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    Trump Hits Obamacare Again, Nearly Wiping Out Funds For Outreach

    It will probably mean less help for the very people who need Affordable Care Act coverage the most.

    the agency that runs the health insurance exchanges is slashing funds for organizations that help people to shop for coverage,

    forcing the groups to make do with about one-fourth of the federal funding they got for this year’s open enrollment.


    The organizations will almost certainly respond by downsizing and scaling back services, so that they end up

    providing less help, reaching fewer people, or both.

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the cut late Tuesday.

    The cut will affect navigators,

    the nonprofit organizations that the federal government pays to help with enrollment in the
    states that use HealthCare.gov as their online marketplace for people trying to get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.


    Next year, navigators from across the country

    That’s down from $37 million for the 2018 plan year

    and from $63 million for 2017.

    The
    Trump administrationhas made similarly

    sharp reductions in funds earmarked for advertising and promoting health insurance enrollment.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__071118

    Trash OWNS ACA now, and of course he is ing it up just to spite the knitter, and doesn't care if he denies health care to 10Ms of Americans.







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    Any way you slice it, Trump's Supreme Court pick is bad news for health care

    Obamcare supporter and University of Michigan Law School professor Nicholas Bagley says that he doesn't think Kavanaugh will approach future challenges as "health-care cases," but rather he'll "view them through the cons utional lens he brings to his cases more generally."

    in a previous Obamacare case,

    he argued in dissent that the president has the power to determine if a law or part of it is uncons utional, no matter what the courts have decided.

    Things like protections for people with pre-existing conditions would be out the window.

    That's where the threat of Kavanaugh comes in. Abbe Gluck, a Yale law professor, pinpoints that when she

    "predicts there will be cases that accuse the Trump administration of sabotaging the ACA,

    which she says violates the Article II of the Cons ution or

    the "
    Take Care Clause," which requires the president to act in good faith to enforce laws.

    Given his record,

    "one could surmise that he'd find reasons for the actions Trump has taken to weaken the ACA via regulations."

    GOP Sen. Hatch, who met with Kavanaugh this a.m., about Ds arguing he’s a threat to the ACA. He said:

    “The Affordable Care Act is one of the broad, inclusive bills that you’ll ever see.

    And anybody who thinks it’s not going to be litigated sometime in the future is nuts.”

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1779701



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    Trump loses again, more people have health insurance than ever



    According to the CDC survey,

    20.3 million fewer people are going without insurance than in 2010, which is still a big ing deal.

    Remarkably, the
    gains have remained stable, as health economist Ellen Meara points out.

    "During a time with a lot of uncertainty— Thanks, Repugs!

    there's been a lot of political turmoil over what will or won't happen with Obamacare—

    these gains we've made in reducing the number of uninsured have held pretty steady."

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1791938

    Pence, fake Christian, has promised that if Repugs control the House after the elections, the Repugs will kill ACA and throw 10Ms off insurance.



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    Obamacare on the Ballot: Will Red-State Voters Expand Medicaid This Fall?

    Republican governors and state legislatures who wanted no part of cooperating with a law that was championed by a president they disdained.

    A
    growing body of evidence shows that both access to health care and the quality of that care improved measurably in places that expanded the program,

    while the damaging financial repercussions its detractors feared — or claimed to fear — failed to materialize.

    Over the last year, voters in multiple such states have banded together to change this sad state of affairs.

    Last November, after a successful pe ion drive, voters overwhelmingly voted to expand Medicaid in Maine, the one Northeast state that hadn’t yet gotten on board.

    (Paul LePage, the state’s proto-Trumpist governor, is
    still resisting implementing the program, but he’s fighting a losing battle.)

    Below, a rundown of the four Republican-dominated states where Medicaid is on the ballot in November:

    Utah

    Idaho

    Nebraska

    Montana

    with Democrats poised for gains in statehouses across the country ,

    Medicaid expansion may just get a little closer to becoming a reality everywhere.http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...this-fall.html

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    Get Sick, Go Bankrupt and Die


    Vice President Mike Pence, campaigning last week with Leah Vukmir, a Senate candidate in Wisconsin, told reporters that Republicans would repeal Obamacare if they held majorities in Congress in November.


    now McCain is gone, and with him, as far as we can tell, the only Republican in Congress with anything resembling a spine.

    As a result, if Republicans hold Congress in November, they will indeed repeal Obamacare.

    That’s not a guess: It’s an
    explicit promise, made by Vice President Mike Pence last week.

