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POPS Cash for Cloture: Demcare Bribe List, Pt. II
1. The Hill reports that while Nelson credited Nebraska’s governor for giving him the idea to lobby for the government preference, Nebraska’s governor assailed the payoff: “Nebraskans did not ask for a special deal, only a fair deal,” Heineman said in a statement Sunday. In response, Nelson fired off a letter Sunday to Heineman saying he’s prepared to ask that the provision covering Nebraska’s Medicaid share “be removed from the amendment in conference, if it is your desire.” 2, Vermont and Massachusetts will get similar (though less generous) special treatment by the feds in covering Medicaid expansion costs. Combined with Nebraska’s tab, the exclusive clique’s payoffs will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion over 10 years. At least. 3, He’s plunging in the polls and in need of a little bacon to bring home. A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn ......
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POPSThe Reid Amendment: Sweetheart Deals and Interstate Warfare Massachusetts and Vermont have already expanded Medicaid eligibility so they would not have benefited from new federal financing under the original legislation. The Reid amendment provides a fix for these states. The increased federal spending will not increase insurance coverage, it will only substitute federal funds for state funds. Who are the losers? All the other states. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the Reid Amendment, total state funding for Medicaid and SCHIP will increase by $1 billion compared to the original legislation. Clearly if total state spending goes up and spending for a few favorite states goes down, then all the other states are picking up the tab. New federal rules will punish states that would use the flexibility of current law to increase the share paid by with local governments for Medicaid. California and New York historically have shared the cost and administration of Medicaid with counties and municipalities ......
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POPSMassachusetts auto insurance If you've been looking for information and price quotes on Massachusetts auto insurance, you've come to the right place. Before requesting a quote on an auto insurance premium, you can get to know the requirements for auto insurance under Massachusetts law. Once you understand what coverage is required and what coverage is optional, you can get policy quotes from several insurance carriers that are authorized to offer coverage in the state of Massachusetts.
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POPSObamaCare: A Bad Deal for Young Adults Massachusetts benefits from another type of subsidy that props up its regime of mandates and price controls: large subsidies from the federal government. In contrast, the United States as a whole has no external party it can exploit to subsidize a nationwide Massachusetts-style health care overhaul"unless Congress finances that overhaul through additional deficit spending, which is really just another way of taxing the young to subsidize the old. by Aaron Yelowitz Aaron Yelowitz is an associate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. This paper is based on a lecture delivered to the Undergraduate Economics Society at the University of Kentucky on October 1, 2009.
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POPSThis? You're going to cover this? so, let me get this straight - no single payer, "public" might not be an option, but one of your solutions to the problems we have with health care in this country is PAYING PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR YOU?!?
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POPS Examples Of What Not To Do at The Heartland Institute. "Not only has it failed to cover many people, but all the false promises surrounding it have distracted Maine from doing anything that would actually help improve the situation." 'Costly, Ineffective Failure' "Maine has one of the highest state and local tax burdens. We should not be adding more taxes for this boondoggle, particularly at a time when Maine families are struggling with record high gas and heating oil prices and an uncertain economy." Past a 'Train Wreck' John Garven, president-elect of the Illinois State Association of Health Underwriters, concurs. "Dirigo is the more 'mature' of the * two programs, and it is already past the train wreck stage ." * Massachusetts 'universal health care' schemes Maine Residents Angered by Expansion of Dirigo Program Subsidy
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POPSAn Obama speechwriter moves to Massachusetts...she can't afford health insurance An Obama speechwriter moves to Massachusetts, a state with "universal health care," and finds out she can't afford insurance. Turns out that individual mandates and the requirement that insurance cover everything for everybody make insurance super-expensive (exactly what some are warning will happen with ObamaCare.) It's like the saying goes, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free."
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POPS Universal Health Care Mecca In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at different times for John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Now, I'm paying attention because I'm a citizen up the creek without a paddle. Since I care more about my country than my personal pride, here's how I lost my insurance: I moved. That's right, I moved from Washington, D.C., back to Massachusetts, a state with universal health care. In D.C., I had a policy with a national company, an HMO, and surprisingly I was very happy with it. I had a fantastic primary care doctor at Georgetown University Hospital. As a self-employed writer, my premium was $225 a month, plus $10 for a dental discount. In Massachusetts, the cost for a similar plan is around $550, give or take a few dollars. My risk factors haven't changed. I didn't stop writing and become a stunt double. I don't smoke.
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POPSflorida auto insurance There are many people that will always take the minimum of what is required in order to save them added cost. In the state of Florida, it is required that everyone that owns their own transportation must obtain insurance for said vehicle. Provided they have a valid Florida license plate of course. Now, the minimum cost for coverage is ten thousand dollars for bodily injury to one person, twenty thousand dollars to all bodily injuries involved, and ten thousand dollars for property damage.
