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Republican Obstruction: Will it ever end?

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 6th June 2013

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Unprecedented

Jun 4, 2013 | By ThinkProgress War Room

New Battle Against Senate GOP Obstruction

The Federal Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit is the second most powerful court in the nation after the Supreme Court. It often gets the last word on a wide variety of regulations, including those on Wall Street and polluters like oil companies and utilities, as well as on labor and national security matters. It doesn’t matter if we pass Obamacare or Dodd-Frank or unions work hard to win new protections for workers if the D.C. Circuit simply strikes down our accomplishments later.

Despite its evident importance, more than a quarter of the seats on the D.C. Circuit are sitting empty today – one since 2005. Today, President Obama set about fixing that. He nominated three highly-qualified individuals to fill the remaining three vacancies. These are vacancies the president noted that the Constitution compels him to fill — and vacancies which were filled during the Bush administration when the court had its full 11 members.

Senate Republicans have something else in mind: simply abolishing these seats altogether in order to prevent the president from filling them in order to give this important court more balance. (The D.C. Circuit’s main judges are currently split 4-4 in terms of whether they were appointed by a Democratic or Republican president; however, semi-retired judges who still hear cases were overwhelmingly appointed by Republicans and give the court overall a strongly conservative bent.)

Never mind the fact that the the U.S. Judicial Conference (headed by Chief Justice Roberts) has suggested additional judgeships – not fewer – for courts nationwide, and just two months ago said that the D.C. Circuit needs all 11 seats.

As the president said today, this partisan plan to shrink the D.C. Circuit “makes no sense” and is a “blatant political move” by Senate Republicans.

What’s more, Senate Republicans are also currently holding up other important nominees, including those to head the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

It’s looking as if July is setting up to be an important showdown over whether Republicans are allowed to continue with their unprecedented level of partisan obstruction or whether Senate Majority Leader Reid invokes the so-called “nuclear options,” the elimination of the filibuster for some or all nominations (but not legislation).

Here’s the facts:

  • President Obama’s judges have waited, on average three times as long as Bush’s judges to get confirmation votes, only to eventually be confirmed – most of them unanimously.
  • One academic measure of obstruction and delay finds the level for Obama’s appeals court nominees to be the highest that’s ever been recorded.
  • “President Obama is the only one of the five most recent Presidents for whom, during his first term, both the average and median waiting time from nomination to confirmation for circuit and district court nominees was greater than half a calendar year (i.e., more than 182 days).”
  • Both Presidents Bush and Clinton managed to significantly decrease the number of judicial vacancies during their first terms — by nearly 2/3 in the case of Bush. By contrast, vacancies have increased by almost 50 percent under President Obama, partly due to direct obstruction and partly due to senatorial foot-dragging in terms of helping the administration select federal district court nominees from their home states.
  • President Obama is the only president since Woodrow Wilson to go a full four year term without getting a single judge confirmed to the D.C. Circuit.

We could go on, but you get the picture. (You can find more HERE.) Things are much, much worse when it comes obstruction under President Obama than they have ever been before. And we haven’t even talked about the new normal in which the GOP requires 60 votes to pass almost any legislation in the Senate, a threshold never envisioned in the Constitution.

Senate Republicans already held up one of the president’s previous well-qualified D.C. Circuit nominees for a three-year period, filibustering her twice before she finally asked the president to withdraw her nomination.

BOTTOM LINE: Enough is enough, it’s time for Senate Republicans to drop their unprecedented efforts to block the president’s nominees to important positions and the courts. If they don’t step aside, it’s time for Senate Democrats to consider making changes so the Senate can do its job again.

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Readers: Once again, Obama and his administration have their work cut out for them. Is there never a break from the ruthless republican obstruction? Nope. The plan is for Obama to fail in all areas. Even if the country goes down with him.

BOTTOM LINE: The republicans won’t drop their efforts and they won’t step aside.  That is a joke to even consider that an option. The one thing you can expect the republicans will never do, is give up on their agenda. The Democrats can’t wait on something that is never going to happen. Since when do republicans “step aside?” Senate Democrats don’t need to consider making changes – Enough thinking – they know they need to make changes – step up and do something now.

