For starters, our business doesn’t deal with life and death, you dumb shit, and our customers not only have a choice, but they have leverage. They don’t depend on us to live, so we have to strive to capture their business and compete with other companies to retain and expand market share. This is not the case for most…

Poor =/= lazy, and you’d be an idiot to buy into that narrative. Also, the mandate is the only way a national sort of plan would work, solely because that’s how literally every type of insurance works.

The funny thing is, before she got mega-famous, I liked her (back on Myspace) because she was so dry and witty in her blogs. Then, a friend of mine was on a large tour that she was also on (think: festival) and mentioned that she was basically shrieking at her staff the whole time and being generally unpleasant. Which…

It’s a bullshit excuse. I see people use that argument in the Northern states too — which is fucking ironic considering they were on the enemy/Yankee side of that “heritage”. They’re just proud of the heritage of white subjugation.

And by getting preventative care, and avoiding the last resort ER trip, it actually saves taxpayer dollars (which is, of course, the real bottom line for the GOP).

There are a lot of them in Idaho, too. It’s known as the Gadsden flag. I started seeing them much more often when the Tea Party movement took off in response to the Obama Administration.

I don’t know what she was trying to say, but didn’t she go hard for the Democratic party in the past like, 2 pres. elections? I think she’s arrogant as fuck, but I don’t get what her angle was.

Guy Fieri Chic

Will the Democrats be able to stop the change through the REINS act when they take seats in 2018?

Send what you wrote to your elected officials. Let them know the real impact of the legislation they celebrated with a round of Bud Lights on the Rose Garden.

It was, however that doesn’t change the fact that their coverage will be significantly better than what the majority can access, and it will be obviously funded by taxpayers.

More competent anyway. It would have probably been a bit more of the same (as Obama). Serious, informed, acting with decorum, grace, and a level head. She still would have been obstructed (if for nothing else than to keep seats) - despite her existing relationships “across the aisle”. She at least knew the ins and…

We’ve thought a lot of things wouldn’t happen.

I honestly think if it wasn’t a partisan issue where both sides are being petty and ineffectual, that the gov’t would be the best to manage it. That will never jive with the conservative agenda, but obviously a privatized system is garbage (hence why the ACA even came into being) and leaving it to the states would be…

Well, pre-natal care and monitoring the progress of the pregnancy, ultrasounds, testing (amniocentesis or whatever), any potential health issues with the mother (preeclampsia, etc.), any potential abnormalities with the fetus, etc.

Seriously. And when Dems take back the presidency, we’ll be back to GOP obstruction, making everything a time consuming fight just to restore basic standards of living.

Well, now you get plans that offer less coverage for more money. And with the loss of standard requirements (free preventative care, etc.) employers are probably going to find ways to cut corners, too.

I’m trying to convince my All-American SO that we should leave. In the interim, I’ve resorted to telling my inlaws that the grandbabies probably aren’t coming, as their party is hell bent on making it prohibitively expensive (and having/raising a baby wasn’t cheap to begin with).

Earlier this year I finally went to my physician, saw some specialists, and was diagnosed with ADHD, depression, and a sleeping disorder (genetic dopamine malfunction - basically I’m easily distracted, fatigued, and nocturnal). Oh, and I also received genetic testing, so that’s all on record too - including a greater…

If only he didn’t buy those (subsidized) iphones, he could have received proper care. /s