saw how important this law can be (and will be) to the future of the USA and thus bent over very far backwards to try to get it passed with bipartisan support. Unfortunately, he had no idea that the only attempts at cooperation by the right were going to be disingenuous (such as them having basically promoted the current law until Obama capitulated, at which point they no longer liked it). Likewise, he had no idea that this great degree of capitulation would still cause the moderates and other members of competitive districts to lose in the mid-terms. I have a feeling the Dem leadership would have approached things much differently with hindsight, by enacting either a single-payer system or at least implementing the public option. There is another, not often spoken about aspect to this law: voter registration. Per federal law, Obamacare exchanges and other providers must give citizens the opportunity to register to vote (ala DMVs). I believe this is a huge, unspoken aspect to the Republican opposition to this law. This makes voter registration much easier for a lot of folks that are currently struggling to get registered and thus not turning out. These people will also presumably like having healthcare and will vote to keep/enhance the institutions that provide them with healthcare. The current Republican establishment hates when people vote and they really hate it when people like a government service. Unlike voter ID and other voter-suppressive movements from the right, there is no good way to talk openly about the aforementioned issue. They can't complain that people can register to vote, because that is the process that helps to prevent the fraud they are so worried about. There have been a few cries about identity theft, but these haven't been picked up by mainstream voices because they don't make sense. I followed the health care bill closer than any legislation in my lifetime. The single payer option would not have had 30 votes, let alone 50, and while the public option may have had 50, they needed all 60 votes. This is the bill that could get passed. And all of the "why didn't they think of this stuff" that's out there now, well, it didn't have the support. This bill wasn't perfect, but the better options people throw out couldn't have gotten passed. Even as I make fun of them for the dumber parts of the bill to lower the cost, they probably needed those to get the senators from Nebraska and Arkansas on board. And 2010 saw major losses in the house, who actually did vote for a bill with the public option, which obviously was not included when reconciled.

I'm pretty sure I sported a Chris Widger sig for a while.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 05:53 PM) Yeah. It's very poorly made. Expected more from Sofia Coppola. Not really a fan of hers anyway, so not sure why I had high hopes. Hahaha, not sure why this made me laugh. That girl from Winnetka was insufferable. Shocking!

Republicans didn't care about that they weren't going to vote for anything, so Dems protected themselves from "too expensive" sniping by coming up with a bizarre round number to say it wouldn't be more expensive then so had a bunch of mechanisms to raise revenue that weren't really important in terms of fixing health care but important to go below the magic round number of CBO scoring.

Oh god bling ring was so bad I turned it off.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 05:02 PM) That is the whole goal of this plan. Right, but not explicitly.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 04:55 PM) No, not setting up new exchanges. Using the existing exchange for Federal employees and allowing any American to participate in that exchange. Also, instead of mandating coverage by employers (which is worthless since it creates tons of loopholes), just give tax incentives to businesses to provide coverage to the point where nearly every employer will want to provide coverage. Also, by being able to participate in the Federal employee exchange, the cost to businesses should be lower. I think the tax on employers was one of the weaker designed parts of the bill, but if anything the country should want to wind down the employer provided health insurance model instead of amp it up. If you were starting from scratch I don't think you could come up with a worse one beside saying insurance is outlawed.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 05:43 PM) I have White on 2 of my teams and he kinda scares me this year. He keeps trying to play on a bum ankle, I don't know why he just doesn't sit out a week or 2 to get it healthy. That said Ryan Mathews is garbage anyway so it doesn't hurt to take a flyer on White. With that all being said.... I got Steve Smith on a bye week so who'd you start, Roddy White or Cordarrelle Patterson? Also Fred Jackson or Willis McGahee at flex? Hoping we get some Spiller injury news to make this decision easier for me. I have bad WRs so I need to take some flyers. Dwayne Bowe, man, I drafted him just before someone wrote that great post about how Alex Smith's checkdowns would make him worthless. They were right f'ing on.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 05:48 PM) dude trade Julio Jones guy is complete garbage. jk, can't believe you'd consider that. I'd look at Cruz for Jones-Drew. MJD had a passable game against the Seahawks - easier schedule coming. I feel like Cruz could fetch more. I know you shouldn't look at value like this but MJD has had a garbage start whereas Cruz has not really. He should not be able to land a top 10 WR with MJD being a 20-25 back at this point. (He gets no yards, so you have to pray for TDs, good luck with that Jax)