Thoughts? Blog me. 

Harry:  Yep. It shows us just how much they could care less about them when they won’t even support their own.

Thank you, Sara. Yes, can’t believe it. The time does fly.

Kim: I have no faith in FOX. It is the number of viewers that keep them where they’re at. That is the scary thing.

Peace out. 

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Monday Madness

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 3rd June 2013

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Good morning!

I feel like all I keep saying is how sick some men can be. But then I keep reading writes that proves it over and over again. There’s never not enough news to be written on this subject to keep my blog busy. And I keep posting them because I am so sick (there’s that word again) of reading them over and over and not seeing much progress in changing this extremely bad attitude and behavior of men.

Is anyone feeling the same same? Are we just getting so used to it, that nothing is surprising anymore, because it is so damn prevalent in our society?I’m not used to it – never will be. It still sickens me and shocks me. Especially when I don’t see the outrage that should be heard on a daily basis from women and men when men say such sick things?

Let me be blunt here. When will women get that some men just think we are a receptacle to drop their load in? They want to put us back on the shelf for use whenever they are horny and need their needs met, or they need to be waited on. When will women learn that we need to stick together because men are always waiting in the wings to divide and conquer?

Here it is. Plain and simply said on FOX News: Men suggesting that women are inferior.

All-Male Fox Panel Freaks Out About Female Breadwinners

The all-male panel on Wednesday’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” was in total agreement about the deep danger posed to society by women bringing home the bacon.

The Fox Business host fulminated about a recently released Pew study which showed that women were the sole or primary breadwinners in four out of ten households with children. There have been many nuanced reactions to the study, but Dobbs and his guests agreed that it was a complete catastrophe for the country.

Juan Williams said it was “something going terribly wrong in American society, and it’s hurting our children, and it’s going to have impact for generations to come.”

Fellow guest Erick Erickson said it was a downright repudiation of nature itself.

“When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.”

“The politicians won’t say it,” Williams said. “They won’t admit this!”

At no point were women invited to share their thoughts.

UPDATE: One woman, Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, reacted with disbelief:

Have these men lost their minds? (and these are my colleagues??!! oh brother… maybe I need to have a little chat with them if it isn’t too late….)

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Greta: You act so surprised like you didn’t know these men were like they are. Hello…do you ever listen to half the stuff that comes from their mouths or are you just usually in agreement with them? I mean you do work for FOX news. I don’t watch enough of FOX, and I honestly don’t know anything about you, except that you work for FAUX news and that says a lot. Perhaps you are just waking up and realizing just how sick they are. If so, you have no excuse to not be on their case about a lot more than this. They most likely will not change but it is never too late to stand up for your sisters and be a loud voice. I’m happy you did this time. I HOPE you continue to.

Readers: The panel is freaking out. I’m freaking out over their sick attitude. What should be in large letters across America is how men’s attitude and behavior is ruining our society. Not that women are earning more and it’s hurting our children. What’s hurting our children is allowing men and boys to run around with 30 magazine guns killing our children at will. Whats hurting our children is the pedophile men who prey on them. That’s what is tearing apart our society, not female breadwinners. When will men take responsibility for their sick actions, instead of once again blaming women for how messed up our society is?

Sick. How many times did I use that word this morning? There’s plenty more to say about this panel’s discussion. Your turn. Blog me.

Happy Monday – Let’s get this week off to a good start – OK? Thanks for being here with me. Peace out.

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What Does El Salvador And The GOP Have In Common?

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 1st June 2013

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The answer: They both want to control womens’ bodies.

Another example of how sick men can be.

Another good write from ThinkProgress. It seems their writes have been at the top of my radar lately, and rightly so. They are worthy of blog space.

Salvadoran Woman Has Been Denied A Life-Saving Abortion Even Though Her Fetus Is Missing Its Brain

El Salvador’s Supreme Court has decided to deny a 22-year-old woman a lifesaving abortion, ruling against making a medical exception to the conservative nation’s stringent abortion ban. Without an abortion, the woman will likely die — along with her nonviable fetus, which is missing its brain.

