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Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

This fight is for everything.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Hot air and ill-informed banter

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The willow is too close to the house.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Let’s finish the job.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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Now let’s hope that they Silver Gap instead of Silver Spam themselves so that more people can get good deals.

There are two counties, one each in Wisconsin and Ohio, where there are no announced insurers for the Exchange. I am betting with no inside knowledge that someone will take these orphans on. They should be able to monopoly price with almost no pushback from the state insurance commissioner and choose their own risk pool by product offering choices.

This is what happens when state regulators give a damn. Good work Centene. Good work Gov. Sandoval.

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    Yarrow

    Thanks for the post, David. Always nice to see good news.

    This is what happens when state regulators give a damn.

    What happens when they don’t?

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    Ian G.

    Maybe if the party of free market stops causing deliberate chaos in the markets, we won’t have these potential crises in the future.

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    dollared

    Looking at the map, the county in Wisconsin is a very tough battle. It’s a tiny county – a former Indian reservation converted to a county in the reformist early 70s, filled with native Americans and a few retirees. I guess the good news is the number of uninsured from that gap probably measure in the hundreds – Medicaid, even at Wisconsin’s ridiculous ceiling, Medicare, and the casino employers will cover the vast majority in that county.

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    Mart

    Centene has been building skyscrapers (another one under construction in St. Louis/Clayton, MO), building claims processing centers (one built in Ferguson, MO in response to the Mike Brown riots), and hiring boatloads of folks since the ACA was passed. A huge job creator by taking advantage of evil government regulation. I know David says they are not the best insurance company in the world, but they have brought jobs to poor brown folks (and a lot of rich white one’s too).

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    Ohio Mom

    Please remember to tell us when someone steps in to cover those two counties in Ohio and Wisconsin. Well, TBH, I’m only interested in Ohio.

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    Shalimar

    @Ohio Mom: I didn’t really have any interest in the Wisconsin county before reading what dollared wrote. It was just a data point, now it sounds like an interesting place. It’s fascinating what obscure info you can learn here.

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