if you think you're hurting Obama by not getting health insurance, trust me, he'll be fine either way.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014His wife responded. 🙂
@johnlegend i don't think he will john. i don't think he will.
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christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 31, 2014****
🙂
@johnlegend Shh. Let Darwinian selection do its work.
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Teju Cole (@tejucole) March 31, 2014It's amazing that anyone would actively discourage people from signing up for health insurance. Hope you pay for their medical bills too.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014****
@Prince1266Terry they're taking a dangerous bet that they will never get sick.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014@johnlegend i have personally been knocking on doors and bashing people's computers with a baseball bat / ripping up forms. thoughts?
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christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 31, 2014****
@chrissyteigen cool, cool. that seems tiring though.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014@johnlegend i just hate "insurance" and "healthcare"
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christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 31, 2014****
@jamesoboyd cool. and when they get cancer, they'll just go to the gym and eat a celery stick?
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014@DannyDoloMusic if you can't afford it, you probably qualify for subsidies.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014****
@faulk628 @DannyDoloMusic yep, like me and my taxes. glad to do it.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014@jamesoboyd Michelle Obama has spent the last 5 years working on just that.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014****
Ok, it's been fun arguing with ObamaHaters. Anyway, if you don't want insurance, don't get it. Good luck to you and your family.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) March 31, 2014****
Now that you’ve chuckled long and loud, go #GetCovered 🙂
#GetCoveredNow because moms know kids aren't invincible → Healthcare.gov, http://t.co/6CkM0oMmTa
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) March 31, 2014Its the last day folks! “@zachbraff: There is nothing sexier than someone with health insurance. #GetCovered! Go to Healthcare.gov ”
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kerry washington (@kerrywashington) March 31, 2014****
THIS! #GetCovered 😃 “@johnlegend: if you think you're hurting Obama by not getting health insurance, trust me, he'll be fine either way.”
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kerry washington (@kerrywashington) March 31, 2014Today's the last day to #GetCovered. Everyone in my house is covered. We even have a covered garage. healthcare.gov
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Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 31, 2014****
Stay healthy, guys. Today is the last day to #getcovered at healthcare.gov
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Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) March 31, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Terrific day. Thank you Nerdy for all your posts!
You’re welcome, Jackie.
Congratulations on first!
Nerdy Wonka, you are absolutely amazing! There are no words to truly express how grateful I am for all your posts! How I wish all Americans got a chance to visit TOD!
1st
Nerdy? Will you marry me?
Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m very literally in tears here: as soon as I typed my proposal, I thought: “Sheesh, hope Japa isn’t here.” 🙂
LOL!!!
I feel your pain, bro 😀 😀 😀 😀
I know. Guess I’ll have to cry myself to sleep. And for NW no less. .
dont wory jap shee sea kiten 2day an sed awwwwww i neerly pukd shee reel disloyl
Heh !!! I was gonna ask her. #serialmarriager
Well, my theory is: if you sprinkle enough proposals about the place, you’re bound to hit the jackpot eventually. So, shush you.
yeah, I am also doing that.
Speaking of jackpots…….. Chipsticks…..how did you pull this off? Danny photo bombed the new Royal Family portrait!!! Proud mom?
😆 That is spookily like him, but I wouldn’t let my fella anywhere near the ‘royal’ family!
…..good news…….I just found out that is a cocker spaniel…..sorry about tarnishing Danny’s good name 😦
LOL!
u r totly ded 2 me luvlyplans
When it rains……it pours…..throw a dog a bone? I promise to make it up to you!
O ho!
Commit to Chelsea, then we’ll talk.
Yes Indeed! a BFD! I still have my t-shirt, with a BFD, that I wear proudly.
This pharrell song is apt for today. (have watched the vid umpteen times. never have done that before)
J4O Gold is your Medal. Congrats.
Congrats on 1st, Jackie.
NW, you’ve done it again!!!! Thank you!!!
Worth noting ….
For certain, #OBAMACARE has countless benefits not the least of which is making it totally clear who the most dangerous enemy to America is.
#DEMSDominate2014
YES WE MUST
Thanks, Bob.
Thanks Bob. These stats are staggering.
NW is on Fire…….as Springsteen would sing.
Fine Job lady. Thank you.
Thanks.
I absolutely love this photo. Such a sweet eagerness in his eyes that persists today.
Thanks for all your awesome fantastic wonderfulness posts NW!
