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- whatthefunk1
I'm a former healthcare insurance CEO — here's why the Obamacare 'Repeal and Replace' won't work
...when the time came to pay up for risk reduction in the Obamacare exchanges, Congress reneged and paid only 12 percent of what was owed to the insurers. So, on top of the fact that the companies had to bear the risk of unknown costs and utilization in the start-up years, which turned out to be higher than they expected, insurers had to absorb legislative uncertainty of whether the rules would be rewritten.
It is no wonder that this year they have dramatically increased premiums, averaging 20 percent, to compensate for the extra risk they didn’t factor into the original lower rates. In contrast, underlying health costs are rising at about 5 percent.
- They won't repeal but make plans to redo.robotron3k
- Yes, we know robo. Trump lied about that too. Your point is?monospaced
- They are going to vote to repeal it probably within the next couple days with no real plan to replace.yuekit
- too much insurance and middlemen is the problem with healthcare costs. so so simple********
- @deathboy maybe you should share your so so simple ideas with lawmakers and the industry instead of keeping the solution to yourself! SELFISH!********
- Someone forgot to read the entire article.utopian
- Congress did not honor the deal. But when the time came to pay up for risk reduction in the Obamacare exchanges, Congress reneged and paid only 12 percentutopian
- @nb. they have the info. but they have no intention of lowering costs or making service better. those were 2 things they stayed away from mentionin on obamacare********
- unless it was at costs for few after subsidization only and not mentioning total costs or cost controls. just have to understand gov creates most problems********
- I think one big catalyst was wage restrictions when rationing for war help spur the idea of offering insurance. And a big second medicare/medicaid in 60s********
- Gardener3
- my invited?********
- How many "typefaces" can you find? Guess correctly and win free VIP entry.Fax_Benson
- two rockettes lolzzzzCygnusZero4
- Performances by QBN font cooper black********
- my invited?
- ********-5
Lots of entertainment going on with this.
- https://www.youtube.…Gnash
- lol at the Ana Kasparian in that parody.********
- What are you thoughts on Alex Jones? I mean, in a way it's ironic you post this as Alex - arguably the mouthpiece for certain types of Republicans -kona
- makes these two palpable.kona
- He's also won over many Independents as well as Democrats, though claiming himself a Libertarian. Globalists and corporate interests fear him.********
- As far as your "i" in ironic is concerned. I'm not posting this as anyone other than myself...********
- lol. Only Alex has the power to summon the demonic presence of others such as Hillary Clinton
https://www.youtube.…******** - lol, he's not winning over intelligent people, that's for suremonospaced
- Besides having an audience 40x greater than TYT, 70% of Alex Jones' audience have some College or greater.********
- TYT followers statistically are 68% more intelligent with 78% higher IQ. Also, of AJ's audience who went to college, 98% went to Community College.kona
- The other 2% graduated bottom of their class (on an average of 74%) from Phoenix EDU online college.kona
- I believe we're pulling our numbers from the same reputable sources. Correct?kona
- It's not like truth is going to change your mind, especially since you're more than willing to build a story upon lies and fake news kona.********
- If you saw the video, it shows audience statistics of AJ vs TYT. The rest you can easily find online.********
- Since you also seem to think one can measure intelligence by the amount of money people have for school. Note who is making more money in those AJ vs TYT stats********
- at least no one here parrots what ever young turks say. from you, omg, we basically have an Alex Jones mouthpiece on qbn.inteliboy
- i am not. Jones can be ridiculously funny at times, but I thought these insights of Sargon of Akkad was much more humorous.********
- TYT sucks. It's just pandering to the left, it's not the news. That said, Alex Jones is RIDICULOUS.********
- Both shows are a waste of time and bandwidth, but Alex Jones is some next-level ridiculous shit.********
- ^ what nb said.Gnash
- Yep...calling the Dems out as cucks is pandering. TYT rules.see_thru
- The term cucks is a badge of honor worn by many feminazis. A high salute to you and their men.********
- Is that right...see_thru
- It was the best definition I found for the word cuck.********
- The correct definition relates to someone (more often a male) who is subservient.see_thru
- So D-Trump having his tiny dick stuck in the USA’s big fat titty-ed ass...see_thru
- while the Dems are on their hands and knees watching along...see_thru
- ...was summed up correctly in TYT’s cuck analogy.see_thru
- So then I was on the right track.********
- USA is going to have to trim that fat, it's going to be a lot of work for everyone.********
- No. And your use of the term feminazis kind of reinforces how uninformed you are.see_thru
- GeorgesII-3
does black lives really matter?
