No one could have imagined that any state would be stupid enough or evil enough -- or both! -- to turn down free money to subsidize healthcare for people who need it. Literally, no one. Not even congressional Republicans who worked on the Affordable Care Act, while kicking and screaming the whole time about how it was going to murder all our freedoms and jobs and blah blah blah, whatever, turns out they were all WRONG. Because who would say, "No, I don't want your icky free federal dollars so the people of my state won't die"? And yet, here we are, on the verge of a decision by the Supreme Court about whether the law, which includes the words "established by the state," allows tax subsidies for states that refuse to establish healthcare exchanges, or whether everyone in U.S. America should be able to get healthcare somehow, even if Congress was all clumsy and stupid and sucks at writing laws with words in them.
No, the subsidies ONLY offset some of the premiums (rarely all of the.premiums), but zero of the cost of using the insurance, and often come with very high deductibles and co-pays that must be paid before the insurance will pay anything. Thay are starting to figure out that these low income people get subsidies for insurance they can't afford to use.
Obama also benefitted from Clinton "strategist" Mark Penn not knowing how delegates were actually apportioned. AFAIK, she is not making that mistake this time.
I'm trying to figure out why howling window lickers made me laugh so hard.
That must be THE good one.
of course,, my decision might be based on logic clouded by the major (legal - don't get excited) drugs I'm taking for the ookey gooey gack gack gaggworthy upper respiratory gunk from which I started suffering in recent hours and am now having trouble typing because of the consumption so that means I'm feelin pretty dang good.
I'm curious as to how this Federal Aid thing is going to work out for Texas? And what about all the military running around saving lives. Isn't Abbott worried they will stop doing humanitarian work and take over the state?
he serves the same purpose as Ted Cruz on the right- making the eventual candidate look more centrist. The difference is- they're all batshitcrazy on the right.
Isn't that what the subsidies are for: paying the premiums so the cost isn't passed on to other consumers?
No, the subsidies ONLY offset some of the premiums (rarely all of the.premiums), but zero of the cost of using the insurance, and often come with very high deductibles and co-pays that must be paid before the insurance will pay anything. Thay are starting to figure out that these low income people get subsidies for insurance they can't afford to use.
Sorry about the typos! My keyboard is acting up and I didn't proof it before posting.
Obama also benefitted from Clinton "strategist" Mark Penn not knowing how delegates were actually apportioned. AFAIK, she is not making that mistake this time.
they shall be eaten last
someone needs to plow that snow
I'm trying to figure out why howling window lickers made me laugh so hard.
That must be THE good one.
of course,, my decision might be based on logic clouded by the major (legal - don't get excited) drugs I'm taking for the ookey gooey gack gack gaggworthy upper respiratory gunk from which I started suffering in recent hours and am now having trouble typing because of the consumption so that means I'm feelin pretty dang good.
Yea Obamacare and Legal Drugs!
I'm curious as to how this Federal Aid thing is going to work out for Texas? And what about all the military running around saving lives. Isn't Abbott worried they will stop doing humanitarian work and take over the state?
Or maybe the water will fill the tunnels and stop Obama...yeah, that's it.
He looks like Rick Scott's weirder cousin.
what a disturbing image
He also benefitted mightily from the fact that he opposed the Iraq invasion and she didn't- in 2008 with a war weary populace that was huge
he serves the same purpose as Ted Cruz on the right- making the eventual candidate look more centrist. The difference is- they're all batshitcrazy on the right.
like anyone expected anything different from them
she screwed the pooch on that
Texas ain't no state of takers! We'll secede, Don't mess with Texas, Remember the Alamo, um, etc?