This version of A Change Is Gonna Come is my absolute favorite because it so much is about the newly elected President and all the hopes we had pinned on him. And our POTUS has delivered, oh yeah. Bettye LaVelle’s duet with Bon Jovi is just the best. I love their chemistry together – such joy and respect.
That was one of the best parts of the Inaugural Concert, for me. Thanks for replaying it here!
me too jb.
Loved it! Tweeted it! 🙂
R/Td it! 🙂 Can’t get enough of it!
My ultimate favorite part is the look on the President’s face @1:58.
Just rather surreal how he can be so in the moment and absorbing the music yet also very aware that the millions at that mall are listening to it for and about their hopes for him.
He just looked as though it was perhaps the first time that day he could actually sit quietly and think about his own place in the song’s historical mantra, “Change Gonna Come.” He looked a little choked up to me. Which makes me want to sob!
You’re welcome, forus50.
This would be me if I ever get to meet him, if I ever am so lucky, if I ever were blessed enough to get a hug from him. The Secret Service might have to pry me away. It probably would be an emotional, not so pretty scene.
BTW, Daisydem – same for me 🙂
I have a tendency to freeze when I see anyone famous that I like.
Twice, I saw Prince Rogers Nelson and froze each time.
Bwahahahahaha!
@jamesoboyd: @johnlegend People need to take better care of themselves first and foremost. Eating better and exercise will do more than insurance.
@johnlegend: @jamesoboyd cool. and when they get cancer, they’ll just go to the gym and eat a celery stick?
LOD stop in the Name of Love.
Who gives a rats arse about Christie or JEB in 2016?
ACA is the issue. 2014. These people love to distract when if anyone should be mind-fold about 2014 it will be LOD.
Nena,
You stole my thoughts. They seem to think Jeb is good enough to take the Hispanic votes; he speaks it fluently and his wife is Hispanic. They said that he will get some of the black votes as well. I say ok…..run Jeb run!
ok…..get ready, on your mark….get set……GO!
For those of you who have been looking for the Ezra Klein man, he is coming up on Lawrence to talk about no other…..drum roll……
OBAMACARE!!!!!!!
Will he tell the truths?
No redemption possible there, I won’t ever listen to another word he says and blocked him on Twitter. MSNBC sure knows how to find these young smugsters. I see that son of Mia Farrow has had poor ratings and might be cancelled. Too bad it’s just him and not Chris Hayes and Chuck Toad too. Gawdawfulness. I don’t watch either of them EVER but just seeing their promos during other shows makes me nauseous.
He has been MIA for a while forus50, why go to him at all?
Dr. Maddow was so funny tonight; debunking the repukes on Obama cooking the numbers.
Amazing how many times the GOP has failed to call it correctly and they just keep coming out saying the same old tired lines.
let’s not spoil this great moment with what these lying twits had to say.
egg.sack.lee. 🙂 Hee!
Ezra Klein has resurfaced …and behold he is on @Lawrence talking Obama care numbers like he knows what he is talking about
And Ezra Klein is the reason I turn the tv from O’Donnell.
Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis, “Flash Boys,” that reveals how a group of unlikely characters discovered how some high speed traders work the stock market to their advantage……
Please take the time to watch the full 60 minutes report & bookmark the New York Times mag excerpt of how these guys exposed how High Frequency Traders have rigged the entire U.S. stock market (your pentions/mutal funds/401k)…. even GoldMan Sachs was getting took….until these guys showed up!
I saw that last night. Very interesting that such a high tech business (stock trading) still relies on actual physical telephone wire if you will to play the game and that distance from one location to another matters, unlike the internet where distance doesn’t matter.
Yeah, and I don’t like to be forced to pay for unfunded ER visits through higher premiums. Good lord, I need a drink.
I replied to Confused Terry. https://twitter.com/FORUS50/status/450828287464333312
So Those who may qualify for the medicare part of ACA have Zero deadline if their States have the extension? I didn’t know that. That should be told more often. I thought I was slightly educated enough on ACA. I failed.
Thanks to Obamacare legislation, signing up for Medicaid under ACA takes place year round. Once you qualify your medical bills get covered up to 90 days retroactively.
Thanks meta.
When my Mom was alive, we had to renew her coverage every Nov. So I was under the impression that medicare enrollment is just as the private insurance coverage.
You’re so welcome, Nena. PBO really has worked to make healthcare more accessible.
