Excellent reporting by @HeidiReports it continues & gets even crazier w/millions going to #GinniThomas; characters such as #JohnEastman, #CletaMitchell & more submit amicus briefs & attempt to influence #SCOTUS; #CarrieSeverino a #ClarenceThomas clerk & #LeonardLeo #JEP assoc briefs SCOTUS on the anti-#abortion anti-#Obamacare #HobbyLobby case; the 2016 #Trump election; #FederalistSociety groomed judges #AmyConeyBarrett, #BrettKavanaugh & #NeilGorsuch get appointed.
Recommended read.

A key #LeonardLeo aide, Sarah Field, would come aboard to help #GinniThomas manage the group, which they called #LibertyCentral.

After Liberty Central went public, it provoked an outcry over a #SCOTUS justice’s wife promoting causes like overturning #Obamacare that were before her husband’s court. Leo & Thomas changed gears. His network reactivated a dormant group, the #JudicialEducationProject, which would go on to become a major supplier of #AmicusBriefs before the nation’s highest court.

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NOTES/ COMMENTS Re., “ROLLING MEDICAID PURGE….LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF
HEALTH INSURANCE LOSS IN US HISTORY"

* The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the urgent need for expansion ,
NOT REDUCTION, of the Medicaid health insurance program.
*  In too many states, political decisions by state legislators to
deny health insurance to thousands of their citizens has resulted in
an almost non-existent social and health safety net.

*  Decisions in 2016/2017 by 25 states to reject the expansion of
Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act resulted in an
estimated 7,115 and 17,104 more deaths than had all states opted in,
according to researchers at Harvard Medical School and the City
University of New York.
* The researchers found that because of the states’ “opting out” of
the Medicaid expansion, 7.78 million people who would have gained
coverage remained uninsured.
* To worsen the situation, many states have over the last decade
privatized administration of their Medicaid program into a managed
care program administered by the private profit health insurance
industry.

* The companies are paid by state government, and their profit depends
on spending as little as possible on Medicaid patients.
*  It’s hard to imagine any greater disconnect between public good
and private profit: the interest of private health insurance
companies lies not in the obvious social good of delivering quality
health care to patients but in having as few as possible treated as
cheaply as possible.
* No better example exists of a private capitalist enterprise that
feeds on the misery of man.

* You might think that we learned the lesson of discredited managed
care in the 1990s.
*  The term “managed care” is confusing to many, but really amounts
to managed reimbursement rather than managed care.
* A set prospective annual payment is made by federal/state
governments, as in the case of state Medicaid managed care, to cover
whatever services patients will receive over the coming year.
* There is therefore a built-in incentive for managed care
organizations to skimp on care and pocket more profits.

 Regards,
              Doug Stephenson. LCSW, BCD
              Gainesville, Florida

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* LINK: Rolling Medicaid Purge Called 'Largest Concentration of Health
Insurance Loss' in US History

https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicaid-insurance-loss

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Und daneben diskutiert man noch tatsächlich über die Abschaffung des Krankenkassen-Obligatoriums🤦🏼‍♂️.

Dann müssen sich aber alle daran gewöhnen bzw. daran halten, dass nicht Versicherte einfach liegen gelassen bzw. nicht behandelt werden… oder jede Behandlung zuerst vorausbezahlt werden muss, bevor man/frau behandelt wird.

Die #USA lassen grüssen… (wobei #ObamaCare mindestens eine kleine Grunddeckung bietet.)

The Tyee: Is Steve Bannon Coaching Alberta’s UCP? https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/05/Steve-Bannon-Alberta-UCP/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #AlbertaEnvironmentMinisterRebeccaSchulz #JusticeCentreforConstitutionalFreedoms #unaffordableblackoutregulations #RuralMunicipalitiesofAlberta #AlbertaPremierDanielleSmith #ManitobaCourtofKing’sBench #LawSocietyofManitoba #MartinOlszynski #MoniqueLaGrange #RedDeerAdvocate #RebeccaSchulz #SteveBannon #deathpanel #JohnCarpay #Obamacare #DonBraid

@Hein_Kortoons #Democrats were not angels as they were involved in a few controversial scenarios.

👉🏾 #HillaryClinton & mismanaged aid to #Haiti 🇭🇹: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37826098

👉🏾 #Benghazi tragedy in #Libya 🇱🇾 (it was not a conspiracy but it could have been avoided): https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/17996104/benghazi-attack-clinton-obama

👉🏾 #Obamacare temporarily increasing #Healthcare costs in #UnitedStates 🇺🇸: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance-flna8c11484394

Worse than the #GOP‽ No.

@mer @Rasp No, not really, because the logic chain is based off something that isn't accurate:

> [they need] continuous population growth and signup to remain profitable
> because this is is not achievable

It's actually really achievable, especially if you mandate that everyone have healthcare like #Obama did with #Obamacare.

1/3: A message I wrote to a friend re. healthcare spending of nations, which they had observed to be increasing:

I'm of the (uneducated) opinion that as countries/peoples become more wealthy in peace-time, once they percieve their needs as met, they end up spending that wealth on healthcare. A great tragedy from our perspective is that the best healthcare spending is preventative, but the wildest healthcare spending I observe through anecdote in other countries is curative; notoriously seen in futile end-of-life care in America.

