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And if that fails, LOCK HER UP!

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I'll be in my shell.

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You mean one of the senior Trump people is a partisan hack? Unpossible

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Rates actually went DOWN for MN's version of ACA: if I'm reading the chart right, the average rate decreases range from 3% to 27%.http://mn.gov/commerce-stat...

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This is why policy wonks and technocrats are so important. Plenty of effort and care were taken to ensure that the ACA was as Rethug-proof as possible.

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You can turn iPhones into a WiFi hotspot. I imagine some if not most android phones will do this too.

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The only good thing about being really, REALLY broke is qualifying for Medicaid and an almost-no-cost policy. Mine is with United Health, and the Community Healthcare Network has fine doctors, as well as great specialists affiliated with the best of NYC's hospitals. Which reminds me, I have to make a dental appointment. I haven't yet met the dentist.

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We have in our area ACA insurance brokers who help ALOT to work through the ACA details.

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I predict she will have an interesting life.

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I'm not sure. Let me hear her say, 'Eat your vegetables!'

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Oh, he will. Nobody tells HIM what to do!

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They'll have to push the junk insurance really hard, because anyone with the slightest bit of sense will choose a real policy made affordable by the ACA subsidy. The only reason junk insurance even exists was to give some pathetic tatters of coverage to people who couldn't afford the astronomical costs of private insurance. Now that those astronomical costs are 85% (or more) covered by the subsidy, no one who qualifies for it has any conceivable motive to buy the junk stuff.

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Never tried that. Will have to investigate.

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That's a great idea. I'll check on that.

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If you say "do not come here please," it will summon him if you say it three times fast.

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