- charmingGnash
- idiotsdbloc
- and you want to move to the states lol_niko
- #magamonospaced
- "The victim, who has special needs, was a high-risk missing person from northwest suburban Crystal Lake"Gnash
- Four people are now in custody, police said.
http://www.cbsnews.c…Gnash - hopefully it gets prosecuted as a hate crimeGnash
- won't happen. White Americans view blacks as inferior and therefore think they don't know any better and it's not their fault._niko
- if they truly viewed them as equals, they would treat this as a hate crime. If they viewed them as equals they would shut down the BLM movement_niko
- if they viewed them as equals they wouldn't allow affirmative action. If they viewed them as equals, Chicago wouldn't have the problems it's having._niko
- it's misguided liberal white guilt that's trying to do the right thing, but in reality is making things a million times worse._niko
- This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on spam, deceptive practices, and scams.utopian
- it's so funny that they didn't take the adam saleh video down when it was revealed to be a total spam, deceptive and a scam,..GeorgesII
- agreed 1000% percent, liberal view blacks as inferior, so they will bring all kind of excuses for this degeneracy, imagine if it was the inverse situation..GeorgesII
- Equality of outcome is this societies cancer right now. equality of opportunity is seen as racist.Gnash
- dbloc7
Bernie Just Printed a Gigantic Trump Tweet and Brought It to the Senate Floor
- Bernie, the Monday morning quarterback politician. Let me make this perfectly clear, why does anyone have respect for this chump. Major letdown.robotron3k
- You made nothing perfectly clear.monospaced
- The real question is why anyone has respect for a lying and unqualified chump like trump.monospaced
- Perfectly clear!********
- Muricuh doesn't deserve Berniemoldero
- he printed tweet. than what? any substance? more importantly does he even realize what he protects is the cause of the problems he's against? sigh********
- He printed the tweet to highlight that trump is a liar and his supporters have been conned. What is hard to understand about that?lowimpakt
- He doesn't want Medicare cut. It's perfectly clear. Trump promised not to touch it. Repeatedly.monospaced
- so clearly fakefruitsalad
- it's not fakemonospaced
- https://www.c-span.o…R_Kercz
- i mean its grandstanding against no known plan to cut for no known reasons, just calling out a typical pol BS lie. no substance, but works for ent media share********
- and still he doesn't realize that what he is supporting has caused the problems he complains about more so than any other. to me that says more than a tweet********
- Gnash3
- Well everyone knew there was a chance he'd just fall in to line and play the narrative just like every other president...********
- Obama made bigger broken promises. I think they genuinely believe the promises they make but then realise they don't have any power at all when it comes to it.********
- Hilarious - voters duped again. Basing your whole campaign on a simple promise/principle and then breaking it before even entering office is an unprecedentedfadein11
- kick in the teeth to the people who voted for him.fadein11
- lol the simpleton has arrived********
- "Well everyone knew there was a chance he'd just fall in to line and play the narrative just like every other president..." lolzfadein11
- https://ugc.kn3.net/…fadein11
- Relentless simpleton********
- Yet more unprovoked personal insults when I comment on someone else's post. For all to see. Fucking useless troll.fadein11
