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QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 06:00 PM) http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/33930...healthcare-bill First, that is the definition of a death panel. Second, how is that not exactly what the GOP complained about with the ACA, a mandate? The difference is the money in the ACA was going back to the government, rather than directly into the pockets of the insurance industry. Or into the pockets of the very richest taxpayers and out of the pockets of the middle class/elderly.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 06:00 PM) http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/33930...healthcare-bill First, that is the definition of a death panel. Second, how is that not exactly what the GOP complained about with the ACA, a mandate? The difference is the money in the ACA was going back to the government, rather than directly into the pockets of the insurance industry. Or into the pockets of the very richest taxpayers and out of the pockets of the middle class/elderly. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/24/t...g-prices-239916 California billionaire activist Steyer takes on pharmaceutical industry

Tanaka, fwiw, finally pitched like an ace against Darvish the other night. This issue essentially comes down to this, who is THE best individual player a team would be willing to part with for Q right now? Quality vs. quantity.

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Arizona Already Tried What the GOP Wants to Do to Medicaid. It Was a Disaster. Several years ago, Arizona froze Medicaid enrollment, as AHCA now proposes. The results were disturbing. http://amp.slate.com/articles/health_and_s...ca.html?ref=yfp In 2011, following the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, then–Arizona Gov. Janet Brewer cut the state’s Medicaid funding and froze enrollment. Arizona blocked new enrollment in Medicaid and only allowed existing enrollees to continue receiving benefits if their income remained below the federal poverty line and they turned in their annual renewal paperwork on time. A family that received a raise that lifted their income even slightly above the poverty line lost Medicaid coverage permanently, even if their income dropped below the line again the following year. Arizona expanded Medicaid coverage in 2013 following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Commenting on Arizona’s decision to expand Medicaid, Brewer said “It saved lives, it insured more people, it brought money into the state, it kept rural hospitals from being closed down. And today there are tens of thousands of people that are very, very grateful.”

Tatis Jr., .260/768 ops (9 homers). Not exactly destroying the MW League, but definitely holding his own for that aggressive assignment for a young Latin American player. Anderson is going to have Jose Valentin error numbers when all is said and done this season...

Where was Konerko, did anyone mention why he wasn't there, yet Ozzie was...? I'm sure Buehrle's more excited about getting his famous between the legs, flipped ball back than a chip on a plaque which will surely be noticed and repaired. Why anyone would do something like that is beyond me, must have been hammered and doing it on a dare.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 01:52 PM) Robert with a double and a walk. On base 20 out of his first 45 plate appearances (.444 obp) - small sample but ill take that 11 walks, 8 k's

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 12:57 PM) Probably health care. I don't want the new law to pass and cause many of us to be homeless someday. And pretty much ruin the lives of those with pre-existing conditions. Also I agree with most that the bunt is bad and Robin was a bad manager. I'm really not a big fan of anything the big league club is doing right now and I am pretty horrified regarding social issues so I am at odds with most in most threads. Trump could have been a common ground. I'm not a big Trump supporter like most say I am, I've pointed out I think evidence shows he's a pretty rotten one-percenter, but that hasn't gained me brownie points with the board for some reason. Even my love of Bernie doesn't please the Democratic portion of the board, cause they loved Hillary. There were less than a handful of posters here who actively "loved/supported unequivocally" Hillary Clinton.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 08:30 AM) They'll pass it 51-50 this week. Heller has claimed one of the no votes. The rest are putting on a good show for people who are willing to believe them. Flake is pretty vulnerable in Arizona. Ted Cruz, to a lesser extent. Right now, 14 Dems sweating it out, maybe Heller and Flake the ones in some danger on the right. Hard to imagine Planned Parenthood gutting not causing Collins and Murkowski to have a serious quandary.

https://www.stubhub.com/chicago-white-sox-t...rt=quality+desc Most expensive Scout Seats are $275, upper corners are $6.

‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’ As surprising as Trump’s young presidency has been, it’s also the natural outgrowth of 30 years of Republican pandering to the lowest common denominator in American politics. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...an-trump-215259 Written by a lifelong Republican, and DC staffer dating back to the Jack Kemp era...

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 04:45 AM) What's to rebut? That clearly supports my position. So you agree it should be largely (centralized) government-run, tax revenue funded and subsidized? That's where the philosophical problems always begin, which is why I'm to the point where I would prefer to see all the states experiment with their own plans of attack and figure out within 3-4 years what is working so that the best elements can be incorporated into a national plan. And you agree with under 26 provision, no denying for pre-existing conditions, essential health benefits, ceilingson how much you can charge elderly or those with Pre-existing, community rating, mandated fines for non-participation? That last one really drives the GOP nuts, but the House plan directly gives those monies to insurance companies by heavily penalizing those who quit coverage and want to return when sick again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpo...alth-care-bill/ Five GOP Senators now firmly against... Paul, Lee, Heller, Johnson, Cruz Not counting Murkowski, Collins, etc. Portman, Capito, Gardner, Cassidy....those six will be very tough to convince as well.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 12:31 AM) Bank fraud?? I love Bernie. I wonder if I was mistaken in my fandom of him. Did you read the article or search for one, it's related to a loan his wife was aggressive in securing for her university...that later went bankrupt, and the allegation against Bernie is using his influence/power to help secure it. Basically, what Trump does everyday (still) in his business dealings.