Identified in the press only as “Beatriz,” the young Salvadoran woman suffers from a chronic health condition that worsens when she is pregnant, and her doctors have warned that she is at “high risk of death” if she continues to carry her fetus. Several ultrasounds have revealed that, even if Beatriz does survive to carry the fetus to full term, it has virtually no chance of survival because it has no brain.

Beatriz has been fighting for an abortion for the past three months, and several international human rights organizations have taken up her case. But it’s been an uphill battle in her deeply Catholic nation, where abortion is illegal under absolutely all circumstances and punishable by up to 30 years in prison. After El Salvador’s attorney general refused to grant Beatriz and her doctors an exception to the harsh law, the pregnant woman turned to the Supreme Court.

And on Wednesday, the highest court in the country denied Beatriz permission to access the medical care that would save her life. El Salvador’s Supreme Court took several weeks to deliberate Beatriz’s case in consultation with the Institute of Legal Medicine, which advises the court on medical issues. The Institute determined that Beatriz’s health “was not yet in absolute danger.”

There are no options left. “We cannot appeal the case because this was the last step, the Supreme Court,” Victor Hugo Mata, the lawyer representing Beatriz, told CBS News.

Beatriz has been hospitalized for the last several months, separated from her husband and 14-month-old son. And even though the country’s Institute of Legal Medicine claims that Beatriz isn’t in critical condition yet, a group of her doctors have warned that her health is deteriorating daily. Earlier this month, Beatriz recorded a personal appeal to her president to intervene and save her life. “President Mauricio Funes Cartagena, help me please,” she begged. “This baby inside me cannot survive. I am ill. I want to live… I want to live for my son.” That help has not come for Beatriz.

“It’s a situation where the risk increases as time goes on — and a lot of the risks could have been avoided if the Salvadoran government had reasonable regulations in place that when the life of the mother is at risk, the health of the mother is threatened, there would be an exception to their outright ban on abortions,” Larry Ladutke, an Amnesty Internationl specialist on El Salvador, explained.

Lilian Sepúlveda, the global legal program director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement that the Supreme Court’s decision to deny Beatriz a life-saving abortion is “an appalling and disgraceful violation of her fundamental human rights” and pointed out that “Salvadoran women have been paying an unacceptably high price for El Salvador’s abortion ban.” Unfortunately, this isn’t unique to Beatriz’s country. Around the world, thousands of women die every year because they lack access to safe reproductive care. Even here in the United States, where women have the right to legal abortion services, anti-choice lawmakers have still successfully imposed barriers to reproductive care — even in similar situations as Beatriz’s, when women are carrying fetuses with no brain function.

UPDATE 

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the highest human rights courts in the Americas, has ordered El Salvador to provide Beatriz with the care that will save her life. This is the first case on abortion that the court has ever considered. As RH Reality Check reports, since El Salvador is a member state of the Organization of American States and a signatory of the American Convention on Human Rights, its government is obligated to comply with the Inter-American Court’s order — and has until June 7 to provide a report that proves that it’s doing so.

UPDATE

El Salvador’s Health Minister announced on Thursday that Beatriz will be allowed to end her pregnancy by having a Cesarean section. Because her pregnancy is past 26 weeks, the country’s health officials now have the authority to decide which medical procedures she may receive to safeguard her life. A C-section is not the same thing as an abortion procedure, but it will achieve the same ends. Beatriz’s nonviable fetus is not expected to survive the surgery.

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And then you’ve got women such as Lila Rose, president of the anti-abortion activist group Live Action, who said the case has not convinced her that abortion should be allowed under any circumstances. Gee, thanks Lila for your support. You are certainly a girl’s girl. I wonder if you would say the same same thing if it were your life about to be lost for a baby that is brain dead and won’t survive.

Who else wants to make what’s under my skirt their business? Who else wants to rile me up and try and make decisions over my body, my life? Anybody? Oh yeah, don’t let me forget the good ‘ol GOP -  They have their two to throw in. Actually more than two.