    Surely Republicans have spent the past year rethinking their policy ideas,

    trying to come up with ways to undo the A.C.A.

    without inflicting enormous harm on ordinary Americans,

    especially those with pre-existing medical conditions.

    Right?


    See, I made a joke.

    Republicans haven’t rethought their ideas on health care (or, actually, anything else).

    Partly that’s because the modern G.O.P. doesn’t do policy analysis.

    The G.O.P. can’t come up with an alternative to the Affordable Care Act because no such alternative exists.

    In particular, if you want to preserve protection for people with pre-existing conditions

    the health issue that
    matters most to voters, including half of Republicans —

    Obamacare is the
    most conservative policy that can do that.


    The point, again, is that Obamacare is the most conservative option for covering pre-existing conditions, and

    if Republicans really cared about the
    scores of millions of Americans with such conditions,

    they would support and indeed try to strengthen the A.C.A.

    But covering pre-existing conditions is popular;

    therefore, they’re pretending that they’ll do that, while offering proposals that would, in fact,
    do no such thing.

    Do they imagine that voters are stupid?

    Well, yes.

    In recent rallies Donald Trump has been declaring that Democrats want to “raid Medicare to pay for socialism.”

    So if you’re an American who suffers from a pre-existing medical condition, or fear that you might develop such a condition in the future,

    you need to be clear about the reality:

    Republicans are coming for your health care.

    If they hold the line in November,

    health insurance at an affordable price — maybe at any price — will be gone in a matter of months.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/o...er=rss&emc=rss

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    Only Modest Premium Hikes, Some Price Cuts Under ACA Next Year

    Millions of people covered under the Affordable Care Act will see only modest premium increases next year, and some will get price cuts.

    That’s the conclusion from an exclusive analysis of the besieged but resilient program, which still sparks deep divisions heading into this year’s midterm elections.

    “Obamacare’s” health insurance marketplaces seem to be stabilizing after two years of sharp premium hikes. And the exodus of insurers from the program has halted, even reversed somewhat, with more consumer choices for 2019.

    The analysis found a 3.6 percent average increase in proposed or approved premiums across 47 states and Washington, D.C., for next year. This year the average increase nationally was about 30 percent.

    The average total premium for an individual covered under the health law is now close to $600 a month before subsidies.


    For next year, premiums are expected either to drop or increase by less than 10 percent in 41 states with about 9 million customers.

    Eleven of those states are expected to see a drop in average premiums.

    In six other states, plus Washington, D.C., premiums are projected to rise between 10 percent and 18 percent.


    Insurers also are starting to come back. Nineteen states will either see new insurers enter or current ones expand into more areas. There are no bare counties lacking a willing insurer.


    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/o...+%28TPMNews%29



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    Are we all so glad Trash fixed high drug prices?

    Insulin’s high cost leads to deadly rationing

    Diabetic ketoacidosis is a terrible way to die. It’s what happens when you don’t have enough insulin. Your blood sugar gets so high that your blood becomes highly acidic, your cells dehydrate, and your body stops functioning.

    Nicole Smith-Holt lost her son to diabetic ketoacidosis, three days before his payday, because he couldn’t afford his insulin.

    The price of insulin in the U.S. has
    more than doubled since 2012 alone. That’s put the lifesaving hormone out of reach for some people with diabetes,

    My first vial of insulin cost $24.56 in 2011, after insurance. Seven years later, I pay more than $80. That’s nothing compared with what Alec was up against when he turned 26 and aged off his mother’s insurance plan.

    Smith-Holt said she and Alec started reviewing his options in February 2017, three months before his birthday on May 20.

    Alec’s pharmacist told him his diabetes supplies would cost $1,300 a month without insurance — most of that for insulin.

    His options with insurance weren’t much better.

    Alec’s yearly salary as a restaurant manager was about $35,000.

    Too high to qualify for Medicaid, and, Smith-Holt said, too high to qualify for significant subsidies in Minnesota’s Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace.

    The plan they found had a $450 premium each month and an annual deductible of $7,600.

    He died less than one month after going off of his mother’s insurance. His family thinks he was rationing his insulin

    — using less than he needed — to try to make it last until he could afford to buy more.

    He died alone in his apartment three days before payday.

    The insulin pen he used to give himself shots was empty.

    The patent for the discovery was sold to the University of Toronto for only $1 so that lifesaving insulin would be available to everyone who needed it.

    Today, however, the list price for a single vial of insulin is more than $250. Most patients use two to four vials per month (I personally use two).

