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So this is the Obamacare plan going forward.

We are looking at the cost-sharing payments on a month-to-month basis. We made them today. We’ll make them tomorrow. But I don’t think we’ll see a long-term commitment from this administration," Mulvaney explained.

In plain English, we will continue to continue to entertain the same CSR negligence that led directly to the most recent insurance rate hikes and marketplace exits. Insurers need to predict an entire year when setting rates, so even if we decide to fund the CSR’s every month, the uncertainty that we might not will cause insurance rates to continue to go up and insurers to continue to leave the market.

Then, in retrospect, we have our sound-bite. Obamacare exploded all on its own. We funded the CSRs and the insurance markets still failed.

EDIT: Also, they would definitely fail to fund the CSR’s if any insurers decided to play politically savvy and call the administration’s bluff, failing to raise rates by enough to cover what would happen if the CSR’s weren’t funded, driving anyone out of business who doesn’t go along with the rate hike game. If it walks and talks like racketeering…

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/19/news/economy/senate-repeal-bill-cbo/index.html?adkey=bn

A new Senate bill to repeal Obamacare would leave 32 million more people uninsured by 2026 than under current law, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Wednesday.

Even more stunning, three-quarters of the nation would live in areas with no insurers participating in the individual market by 2026 – leaving many without an option if they do not have employer-provided or government health insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid.

Also, premiums would about double by 2026, compared to current law.

Enacting the legislation would decrease deficits by $473 billion over the next decade, however this bill doesn’t take into account the cost of a replacement plan.

The new bill, unveiled Wednesday afternoon, would effectively repeal Obamacare in 2020, giving lawmakers until then to come up with a replacement plan. But it would also eliminate the individual and employer mandates retroactively to 2016, and get rid of taxes on the wealthy and others. It would eliminate Medicaid expansion starting in 2020, but it would not curtail federal support for the overall program as the House and Senate health care bills would have.

It would also defund Planned Parenthood for one year.

Go ahead and vote for this POS bill, GOP. And then have fun defending it.

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The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & **it will get even better at lunchtime.**The Dems scream death as OCare dies!

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Never mind, the problem was Trump not putting a damn space after a period because he’s not interested in proper English.

The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & it will get even better at lunchtime. The Dems scream death as OCare dies!

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TV’s Frink said:

Never mind, the problem was Trump not putting a damn space after a period because he’s not interested in proper English.

Also I should point out the other problem, which is that Markdown (the text editor, not the OT.com user) is stupid.

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I think it has to do with this site’s implementation of Markdown.

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Ah so it’s Jay’s fault. I’ll let him know you said so. 😛

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/ike-kaveladze-linked-to-money-laundering-investigation/index.html

A Government Accountability Office report published in 2000 details how companies in the US set up bank accounts that came under investigation for money laundering – and it involved Ike Kaveladze, the eighth person who has now been identified as attending the June 9, 2016 meeting that Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer.

The GAO report published in October 2000 outlined how companies opened 236 accounts at two banks through which more than $1.4 billion was deposited between 1991 and 2000. It found the accounts had been opened for corporations tied to Russian brokers. The GAO did not name Kaveladze in the report.

According to a November 2000 report in the New York Times, Kaveladze opened the accounts. He told the Times at the time that the GAO investigation was a “witch hunt”

I stopped reading there because I just proved that Trump Sr. was at the meeting with the Russians.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/health/gupta-mccain-glioblastoma/index.html

Sen. John McCain, 80, has been diagnosed with a primary glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor, Mayo Clinic doctors directly involved in the senator’s care told CNN exclusively. The doctors spoke directly to CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

The senator underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on Friday at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Lab results from that surgery confirmed the presence of brain cancer associated with the blood clot.

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive tumor that forms in the tissue of the brain and spinal cord, according to the American Brain Tumor Association.

A pathologist was in the operating room during the procedure, a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision, said his doctor, who added that the surgery lasted about three to four hours. Post-surgical brain scans show the tissue causing concern has been completely removed.

McCain is recovering “amazingly well,” according to a statement from his office.

Wishing the best to McCain and his family.

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VERY sorry to hear this. Although I’m a liberal democrat, I have always respected McCain. The contrast between the McCain-Obama race and the Clinton-Trump race couldn’t have been more striking.

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I seem to recall someone here once saying The Hill leans left, and maybe that’s true, but they just gave space to SEBASTIAN FUCKING GORKA.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/342864-opinion-america-is-back-the-first-6-months

Here’s just two fun stories on Gorka.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-fired-sebastian-gorka-for-anti-muslim-diatribes

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sebastian-gorka-made-nazi-linked-vitezi-rend-proud-wearing-its-n742851

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TV’s Frink said:

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The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & **it will get even better at lunchtime.**The Dems scream death as OCare dies!

You needed to put a space between the last asterisk and the T.

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The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & it will get even better at lunchtime. The Dems scream death as OCare dies!

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That was already figured out.

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I sure wish people would read a few posts after the one they respond to, before responding…

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I did read it, I just didn’t realize it had already been figured out.

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Are you sure?

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Never mind, the problem was Trump not putting a damn space after a period because he’s not interested in proper English.

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Earth 2 seems pretty bleak.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/if-clinton-had-won/

On Monday morning, Clinton and the rest of the political world awoke to a barrage of incendiary tweets from Donald Trump. “Crooked H is a failed, FAKE PRESIDENT,” said one of them, which linked to a Rasmussen Reports poll showing Clinton’s approval rating at 37 percent.

On Tuesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr announced that he’d call upon former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to testify before his committee next week as part of hearings on whether Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, interfered with the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s private email server.

Also on Tuesday, Fox News’s Sean Hannity revealed what he said was “shocking new evidence” of widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, states Clinton won by just 7,000 and 17,000 votes, respectively. (Hannity’s evidence consisted of an academic paper that has widely been discredited.)

And on Wednesday, White House press secretary Brian Fallon got into a shouting match with reporters at his daily press briefing, triggered by what he later said was frustration over the media’s failure to cover new revelations about Russia’s apparent interference in the 2016 campaign.

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I’d still rather live there. At least Syrian babies could get in the country and old Americans would still have healthcare.

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TV’s Frink said:

I’d still rather live there. At least Syrian babies could get in the country and old Americans would still have healthcare.

I’m on the fence about it. On the one hand, yes, Trump has done some heinous crap and eroded the norms of political discourse, but one could argue that this had already happened in 2016. At least in this universe, the Republicans can’t constantly blame the Democrats for the state of the government (though they continue to try), and there is at least a chance that the midterms will be favorable to the Democrats.

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