America without ObamaCare
Pre-Obamacare #TBT: When an insurance company canceled a teenager's policy after she got sick http://t.co/yB5XsxtLu0 pic.twitter.com/EsjyYtVGXv
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 21, 2013
In 2009, pre-Obamacare: This 17-year-old's insurance was rescinded after she was diagnosed with celiac disease. http://t.co/w9hZkjivVa #TBT
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 21, 2013
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America with ObamaCare
Good news: The number of uninsured children in America is on the decline. Read more: http://t.co/hqQIu4jFj8 #Obamacare
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/403671341175283712
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Rate of applications completed NEARLY DOUBLES @CoveredCA taking in 10 THOUSAND APPS PER DAY #ObamacareWORKS pic.twitter.com/AGfA0cE5lR
— bardgal🌻🇺🇦🌻 (@bardgal) November 21, 2013
From CA: "Nearly 23% of the sign-ups during the first month of enrollment were 18-34 years old, while 34% were 55-64 http://t.co/7ytSmHTm7O
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) November 21, 2013
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#CoveredCA applications completed surpassed more than 10,000 a day last week topping out at 71,888.
— Covered California (@CoveredCA) November 21, 2013
Insurers must now give consumers info on:
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) November 21, 2013
1. Coverage options
2. #Obamacare protections
3. Keeping existing planshttp://t.co/fcwpf9X6Mb
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Health care spending is growing at the slowest rate on record. Learn why - http://t.co/rGo8ndgdQw pic.twitter.com/150CCAasqY
— Jason Furman NARA (@CEAChair44) November 20, 2013
Thank you President Obama for saving this woman's life because the #GOPDontCare pic.twitter.com/AgEwkYltNd
— Laurel M. Davila (@laureldavilacpa) November 20, 2013
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https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/403515705552687104
Key points from today's CEA report on "Trends in Healthcare Costs Growth and the Role of the Affordable Care Act" http://t.co/amzeBI5Gwu
— Jason Furman NARA (@CEAChair44) November 20, 2013
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Feds try to stop insurers from misleading customers on Obamacare: http://t.co/83FzB8MUP1
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) November 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/404264817633927168
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https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/404269388301234176
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/404253712257785856
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GOP whining over #ACA, tales of doom & gloom, but everyone that speaks from real use has a good experience, including myself & my company.
— Jack Berlin (@jackaberlin) November 22, 2013
NY: Self-emp Katie Klabusich says "Thank you, ACA" b/c she now has affordable cvg & can get hlth probs treated. http://t.co/AAcZ5HXrfV
— ACA Stories (@ACAstories) November 23, 2013
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@ACAstories Thank you ACA. Now I'm saving $87 a month on a much better plan that can't suddenly deny me coverage for any health reason.
— Skepacabra 🌹 🇵🇸 He/Him/His (@Skepacabra) November 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/wajobu/status/403944754271903745
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Read about a family saving $18,900 a year thanks to the Affordable Care Act: http://t.co/bxuOoN0mGb #ThisIsObamacare
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) November 15, 2013
CA: Small biz owner Rakesh Rikhi stunned & thrilled to find out he'll save $5,000/yr for his family cvg thx to ACA http://t.co/1FO5ynmkyy
— ACA Stories (@ACAstories) November 23, 2013
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CA: 60yr old Kevin Horn, w/ preexisting conditions, will now pay $74/mnth for cvg, down from $500/mnth thx to ACA http://t.co/qmx9f2yxB8
— ACA Stories (@ACAstories) November 23, 2013
Star Tribune: Health care signups "triple" in Minnesota's online exchange's "second two weeks," topping 10k. http://t.co/IfVUR2jncW
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) November 6, 2013
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The Obama Diary 
Is it really Saturday? Thank the good Lord. 😆
Thanks, Utal! Keeping #ACA front and centre is terific. I can’t wait for the opposition to have to eat its words when this is up and running with lots of enrollees.
Leave a Message in a TODable Bottle 😉
/waving and grinning at you/ You think there are enough of these bottles?
Not is TOD has anything to do about it.
As of now, 😉 22,423,821 and Counting. That is a BFD 🙂
IF 😦 Oops.
😆 22,423,811 of those visits by me Nena, trying to fix the glitches!
