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They are not deluded ostriches with their heads in the sand, they are defiant and fierce opponents of the Resistance and all of the forces contained within it.

Washington (CNN)On Monday night, President Donald Trump jetted to West Virginia to address the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. And oh what a speech it was!

The US House of Representatives has voted to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, despite President Donald Trump objecting to the legislation.
Senior officials will be targeted in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the US 2016 election.
The bill is likely to complicate President Trump's hopes of improving relations with Russia.
It needs to be passed through the Senate before it can be sent on to the president to be signed.
The White House says Mr Trump has not yet decided whether he will veto the bill or not.

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Her daughter was on her insurance plan.

So her entire campaign is a scam then? Her daughter had insurance but didn't use it and now we have to have single payer?

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She just didn't know it, so she got the ER treatment of an uninsured person: instead of completing an MRI, the hospital pressured her into being released.

How did she know she didn't have insurance? Did her mother fail to tell her and provide her with an insurance card and is now blaming the system instead of herself or her daughter? These are not good reasons to campaign on socialism and tax increases for the vast majority of Americans who do not have any issues with their health insurance.

So her entire campaign is a scam then?

How did she know she didn't have insurance? Did her mother fail to tell her and provide her with an insurance card and is now blaming the system instead of herself or her daughter?

60% of people get their health insurance through their jobs. 40% from the government (2006 numbers, it may be different now).

If you look at who actually has to USE their health insurance, the government funds 64% of all healthcare spending though. The government is no small player in healthcare.

As to benefits, that's the easiest question I'll answer all week.
10 essential health benefits in each plan.

Can't deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.
I think most everyone agree's with this, but this was also only really an issue with private insurance and not employer side insurance.
I never had any issues with any of my insurance providers covering my family who had issues before the ACA.
Can't vastly overcharge old people or those with pre-existing conditions.
Overcharge is a loaded statement. I think you mean charge them more, period. I'm against "overcharging" but I see no problems with someone having slightly higher rates if they have more usage. My insurance would be effected as my new wife has epilepsy and would there for cost us more for insurance, which is funny because my costs doubled the first year the ACA was doubled. I paid double but didn't get anything really useful
Can't overcharge women.
There is that term again... If women use more healthcare than a man does, should a man pay the same? These are issues that once again usually only effect private insurance and not the employer supplied insurance.

Children stay on parent's healthcare until age 26.
That is indeed a nice option. With the new wife came new kids which have also been added to my insurance, so I now have "children"
aged- 23, 20,19,17,15. Wouldn't you know it, it doesn't cost any additional money to add the additional kids to my insurance and I don't think that is a provision of the ACA.
Lowered the increases in healthcare costs overall.
So instead of lowering the costs of healthcare, it only lowered the increases... That isn't what was promised or even talked about,
we were told the average American would see a decrease in their health care costs by $2500 a year, this is called the bait and switch. Most Americans have seen no savings on their insurance or their healthcare, only those on the exchanges have seen any cheap insurance and that's due to govt paid subsidies that not every American qualifies for.
Eliminated lifetime and annual coverage limits.
Something we can all agree on, but once again these limits usually only applied to those in the private insurance market, I've had several co-workers over the years who either had cancer or their spouse had it, and there was never any mention of any limits in relation to our insurance.
The insurance exchange market is a vast improvement over the old way purchasing healthcare.
Says who, what proof do you have?
The middle class receives assistance to purchase healthcare.
Do you tell yourself this to feel better? A few million people represent the entire middle class? In a population of 350 million people, 12 million are the middle class? You lefties have really deluded yourselves haven't you?
Increased medicaid to more people.
That isn't a good thing, it shows we are failing people if they have to be on govt insurance. No one looks forward to govt paid for insurance
Required that employers with more than 50 people offer health insurance, instead of making states do it.
More govt regulations on small business, I thought we were suppose to help people... Steal from Peter to pay Paul.
Lowered the budget deficit by 143 billion dollars.
Got some facts on that one?
Eliminated the medicare doughnut hole.
That was a good thing, but again, something that didn't effect a majority of Americans and could have been fixed with it's own legislation
Preventive healthcare has no copay.
BS. I still had to pay my $20 Dr. visit when I went for my physical and the cost of my blood work increased as well.
Health insurers must spend at least 85% of their premium dollars on actual healthcare or rebate their customers (actuarial value).
I don't know a single person who got this refund, it was a lie.
Improvements in electronic medical records.
Another change that could have been done with separate legislation and didn't require the ACA to fix it.
Clarity in billing and coverage details
Was this a large enough issue to require action by the federal govt?
CHIP program expanded to cover millions more children
Obama has been telling us for several years that the economy was fixed, why so many people on govt programs? Obama lied to you and didn't fix anything with the poor, he only expanded their #'s with stupid healthcare mandates which employers worked around

Some people also consider that Obamacare kept the private insurance market in place to be a benefits. Others consider that to be a major downfall.

In a used car lot in Wako, Texas.

Sessions announces new conditions for sanctuary cities to get federal money

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that sanctuary cities must give federal immigration authorities access to jails and alert them when someone facing deportation will be released from custody in order to receive certain law enforcement grants.

Sessions for months had been warning jurisdictions they could lose money, just for having rules that limit communication among local police and immigration officials. The new conditions say officials must let Department of Homeland Security employees have access to local jails in order to meet with immigrants and must give them 48 hours' notice before releasing an immigrant wanted by immigration authorities from their custody.

"This is what the American people should be able to expect from their cities and states," Sessions said. "And these long overdue requirements will help us take down MS-13 and other violent transnational gangs, and make our country safer."

I object to you including my quote in this list Finn. It has absolutely nothing to do with Laymen being a Trump supporter.

I've placed several people on ignore, and I find myself having much more time to read, learn, and talk about more substantive issues that I would otherwise. Time is valuable and reading a lot of bullshit is a waste of that valuable time.

This is disgusting to think of and sophomoric. I knew there were the same types of behaviors on either side, but if it's take to the degree that you've laid out then it's absolutely disgusting.

So you have no solutions to offer and none to, I suppose, prescribe to yourself or myself. That's disappointing. I'd at least think something as simple as treating others deserving of respect, with respect (and ignoring those who deserved to be ignored) would be helpful.

As if it mattered. At all. Ever.

No, it wasn't "one critical post"; it's the cumulative effect of your personalizing every difference of opinion and your armchair psychoanalysis of someone who you don't even know. I usually find your factual rebuttals interesting and even useful; what bothered me was the effort made to insult me personally because I tried to point out the odd behavior of Trump supporters in light of all the revelations of long-denied meetings between the Trump campaign committee and various Russian agents.

I don't particularly care to read personal attacks on you by liberals or personal attacks on liberals by people on the other side. I don't like the name-calling and insulting people's views by distorting their online monikers.

blatham's nationality is of no concern to me. He's the one who started the thread, that's all. He finds interesting articles and comments on them. I mentioned a long time ago that I wish there were more scholarly articles posted by Trump supporters instead of the incessant fake news stories and ugly Hillary photos. That's why I often found your posts a breath of fresh (albeit right-wing) air.

(I was an early supporter of Webb and hated watching the inevitable coronation of Clinton...)

Actually I had more savage disagreements with people on the old PUP threads than I ever did with the Bush supporters at the time. Nothing like internecine warfare!

I may respond to your comments about the MSM (which are much more interesting than reading about people's perceived character flaws) when I have more time.

I'm a Trump avoidant person, in my way. I have tried hard to avoid his image, which rather galls me. This is hard to do, the image being all over the place, including news articles. I still run into the image something like 30 times a day, or it seems that much.

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