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 04:48 PM) I don't remember if I've mentioned this idea here before or not. Federal civilian employees can choose from dozens of different plans from a variety of providers, with the employer (government) picking up 3/4 of the cost and the employee paying the other 1/4 via pre-tax payroll deduction. Because the workforce is so large (> 2 million), the prices are lower than what some random person could get buying directly from an insurance company and also lower than what small employers could get for group plans. Why could the government not just pass a law requiring insurance providers to offer the same prices to every American that they offer to Federal employees? Then, even if private employers aren't providing it to employees, at least the employees have affordable options. Then you could throw in some kind of incentive for employers to cover some/most/all of the cost. You mean like setting up exchanges?

Insurance companies use purchasing power leverage to force lower costs for procedures and medicine. Pushing more people into insurance would facilitate that. I do find it funny that during the creation of the law the idea of cost controls was DOA, yet as soon as it was removed all the sudden the biggest rightwing critique was "it does nothing to control costs!". Well it does throw the book at every marginal cost control idea to control costs, more price transparency, batched payments, etc. It also pushes a bunch of people into medicaid which has cost controls on payments.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 01:03 PM) So, the only place I have seen that Robin "quote" is the SSS Twitter account. That being the case, I am thinking it was not an actual quote. In fact, the tweet doesn't actually attribute to Robin at all, if you look more closely. Has anyone seen this written anywhere other than SSS? I think they were just joking. I'm glad I'm not only one who thinks that was a joke tweet. No way RV says that, and it reads pretty hilarious.

Trying to get Roddy White for Ryan Mathews in my other league. I feel like he might bite.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 08:04 PM) The Yahoo blurb about last night's game was that a lot of people DROPPED Decker after his awful game in week 1. You never overreact based on one game, especially the first game of the season. I had a guy tell me a week ago (on Monday night before Bernard had his break out game) he dropped Giovanni Bernard because he was Law Firm's backup. I was puzzled as hell. Looks like it's the other way around now. It's always amazing seeing the sleeper recommendations with %owned as their basis, and I'm always wondering what kind of leagues could have these players available.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 07:35 PM) And since you couldn't include a link I had to go find one to know what you were talking about. That was already linked.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 06:30 PM) Did you see Trindon Holliday last night though? Same s***. Yeah, Devin has kinda always done that crap, and it's only worked one time, if I remember right, against the Broncos in like 08 or 09.

Sorry that was in reference to the Zygi Wilf (Vikings Owner) article on his RICO charges, which puts the stadium in jeopardy.

God I hate nothing more than publicly financed stadiums when the worth of franchises continues to skyrocket.

I think the Raiders have played about as good as you could hope. Yeah, they looked bad against Denver but so did everyone. They've been pretty damn competitive in first two games.

Those power rankings seem pretty lazy. "Okay, well all 3-0 teams go first, then the 2-1 teams, then"... isn't the power supposed to indicate they are putting more thought than the easy indicators?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 03:40 PM) Devin Hester had one awesome game, and two games where he had no idea what he was doing. I'll say this in his defense (beside punt returns where he has been terrible), the problems we've seen with devin I've seen league wide in games. Kickers are getting really smart with placement on kickoffs now. With KRs back so deep to get where kicks are landing, I've seen a lot of these kicks that hit at about the 10, really far for them to run up. It puts the return men in either terrible catching position or it creates a weird bounce. We saw that with hester where the ball bounced straight up at the 5, he had to take it out and only got to the ten. The extra 10 yards has allowed kickers to worry less about distance and focus on placement and they are making life difficult as hell for return men.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 02:54 PM) It will be interesting to see them against another prolific offense. Their defense has been very good so far, but against some tomato cans. And they'll eventually get Von Miller, who may still be beasting from Steroids.