😆 🙄 😆
You Look awesome fixing those *cough* Glitches with Danny as a great helper. Thank YOU, Danny 😉
Nena, Danny IS a glitch!!!!
😯 I am telling on you, Chips.
Danny is perfect in the TOD world. We are demanding a retraction 😉
😆 He’s just put me in spam Nena, he’s seriously outraged!
🙂 😆 😆 🙂
How many ways do I love them??!!
Please leave lots of naughty mats for me and Sting:)
.. and me! You just HAD to post a video with his arms all out and exposed, didn’t ya? 😀
That man has some guns, doesn’t he? Oh….yum.
Evert Breath you take and Dododo, dadada are right up there in my head right now…….When they came in my neck of the woords during my growing youth, I was not able to get tickets. I even put ads in the paper. Nothing.
Every…..need to trim my finger nails…..yesterday 😉
Put that concert on your bucket list….
Chips prolly needs to hire a resident psychiatrist, psychologist, physical therapist, yogin or maybe a water thrower for you nm regulars.
We are not going back to health care only for the wealthy and employed.
Gone are the days when not having insurance meant bankruptcy or even death if you got sick.
A step too slow to catch up with VC, the Gold Winner 😉 Yeah.
Congrats VC.
Congrats on 1st VC!! 🙂
Fine selection of tweets, UT.
ACA lies make trips around the globe by the liars who tell them, while Truth, Facts are willfully hidden struggling to get air time.
Great Tweets and Thanks UT and TODers for spreading the Obama Cares untold stpries.
Thanks.
Thank yooooooooou UT, fantastic collection of tweets and great Obamacare news, wonderful!!!!
I second that! 🙂
Thanks so much, Chiparoooo.
Bin Laden, Mubarak, and Gaddafi were all brought to justice under PBO. Syria was disarmed by PBO, and now Iran is at the table all because of PBO. Now let that sink in for a moment, in all for your lifetime how many times have you heard a President’s administration lament about the difficulty of achieving anything in the Middle East. I would put PBO’s foreign policy record up against any President.
Hey now, Don didn’t get the memo?
The NPP in Oct of 2009 was false. Fake. Unwarranted.
Those who continue to underestimate One POTUS, named: Barack H. Obama, can go on and keep pretending. History is on his side. He truely understands his place In this Twisted World.
can you tell me what the ‘NPP in Oct of 2009’ is? thanks, i’madummy!
Noble Peace Prize
Yes.
Indeed.
Don, when the dust settles on the Obama administration, history will record that his foreign policy achievements were unsurpassed by any president. Others will be remembered for the wars they began and executed. President Obama will be remembered as the one who brought peace. “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God.”
Laura is astute, but the context for their appearance might well be consistent with this observation …
Thank you for this info, Bob….VERY interested to hear of developments. Have an Iranian coworker that is on pins and needles hoping so much for a great outcome to this. It means so much to so many….he specifically came into my classroom yesterday as good news began to take hold, just to update me. We can do this!!!
Highly recommend this 55 minute documentary on Iran (PBS).
I know it’s hard to carve out an hour to view a video (I’m only about half way through), but it’s recent, very informative and encompasses the entire “Alaska-sized country” — and Alaska is enormous!
Just amazing how warm, friendly and open the Iranian citizens are — and so many know English.
Should be required viewing for all American students.
I don’t think Kerry is coming back for a third trip to Geneva, but I’m optimistic that a deal will be reached this weekend. Seeing as PBO will host a state dinner for the French President, I don’t see the guy coming to the U.S. without a deal.
Thanks for keeping us informed, all who are posting the updates!
Excellent point, Bob. No one wants to blow it at this point with loose talk.
Thank you df & Don. Happy to provide updates …
… the latest …
For # 3 & #4 in this series just click on Trita Parsi’s TL …
So the French, German and Brit delegation are off to dinner which means that they are onboard, I find it interesting that Kerry and the Iranians are speaking amongst themselves. This deal was always going to come down to the West, I think PBO and SOS Kerry will provide Iran with just the right amount of carrots thereby avoiding the sticks. I think Iran knows that they are dealing with serious people in Obama and Kerry.
If the deal happens, expect an extraordinary amount of unhappiness and concern trolling from the media tomorrow on their GOP propaganda shows.
