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Only if you round up

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How many grams of fibber are you allowed in the Fleischer Liet™?

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If they pay in exposure dollars, it looks like someone's overdrawn.

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He'll probably correct his mis-tweet... with white-out.

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Good point, but not totally relevant to the <i>US</i> healthcare market.

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where are you hearing this in reality? here in IL we can't get any rates / plans yet. you can't get any rates on the obamacare website either.

just curious.

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Well, just for comparison, before I went on Medicare I had an individual HIPAA plan (because it was all a 64-year old could get) that had a $5000 deductible and paid mostly 70%, but for some things only 50%.

It cost $1150 a month, so $728, for example, would have looked pretty good.

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In a perfect world, Twitter would take away one character, for a whole week, whenever you posted something particularly stupid. That way, the derpiest dopes in the wingnuttosphere would soon find themselves with 20-character limits, or less.

And yes, the President should get extra characters. Because he's the fucking President.

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Question to @AriFleischer: So's your mother.

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Republican Math at its finest.

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Today's news in my Marxist Liebrul Northron state of NY is full of detailed explanations of <a href="" target="_blank">exactly why NY residents will pay a lot less for healthcare than those folks juuust across the river there,</a> with their incredibly <strike>fat</strike> popular GOP governor:

"A plan that will cost New Jersey's uninsured $382 dollars a month, for example, will cost New Yorkers $319 dollars. New Jersey residents will also have fewer choices: the state's online marketplace will offer 29 plans, compared to the national average of 53."

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<i>what the original face born for punching looks like</i>

He also is the man for whom the phrase “I wouldn't spit on him if he were on fire” was invented.

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Someone needs to unskew the twatter count.

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