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Dave Gilson: 20 Obamacare Stats Republicans Don’t Want You to See
• Nearly 30 million Americans have gotten health insurance under Obamacare.
• The rate of uninsured adults has dropped to 12.3%.
Percentage of insurance exchange customers who’d previously been uninsured: 57%
• Annual number of people who would be uninsured over the next decade if not for Obamcare: 24 to 27 million
• The Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimate of how much Obamacare’s subsidies will cost: $209 billion less than projected
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Mike Corones: Mapping Obamacare Grants: Which States Got What?
Politics makes for odd sickbed funding. When Texas Senator Ted Cruz made his plans to run for president official, the announcement came with an awkward revelation: Cruz, who has made opposition to the law his signature, would have to enroll in Obamacare.
But Cruz isn’t the only GOP presidential hopeful to hold his nose and accept some filthy healthcare lucre. As this Reuters graphic shows, since 2010, Affordable Care Act (ACA) grants have doled out varying amounts to states, from less than $10 million to over $500 million. Some of those grants have gone to some surprising places: A Reuters exclusive from Andy Sullivan reveals that Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Texas Governor Rick Perry collectively applied for and won at least $352 million in ACA grants.
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The Obama Diary 
No way!
I’m one of the 11.7 million who signed up on the exchange. Peace of mind.
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Congrats MomSense!!!
NW, your unrelenting coverage of all the good that is #OBAMACARE is so appreciated. Thank you!!!
Thanks, Bob. 🙂
Thanks a trazilllllllllion Nerdy, oh Queen of Awesome Obamacare News!!!
Thanks a gazillionbazillion, Chiparoooooo!
LOVE THIS!!!
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What’s going on at the Whitehouse?
STARTING TO RE-ENTER NOW…..PHONED BOMB THREAT
THE THREAT WAS AGAINST THE BRADY BRIEFING ROOM….
And now idiots like JonKarl of ABC is insinuating a conspiracy? Seriously?
NY/DC, but especially, the WHPC are beyond childishness.
ALL CLEAR……..THEY NEED TO ARREST PEOPLE LIKE THIS AND LOCK THEM UP FOR A VERY LONG TIME………………
People who do this bomb threat things are sickos.
Thank goodness everyone is safe.
Wow!
Just came back from a long lunch… and reading this.
The toddlers must have been scared. In any case, the waco that did this should be put on trial. Fast.
Good Afternoon TODVille.
Why do people do that?
These reporters are f**ked up in the head.
NW, toddler’s reactions. You can’t expect better.
Electing this president is the best thing this country has done in quite awhile.
Just watched the ACA speech posted earlier. I shudder to think where we would find ourselves today if we had NOT elected barack obama as president.
Very very random and unrelated remark but argh for shortening Secret Service into SS. *German cringe*
Ahhh….true.
It’s interesting how over the pond, SS conjures up that imagery, but here, when we see SS – what pops into mind is either Social Security or Secret Service.
Unterstood. Meanwhile here, in a country where you can choose part of your licence plate (which is: one to three letters for city + 1 or 2 additional letters + 2 or 3 numbers” you are not allowed to use “SS” as the choosable letters even 😀
Actually, Nazis were my first thought too. Maybe its an age thing, or an amount-of-time-you’ve-spent-watching-old-war-movies-and-The-History-Channel-aka-Men-At-War thing.
Nerdy, I love this post so much. I wish i could print it out and staple it to the forehead of every teabagger or emotarian i see today.
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I saw a car with an older woman in it yesterday. On the back of her car she had bumper stickers that said: “Resist Obamacare” (which I found humorous) and “I’m Catholic and I vote” Can we all assume then that she WANTS PEOPLE TO DIE??
She has SS so the hell with everyone else.
This letter is so touching and so apropos for this Post. Thank you NW for keeping Obamacare front and center!
Read the Original Letter Written by the Pennsylvania Woman Whose Story the President Told Today:
Today, speaking from the Catholic Health Association’s annual assembly in Washington, D.C., President Obama outlined the state of health care in America, now that the Affordable Care Act has become part of the fabric of our health care system. In it, he told the story of Debra Lea Oren of Palmer, Pennsylvania. Debra, who suffers from osteoarthritis so severe it put her in a wheelchair, couldn’t walk or stand for years. She was in constant pain.
