When you are lying in bed about to go to sleep and are asked “Are you happy to be here” the correct answer is not “I miss Lily.”
Get Your ChaffetzPhone® Now
One of the classic bullshit Obama-branding exercises was calling the cell phones that had been available to low income households for years “Obamaphones”. Certainly this was part of what human cock sleeve Jason Chaffetz was referencing with his comments about someone (poor? blah? brown? – you pick) getting healthcare rather than a new iPhone. Almost …
Open Thread: See, You’re Getting Smarter Already!
.@SavannahGuthrie: “Can we just pause you right there? … access to health care is not the same as health care” pic.twitter.com/H7z1mpZ6Y3 — Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 7, 2017 Good for Ms. Guthrie, pushing back on this vital distinction. Also note that Budget Chief Mulvaney slips up a bit, citing ‘a dramatic increase — improvement — …
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How Molina is modeling a death spiral
Molina Insurance, a fairly successful Exchange carrier that has usually been profitable on and off Exchange, issued a statement yesterday afternoon concerning the House Repeal bill. The statement is ugly and it illustrates a very important point of the Republican bill. It will create an on-Exchange death spiral in many counties. Just out: As a …
Trumpcare / Republicare and the Olds
Way back in 2005, when most of us were barely born, Republicans re-learned one of the basic rules of US American politics: don’t fuck with the olds. For those of you who haven’t taken a “History of the 2000’s” class recently, here’s a refresher about Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security: Having invested so much …
AHCA impact in North Carolina
North Carolina is a high cost state for health insurance. Under the Affordable Care Act, people who receive subsidies on Healthcare.gov are shielded from price increases because the subsidy is tied to the cost of the second least expensive Silver plan on Exchange and the individual pays a fixed amount dependent on their income. The …
A Day Without Women?
pic.twitter.com/enDNE3Bezj — Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) March 8, 2017 If I were a True Progressive(tm), I probably wouldn’t be writing this (although, in my defense, for me it’s the end of Tuesday rather than the beginning of Wednesday). Yes, I enjoy putting these posts together — since it’s unpaid labor, Cole could hardly fire me for …