Neat thing is, hf, I haven’t watched any of those programs since the early 1980s 🙂
Heh…I am trying to follow in your footsteps Bob. I stopped watching them about a 18 mos ago. LOL!
😉
Agree with you on that one, Bob. I wouldn’t know who was on them or what anyone said if it wasn’t reported here. I’d rather go for a long walk on Sunday morning, which I do every Sunday, rain or shine, even if it’s Christmas. It’s infinitely healthier than getting aggravated by a television show.
At this point whatever the GOP does or say will be from muscle memory and not from a well thought out position. The GOP has taken every side and position against President Obama and have come out on the short end. They cannot get any more desperate than they are now.
many people are going to feel really dumb
Agree, Don. Am avoiding posting any of the rumors that the media have spread regarding contents of the deal, btw, because until Sec Kerry or/and PBO provide the details it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
Bobfr, I love your wise steps. Your well of wisdom is always refreshing to me. Thank you for all that you do within our TOD family. HZ
Does any deal made require Congress to approve it? I hope not since GOP obstruction is all they do these days.
YUP!!
Off to the theater now. By the time I am home again perhaps there will be a deal.
Netanyahu can only see Israel’s salvation through the destruction of Iran which in turn makes him even more dangerous to the peace process. I hope Netanyahu understands that PBO may be Israel’s last best chance at peace. Who knows who the next President will be, if a Republican takes office all peace deals are off. And even if Hillary takes office it isn’t a guarantee that she will continue PBO’s strategy.
Pope Francis is warning about Commercialism at the Olympics?
Since the CA summer Olympics, I have never known anything else but commercialism in the Olympics. I womder what the Pope wants here as a change. Nations that host these events are not always rich nations. The cost ask the Greeks in 2002 is HUGE.
On another important topic, affecting people’s health and well-being:
Really? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-house-candidate-photographed-hitting-beer-bong-licking-woman
Apparently it was done many years ago, well before he became a candidate. Around 2008/09.
It’s not so much that he did this way back when, but the continuing GOP saga of “ok for us to do, but if YOU ever did something like this, we would strip your judgement and ruin your reputation! Bad choices. Poor judgement. Yada yada yada….
Mills, who is the likely challenger next year to Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN) in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District, said in a statement that it’s “no secret that in the past I’ve let my hair down to have fun with family and friends.”
“My wife and I have had many lighthearted moments in our lives but right now I am focused on my Congressional campaign and the disastrous effects of our overreaching government and sky high unemployment in the north eastern Minnesota,” he said in the statement.
That’s so true…if it were a Dem, Mills would be fully condemning, even if it happened when the Dem was a HS Junior….
Yes…and that’s my beef. Not that he did stupid shit when he was single…who hasn’t…but the fact that this is IOKIYAR….is what pisses me off. Happens constantly.
Don’t even worry about this guy; if beer pong and licking women was in his wheelhouse back in the day, chances are it is still in his wheelhouse. It is just a matter of time with this guy, he is on the clock and he doesn’t even know it.
It is so heartening to read all of the positive tweets about Obamacare. I really wish that those 39 Dems would have been a little more patient before they took that impulsive vote. Dems need to stick together.
But Bibi said women in Iran couldn’t wear clothes like that…
GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!! Thank you, Frank Lampard. This dude is a mother freaking LEGEND!!!! Chelsea 3 – 0 West Ham.
Go BLUES!!!!!!!
And our traditional victory song:
Great toons I can’t show you:)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024081178
Fantastic toons DF, thank you!!!!
It’s the least I can do! I NEED SUNSHINE!
Your wish is my command, DF!
OH!!!!!!!!!!! Sweet Chips:) That’s wonderful:) It’s been raining here for the last couple days and I need to see the sun…I don’t like the endless rain….I know I should be thankful for the necessary desert rains, but if Mother Nature could spread it out…I would appreciate that:) Thank you….you are an angel.
From the Weather Channel site:
DID YOU KNOW?
Friday was the second wettest November day since 1895 in Phoenix. A total of 1.60 inches of rain was measured.
YIKES!
http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/11/5-things-every-american-needs-to-know-about-obamacare.html#.UpDN1ygvMxI.twitter
I think I am linking wrong to the podcast so please someone help me out here;
The last few days of JFK coverage have been very emotional on so many levels;
So many things that were being resisted by the same group of conservatives and libertarians are very similar to the what they are still fighting now 50 years later.
