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A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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Oklahoma Medicaid expansion is on the ballot

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Oklahoma activists are going the same route as Utah, Idaho and Nebraska activists successfully used in the 2018 election cycle: They are trying to get enough signatures to get Medicaid expansion on the ballot.

 

 

If you live in Oklahoma, this question needs slightly more than 177,000 valid signatures to appear on the 2020 ballot.

Odds are that even if it passes, there will be follow-on shenanigans as we have seen in Utah, Nebraska and Idaho to either delay or water down the expansions. In my opinion, a bad expansion is better than a perfect non-expansion. I assess the counterfactual as no expansion instead of a full expansion so people with different reasonable counterfactuals will vehemently disagree with me.

The ballot box is not the only way that Medicaid expansion of some sort may come to Oklahoma. There is a bananpants county level expansion proposal floating out there.

Here the scheme would be two or more bordering counties could expand Medicaid. The state share of the expansion (10% of costs) would be funded by local taxes. This would be wonderful for health and public finance economists and a complete cluster for everyone else.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    I assess the counterfactual as no expansion instead of a full expansion so people with different reasonable counterfactuals will vehemently disagree with me.

    This is OK. There is no other counterfactual.

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    karen marie

    Has anyone explained to these morons how insurance works?

    I am also interested in whether these fuckwits think their state-provided health insurance will be paid for their lifetime, because they’re sure acting like it.

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    Victor Matheson

    Personally, I love the job security that county-level initiatives like this provide to empirical microeconomists like myself.

    If they couldn’t only throw in a taxpayer financed MLS stadium while they are at it, that would be great!

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