You may be confusing Medicare and Medicaid. Medicaid is available all year if you qualify. Medicare, for seniors, has an enrollment period at the end of the year unless you hit your 65th birthday during the year.
Okay. Then I was totally ill informed on this. I remember going to get trained to help get my Mom signed up and get her private insurance .
This was during the enactment of Medicare Part D enrollment fiasco.
You mean there were problems with Medicare Part D and GOP heads did not explode? Quelle surprise…..
Effing hypocrites.
Also, Nena, Medicare has been staffed with ‘navigators’ for decades, helping seniors sign up for Medicare. All of a sudden when it comes to ACA, navigators need a top level security clearance from GOP. It’s despicable.
Not that it matters now, but did Oprah get involve with the support of Obamacare?
I don’t recall seeing her out there but then again I could have missed her altogether.
Possibly not. I think the month end push was a huge focus on young folks.
Urge all of you to read every word of:
The Numbers Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Want You to See
“Russians prefer alternative reality.
In the days since Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, the Russian people are once again feeling good about their country. A robust 63 percent of them say they consider Russia a “great power,” according to a survey released this week by the Levada Center, a respected Russian polling firm. The survey also found that Putin’s approval rating is now at 80 percent, a 17-point rebound from his all-time low, just one year ago.
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When it comes to the environment, I found that 50 percent of Russia’s water is not potable. Air pollution continues to be an extremely serious issue, suggesting that a solution proposed during the late-Soviet period continues to hold sway. Back then, a Russian health minister advised the country to “breathe less” in order to live longer.
This is the kind of desperation that Vladimir Putin is distracting the Russian people from. During the 2000 campaign he flew to the scene of the uprising in Chechnya and promised to “ice them while they’re shitting in the outhouse.” Doing the math today, you can see that Russia remains frozen in time—and its leaders free to hallucinate.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/03/numbers-vladimir-putin-doesnt-want-you-to-see?mbid=social_facebook
BTW, you can be absolutely certain that President Obama knows this stuff, comprehensively ….
“According to Murray Feshbach, a Georgetown professor emeritus and the dean of Russian demography in the United States, Russia’s working-age population is also declining by a million people a year, a faster rate than the decline of the overall population, which in 2013 stood at around 143 million, 3 million less than when Putin took office. Moreover, only 30 percent of Russian babies born are born healthy. Eberstadt told me that many unhealthy Russian babies are “discarded” —sent to government institutions where they often develop cognitive difficulties. Unhealthy children grow up to be unhealthy adults: half of the conscripted Russian army has to be put in limited service because of poor health.”
ibid.
Just read the article, similar to others I’ve posted, to get a very clear sense of just how WEAK & desperate Tzar Putin’s Russia is. Those are not facts over which to gloat, those are facts that should scare the daylights out of you. Tzar Vlad literally has NOTHING TO LOSE. A dude with nukes who had NOTHING TO LOSE is the most dangerous creature humanity has ever confronted.
#TrustBarack …. he knows how dangerous the situation is
Murray Feshbach has been the expert of Soviet and now Russian demographics since the 1970’s. His essays are legends in the field.
Yippeeeeeeee!
#YES WE CAN.
I predict that it is done : )
I see in my “crystal ball”, when the dust has settled, 8.3 million people signed up for Obamacare; exceeding the targeted number by 1.3 million.
/rimshot
Ron Fournier is one the most unethical, so called, journalists! Everything he writes is based on his visceral hatred of President Obama.
You are delivering the Goods to those who deserve them.
WTG Ms Chips 😉
LOL Hahahahahaha
Because HOLD MUSIC while signing up for healthcare is SO MUCH more important than being able to afford to see a doctor.
My GOSH!
Did anyone see Lawrence show a few minutes ago; the tape of the Albuqurque police officers killing this man?
Sat with my jaw on the floor. Can’t believe the cops did that and that they videotaped it and that this would be okay to be shown on TV.
Terry1266Terry, People don’t like being forced to do thing they don’t want to do. Well I wear a seat belt, some people don’t like wearing seat belts, if caught not wearing it I will get a ticket. I have to get my car inspected every year, I have to pay for a license sticker, I have to have car insurance, I have house insurance, why not health insurance.
LOLzzzzz!!
HAHAHAHAHAHahahahahaha….you all are so funny with these “trolling” tweets… ROTFLMAO!!! 🙂 🙂
Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
This what I have been waiting for.