- Globalist fear him. Too bad for them, America can be a fulltime job. Implying neglect and abandonment of Americans is how they lost in the first place.********
- lol fadein the victim********
- God you are boring. Can we not do this boring side note shit you spent most of last year provoking? Remember the agreement retard.fadein11
- to be fair to Obama, if he didn't have the repubs blocking his every, tiny move, even when there was consensus between them, he could have accomplished more.Gnash
- in many ways it's amazing he was able to accomplish anything with all that (seemingly) spiteful oppositionGnash
- @fade, these side notes are for discussion, not just sycophantic agreement.Gnash
- I don't think trump intentionally duped anyone. I just don't think he thought that far ahead and when the time came he got played by the back-room boys.Gnash
- @gnash - these side notes are for discussion not randomly calling people a simpleton because you disagree. Read the notes yeah?fadein11
- @gnash - I agree to a certain degree - but I also think it is terrifying that he could have been that naive. Really? And now he's the president?fadein11
- A little like Brexit - its quite scary how clueless these individuals who control our futures actually are. You are saying there was zero strategy? Terrifying.fadein11
- @gnash - totally agree with your obama comments - totally. He didn't stand a chance.fadein11
- I'm no pundit but I really don't think he had a strategy other than simple ideas like 'drain the swamp'. without an idea of how to get there.Gnash
- but i really don't think people voted him in as much as they voted HRC out.Gnash
- re set. He wasn't randomly calling you a simpleton any more than you randomly call people fascists or racists.Gnash
- Scary - but yes, I think you may be right. And I will state again I always thought Hillary was a terrible candidate - it was an awful election to vote in.fadein11
- The arguments that Obama was a warmonger are pretty naive also. The US has been in perpetual war since WWII - it's a big part of the economy - he had no chancefadein11
- yup. crazy times for sure!Gnash
- of stopping that also. And if he tried he would have been assassinated. I seriously doubt the Trump administration will put forward a different foreign policyfadein11
- But I digress.fadein11
- once trump sees what money his family can make from war, I imagine he'll find it a good ideaGnash
- Destroy infrastructure (paid for by the US taxpayer) then rebuild infrastructure (profits to the elite). Revolution must be on the cards at some point (and notfadein11
- voting for an orange reality TV star).fadein11
- "not by voting for" - missed the byfadein11
- Cool story bro********
- lolfadein11
- Well everyone knew there was a chance he'd just fall in to line and play the narrative just like every other president...
- GeorgesII-5
- media VIX spike! buy buy buy on race cards!********
- bitches ain't shitBonSeff
- are you downvoting georges or the video lol, the dude is pretty spot on if over the top._niko
- not sure why the dv's -- they never make sense to me anywayGnash
- Obama's response?....********
- White House Press Secretary Josh ^ ^"Earnest said Thursday he has not spoken to President Obama about whether he's seen the video, but said ...Gnash
- ... he's "confident he'd be angered by the images that are depicted on that video."Gnash
- Hopefully he gets to see the White House for all the pain he suffered.********
- media VIX spike! buy buy buy on race cards!
