That’s why we boosted the defense spending by 50 bil. You can’t expect Trump to increase the already inflated FEMA budget like he did with Defense. He’s a CONSERVATIVE after all.
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I liked the part where he said N Korea drops bombs on us cuz of his big mouth while hes safe and sound… I generally dont like his twitter fingers but a battle with Eminem would be good… Mostly cuz I know he cant win it
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He dont care about PR becuase they are brown and speak Spanish… No reason to candy coat it.
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So Trump just signed an executive order reinterpreting what “association” means in the ACA. Now groups like AARP, NRA, PETA can buy insurance as a group and buy non ACA compliant plans if they wish. Also the cross state lines will happen. Will take time to implement. Couldn’t find a full text yet. Just the news agency hot takes. Here’s a right and left one below.
This will kill the already moribund exchanges. Healthy people will all go join other groups and buy cheaper plans. Sick people will stay on the exchange. Good.
For those of us that don’t like executive orders changing legislation, this beast has been growing since long before Trump. May I remind you about DACA and all the other nonsense Obama pulled.
Goodell caving and asking owners to make standing mandatory. Ratings down 18% since same week 2015.
Sick people won’t stay on the exchanges, because the exchanges can’t survive without healthy individuals. At best, sick people will be priced out of the market; at worst, they will be unable to obtain coverage at all.
So healthy people (ie, the people who need insurance the least) will have it, while sick people (ie, the people who need insurance the most) won’t. And that strikes you as “good”?
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I read a pretty good, nuanced take on this the other day…I’ll try to find it, but the point was basically “ratings are down across a whole bunch of professional sports, and although it’s a convenient theory to say that the Kaepernick fallout and subsequent noise is to blame for the NFL’s decline, it’s probably a combination of a whole bunch of things including a changing media environment, increase in availability of things like NFL RedZone and following games basically live on Twitter, and other things. Worth noting, NASCAR ratings are down, too, despite their very strong public stances that all of their members will stand for the anthem, so attributing the NFL’s dropping ratings to the anthem protests alone is kind of ridiculous.”
That’s the paraphrase of what I remember off the top of my head, anyway.
I’ll see if I can find the source.
EDIT: here you go:
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Yep, this will force the ACA into a death spiral. Trump’s only concern is erasing anything and everything Obama did.
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Aren’t there two other tweets that go along with this one though?
If someone kneels during the national anthem I will not watch that sport. I will point out that they are incredibly wealthy and shouldn’t do that.
If someone says a veteran isn’t a war hero because war hero’s don’t get captured I will vote for him. I will not bring up the fact that this person saying this is a billionaire.
Trump voter logic.
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Here’s what he sent out today in regards to PR:
A billionaire who took multiple deferments from serving in Vietnam–four for college, and once he graduated (and was thus draft-eligible again), one for ‘bone spurs’ in his feet.
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I wonder how many trump voters are willing to die for a international dick swinging contest. Remember agent orange is safe. Its us that get bombed…the NFL is a distraction from Russia, N Korea, Gun violence, Puerto Rico, & overall shit show that is now. If u dont like it change channel. As far as health care goes Ive been on ACA and it has been getting worse. If he can fix it great but Im not confident hes smart enough
Yeah… That’s what I thought I had read earlier. The Fox headline is typical clickbait horseshit, like 80% of the critics.
Just want to point out, a lot of us could really say “I told you so” right now. But it’s not really relevant. The dems pushed through a garbage bill just to say “look we did it” rather than take time to craft something better. And it makes sense because they had to take advantage of their majorities, so they were pressed for time.
Thankfully some GOP people put principle above party and refused to vote for bad bills that replaced a bad bill.
That said, the political play here is then to let ACA tank, and use the “crisis” to pass garbage with some new’s name on it…
How was it clickbait? Interpreting his tweet as a warning seems apt.
Its all garbage…but Ive always had private insurance as im self employed… Pre ACA shit was crazy expensive and coverd nada… When ACA first dropped it was good. Lots of choices and good prices & good coverage. But over years its less choices and slightly higher price. Example originally I had bcb ppo silver for $95 a month. Copays $20 and prescription anywhere docs anwhere. Now closest thing is bcb epo bronze its $85 but is seldom taken copays same and prescriptions at wallmart only…hope that helps
“congress to decide how much to spend we cannot keep FEMA … in PR forever”
That’s not a threat, it’s statement of fact.
Is Trump butthurt about the political circus surrounding PR? Yes. Is that a threat? No.
hmmmm… It seems central planning still can’t beat the market, no matter how hard people try…
And as someone who paid for Obamacare back when it was Romneycare…
Haha, told you so. MA health insurance rates have been north of $6k single and $12k family for shit tier plans for a long, long time. Nice to see everyone happy they voted to join us.
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Idk what central planning is what do they charge?
Healthy people never signed up for the exchanges. Period. The reason the ins. Companies took such a bath on them was because people who’ve deferred care for decades signed up with all the great subsidies, got their procedures done and then dropped their coverage. Why keep it when you can go sign up next time you get sick?
O’care was basically just massive Medicaid expansion with a little bit of faux mandate and regulationss sprinkled over the top. It would have worked better if they just made it a medicaid expansion.
Instead the new rules made policies more expensive, reduced competition, and forced people who didn’t want the product to subsidise those that do.
So let’s see here: more government in the market = higher prices, coercion, less choices and reverse incentives. Well done