StrangeSox

He'll be fine once he hits 65 and goes on Medicare! ...if Medicare survives the next four years. Good news, though! In 2020, we actually see premiums start to decrease a bit because they've culled the risk pools by throwing 26 million people off of insurance and have allowed insurance companies to charge old people obscene amounts and offer garbage plans that technically count as 'insurance'! And it reduces the deficit (by cutting health care for millions on Medicaid)! QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 04:20 PM) You know. Rich people getting more rich Oh it definitely includes some healthy tax cuts for the wealthy. But they could have done that via tax reform without making a bill that looks like its designed to kill old and poor people. holy moley

CBO report is out. Some choice conclusions: Roughly double the uninsured rate in less than a decade. 52 million uninsured by 2026. Why are they pushing so hard for this bill??

David Duke and the Stormfront brigade are praising King after he doubled down in an interview this morning.

Masseur Trump appointee who wanted to ‘exterminate’ Muslim ‘maggots’ dropped from Energy Department

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 12, 2017 -> 12:16 PM) It was reported in January that this was going to happen. This has now happened at least in the last five administrations. Not sure why it's a story to be in a tizzy about. It's normal to ask for the resignations. It's abnormal to make them effective immediately rather than in 30 days or so so that the positions can be filled or in the process of being filled. These are all Senate-confirmed positions, so the new guys can't just start tomorrow.

Representative Steve King, Iowa is letting the White nationalist Nazi flag fly. https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/8409...src=twsrc%5Etfw "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

Ha set myself up for that one

Great post mark, thanks for all of the advice.

Oh and Michael Flynn literally registered retroactively as a foreign agent and claims that he informed the Trump team of this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fly...m=.4b96f047d3ec

Didn't he underperform with college educated whites but drove turnout among non college whites bigly? Clinton miscalculated by trying to peel off "moderate" "reasonable" suburban and urban Republicans for sure though.

It's kinda funny that if you search for Clinton firing US attorneys, a majority of the links are to conservative media using the same excuse back when Bush was firing some AG's in his second term in an unusual manner.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Mar 10, 2017 -> 08:41 PM) Clinton fired ALL 93 US attorney's in 1993 right after taking office hardly anything new. Yeah that's the conservative excuse going around, but it was handled particularly poorly in this case. Like I said, replacing attorneys isn't uncommon, but there are still good and bad ways to handle things and this was not handled well.

Sessions asked for the resignation of 46 US attorneys with no notice and for the resignation to be effective immediately. Replacing AG's is common, but not doing it like this. These are all Senate confirmed positions so it'll be a long time before every replacement is nominated and confirmed. https://t.co/YQGYFGVPCI

that episode is 15 years old I am old

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 10, 2017 -> 03:42 PM) Huh?

Job report numbers were phony, now they're good because they're good for Trump! https://twitter.com/CNN/status/840277753777...src=twsrc%5Etfw At least they're open about their lying/delusions, but the base just suppresses the cognitive dissonance and soldiers on.

NFL abuse of painkillers and other drugs described in court filings https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redsk...m=.a0b913196e44

Maybe Pace thinks you can use leftover cap space to buy wins??

NYT has an analysis of the winners and losers: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03...-care-plan.html

Bill passed out of committee to the full floor on a part line vote. Sen. Tom Cotton, a conservative Republican, is calling this bill "worse than Obamacare"

A comparison of the 15 month process it took to pass the ACA compared to Republicans trying to rush through Trumpcare right now: Republicans’ rushed health bill is everything they said they hated about Obamacare

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 12:04 PM) My friends were discussing this a while back, but when did employer based healthcare become the rule? Is that something unions had bargained for? Why isn't it something that people just purchase on their own? Now you are limited to the plans and provider your company chooses. You can't really upgrade it if you wanted to. And if you work a small company, then you are limited to the few plans available on an individual basis. Most companies won't even off individual coverage. When did this all become a thing? It started becoming a thing during ww2 IIRC as a way around wage controls, and it got baked into our system good and hard during the 50's and 60's. The benefit that employer-provided plans have over the individual market is that they're potentially bringing a whole lot of people to the table at once, so they have a lot more bargaining power and get much better prices. If I were to try to go buy the same plan I'm currently under on the open market, it'd cost a heck of a lot more than what it costs me + my company to pay for it because I'm not bringing several thousand employees' worth of premiums to the table. Nobody in the world has a healthcare system structured like ours. Most are either a stronger, better version of what the ACA offers (private insurance, heavily subsidized and regulated), single-payer government coverage which is far and away the majority (aka Medicare for all/what Canada does), or a fully nationalized healthcare system (Britain's NHS).

A big dumb wall also does nothing to stop the ~40% of undocumented immigrants who entered the country legally but overstayed their visas.

"Noted" "policy wonk" Paul Ryan is giving a speech right now to try to get support for this bill. He said this: That is literally how insurance works. All insurance works with people who don't make claims subsidizing people who do make claims. That's the whole point.

Trump Weighs Cuts to Coast Guard, T.S.A. and FEMA to Bolster Border Plan