- Gnash0
- too bad vid cuts off early, would liked to have heard more of Simone's reasoningGnash
- wake up!utopian
- HATE CRIME CHARGES FILED AGAINST 4 IN FACEBOOK LIVE TORTURE CASE
(not my caps)Gnash - http://abc7chicago.c…Gnash
- they all want so hard to find a way to say this isn't a hate crime... they appear and sound SO DESPERATE... if the victim was black and the thugs white...PonyBoy
- ... the outrage would deafening. Instead these pundits can't help but try and pussyfoot around reality almost w/a 'kids will be kids' attitude... what cowardsPonyBoy
- "I don't think it was evil" -lemon
victim child gagged, cut, held at knifepoint.******** - it's a hate crime two ways; race and disability.Gnash
- If this is a hate crime, will this concern Black Lives Matter?********
- It's evil and they should arrest the parents as well. This should be the new punishment for all crimes.robotron3k
- the media are licking their lips - this is ratings gold.inteliboy
- utopian3
- Uhhhhh. That was not the plan Trump.monospaced
- he'll say mexico will pay for it through import taxesGnash
- and through their labour lol_niko
- but really, who truly thought that the mexicans would actually agree to pay for this?Gnash
- the only way to do it would have been through tariffsGnash
- @Gnash 1) The Trump supporters who chanted "build that wall" did 2) There are no tariffs on goods passing between the US and Mexico,...kona
- there hasn't been for 20 years (NAFTA). This is also the reason why most of Trumps shitty expensive clothes are made in... Mexico.kona
- So the question really should be... would Trump add tariffs to his own (and his childrens) clothing lines being made in Mexico?!?kona
- We should definitely consider investing into catapults and a big gigantic oversized robot to guard the gates with that wall.********
- true kona, but trump also talked about dumping 'bad nafta' and renegotiating all the other 'bad agreements'.Gnash
- to be clear, I'm not endorsing it, just trying to clarifyGnash
- He also talked about repealing Obamacare... building a wall... Indicting Clinton... deportation promises... pulling out of Paris climate agreement...kona
- ... point is... he's talked about so much. Now, will he DO it, or will he back away from it (like all of the above).kona
- Pretty sure omg not only believed the wall would be built and paid for by Mexico but also posted several times about how it was a good thing.monospaced
- Based on his rabid and overly enthusiastic stance on the subject, most would conclude that was a major reason he got omgs vote.monospaced
- Gnash9
I lol'd when I saw this
- sted6
- Uniformed or uninformed..********
- not enough people are willing to 69, these days.Fax_Benson
- Fax Benson just found the way to bring Democrats and Republicans togethersarahfailin
- It's the letter g.********
- Uniformed or uninformed..
- BonSeff7
- wowmonospaced
- I can hear the German Lady yelling:
DEFUND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT!!!BonSeff - +100 .. perfectRamanisky2
- Gnash-4
- can't see this being real, but these are crazy times. wouldn't be surprisedGnash
- there was a video about this clovergendered guy who didn't have arms. i can't seem to find it.********
- michael jackson?_niko
- @niko, that's what I was thinkingmonospaced
- Cloverfield makes so much more sense nowkona
- Ramanisky26
- What a sad person.R_Kercz
- did he just refer to himself as "the ratings machine" in writing?monospaced
- these have got to be cocaine tweets.fadein11
- LOLRamanisky2
- I really want to confront an idiot that voted for this moron. Sadly, I only know one and he's states away.formed
- On the same day as he's briefed on the Russian's hack and support of his campaign.monospaced
- I feel sorry for all of the people who voted for the orange orangutan. #MAGAutopian
- Embarrassing.monospaced
- #MAGAutopian
- oh boyGnash
- Your future role model kidsqoob
- BuddhaHat2
I couldn't find it using the search, but many many pages back I said that whether or not it was proven that Russian officials were involved in influencing the US election that Putin and his high-ranking KGB friends would be toasting to Trump's victory, and now today WaPo releases this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/w…
"Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications in the aftermath of the election in which Russian officials congratulated themselves on the outcome."Upon the release of this information, which was further shared by NBC news, Trump has announced an investigation into NBC for receiving the information before he did.
So, this gigantically insecure and stupid man-baby has announced an investigation into NBC, an outlet that didn't even make the initial release (WaPo did):
"Trump appears to have gotten a number of important details wrong about the NBC story. No one “gave” NBC the top-secret report, as Trump claimed. As the NBC story notes, the official quoted by the network never even saw a copy of the intelligence report; he or she just repeated to NBC what someone had said about its findings."
So, Trump's priority is to investigate the outlet that hurt his feelings/ego, not to investigate the evidence that a totalitarian dictator and established opponent of the US directly interfered in US political activities.
The world is soon going to run out of similes and historical comparisons to illustrate how fucking stupid and narcissistic Trump really is; he's truly lowering the bar, way way down into the swamp.
