Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are things that a Qualifying Health Plan (QHP) must cover under the ACA. The area I want to focus on right now is the EHB’s for preventive care. These are the well visits, these are the contraception requirements, these are the screenings and these are the vaccinations. The Republican plans have …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Post-Truth!
Paul Ryan on Trump tweeting lies: "Who cares?" https://t.co/vgpFedgvto pic.twitter.com/jGKJM4vCTT — HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) December 5, 2016 One of the meager joys of the PEOTUS-Asterisk’s upcoming term will be watching the establishment GOP’s gentleman-amateur liars get steamrolled by an experienced professional. Because once the troglodyte Trump voters realize that their White Man’s America is not …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Sundown Voters for A Sundowning Party?
…that many Americans voted for Trump in an effort to create a "sundown" country. — Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) December 3, 2016 There’s more and more evidence coming to light that the Asterisk-Elect’s electoral college victory relied on the revanchist fantasies of some of America’s least loveable left-behinds. David Roediger, at Counterpunch: … Coming myself from …
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I am tired of being broke and paying for this house. I’ll add this to the list of shit that is pissing me off in 2016.
Open Thread: Pizzagate — You Can Fix Ignorant, But You Can’t Fix (Deliberately) Stupid
Pizzagate, possibly to become the textbook example of how inventing “fake news” can lead to “real, tragic consequences”. I’ve been ignoring it — I suspect a lot of us have — because it seems one of those wingnut-shit-dumps designed, like cholera, to spread its contagion further with every mention. But given that one of its …
Monday Evening Open Thread: Good News from NC
Hat tip to commentor Timothy C. Per the NYTimes: RALEIGH, N.C. — Ending an acrimonious stalemate that dragged on for nearly a month, Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, conceded in his bid for re-election here on Monday, clearing the way for the ascension of his challenger, the Democrat Roy Cooper, and giving the national Democratic …
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Pastoral Scene of the Gallant South
It’s 2016, but it might as well be 1816 in South Carolina if you are an unarmed black man and a white cop wants to kill you: A judge declared a mistrial Monday afternoon in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man at the hands of a South Carolina former patrolman, after the jury …