Now up 16% through 29 home dates (I assumed 35,000 for Buehrle) 2017 632,235 total, 21,801 average 2016 546,600 total, 18,848 average 29th game last year on Jun 6, this year on June 24...we were in first place all last May until the final day of the month 22. AZ 23,918 23. MN 23,804 24. Pitt 23,631 25. Cincy 23,122 26. CLE 22,600 27. CHW 21,801 28. Miami 20,821 Chicago the oldest stadium of all those teams, closest is Jacobs/Progressive in CLE

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 23, 2017 -> 08:47 PM) When a business models needs to limit human rights there is a conflict that needs to be addressed. We already have laws that limit allowable interest on loans. Just one example. Try to rebut this quote: "It's too dangerous to trust our future to market forces, because these forces invariably do what's good for the market rather than what's best for America, humankind or the world. The hand of the market is blind as well as invisible, and left to its own devices (and with further deregulation looming), capitalism might fail to do anything at all about health care (happening now), the threat of global warming (happening now) or the dangerous potential of increasing artificial intelligence and reliance on complex quantum-computer generated algorithms to substitute for humanistic decisions (soon to occur)" Yuval Noah Harari Parenthetical statements are my contribution...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2017 -> 10:13 PM) When the ACA was passed, some guy named Tex wondered why there wasn't some balance that could be struck for this country - creating a system in the United States where we still kept private insurers, we kept what people say are the good things about the private sector, but we got rid of the innovative ways to "avoid paying to treat people" and the true, heartless evil that we'd encouraged. It wasn't my perfect bill, especially when the Supreme Court allowed Republican States to opt out of the Medicaid Expansion and threw 15 million people off of health insurance, but that bill was 95% of what Tex asked for. It was that. It was a way to keep health insurance in the private sector without killing people for being poor or sick. If you wanted to keep private insurance, you couldn't have done better at the time. With the experience of 2014-2017, there are 2 changes that needed to be made. The subsidy level for a silver and bronze plan needed to be something like 10-20% higher, and the tax penalty for not purchasing needed to be multiplied by a factor of 2. It was a kluge. It was a weird way of keeping things in the private sector that the government itself could possibly do better. But outside of the states that turned down Medicaid, it ended the idea of dying because you can't get health care. It ended the idea of people suffering because they couldn't see a doctor. It was a uniquely American way of solving this problem. Would it have worked better or worse long term than what France and Germany have done? I don't know. Which is a remarkable statement from a person who thinks the government could handle this better. But I do know that one party immediately decided that anyone who isn't worth enough money doesn't deserve to live if they get sick and anyone who has voted for them in the last decade at the Congressional Level has at worst said they don't care about that. And congratulations. 50% of the births in this country are paid for by medicaid that won't exist by 2020. So congratulations. You killed a lot of babies, but they were poor. Check out the Medicaid-involved births in Trump states...it's horrific not only from a human rights perspective, it's terrible (and illogical) politics for Trump that got pushed on him by the Paul Ryan's and Mick Mulvaney's of the GOP. http://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicato...22:%22asc%22%7D

Bernie and Jane Sanders, under FBI investigation for bank fraud, hire lawyers http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-and-jan...d-hire-lawyers/ Pretty sure we can relate this to the other thread and why bipartisanship is dying....depending on which side of fence, it kicked into full gear with Nixon and then Clintons.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 23, 2017 -> 09:12 PM) Darn. So disappointed. Get a win on Buehrle Day! Baiting Greg?

Wow...can't believe Davidson's ball stayed in the park. Didn't quite get it cleanly, off the end of the bat just enough.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 23, 2017 -> 08:47 PM) When a business models needs to limit human rights there is a conflict that needs to be addressed. We already have laws that limit allowable interest on loans. Just one example. This reminds me of the children's lawsuit against the Trump administration about not protecting the environment for future generations. Corporations and proprietary algorithms are more important to the Supreme Court than the future of the planet. Citizens United, anyone?

This is more of a typically expected rebuild game...

But won't the cost to society/families be even greater long-term if tens of millions lose insurance? Uninsured going to emergency rooms...higher premiums passed on to those who can afford insurance, greater polarization and inequality in society, not to mention illegal immigrants driving up costs as well. It's an economic theory called negative externalities/social costs. A cigarette company might be profitable, but the eventual costs borne by society (government and private) are 4-5x greater. Same with chemical factories that pollute the environment, or coal production of electricity. Now we can argue that "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (at least creating those conditions) is guaranteed to all citizens, and health insurance is part of that. It's not so obvious as the right to bear at since health care insurance simply didn't exist in 1789. But let's throw that out and make an economic argument that the costs of not covering 1/7th of the US population leads to 50-75% higher costs to society and economic productivity/sick days is greatly impacted in particular. What are the costs to society to raise children in foster care when parents die from opiod addiction....or die prematurely due to cancer or heart disease that could have been prevented? Wouldn't you do everything possible to be proactive rather than reactive?

Moncada really looking good again, except for the defense. Kopech going through dead arm period? Finally, something interesting will happen in the Nats game again. Raburn almost played Romero pitch into a double or triple, just hit 100, tie game, top of the ninth. Treinen hit 101. Even the Reds' starter hit 100.