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OH won't legalize mj, and voted down market monopolies (but 44% voted FOR!)
http://www.dispatch.com/content/sect...ons/index.html
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OH won't legalize mj, and voted down market monopolies (but 44% voted FOR!)
http://www.dispatch.com/content/sect...ons/index.html
KY just elected a governor that ran on killing the successful KyNect and health insurance for 500K KYians
And Houston voted down the Bathroom Ordinance. So would I (if council members were crazy enough to pass it in Miami). I don't want my daughter in any bathroom with any "man" who decides to identify as a woman.
SFO voted down restrictions on AirBnB
Great - Broward County was forced to let Uber back in due to protests from residents. Too much regulation on a win-win situation (well, except for the taxis).
As a man, nothing turns me on more than a girl taking a good dump.
Conway defended KYnect; Bevin called it a disaster. While his prescription for changing it shifted, he ended the race with a promise to undo Kentucky's successful experiment.
"I plan to use the open enrollment period in 2016 to transition people from the state-level exchange to the federal exchange," Bevin told the Cincinnati Enquirer last week. "Once all are transitioned, I would shut down the exchange." When it came to Medicaid, Bevin pledged to "repeal the expansion as it currently exists, and seek a Section 1115 waiver from the Center for Medicaid Services."
Bevin pulled some of his best numbers in Kentucky's impoverished eastern counties, where enrollment had been highest. As the polls closed, the situation reminded author Thomas Frank of his thesis in "What's the Matter With Kansas?" of voters striking out against their interests.
"It's a classic example, up there with fighting over the theory of evolution,"
"I’m gonna fight for KYnect because I believe it would be inhumane to take health insurance away from hundreds of thousands of people," Stumbo said. "The problem is that we never statutorily approved it. It’s gonna be a battle in this next session to see what happens with that program. Everybody: Put on your boots and your big-boy pants."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...are-act-fight/
voting themselves out of Medicaid.
Repugs crapifying everything they touch, as always.
IMO, Obamacare will soon be unaffordable for most. $1610 to cover my family of 5. Yesterday, my brother complained that it'll be $700/month to renew his - now looking for another policy - most of which look like crap services for the money. My daughter got offered two internships this year - both 28 hours (not 40) - companies not wanting to deal with Obamacare. Once those 3 year safeguards expire, premiums will soar even more - hopefully just in time for the 2016 elections (I'm sure Obama will find some way to delay making the premiums public). Repeal and replace Obamacare.
Maybe we should try more of the recent bright idea of some university - have males and females in the same dorm bathrooms - result: females being videoed while they showered. That put a quick end to that experiment. Men will be men, and there's a good reason why females shouldn't have to share bathroom/locker room facilities with males.
I'm not familiar with this experiment. Anyway, this is not an issue I'm at all emotionally invested in, especially because I expect unisex bathrooms to be the norm in 10-20 years. Videoing people while they shower will always be illegal.
for the millionth time, ACA doesn't set insurance prices nor health care costs, BigInsurance does.
USA continues, as has been the case decades before ACA, to be ED HARD by the entire health care system, NOT by ACA.
btw, Repugs have aggressively defunded the state co-ops, and now say "the co-ops are a failure".
Rand Paul No Longer Most Embarrassing Thing About Kentucky
FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY — In an improbable development that few saw coming, on Tuesday night Senator Rand Paul lost his le as the most embarrassing thing about Kentucky.
Paul’s reign as the state’s most embarrassing thing began in 2010, when he took the le from fellow Senator Mitch McConnell.
Prior to Paul’s reign, McConnell had been the undisputed most embarrassing thing about Kentucky for a staggering twenty-five years.
A threat to Paul’s five-year le came earlier this fall, when he fended off a strong challenge by the county clerk Kim Davis.
Reached by reporters on Tuesday night, Paul was philosophical about passing the torch to a new source of embarrassment. “I had a good run,” he said
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/rand-paul-no-longer-most-embarrassing-thing-about-kentucky?mbid=nl_110215%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20 (1)&CNDID=&spMailingID=8220033&spUserID=MjczNzc0Nj k0NDAS1&spJobID=800363186&spReportId=ODAwMzYzMTg2S 0
lol men will be men. nope can't expect them to control their urges. that'd be too much to ask.
Interestingly, "Men will be men" doesn't usually work in the gun control debate.
Are you claiming that ACA does not MANDATE 10 essential benefits? That any man, child and post-menopausal woman (not on medicare) can buy policies that don't include maternity benefits and birth control pills? That these 10 essential benefits on EVERY policy DON"T DRIVE the cost of each policy up? That it is ridiculous to pay for benefits that can NEVER POSSIBLY be used?