Here’s 5 lies the LSOS GOP’s like to tell about women’s bodies.

1.

Birth Control Causes Prostate Cancer
Earlier this year, a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.

“As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?” state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing, the Merrimack Patch reports.

“In the children that are born from these women?” he asked. Notter could not clearly explain the study or how the pill results in prostate cancer.

The study described in the newsletter of Dr. David Brownstein, a physician and holistic practitioner in Michigan, suggests men may ingest estrogen through environmental contamination, not in utero from mothers taking birth control. An author of the study told ABC News, “This is just a hypothesis-generating idea. Women should not be throwing away the pill because of this.”

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Abortion Causes Breast Cancer
The New Hampshire House in 2012 passed a billthat would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:

Materials that inform the pregnant woman that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer. It is scientifically undisputed that full-term pregnancy reduces a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer. It is also undisputed that the earlier a woman has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes, because following a full-term pregnancy the breast tissue exposed to estrogen through the menstrual cycle is more mature and cancer resistant. In fact, for each year that a woman’s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5 percent. The theory that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer builds upon this undisputed foundation. During the first and second trimesters of pregnancy the breasts develop merely by duplicating immature tissues. Once a woman passes the thirty-second week of pregnancy (third trimester), the immature cells develop into mature cancer resistant cells. When an abortion ends a normal pregnancy, the woman is left with more immature breast tissue than she had before she was pregnant.

There is no link between abortions and breast cancer, according to the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society and other major health organizations. Similar provisions requiring doctors to make the abortion-breast cancer connection remain on the books in other state laws. Alaska, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas all inaccurately assert a risk in written counseling materials, according to theGuttmacher Institute, a New York-based reproductive health research organization.

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Birth Control Is A Sex Pill
Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration’s contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.”She wants to be paid to have sex,” Limbaugh said. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”Rick Santorum has also said that contraception encourages a bad kind of sex. Last year, in an interview with the Evangelical blog Caffeinated Thoughts, Santorum warned of the “dangers of contraception:”

“It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act.”

Most women who have had sex have used contraception. Birth control pills — which are taken daily, regardless of how frequently a woman has sex — may also be taken to manage endometriosis, ovarian cysts, acne or other health problems. A bill in Arizona proposed penalizing women who use the pill for non-medical reasons.

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Abortion Industry Is ‘Selling Abortions’
A Republican state legislator in Arizona wrote in an email to a constituent earlier this year that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.”Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ‘surgical procedure,’” state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was “speechless” and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proudissued a statement:

For too long, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have placed selling abortions above the health and safety of women. My message to a constituent last week emphasized my concerns with how abortion providers have not been honest with women about the realities of abortion, and the short and long-term risks of this dangerous surgical procedure.

The notion that Planned Parenthood baits women into unwanted pregnancies by providing ineffective contraception then profits off the abortions is nothing new, but it’s as outrageous as it sounds. Abortions constitute 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services, and the organization estimates it prevents more than 220,000 abortions each year by providing contraception. Because Planned Parenthood isnot allowed to use federal funds for abortions, defunding the program may limit contraception services and result in more abortions.

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Women Can’t Get Pregnant From Rape
Just before Idaho’s Senate withdrew a mandatory ultrasound bill in March, a Republican bill sponsormade some startling comments about abortion and rape.”Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this,” said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”It wasn’t the first time a lawmaker has suggested that women seeking abortions may lie about rape. Some anti-abortion activists actually believe that rape cannot result in pregnancy. Buzzfeed dug up a series of bizarre statementsRepublicans have made about pregnancy, rape, juices not flowing and more. Here’s one:

The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.

The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.

Two Philadelphia doctors specializing in human reproduction characterized Freind’s contention as scientifically baseless.

According to Planned Parenthood, about 5 percent of rapes result in pregnancy, and providing all rape victims with emergency contraception could prevent more than 22,000 unwanted pregnancies a year.

Correction: A previous version of this text misstated the status of Idaho’s mandatory ultrasound bill legislation. Lawmakers ultimately decided to table the measure.