    Some
    blame middlemen — such as pharmacy benefit managers, like Express Scripts and CVS Health — for negotiating lower prices with pharmaceutical companies without passing savings on to customers.

    Others say patents on incremental changes to insulin have kept cheaper generic versions out of the market.

    “Young adults are dropping out of college,” she told the lawmakers.

    “They’re getting married just to have insurance, or

    not getting married to the love of their lives because they’ll lose their state-funded insurance.”


    https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...rationing.aspx

    "goddamn USA"



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    Expect more states to follow (except CA, NY, etc) as that percentage states are on the hook for increases as we get closer to 2020.

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    Federal government slashes grants to help Texans get health insurance

    Texas grassroots health groups got $5 million less than last year for the navigator program,

    which helps them enroll hard-to-reach populations in the nation's least insured state.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09...able-care-act/

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    Medicaid Expansion Boosted The Financial Health Of Low-Income Michigan Residents

    Low-income Michigan residents who enrolled in a new state health insurance plan didn’t just get coverage for their health needs – many also got a boost in their financial health,

    People who gained coverage under the state’s expanded Medicaid program have experienced fewer debt problems and other financial issues than they had before enrollment,

    Those who had the most health problems felt the most financial relief after enrolling in the Healthy Michigan Plan, which now covers more than 650,000 people in the state,

    The study shows drops in unpaid debts — especially medical debts and over-drawn credit cards – as well as fewer bankruptcies and evictions after people enrolled.

    Meanwhile, enrollees’ credit scores and car loans rose.

    Those with chronic illnesses, or who had a hospital stay or emergency department visit after they enrolled, saw the largest financial effects.

    https://scienceblog.com/503325/medic...nceBlog.com%29

    ing red state Michigan? Home of massive racial crime scene Flint? WTF?



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    Here's How the Republicans' Relentless Attack on Pre-Existing Conditions Is Blowing Up in Their Faces

    The GOP mounted a frivolous lawsuit to gut Obamacare. Now the prospect it could actually succeed has Democratic challengers surging.

    Republican state attorneys general thought they had a perfect way to flex their muscles after the
    GOP tax scam bill was passed: sue to overturn the Affordable Care Act's protections for pre-existing conditions,

    Politico
    reports that it has had one key consequence: it has thrown many of the elected attorneys general who backed it into political jeopardy:



    With a blue wave already forecast for this November’s midterm elections, and the battle over the Affordable Care Act now playing out in the courts rather than in Congress,

    Democrats seeking to claim as many as a half dozen attorney general seats are using a lawsuit brought by 20 Republican AGs to abolish Obamacare as a political battering ram —

    highlighting its threat to the health law’s popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions.


    The lawsuit has already injected unexpected energy and cash into many of the 30-plus races across the country for state attorneys general — a dozen of which are seen as compe ive.

    Democratic challengers in battleground states like Florida, Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona are attacking the in bents for bringing the lawsuit and vowing to withdraw their states from the case or join with states defending Obamacare.


    Many are cutting ads saying

    the lawsuit could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of people with preexisting conditions,

    from children with cancer to adult diabetics,

    and holding rallies featuring people who struggled to obtain insurance before Obamacare due to a health condition.

    One of the Republican attorneys general who is now facing heat at home for going after President Barack Obama's landmark insurance protection is

    the brains of the lawsuit, Ken Paxton of Texas.

    Already politically wounded by
    three felony indictments for securities fraud,

    Paxton faces a serious Democratic challenger in Justin Nelson,

    https://www.alternet.org/election-03...ing-conditions




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    Medicare for All Is Officially Winning

    Trump and Republican Senate candidates are now lying about single payer. Why? Because they’re losing the health-care debate.

    Donald Trump and the Republican candidates he is struggling to shore up in the election are so afraid of the momentum in favor of Medicare for All that

    they are now lying about this practically, economically, and morally necessary health care reform.

    It is always troubling when a president lies.

    It is also troubling when the media amplifies those lies.

    But the fact that
    USA Today published a repurposed set of partisan talking points from the president as an op-ed piece on Wednesday—

    under the scorchingly dishonest headline “Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors”—

    should be read as evidence that

    the movement to replace health care profiteering with a single-payer health-care system is winning.

    The unwitting president and his minions are agitated about the momentum that the movement for Medicare for All has gained in recent years—

    so agitated that they are making up arguments against a reform that the August Reuters–

    Ipsos survey found 70 percent of Americans

    (85 percent of Democrats, 52 percent of Republicans) now support.

    Trump and his fellow Republicans are inviting a debate that they will lose.