Thank you Chipsticks. Now I am bidding YOU all TODable TODers Good Night 😉
Looks Like We made it………….I don’t remember the whole song…..Yikes……I do now…..Barry Manilow.
Alrighty then…so it has been done. So shall it be done.
Feels a little like PBO’s third election night.
In a way, I guess it is that special. The day Obamacare as a permanent part of America got confirmed.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. “Yes we can” keeps running thru my mind 🙂
Yes, and like the night ACA passed and Nancy Smash with the gavel. FANTASTIC, FANTASTIC NEWS.
I’ve been praying, and I know a lot of TODers have, too. All I have to say to fellow believers is that God is good all the time. I have prayed and prayed, asking God to make the ACA a success, and it seems he heard my prayers and the prayers of all others who were asking for the same thing! I am so happy today. It’s wonderful, too, that approval for the ACA is up and it was announced today—on the day of the deadline.
I am always late to the meeting! This is absolutely wonderful news! now I have to go buy a bottle of wine and celebrate.
To Nerdy and Chips for the heartfelt wall-to-wall celebration and to all fellow TOD blog tyrants commenters and lurkers THANK YOU for sharing this momentous day.
Yes Indeed, Vicki! Nerdy and Chips have done an amazing job covering the positive news about OBAMACARE. We should also express our gratitude to TOD members who have worked so hard to help people enroll in the OBAMACARE. I know I will mis some names, but here are some of the people that deserve our thanks for all their hard work: What’s Working, Donna Dem, Judith Farding, Tally, Bill R, GGail, HOPE44, Isonprize, and many many other TOD members, whose names I have forgotten, who have worked so hard to help others get covered by OBAMACARE. Also the wonderful TOD twitter warriors, to many to list, who have been relentless and fearless in defending OBAMACARE. This night belongs to all of them!
Meta, didn’t you forget BDF VP Biden in this tweet?
A big thank you to John Legend for trying to take sense to people who have lost all sense some time ago. If these Obama haters don’t want health insurance then don’t get it, but don’t dare try to prevent those of us who do want it from getting it.
No…..I am stay up a little longer.
I ‘m so excited. I know, I know, I know…….I think I like it.
Staying….. 😳
Let’s drink to thus milestone. 🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹
Oops meant “this”.
🍷🍷🍷🍷
Yes indeed, COS! I am raising my glass of red wine! I wish I had some champaign!
7 million. I WIN.
Now I am gonna go there where no one has gone before. 9 million when all the dust settles.
Anyone up for it?
c’mon. 9 million is too easy. Congrats on 7 though!
I’ll go with you amk. Sounds very reasonable and doable.
My question remains: Why is the press so hellbent on keeping people from having reasonable health care via their horrible non-reporting? I know why the Repukes don’t want people to have access to it, but why is the press so adamant this is a failure, and people shouldn’t have it??????? THEY all have good health care…….we know that!
Because, once #ObamaCare becomes a grand success, which it will a la medicare, gop is fucked for at least two generations and then the corporate media can’t get their masters’ agenda done?
I’m definitely with you on the 9 million, dust settled.
Congrats AMK on your bold WIN! You certainly were not hesitant in predicting the 7 million!
Had We a GOP Congress that worked with POTUS, Imagine what We as a Nation could have accomplished today?
Actually David is being modest! ACA has so far resulted in the coverage of about 17 million people if you add in the 3 million young adults who stayed on their parents’ insurance until they were 26; the 4.5 million now covered by Medicaid; and another 2.7 million who accessed all the ACA insurance benefits directly from the insurer
I hope POTUS and FLOTUS are celebrating this moment.
Sorry for the duplicate. 2Mins apart. Didn’t see your post.
Celebration – it’s ALL good!!
Now that about says it all 😆
Hahahahaha!!
How does one speak Tea Party Crazy? With typos and ALL CAPS! Oops, forgot the typos.
🍸 🍸 🍸
❤ ❤ ❤
7M and Counting.
V I C T O R Y.
P E A C E
S E C U R I T Y
OMG!!!!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/03/31/picture-of-the-day-3/
7 Million. That’s the number without Texas Florida Illinois Missouri and many other states that haven’t reported any numbers past March 11.
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/450839655848890368
Change We Can Believe in. YES WE CAN!
Thank you President Obama and every Americans that worked tirelessly to make this happen. 7 million people have now signed up for Obamacare. #Elections Matter.