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POPSUSA: No Change! Obama fast wie Bush Der Medien-Messias und Heilsbringer bringt eines ganz sicher: No Change! Das Mediengeschöpf Obama zerbröselt! Obama ist damit nicht besser als Frau Merkel... - Merkel bestätigt Wahlbetrug - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt9XE_zMPLM ... aber, wer will das schon wahr haben? Am 17. August 2009 sprach Barack Obama an der Veterans of Foreign Wars Konferenz in Phoenix Arizona. Wenn man seine Rhetorik und Wortwahl anhört, dann unterscheidet sie sich in keiner Weise von dem was Bush früher von sich gab. Lesen Sie weiter: Obama spricht genau wie Bush, deshalb heisst er Obusher
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POPSMaxing Out The Race Card In contrast, what has Barack Obama done since becoming president? " Increased taxes to pay for the S-CHIP expansion, supported a cap and trade bill that amounts to a $1,500 to $4,000 tax increase on every American family, and has discussed tax increase to pay for his health care scheme. " Spending increases " a massive “stimulus,” a massive expenditure bill with 9,000 earmarks, and his trillion dollar plus health care scheme, $9 Trillion in deficit spending. " Government programs as morality, i.e. “God wants you to support nationalized health care.”) " Government funding and promotion of abortions " Mandates to buy health insurance " Appointing those who don’t pay their taxes and should to Cabinet and key advisory positions.
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POPSFor Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics! Interesting article! Learning mathematics, in particular statistics, is essential in times where everything is measured or quantified. We need people capable of analyzing data to identify trends and make accurate predictions.
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POPSWhat the Failure of the "Massachusetts Model" Tells Us About Health Care Reform Program costs have skyrocketed. Despite tax increases, the program faces huge deficits. The state is considering caps on insurance premiums, cuts in reimbursements to providers, and even the possibility of a "global budget" on health care spending" with its attendant rationing. A shortage of providers, combined with increased demand, is increasing waiting times to see a physician. With the “Massachusetts model” frequently cited as a blueprint for health care reform, it is important to recognize that giving the government greater control over our health care system will have grave consequences for taxpayers, providers, and health care consumers. That is the lesson of the Massachusetts model.
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POPS$1,000 Fine $1,000 fine for not purchasing something that you do not want. Something to think about as you celebrate Independence Day. Or maybe you are just going to watch fireworks.
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POPSIf you aren't sick now, you soon will be Unreal. But wait, Obama PROMISED his taxes would not effect anyone making under $250k a year. You mean he lied? No way. So, once GWB's tax cuts for the rich expire, the average family making $40,000 a year see an increase of over $1000 in federal taxes. Then, Cap & Trade will cost us around $4000 a year in higher utilities and costs (and I think that is way underestimated) Then, forced health care will run another $12k for a family. Then what? Wonder how we will pay to feed our kids? Oh, that's right, tax the "rich" and give the rest of us food stamps. Great plan. Really doubt it will workout for most of us.
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POPS3 Backward States - Well, really only 1, a Conservative one
So an always correct, irrefutable, preening popinjay makes an agenda driven claim that is obviously inaccurate on several levels. First, Indiana, is a conservative craphole (word selection determined by original clipper). Secondly, you certainly can make your first time ever initial application for unemployment benefits by phone in Massachusetts, and online in Illinois. I contacted both offices and was very specific in determining if I could file a first time ever initial unemployment benefit claim by the means "his royal jack***" claimed could not be done. I was assured that you most certainly could by a very helpful lady in Massachusetts, and a very helpful gentleman in Illinois. The gentleman from Illinois kept repeating "thousands and thousands and thousands" of people have filed their first time initial application for unemployment benefits online in Illinois. So I will leave it to his Royal Imminence Scatmaster to prove conservative Indiana is not a craphole.
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POPSBlv.it or Not! STILL PressuringCommunityBanks to make risky loans. Aw hell. Since it's mandated, we better make the risk acceptable; bundle the risky ones with the more secure and sell them up to Fannie & Freddie; and then other institutions will have to get in on it in order to get a share of the market (only reasonable) , and now there's real money in this, and Congress not only supports it they get downright pissy and stomp their feet if anyone tries to question the process, and they know that when it breaks down they already have picked out their targets for blame, so we better start selling insurance products on these things cause some will go bad but the Congressmen taking money from, I mean "running" FannieMae tell us it's all good so we aren't too worried about carrying enough capital on hand to meet normal insrnce. levels and there's so much $ being made we've ignited the lobe that kicks greed into the driver's seat and who-the-hell cares anymore....and WHAT?
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