What is going on in Idaho’s individual health insurance market? Politico reports: Idaho is going rogue on Obamacare. The Republican-led state has a maverick plan to flout the federal health care law, letting insurers sell plans that don’t meet Obamacare coverage rules and patient protections…. The state’s largest insurer, Blue Cross of Idaho, announced Wednesday …
McCabe Under Fire From Republican Hacks for Following FBI Protocol
My god, the Republicans are awful: The Justice Department’s inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch of Hillary Clinton-related emails found in the latter stages of the 2016 …
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Party at DiFi Reelection Headquarters this Morning
Fox & Friends must be putting their unique spin on the release of the Fusion GPS testimony, which demonstrates conclusively for lucid readers (i.e., non-Fox & Friends viewers) that the GOP is more interested in propping up Trump than getting to the bottom of Russian interference in our elections: The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, …
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The ACA in 2018 and Obama’s 2007 vision
This is worth at least an quasi-ironic chuckle. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2018 is closer to some elements of the early 2007 campaign version of Obama’s health care vision than the ACA implementation from 2010-2017 was. Now let’s go look at the tape, from Polifact 2007: Obama shot back: “Well, let’s …
Russiagate Open Thread: Cambridge Analytica Apocrylyptica
Data guru’s Assange outreach is Trump camp’s closest tie to WikiLeaks yet (via @allegrakirkland) https://t.co/K1XuF03cgI pic.twitter.com/FHZu8bdxRS — Talking Points Memo (@TPM) October 25, 2017 Just to be clear: Trump's digital consultants contacted Assange and offered to help release stolen Hillary emails https://t.co/xiDw3Bc3ic — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 25, 2017 NEW: @JulianAssange confirms @woodruffbets' Team Trump …
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Good Thoughts to All Floridians
#Tampa bay now an effective dog park as we wait for #irma. With @CityofTampa parks closed ahead of storm, this is the best we've got. pic.twitter.com/Op3FADmL3V — Tim Scheu (@scheuster) September 10, 2017 For the record, Mister & Stella, the pups, are back in the hotel, showered, and safe after their jaunt in #Tampa bay. …
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Political Correctness Be Damned: It’s Truth-Bomb Time
We have a problem, fellow citizens. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. Taking the “politically correct” stance that it’s an issue that is equally distributed across demographic groups may make us feel better, but it’s a lie. Only facing the situation honestly will allow us to address it. I’m not going to sugarcoat it: …
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