Today, she’s back on her feet. Here’s why:
Debra was able to enroll in an affordable health plan that covered the surgery she needed to help her walk on her own again. As a result, she can walk to the grocery store. She can cook and exercise. She can get herself to her doctors’ appointments on her own two feet (and two new knees).
“I walk with my husband Michael and hold hands,” she wrote to the President in February. “It’s like a whole new world for me.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/09/read-original-letter-written-pennsylvania-woman-whose-story-president-told-today
My boss goes on vacation thursday. I have a long story I’ve been meaning to share about the stupidity and ignorance surrounding ACA. I blame the DNC. They should have known that if they informed people, didn’t let the Democratic naysayers run the show, and really sell this law, everything would have been different.
Can’t wait to hear what you’ve got to share 57 🙂
I know how she feels as I have had one knee replaced and am now facing a hip and knee replacement on the other side this next year. If they are not replaced I would go from my cane to a walker then a wheelchair in no time. It is hard work recovering, but more than worth it to have some normalcy.
Ha! Sorry to be mean, but we hate the GOP and LOVE admitting it! (Tho we truly try not to be hateful!)
We truly do try hard not to be hateful MP 🙂 ❤
updates via RTs in the sidebar …
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I ❤ ❤ ❤ ACA News Updates. I -I Thank you, NW.
Thanks, Pres Obama.
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Congrats MomSense on your 2nd Gold today…… 😉
I want hear their plan–I’ll wait. I’m waiting. Still waiting. . . .
The immature, self-absorbed, whinny, petulant WHPC at your Viewing pleasure.
One of the commenters over there said that the interior walls are bomb proof. Exterior too.
What a bunch of crybabies. Especially Jon Karl trying to intimidate Josh about the equipment. The WH does not have to even allow it in there and most likely could take it out at any time.
The nerve of these idiots.
For them to think that the SS would put them as and at the same premium as POTUS is insane.
These people think that most Americans would care that much? I am constantly amazed as to the idiocy of these WHPC.
Here’s what a self proclaimed man of God said to a woman who lost her baby.
This “person” is not a human being.
SOMETHING DEVASTATED THE SPERM COUNT ON THIS ONE!
Follow up:
WH Press just keep asking the same questions over and over and over again as if they can’t hear each other.
A lot like my second grade class! I have a rule now: “Ask three before me”, meaning ask another classmate and keep asking until you find someone who remembers before asking me because I’ve already said it FIVE TIMES! Ahem. Maybe I should suggest that to Mr. Earnest.
Oh, please do!
Okay, I just did!
Just doing what they get paid to do. Shills.
Well, this was just cringeworthy. What a spectacle. It epitomizes all that is wrong with the WHPC. Of course, there had to be something nefarious about the Secret Service handling of the bomb threat. The search for some negative angle was paramount. All I could do was shake my head at the flurry of inane questions. And the crocodile tears from Jon Karl about the ‘network owned cameras’ being turned down was pathetic. What a bunch whiny babies.
Somehow, this Chuckie’s CryBaby act is so 🙂 🙄 🙄 🙂 to me.
hahahaa…..
The crappy content is what is reflected in the ratings Mr. Tuba drop out.
OMG, that is priceless Nena!!
When I saw this, Lady Chips, I was joyously flabbergasted…….I am still 🙂 🙂 and 🙄 🙄
Duh…
By the way, guys, I am technically a pacifist, but if I ever see Chuck Todd on the street, I’m taking him down. (And now I’ve made myself laugh. My New Jersey roots comin’ out. Ha.)
I am with you 1001%……..I would use my words for Chuckie looks like the type that would hit back. I will trip him up if given a chance.
True. Chuckie looks like a kid who got bullied in elementary school and now wants to sit behind a big desk and cut down others for a living. Ugh.
