jal123
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Americans for you.
What do you meant the tories are going to put a rape clause into our tax system?!
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What do you meant the tories are going to put a rape clause into our tax system?!
jal123
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Yeah, there are also people on this forum supporting the Conservative party here, it's mental but that's life. People only care about themselves and if you care about the greater good you're a loony left wing socialist.
abelard
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not just liberals...
(From a Kentucky county that voted 82% for Trump)
Kathy Oller renewed a 59-year-old woman’s coverage (who asked her personal information be left out of this story) just after lunchtime on a Tuesday. She and her husband received a monthly tax credit that would cover most of their premium. But they would still need to contribute $244 each month — and face a $6,000 deductible.
The woman said she had insurance before the Affordable Care Act that was significantly more affordable, with $5 copays and no deductible at all. She said she paid only $200 or $300 each month without a subsidy.
The deductible left her exasperated. “I am totally afraid to be sick,” she says. “I don’t have [that money] to pay upfront if I go to the hospital tomorrow.”
Her plan did offer free preventive care, an Obamacare mandate. But she skips mammograms and colonoscopies because she doesn’t think she’d have the money to pay for any follow-up care if the doctors did detect something.
The woman said she only buys insurance as financial protection — “to keep from losing my house if something major happened,” she says. “But I’m not using it to go to the doctor. I’ve not used anything.”
The woman was mad because her costs felt overwhelmingly expensive. These are some of the most common frustrations with the Affordable Care Act. Surveys show that high deductibles are the top complaint; 47 percent of enrollees told the Kaiser Family Foundation they were dissatisfied with their deductible.
A study from the Commonwealth Fund earlier this year found that four in 10 adults on Affordable Care Act plans didn’t think they could afford to go to the doctor if they got sick. Fewer than half said it was easy to find an affordable plan.
But her frustration isn’t just about the money she has to pay. She sees other people signing up for Medicaid, the health program for the poor that is arguably better coverage than she receives and almost free for enrollees. She is not eligible for Medicaid because her husband works and they are above the earnings threshold.
Medicaid is reserved for people who earn less than 138 percent of the poverty line — about $22,000 for a couple. This woman understood the Medicaid expansion is also part of Obamacare, and she doesn’t think the system is fair.
“They can go to the emergency room for a headache,” she says. “They’re going to the doctor for pills, and that’s what they’re on.”
She felt like this happened a lot to her: that she and her husband have worked most their lives but don’t seem to get nearly as much help as the poorer people she knows. She told a story about when she used to work as a school secretary: “They had a Christmas program. Some of the area programs would talk to teachers, and ask for a list of their poorest kids and get them clothes and toys and stuff. They’re not the ones who need help. They’re the ones getting the welfare and food stamps. I’m the one who is the working poor.”
Oller, the enrollment worker, expressed similar ideas the day we met.
“I really think Medicaid is good, but I’m really having a problem with the people that don’t want to work,” she said. “Us middle-class people are really, really upset about having to work constantly, and then these people are not responsible.”
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/13/13848794/kentucky-obamacare-trump
McBain
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Now I'm not going to name names here, but one of them, on another social media platform, actually condoned vehicular homicide, fooled into believing what they were seeing was Trump protesters blocking a freeway. So happy were they that some 'liberals' were being mowed down.
The video was actually from Brazil, and you, you know who you are, should be dead set ashamed of your comments.
http://www.snopes.com/run-over-trump-protesters/
Gouldy
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Especially since Pelosi has come out and said again that Single Payer won't be an option.
Until people start to realize that Dems and Repubs are essentially 2 sides of the same coin (minus some differences in social issues), corporations will still continue to regulate Congress.
Quite literally think they can't do anything about anything here. After 10pm the whole "decency" laws on network television go away. They could curse without bleeping anything and there is nothing that can be done.
Given his unpopularity in the Senate and sure there were one or two smirks even by Republicans after this exchange...
Obama warned trump, Yates warned trump yet it took a WaPo leak weeks later for the White House to act on Flynn. And the water gets hotter.
Gouldy
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Probably just waiting for Comey and co to finish their investigation. (Not expecting the Congressional investigations to get far, at all. )
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