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Manufacturing 'news' so he can "report' it. AKA 'masturbating.'

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i'm spending the next 2 months signing folks up for the ACA plans in my marketplace and telling them the short term plans are fuck all.

i tell you what.

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Ahh technology. Awesome at everything except carrying out your instructions right the first time.

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Of course, here's the thing- Trump knows nothing. Rocks and wool, ear to ear.

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Also an achievement.

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And Jeanine Pirro found a Clinton in the forest?

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Except, they take the best, not the worst!

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Sounds more like a whole-life insurance plan with a fixed lifetime rate that vests as you age. Which a) almost never happens, and b) has to be bought in a very early age.

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Or a bottle of vodka. Would make you feel better than the vitamins.

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β€œHow can that be, you don’t ever ask”

This will be my new mantra, even if it doesn’t really work as a mantra.

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I have access to excellent health care, the same way I have access to luxury automobiles, diamond jewelry, and caviar-based skin care products.

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This is not that hard to understand. How do you think that corporations can offer fairly affordable health insurance to their employees and cover pre-existing conditions in most situations. They have everyone enroll in the same policy and everyone pays the same premium. It typically runs around $600 a person for individual coverage. Of course, the corporation gets a tax deduction and they also cover up to 75% of the premium cost. But that 25 year old marathon runner pays the same amount as the 58 year old obese middle manager with diabetes who has already had heart surgery.

How can that be, you don't ever ask. It's because the 25 year old is subsidizing the higher health care cost of the 58 year old. That was sort of the idea behind the ACA, except they still allowed higher premiums for people with the most common pre-existing condition, living past age 40. And no one complains too much because $125 a month paid by the employee for good, comprehensive health insurance is a pretty good deal, so why rock the boat. But it's still socialized insurance coverage. But the GOP has plans for that too, encouraging corporations to start splitting their policies between young, healthy workers and old, less healthy workers. With the older workers paying a much higher premium. So all those 58 year olds with good policies may want to rethink their criticism of the ACA.

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The only way it's pre-existing is if you try to buy health insurance, up until then it was existing.

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Dodgers fans, after game four on Saturday.

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Aww (*kicks dirt*) shucks....

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They still think that entire caravan of people trying to get through Mexico is trying to vote.

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