- Amazing no one complained when foreign governments interfered in US political activities on Hillary Clinton's side during her tenure and the elections. pfft********
- jesus, shut the fuck up already omg. yet again, you can't respond without saying 'CLINTON' or 'DEMOCRATS'BuddhaHat
- and which govts are you talking about? and what interference? and what measurable gain did she experience from this...BuddhaHat
- alleged interference?BuddhaHat
- NB: politicians saying 'we support Clinton because she's a better candidate than Trump for a laundry list of reasons'BuddhaHat
- lol, are those the new rules so you can win a debate or discussion? Then you cannot use the word "TRUMP" or 'REPUBLICANS" so that it's fair.********
- is not 'interference' in political activitiesBuddhaHat
- Trump is the subject of this post, Clinton or the democrats are not the subject of the article.BuddhaHat
- and they're not 'rules', you just drag the conversation into the stupidest of places with these false flags you keep flyingBuddhaHat
- that's all you can do, you can't read the article and respond to it, all you can come up with is 'but Clinton did the same', and it's not even true.BuddhaHat
- and because it's not true, you're either stupid or deliberately trying to mislead the conversation.BuddhaHat
- please, try and actually say something about Trump and his actions in response to the hacks, and the NBC 'non-report'BuddhaHat
- it's a legitimate assessment of foreign influence on US politics. I'm not going to tiptoe around her name usage, just so you can make a comparative thought. ffs********
- defend his actions, tell us why this information is wrong, or why it shouldn't concern everyone.BuddhaHat
- you're the one making it comparative you moron. you know, in that part where you compared it to Clinton?BuddhaHat
- but please, don't let me stop you trying to defend Trump on this one... do go on...BuddhaHat
- just try, as I have previously requested, to not mention his opponents, when they have absolutely nothing to do with itBuddhaHat
- show me the money and I'll take your side on this one. but right now, no one has direct proof of Russian gov't involvement.********
- and before you go on about defending "TRUMP" which you weren't supposed to use his name. We're defending America.********
- here's the 'money' https://www.scribd.c…BuddhaHat
- as I have stated, Trump is the subject of this post. Clinton, who you mentioned, is not. at all. in any way, shape or form.BuddhaHat
- yet it's your utterly predictable, nonsensical, idiotic go-to in every one of these situations.BuddhaHat
- and how is investigating NBC and not investigating foreign interference in the election process 'defending America?'BuddhaHat
- It's sad that millions of Americans buy that kind of meaningless drivel.BuddhaHat
- Khizr Khan would wave his little constitutional pocket book at you right now, if he heard what you said about America right now.********
- I was trying to establish the level of acceptance of foreign meddling in US politics.********
- There was plenty of foreign meddling during the election which can be measured financially.********
- omfg ... this is about an insecure jerk going after a tv network because he is butthurt and misunderstands how Russia helped him become PRESIDENT OF THE US.monospaced
- Pictures of Putin smiling with his pals is not proof of their involvement with US elections. At most they are fans watching the Super Bowl.********
- Clinton isn't really comparable when you take it for what it is.monospaced
- At the same time, the CIA is skipping around with allegations with no proof. You'd think after this long, they would have some by now.********
- omg, I already showed you the 'money'. your claim of no proof is again, either evidence of your stupidity or you being misleadingBuddhaHat
- #MRGAutopian
- The Khizr Khan comment is so off the mark as to make it the diarrhoea icing on your piece of shit argument.BuddhaHat
- Not one mention of WikiLeaks in the entire document. why is this?********
- Because it's a document prepared by US intelligence services. just like Clinton, Wikileaks has nothing to do with it.BuddhaHat
- ps. that last post read like an illogical Trump tweet. 'Ben & Jerry's release new ice cream flavour. Foot Locker has no comment. Why is this?'BuddhaHat
- The US citizens made their votes. Your claim is they were influenced then by what means if not by WikiLeaks or rigging the voting machines?********
- how can you be asking that if you read enough to not see reference to Wikileaks in there? it explains exactly how.BuddhaHat
