Joe Stanley
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Hi Joe, I wanted to drop you a note and say that you are correct that I missed key details from the article because I was in a hurry and only skimmed the article. The report here is of the results of Obama 2009 changes to the work requirement to food stamps, not the July changes to welfare reform. I made the necessary changes to the post. It's been a long week, but there's no excuse for sloppy writing. Thanks for keeping me honest.
And thank you for this refreshingly classy note. My own reblog was needlessly antagonistic in places, which has no place in the type of dialog I’d like to see here. I still disagree with a great many of your conclusions in the article, but that is nothing new.
Also, thank you for noting the update in the post, rather than making edits and doing nothing to note the original version that was published.Together, let’s build a community where the clash of ideals is fierce, but where these differences need not define and forever divide us.
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Ugh! Mitt Romney already going squishy on Obamacare
Dear Paul Ryan,
Would you please explain to Mitt Romney why he’s wrong about mandating coverage for pre-existing conditions. Please insist to him that he stay strong for a full repeal of Obamacare.
growing weary,
The American People
from TPM:
itt Romney said Sunday that he likes parts of ‘Obamacare’ and will keep key provisions involving pre-existing conditions and young people.
“I’m not getting rid of all of health care reform. Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I’m going to put in place,” he said on NBC’s “Meet The Press. “One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their family up to whatever age they might like.”
The remarks could have huge implications as they signal a marked shift from Romney’s strong, unequivocal support for full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which he has consistently held since the Republican primaries.
Politically, the pivot risks drawing the ire of conservatives, who have been adamant that Republicans repeal the law in its entirety if elected. It’s a major gamble that could reflect Romney’s need to win over more independent voters, who support those provisions.
From a policy standpoint, however, the coverage guarantee for pre-existing conditions is economically untenable without other provisions of ‘Obamacare’ — most notably the individual mandate that requires Americans purchase insurance, which experts say is necessary to broaden the risk pool and prevent an upward spiral in costs.
The author here is right. The individual mandate is the only mechanism that makes guaranteed coverage work. The two are inseparable. You cannot mandate coverage for pre-existing conditions without also mandating that all Americans buy health insurance. To do so would with 100% certainly bankrupt the American healthcare system.
And why in the world would he continue the mandated freeloading of 26 year olds on their parents health insurance?
These things have already raised the cost of healthcare premiums. Premiums will not go down until they are repealed.
Hopefully Romney will come out and clarify his remarks by saying that health insurance companies are allowed to do so if they can negotiate it but not that they’re mandated.
Fellow conservatives, I would encourage you to contact Mitt Romney and make your voice heard.
I hate to break it to everyone against Obamacare, but these provisions are here to stay. Every year they stay in place public support for them grows, and Republicans are already having to adjust their positions as a reflection of this. The only possible stumbling year will be 2014, but after that the window of opportunity even for staggered dismantlement of the system closes. This was our Social Security fight, for better or worse (I say better), and it will become equally as entrenched.
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I’m Going To Wait For the Numbers
But anecdotally, this is the most aggressive and on-message convention I’ve ever seen the Democrats put together. I want to shake the hand of whoever herded all these cats so well.
August unemployment numbers come out tomorrow at 8:30 and next week the total campaign donations (not including super PACs) for the month of August come out. The Romney campaign raised around $100,000,000; wonder why we have not seen the Obama numbers.
Oh, I’m sure the Obama fundraising numbers are relatively lower, but that’s not shocking for a Democrat, especially in a post-Citizens-United world.
What is worth noting is that the election markets barely budged during the speech. The unemployment numbers are what everyone is really waiting for.
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This BuzzFeed/Dailyshow Dispute
Watching the “requirements” of social media and the expectations of posts on the Tumblr platform get infused into a debate about the validity of a news claim is strange. Gifs and hedgehogs and Biden and urbandictionary make appearances.
http://buzzfeed.tumblr.com/post/31010448118/thedailyshow-buzzfeed-thedailyshow
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“I think the American people have differing views, and I agree with the American people.”
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Huckabee to Akin: 'Horrible' rapes created some extraordinary people “Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the late American gospel singer. One-time presidential candidate Huckabee added: “I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s, he leads a large Christian organization. He, himself, was the result of a forcible rape. And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape, which are inexcusable and indefensible, life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things.”
This man sought nomination for the Presidency of the United States, and is now lobbing softball after softball to Akin to help him weather this. Despite your feelings on both mainstream candidates this November, whoever wins will use the margin of their victory as proof of general support for their party’s values. Even your inaction is, itself, an action.
Choose wisely.
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Economists For Romney -
I’m still trying to figure out how the Romney campaign is missing the base equation of electoral success. Not only do people need a reason to vote against the incumbent, but they need a reason to vote for the challenger.
Or do they have data that suggests the opportunity cost of running anything less than a pure anti-Obama campaign will harm their chances? That would deeply sadden (but not shock) me.
(via sandandglass)
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“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.” -
Delegate totals are from The Associated Press, and include the preferences of superdelegates, Republican party leaders who are free to support any candidate.