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Readers: Are 5 lies enough? Nope not for the GOP. Want more? Click here as unfortunately there are more lies to be revealed. It isn’t a pretty picture for us girls. (sigh)

 

We can talk abortion and go around and around forever saying this and that…and it all comes down to one thing: Catholicism is the reason we women are in the position we are in – it is the bane of all women. And when women can’t or won’t support women in their right to choose, their right to decide what is best for themselves, their bodies and their lives, and they put it into the hands of men…well…what more can I say, it ruins our chances for making progress, being in control, and making our own decisions, etc. for all women. Blog me your thoughts.

 

Happy Saturday! Thanks for being here with me. Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Flap Your Lips Friday

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 31st May 2013


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Good morning!

 

Another write from ThinkProgress:

Justice Scalia: Ensuring Innocent People Get Out Of Prison Is A ‘Faustian Bargain’

A man who may be locked up for a murder he did not commit should not be allowed to challenge his conviction, according to Justice Antonin Scalia and his three most conservative colleagues. And three members of the Supreme Court seem to believe that most people jailed due to unconstitutional convictions should have no recourse to the federal courts. At least, that’s what emerges from a four justice dissenting opinion written by Scalia in a case dealing with the rights of state prisoners who may be “actually innocent” of the crime they were convicted of committing.

McQuiggin v. Perkins is a fairly unusual case. After being sentenced to life in prison for murder, Floyd Perkins spent years gathering three affidavits from witnesses corroborating his claim that another man committed the crime. Yet he sat on this new evidence for nearly six years before presenting it to a federal court. Justice Scalia’s dissent claims that a one year statute of limitations prevents Perkins from presenting six year-old evidence that he may be innocent. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s majority opinion holds that “actual innocence” may overcome this one year time limit, although she also requires prisoners in Perkins’ shoes to overcome a very high bar before their claims of innocence may succeed in federal court.

Beyond the narrow issue presented by this case, however, the final paragraphs of Scalia’s opinion — three paragraphs that conservative Justice Samuel Alito pointedly chooses not to endorse — suggest a massive contraction of prisoners’ rights. Earlier in his opinion, Scalia claims that state prisoners’ right to challenge their conviction in federal court was “radically expanded in the early or mid-20th century to include review of the merits of conviction and not merely jurisdiction of the convicting court.” This is likely a reference to a controversial theory, championed by a young future Chief Justice William Rehnquist and later promoted by a conservative law professor named Paul Bator, that federal courts traditionally could not overrule state convictions so long as the defendant enjoyed minimal safeguards such as “counsel to argue all his points to the trial court, [access to] the state appellate courts” and the ability to seek Supreme Court review.

Scalia’s final paragraphs claim that the practice of allowing broad challenges to unconstitutional state convictions, including cases where a state prisoner may in fact be innocent, was a “Faustian bargain that traded the simple elegance of the common-law writ of habeas corpus for federal-court power to probe the substantive merits of state-court convictions.” As Scalia warns, permitting state prisoners to challenge their conviction in federal court leads to “floods of stale, frivolous and repetitious petitions [which] inundate the docket of the lower courts and swell our own.”

Justice Scalia is correct that judges have to do more work if potential innocents are allowed to seek vindication. Unlike prisoners locked up for crimes they did not commit, however, those judges will also get to go home every day.

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Readers: How cold and cruel can you be. It is so easy to just leave an innocent person in prison when it is not you or someone you care about that is innocently left behind bars with no recourse. Can you believe that Scalia is more concerned about inundating the docket of the courts, than the livelihood of innocent people in jail? Yep, I can believe it. Scalia has no feelings but for himself and his own.

Thoughts? It’s Friday…Blog me.

David: Patience is its own reward. :) I just got  Zen Lill’s fashion picks yesterday – You can expect to see them this weekend!

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Obama Cares

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 30th May 2013

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Good morning!

 

You would think that because the republicans have tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act so many times, that it was the worst kind of health care reform imaginable. Nope. Not the case at all. We don’t need to get rid of ACA, we just need to get rid of the racist repubs who really don’t care about lives, and who are doing anything they can to ensure Obama and whatever he does is a failure, regardless of all the lives that will be saved because of ACA.