- NBC and WikiLeaks are both publishing platforms. NBC and the document you sent me has "many" undisclosed sources.********
- However you'll trust NBC. The information you get from WikiLeaks comes from the same sources, you also trust.********
- So who exactly influence the US elections again?********
- Russian HTML coders?********
- omg, the intelligence services use undisclosed sources, or they wouldn't be useful sources for much longer, would they?BuddhaHat
- and again, it's funny that you claim to be 'defending america' and citing Khizr Khan waving a finger at me, when you're challenging...BuddhaHat
- the veracity of US intelligence servicesBuddhaHat
- your wikileaks/nbc sources comment is utter garbageBuddhaHat
- Wonder who these undisclosed sources could be. Maybe her friends in ISIS? Some more foreigner support? It's hard to tell where the hypocrisy begins and ends.********
- Actually with you, it never ends.********
- At least if you said Russian magic influenced the elections. Mono would have believed you.********
- God you're a fucking idiot, omg.BuddhaHat
- He's a big fan of the flying fingers.********
- Those things grab anything.********
- lol omg must be implying that both the CIA and FBI along with other top intelligence agencies made it all up and in fact had no proof at those hearings.monospaced
- Just monumentally, stupendously, amazingly, incredibly, jaw-droppingly, embarrassingly stupid.BuddhaHat
- i dismantled or discredited basically every statement you made in response to this post, so you finish with Clinton + ISIS. Idiocy.BuddhaHat
- It's just funny that my Khizr Khan had the constitution in his hand vs. your Khizr Khan did not.********
- ok now I'm leaning towards you being incredibly stupid, and becoming progressively more inebriated at the same time.BuddhaHat
- How much do you hate America again?********
- your comments are becoming increasingly unhinged.BuddhaHat
- LOLBuddhaHat
- Your Khizr Khan minus my Khizr Khan = how much I hate America. Which is to say.... you're an idiot.BuddhaHat
- You'd have them rolling in the aisles at the insane asylum, omg...BuddhaHat
- omg sometimes i can't decide that you're a blind patriot or just stupid:)sted
- Amazing no one complained when foreign governments interfered in US political activities on Hillary Clinton's side during her tenure and the elections. pfft
- ********-5
- Podesta's password wasn't 'password'. It wasn't even the one he used for his gmail. Try again.face_melter
- https://www.cybersco…face_melter
- pay attention to the content of the emails and not how they were attained... in doing so you'll understand why an oompa loompa is about to be sworn in <3PonyBoy
- lol @ examining servers - it's not the 90's.fadein11
- what pony said.Gnash
- ^ Yup. It's funny how T'er's deflect every single comment. How about those taxes? The wall? Shit, meeting with Kanye! It's a travesty and a joke.formed
- robotron3k-2
26,171 bombs on 7 countries were dropped by Obama last year. Quite a remarkable achievement.
- monospaced0
"Oh, I see. I might have brought it up. But not having to do with me, just I mean, the wind is a very deceiving thing. First of all, we don’t make the windmills in the United States. They’re made in Germany and Japan. They’re made out of massive amounts of steel, which goes into the atmosphere, whether it’s in our country or not, it goes into the atmosphere. The windmills kill birds and the windmills need massive subsidies. In other words, we’re subsidizing wind mills all over this country. I mean, for the most part they don’t work. I don’t think they work at all without subsidy, and that bothers me, and they kill all the birds. You go to a windmill, you know in California they have the, what is it? The golden eagle? And they’re like, if you shoot a golden eagle, they go to jail for five years and yet they kill them by, they actually have to get permits that they’re only allowed to kill 30 or something in one year. The windmills are devastating to the bird population, O.K. With that being said, there’s a place for them. But they do need subsidy. So, if I talk negatively. I’ve been saying the same thing for years about you know, the wind industry. I wouldn’t want to subsidize it. Some environmentalists agree with me very much because of all of the things I just said, including the birds, and some don’t. But it’s hard to explain. I don’t care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country."
Donald J. Trump