Then as now, a group of extremely rich individuals used their huge fortunes to fund bigotry and hatred against minorities and a President who not only supported the marginalized but also happened to be of a different religious background.
Then as now, the role of the media in pushing the vitriol was so central to pumping the people in some parts of this country into a frenzy and irrational hysteria.
I do not know if some of you have got a chance to read the book “ Dallas 1963: Setting the Scene for JFK’s Assassination” by Steven Davis, which gives some insight about the conditions that were prevailing in TX (especially Dallas) at the time JFK went in that fateful November day.
The role the media played is no different from that played by the current rightwing echo-chamber;
The role that a few rich people in Dallas played in funding the hate-machine is no different from that being played by today’s billionaires like the Koch brothers;
Our local NPR station interviewed the author a while back and here is a link to that program which they entitled: “Setting the Scene: JFK and Dallas 1963”.
Here is how WOSU/NPR introduced the hour-long program:
“Most of us know the footage too well: A young President and Mrs. Kennedy riding in the back of a car during a parade in Dallas, TX. What happens next is famous history, but a new book explores events leading up to JFK’s assassination, and explores the ugly political and social climate of the last city he would visit. This hour we set the scene.”
Here is the link to the audio/podcast of the discussion with the author of that book
http://wosu.org/2012/allsides/setting-the-scene-jfk-and-dallas-1963/
I feel that this is an important message to share out to others so I made this tweet to pass on. In case you feel inclined to share the podcast to others, please go ahead and modify as you see fit;
The book gives an angle about the role of the media and the importance of the funding of hate during that time that I do not usually hear about. From it I could not help but note the parallels to today.
Among the things that stood out for me is how a number of weeping Dallas women called the police to “confess” that the JFK shooter was probably their husband – before the real perpetrator had been identified. This means that now, as then, people looked away and did not challenge their friends or relatives or public figures when they spewed hate and bigotry but were very guilt-ridden when violence erupted. I know that confronting ones’ own family and friends can bigoted behavior or statement can be challenging but it must be done patiently and persistently. It can be rewarding even if these people are moved to just being “neutral”. We have to keep pushing on this front.
So is you doubt that being vocal in your push-back against media, politicians or ordinary people is important, please be re-assured that it matters very much.
We all have people who spew hate/bigotry and we have to find a gentle way to challenge them when they do.
We also have to keep challenging the media when they push hate, lies, and mis-information about PBO and other groups of individuals who may not have a voice, clout, or time (due to barely being able to make a living) to speak out
Off to tutor…..my little guy’s smile will be my ray of sunshine today:) bbl
please remember to always take some few minutes and send a word of encouragement and thanks to those in the media who are trying to focus the world’s attention on the important things that are happening.
Because of my bias, I want to encourage those journalists, who may not always agree with my position but recognize the gravity of issues on the global stage – especially the issues on which PBO (and his team) is focused and is trying to make a positive difference on otherwise intractable problems
I’m not understanding these different health insurance deadlines. This article about MN states the deadline is Dec. 15 to get coverage by January 1. http://www.startribune.com/local/230850351.html The healthcare.gov deadline for open enrollment is March 31st. Why are there different deadlines? Are the state exchanges different and will close open enrollment on December 15th?
Check this site https://www.healthcare.gov/what-key-dates-do-i-need-to-know/
Click on each of the date tabs and you will get an clear explanation.
NOTE that the 15 Dec 2013 date has been extended to 23 Dec 2013, i.e., if you enroll by 23 Dec your insurance will begin on 1 Jan 2014 (you must pay by 31 Dec 2013).
thanks bob!
The date for enrollment for coverage this year is dec 23rd.
The date for enrollment without a penalty is march 31st.
Thanks Jovie!
Cnn spins this as horrible news- I thought It would be worse. Frankly! 🙂
that’s 12 min from the time stamp on this comment
I don’t think think they get it because Netenyahu and the French had a meeting yesterday.
It’s the French again I bet you?
A love story in pictures—–moving—–human spirit is strong
http://www.wfsb.com/slideshow?widgetid=96566
That lying Darrell Issa started his lying I Hate Obamacare tour here in North Carolina. Whatever he call the tour, how much is it costing we taxpayers or is the millionaire Issa paying for his lying show?
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/23/chat-away-289/