The most obvious homologue - of a nation spending a hoofing amount of it's wealth in a given industry - seems to me the "military-industrial complex". It's a slightly clumsy term for our purpose, but here the military is a function of the government which in turn is a function of the country/peoples. So I think of it as a nation spending a hoofing amount of it's money on funding the industries that manufacture and deliver "warheads on foreheads", so to speak.

The best summary of this was provided by Eisenhower. I paste here words from https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2011/09/30/the-origins-of-that-eisenhower-every-gun-that-is-made-quote:

> More than a week after Stalin’s death, Eisenhower was talking with speechwriter Emmet Hughes about the address. “Look, I am tired—and I think everyone is tired—of just plain indictments of the Soviet regime,” Ike said. “I think it would be wrong—in fact, asinine—for me to get up before the world now to make another one of those indictments. Instead, just one thing matters. What have we got to offer the world?”

#healthcare #economics #NHS #obamacare #medicare #healthInsurance #finance #publicHealth #bigPharma #medicine #nursing #midwifery #physiotherapy #elderlyCare #socialCare #hospitals

"A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the #Presidential #Election #Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major #NewsConference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in #Bedminster, New Jersey."

Uh huh. 🙄
Right after presenting your #infrastructure "plan", right donny?
And your plan to replace #Obamacare too, right?

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4153153-trump-claims-report-will-result-in-complete-exoneration-in-georgia/
#Trump: #Report on Monday will result in ‘complete #exoneration’ in #Georgia

#IAmDB

@psychictides No, they didn't. #obamacare Trump didn't do ANYthing better. He wanted to let people die. @erictopol

For those of you old enough to recall the debate over #ObamaCare aka #ACA aka #PPACA

here are two golden oldies to make you chuckle

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/ted-cruz-mark-kirk-obamacare-stories-facebook/

and your daily reminder that for his entire life, TFG lies and lies and lies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/13/president-trump-the-king-of-flip-flops/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_factchecker-325am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Just another reason to always #VoteBlue

#Republicans NEVER had a plan for universal healthcare; they just hated the fact that it was referred to as #obamacare giving the “black guy” credit

Remember, the last AND ONLY time republicans cared about you, you were a fetus

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/24/1189332308/house-republicans-choice-act-roll-back-obamacare-protections

#HHS, #TreasuryDepartment & #DepartmentOfLabor issued proposed rules on Friday that clamp down on short-term limited duration #health plans, which offer cheap but sparse coverage that #Democrats deride as “ #JunkInsurance.” The rule, meant to protect #consumers & bolster the #Obamacare exchange, would overturn a 2018 #Trump-era regulation & satisfies #liberal lawmakers & patient groups who have demanded the administration act since its first days in the #WhiteHouse.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/biden-short-term-health-plans-00105055

Medical staff desperately needed. Please apply within. Thanks, Signed, USA! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

#doctors #nurses #medical #profession #shortage #lack #hospital #usa #obamacare #medicare #coverage #covid

And That's The Story Of How I Became The Mother Of Kaydon Boebert https://www.wonkette.com/lauren-boebert-birth-control

#Aca #Affordable_care_act #Alexandria_ocasiocortez #Cost_of_raising_a_child_born_in_2010 #How_does_the_debt_ceiling_work #Jayson_boebert #Kaydon_boebert #Lauren_boebert #Lauren_boebert_childbirth #Lauren_boebert_debt_ceiling #Obamacare #Obamacare_contraception #Prescription_drug_prices #Steve_bannon #Video #Lauren_boebert_birth_control

And I hope someone does.
We're lost and there's no hope for humanity anymore.
Done.
Humans are an evil bacteria infesting this planet and should go extinct as soon as possible.

#EvilHumans #GOP #Power #Money #Economy #Murder #Hope #Politics #ERA #Education #Government #Schools #Guns #NRA #MJT #Trump #DeSantis #Santos #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #Brexit #Healthcare #Medicare #Medicaid #AMA #Obamacare #Romneycare #Abortion #AbortionRights

Can a #Democrat win the governor’s race in one of America’s reddest states?

Will a focus on #Mississippi’s regressive grocery tax, #GOP refusal to adopt #Obamacare and the scandal surrounding current #Republican governor #TateReeves create a space for #BrandonPresley to overcome traditional political divides in the #DeepSouth state?

#USPolitics #Politics #Election2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/editorials/mississippi-brandon-presley.html

Can a #Democrat win the governor’s race in one of America’s reddest states?

Will a focus on #Mississippi’s regressive grocery tax, #GOP refusal to adopt #Obamacare and the scandal surrounding current #Republican governor #TateStevens create a space for #BrandonPresley to overcome traditional political divides in the #DeepSouth state?

#USPolitics #Politics #Election2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/editorials/mississippi-brandon-presley.html

Only mistake here, https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS, is that these private entity death panels have been going on for years, even before #obamacare.

@rebeccawatson I was with you except for “…we live in a time when #capitalism has made our #healthcare system a dystopian nightmare.”

Because you went into very good detail about the onerous #DEA limits on #Adderall production and the secret limits on pharmacy dispensation. And the American health insurance market is already warped by #Medicare, #Medicaid, and most recently the #AffordableCareAct / #Obamacare.

The US healthcare system is #capitalist like homeopathy is “medicine.”