Are you denying that Obamacare has contributed to the consolidation of drug companies, hospital/health companies, private doctors having to join bigger practices/hospitals - creating less compe ion and higher prices? That these requirements and electronic records are so expensive that some doctors are either retiring/consolidating or having to spend a lot of time typing up stuff instead of with the patient. My husband's former employer, Actavis, has been taking over smaller drug companies. Now it is in talks about being taken over by Pfizer.
As I said, we shall see. There's hardly any cost-cutting/saving in Obamacare. IMO, it will eventually collapse on its own. The premiums will continue to get higher, the young and healthy will drop coverage and soon only the old and sick will be willing to pay which will further drive up the premiums.
For those who are suffering financially under this atrocious law, if you are Christian, check out health sharing ministries. Much cheaper, sharing over $300-$500 bill, can see any doctor/hospital, but pay for preventative/screenings.
"Are you claiming that ACA does not MANDATE 10 essential benefits"
no.
"Are you denying that Obamacare has contributed to the consolidation of drug companies"
monopolies, cartels, oligarchies are fundamental to no-compete "free markets"
ACA had naive "aspirations" about "bending the cost curve down", but obviously, BigHeatlhCare ing Americans out of their money has continued, and will continue unstoppably, with or without ACA.
ACA was NEVER intended to work.
ACA was designed to be so systematically ed up that the only way to politically unwind it would be to go to single payer.
Defeat of Marijuana Legalization in Ohio Says A Lot About the Kind of Economy People Are Sick and Tired Of
But the strongest and most consistent message is the strong populist resistance to legally establishing a business structure that leaves out every day people.
had Issue 3 passed, it would have established a system of elite and most likely absentee ownership, as opposed to community-based family businesses. Voters recognized the need for local, broad-based ownership as the foundation of a thriving, resilient economy.
Issue 3 was created by a decision-making process led by private interests, excluding local residents. Voters sent a message that they want more voices at the table.
While much was said about the jobs a new legalized marijuana industry would create, there was no guarantee that those jobs would offer decent wages or dependable employment. There was a clear preference for a business model that offers inclusive, living wage jobs that help families from all walks of life enjoy economic security.
Finally, under Issue 3 the business of marijuana would have been the business as usual of wealth inequality. Resentment on this point was pervasive, particularly because there is such a culture of entrepreneurialism and private growth, created by marijuana’s longtime illegal status.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/20...e-are-sick-and
just another case of the 1%/oligarchs crapifying America for the 99%
Yep. It was designed to entrench able-bodied, low-income, childless adults on Medicaid - hoping that it would be political suicide to go back and lead to single payor and to do away with tax advantaged employer-sponsored healthcare - eventually make employer-sponsored healthcare taxable and be a boon for more taxes collected by government. Just more government dependency and more Democrat votes.
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Did GOP Insiders Steal the Kentucky Governor's Race for Tea Partier Matt Bevin?
all of the pre-election polls suggest Candidate X is set to win, but Candidate Y ends up winning by a huge margin instead and nobody even bothers to verify that the computer tabulated results accurately reflect the intent of the voters.
That's exactly what happened in Kentucky on Tuesday, where Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway was leading by a fair margin (about 3 to 5 points) in almost every pre-election poll in his race for Governor, but then ended up being announced as the loser to 'Tea Party' Republican candidate Matt Bevin by a landslide (almost 9 points) --- according to the state's 100% unverified computer tabulation systems.
As detailed on today's program with my guest Karoli Kuns of Crooks And Liars, there are a number of reasons to question the reported results.
Among them, as Kuns points out today at C&L, the Democrats running in the down ballot races --- for Secretary of State, Attorney General (Conway's current job) and even state Auditor --- each reportedly received tens of thousands more votes than Conway did at the top of the ticket!
Bev Harris, of BlackBoxVoting.org, who I spoke with earlier today, described the higher vote totals in the down ballot races as a "significant anomaly". She tells me that, at least until more records are requested and examined, the KY-Gov's race "has to be looked at as a questionable outcome, particularly because of the discrepancies in the down ballot races. More votes in those races and not at the top...that just doesn't happen."
http://www.alternet.org/election-201...ter1045298&t=6
"One contractor, whose website favored Republicans and sold memorabilia celebrating the Republican's presidential win in Florida in 2000, programmed the machinery in dozens of rural counties where George W. Bush received close to 100 percent of the vote, as opposed to the expected two-thirds to three-quarters range. As a result, tens of thousands of votes appeared to be electronically shifted from John Kerry to George W. Bush without any audit trail, because the voting machines involved did not rely on paper ballots.
According to Verified Voting's state-by-state map of voting machinery, many Kentucky counties have similar all-electronic machinery"
oh well. what's done is done. you and Duke can be outraged together.
Repug ACTUAL counting fraud is much more effective in stealing elections than ALLEGED (unfindable) Dem voting fraud.
idk...I'd have to see the statistics
the crimes were invisible because "voting machines involved did not rely on paper ballots"
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