I cannot wait until next year when people really get to see and experience the benefits of ACA. Millions of peoples’ lives will be changed and saved because of Obama and the ACA. Will they be appreciative? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Here’s a write from the New York Times:

The Obamacare Shock

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Published: May 26, 2013

The Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, goes fully into effect at the beginning of next year, and predictions of disaster are being heard far and wide. There will be an administrative “train wreck,” we’re told; consumers will face a terrible shock. Republicans, one hears, are already counting on the law’s troubles to give them a big electoral advantage.

No doubt there will be problems, as there are with any large new government initiative, and in this case, we have the added complication that many Republican governors and legislators are doing all they can to sabotage reform. Yet important new evidence — especially from California, the law’s most important test case — suggests that the real Obamacare shock will be one of unexpected success.

Before I can explain what the news means, I need to make a crucial point: Obamacare is a deeply conservative reform, not in a political sense (although it was originally a Republican proposal) but in terms of leaving most people’s health care unaffected. Americans who receive health insurance from their employers, Medicare or Medicaid — which is to say, the vast majority of those who have any kind of health insurance at all — will see almost no changes when the law goes into effect.

There are, however, millions of Americans who don’t receive insurance either from their employers or from government programs. They can get insurance only by buying it on their own, and many of them are effectively shut out of that market. Insome states, like California, insurers reject applicants with past medical problems. In others, like New York, insurers can’t reject applicants, and must offer similar coverage regardless of personal medical history (“community rating”); unfortunately, this leads to a situation in which premiums are very high because only those with current health problems sign up, while healthy people take the risk of going uninsured.

Obamacare closes this gap with a three-part approach. First, community rating everywhere — no more exclusion based on pre-existing conditions. Second, the “mandate” — you must buy insurance even if you’re currently healthy. Third, subsidies to make insurance affordable for those with lower incomes.

Massachusetts has had essentially this system since 2006; as a result, nearly all residents have health insurance, and the program remains very popular. So we know that Obamacare — or, as some of us call it, ObamaRomneyCare — can work.

Skeptics argued, however, that Massachusetts was special: it had relatively fewuninsured residents even before the reform, and it already had community rating. What would happen elsewhere? In particular, what would happen in California, where more than a fifth of the nonelderly population is uninsured, and the individual insurance market is largely unregulated? Would there be “sticker shock” as the price of individual policies soared?

Well, the California bids are in — that is, insurers have submitted the prices at which they are willing to offer coverage on the state’s newly created Obamacare exchange. And the prices, it turns out, are surprisingly low. A handful of healthy people may find themselves paying more for coverage, but it looks as if Obamacare’s first year in California is going to be an overwhelmingly positive experience.

What can still go wrong? Well, Obamacare is a complicated program, basically because simpler options, like Medicare for all, weren’t considered politically feasible. So there will probably be a lot of administrative confusion as the law goes into effect, again especially in states where Republicans have been doing their best to sabotage the process.

Also, some people are too poor to afford coverage even with the subsidies. These Americans were supposed to be covered by a federally financed expansion of Medicaid, but in states where Republicans have blocked Medicaid expansion, such unfortunates will be left out in the cold.

Still, here’s what it seems is about to happen: millions of Americans will suddenly gain health coverage, and millions more will feel much more secure knowing that such coverage is available if they lose their jobs or suffer other misfortunes. Only a relative handful of people will be hurt at all. And as contrasts emerge between the experience of states like California that are making the most of the new policy and that of states like Texas whose politicians are doing their best to undermine it, the sheer meanspiritedness of the Obamacare opponents will become ever more obvious.

So yes, it does look as if there’s an Obamacare shock coming: the shock of learning that a public program designed to help a lot of people can, strange to say, end up helping a lot of people — especially when government officials actually try to make it work.

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Blog me.

Anonymous: Exactly. That is what I want to know. Perhaps Sandberg will chime in, and give us an answer.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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