    Trump also sought to confuse Americans regarding the cost of reform.

    He argued that the Sanders plan “would cost an astonishing
    $32.6 trillion during its first 10 years,”

    without acknowledging the whole story of the study—by the
    Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University—from which his numbers are drawn.

    That study determined that, under the Medicare for All plan proposed by Sanders, Baldwin and other progressive senators,

    “national personal health care costs decrease by less than 2 percent,

    while total health expenditures
    decrease by only 4 percent,

    even after assuming substantial administrative cost savings.”


    https://www.thenation.com/article/me...ially-winning/


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    the movement to replace health care profiteering with a single-payer health-care system is winning.
    We have no power but we're really winning

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    We have no power but we're really winning
    Failing to defeat Obamacare. You're carrying a bigger loss, guy.

    MCcain still ass ing trump from the Grave.


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    Failing to defeat Obamacare. You're carrying a bigger loss, guy.

    MCcain still ass ing trump from the Grave.

    The maverick! Him and Palin!

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    McCain still triggering alts

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    Expect more states to follow (except CA, NY, etc) as that percentage states are on the hook for increases as we get closer to 2020.
    work requirements don't really work.

    You can't tell a pool of people who are generally disabled that they need to work and expect anything to change. That is... dumb.

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    medicare for all sounds great,

    but I'm convinced BigInsurance, BigMedicine, BigPharma, BigDevice will screw it up, cripple it, like they did with ACA, even Harry-and-Louise it to death.

    the oligarchy is simply too powerful to fight.

    We can only fight through voting for politicians to pass legislation, and they are, in large majority, financed, controlled by the oligarchy, and the oligarchy has also captured regulatory functions.

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    An asshole from the ultra-conservative (Herbert) Hoover Inst

    TRUMP IS DELIVERING THE OBAMACARE SAVINGS THAT OBAMA ONLY PROMISED


    When President Donald Trump took office, supporters of the law were worried that he would seek to undermine and eventually repeal it.

    Their fears seemed validated by Republican efforts in 2017 to do away with the core of Obamacare and replace it with market-based reforms.


    But since those efforts failed, premiums on Obamacare’s marketplaces for coverage in many states have actually stabilized,

    The Trump administration has actually done more to lower costs (and therefore achieve one of Obamacare’s core stated goals)

    than the Obama administration did over its many years of implementing the law.


    this administration undeniably has a laser-like focus on advancing policies that create more choice and compe ion in the health care marketplace.

    And, over time, this enhanced optionality serves to bring down premiums and health costs more generally.


    https://www.ozy.com/opinion/trump-is...a04bf10a595031



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    The Trump Administration Just Asked States to Help It Kill Obamacare by Stealth




    Republicans in Washington couldn’t repeal and replace Obamacare—

    so the Trump administration apparently wants to let Alabama and Idaho go ahead an do it on their own instead.

    federal regulators issued a
    long do ent inviting

    state lawmakers to knock down or rewrite fundamental pieces of the health care law,


    while offering a number of radical ideas for how they might go about it.

    to restructure the law’s insurance subsidies, which help low and middle-income Americans pay their monthly premiums,

    so that they’re tied to age instead of income. (This would effectively give more help to high-earners and less to low-earners).

    to let people spend those subsidies on cheap health plans that don’t meet all of Obamacare’s coverage requirements. (This

    would likely drive up costs for some people who needed more comprehensive coverage).

    such moves would likely undercut Obamacare’s consumer protections, including for Americans with pre-existing conditions.

    The new guidance is just the latest step in the Trump administration’s

    long quest to dismantle much of Obamacare through executive fiat.

    Department of Health and Human Service has
    already resurrected the sort of junk health insurance the ACA was meant to ban, by

    issuing rules making it easier for insurers to sell so-called “short-term, limited duration” plans.

    companies that sell them are allowed to deny or underwrite customers based on their health,

    Americans are basically free to rely on those plans as their primary insurance, creating a parallel market to the Obamacare exchanges.

    Trump also wants to give states
    more leeway to opt-out of or restructure parts of Obamacare under what are known as Section 1332 waivers.

    under Trump, federal regulators
    are trying to turn the waivers into a tool states can use to deregulate their markets, while making them easier to apply for.

    https://slate.com/business/2018/11/s...-coverage.html

    So Chen the Hoover propagandist guy is ING LYING


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    Texas Judge’s Ruling on Obamacare Torpedoes Hospital Stocks

    some health insurers and most hospital stocks are getting taken to the woodshed.

    UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) dropped 3% on Friday and traded down more than 2% more in early Monday trading.

    But hospital operators HCA Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: HCA), Universal Health Services Inc. (NYSE: UHS), Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC) and Community Health Systems Inc. (NYSE: CYH) fell much more.


    When the ACA became effective in 2014, insurance stocks got a nice bump thanks to an insurer fee that insurance companies paid to help fund the law and expand benefits to the uninsured and the poor.

    That tax, however, was repaid by the state and federal governments through higher reimbursements to insurers.

    The insurer tax encouraged insurers to sign up more members and rewarded them for doing so.

    compe ion drove prices down in the first year, and

    insurers raised premiums for the following year to reflect more realistically what the ACA actually cost.

    They’ve been raising rates ever since and, even if they lose subscribers due to O’Connor’s ruling, the impact is likely to be slight.


    Not so for hospitals that will once again have to shoulder the costs of uninsured patients by raising their charges to offset the cost of caring for uninsured patients.

    https://247wallst.com/healthcare-bus...spital-stocks/



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    Alito cut the legs out of the latest attack on Obamacare — and didn’t even know he did it

    The religious right's biggest court victory should be the death knell to the latest assault on health care.



    a passage in Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the Court in Hobby Lobby could — or at least, should — take on an entirely unexpected significance after

    Reed O’Connor, a partisan operative turned federal judge, struck down the entire Affordable Care Act on Friday in a case called Texas v. United States.

    Judge O’Connor’s opinion is a jurisprudential trainwreck.

    It misreads the text of the law,

    draws distinctions that the Supreme Court explicitly rejected, and

    it feigns ignorance regarding the outcome of a year-long debate

    where congressional Republicans tried and failed to repeal Obamacare.

    O’Connor’s opinion is such an embarrassment to the judiciary that even Jonathan Adler,

    one of the architects of the
    last partisan lawsuit seeking to undermine Obamacare, called the opinion “strained and implausible.”

    O’Connor’s opinion suffers from a third problem: It is entirely at odds with Hobby Lobby.

    The purpose of RFRA, according to these findings, is “to restore the compelling interest test as set forth in Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963) and Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972).”

    This language matters because the “compelling interest test” set forth in Sherbertand Yoder incorporated the rule that a people of faith cannot wield their religious objections to limit other people’s rights.

    Expanding the rights of religious conservatives at the expense of, well, anyone else, is one of Alito’s pet projects.

    But RFRA’s statement of its own purpose undermined Alito’s goal.


    So Alito found an excuse to ignore that statement of purpose.

    the correctness of Alito’s Hobby Lobby decision is irrelevant

    to the question of whether O’Connor’s Texas opinion is correct.

    As a lower court judge, O’Connor is required to follow Supreme Court decisions, including Hobby Lobby.

    In Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court ignored those findings. O’Connor, as a lower court judge, is bound to follow the same rule in Texas.

    Alito is as reliably partisan as O’Connor.

    And he’s already shown that he’s willing to embrace dubious legal reasoning if that reasoning undermines the Affordable Care Act.

    the disparity between Hobby Lobby and Texas provides a window into how judges actually behave in political charged cases.

    the rank dishonesty of O’Connor’s opinion won’t matter.

    Chief Justice John Roberts is more capable of embarrassment.

    And he was pretty damn clear the last time his Court heard a political attack on the Affordable Care Act that he is sick of these cases.

    Assuming that the Court’s membership does not change before Texas reaches Roberts, O’Connor’s attack on Obamacare is unlikely to succeed.

    https://thinkprogress.org/justice-al...-6306777db963/



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    Republicans freak out over Obamacare decision, with Pelosi and Schumer promising to bring the pain

    The only Republican applauding the appalling and ridiculous decision by an extremist federal judge in Texas declaring the Affordable Care Act uncons utional is Individual 1.

    The rest of them
    understand how much this screws them politically.

    They're well aware that they lost the 2018 election largely on the issue of health care, and

    now the ones still in office know they're on the hook for

    the promise they made to people that they would preserve all the protections in the ACA,

    particularly those for people with pre-existing conditions.

    the majority of Americans, 130 million of whom have pre-existing conditions, but

    if the law were really to disappear, that's just a part of what would be lost.

    As many as 17 million people could lose their coverage in a single year.

    The 15 million people covered under Medicaid expansion could lose their coverage.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/17/1819705/-Republicans-freak-out-over-Obamacare-decision-with-Pelosi-and-Schumer-promising-to-bring-the-pain?detail=emaildkre

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