A wise woman once counseled me JO’B: “All things in moderation, including moderation.” See how freeing that is? Fall off the wagon once in a while, get back on. Punch out a dipstick like the one referred to here, does not make you a war hawk. In fact, it would feel pretty darn good! I’ll have your back!
I have always liked the way you think, MP. This shows why. Ha! And I’ll have your back, if you get to him first!
Deal! 🙂
So the sexual predator showed his face today?
Did it take him the last two weeks to practice the frail stance? Why aren’t Dems out there screaming out this?
Does DWS give a damn at all about framing GOP as the hypocrites, liars and soulless monsters that they are?
You are so close to perfect in your observations 57 – well said
At first I thought twice about putting it down in writing, it seemed so mean. But this guy was busy impeaching a POTUS for a whole lot less. And their meanness knows no bounds. I saw photos of Hastert recently and he’s slimmed down a lot but he still looked healthy. This was a PR stunt.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/09/report-shows-oil-industry-benefits-5-3-trillion-subsidies-annually.html
Most Americans should know by now that Republicans despise ‘entitlements’ that they errantly consider is anything Americans receive; even if it is theirs to begin with. They hate the idea of retired Americans receiving their Social Security and Medicare after paying into them their entire working lives, and they hate Americans working at slave-wage jobs receiving nutrition assistance because they earn too little to survive. What they do not hate, and indeed fight ferociously for, are taxpayer-funded entitlements that go to corporations in the form of tax loopholes and particularly entitlements for the oil industry in the form of subsidies.
According to the oil industry, the very idea of ending billions-of-dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the profitable industry is un-American; a position that Republicans embrace with religious passion. However, it is not just Republicans that believe the oil industry deserves to be paid for being a highly-profitable business; the world’s governments are handing outlandish amounts of the population’s money to the industry that is driving the Earth’s climate catastrophe.
Afternoon / evening / morning everyone.
Just finished listening to this program on BBC Radio 4: Is the Pope a Communist?. Quite delightful hearing rich American Catholics caterwauling over Pope Francis. Encourage you all to listen, and get ready for the nuclear explosions once PF issues his climate change encyclical.
Yeah, they weren’t asking all those questions because they gave a squat about POTUS or the First Family, they were only interested in placing blame on the Secret Service. Idiots.
Good one – HA!
OMG, Dan Pfeiffer just favorited one of my tweets……{{{{splat, splat……DED}}}}
Woooooooooot, congratulations Meta!!
To the smelling salts!!
Still doesn’t beat being followed by a portable potty company, though 😎
I BOW
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This is not a conversation to come in in the middle of……..
Weepin’ – yes, it might raise an eyebrow or two!
Diva!!! You RULE!!! 😎
Awesome meta! 🙂
I’d be weak in the knees! Congrats, meta!
OMG is right! 🙂
Very cool and very well deserved meta, Yay you!
hahahahahaha
Do anyone know what time it was when all this bomb threat was going on?
Graham is also going to introduce a 20 week ban on abortion next week.
Media insists that GOPers are over Cultural wars……yet time after time, GOPers say: Nooooo we are still kneed deep in Cultural wars. Graham is also trying to boost his favorable poll numbers…….. in order to be included in the so called Fox debates.
Rotating First Lady? Why can’t Lady Lindsay be his own First Lady. 😀
HOPE HE’S GOT A LARGE BANK ACCOUNT SO THAT HE CAN PAY FOR A DATE…………WITH ROTATING INTEREST!…:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Not to worry, Linds, not a prayer you will have to make good on all the ridiculous things you say. You ain’t ever gonna be potus. Ever.
MSNBC is doing a segment on Marco Rubio’s wildly irresponsible personal spending habits. Oh, yeah, let’s put him in charge of our country.
HuffPo had an article about how Romney even nixed him as running mate because of “financial mismanagement”
I’m late hearing about it. In fact, if dumb ol’ Romney had heard about it, I’m possibly the last person on the earth to hear about it, right after him.
Ugh to both of ’em.
GA TODville.
Nobody like that just resigns. It was either “resign or we’ll fire you” or he’s getting out of Dodge before charges are brought. Or he thought to himself, “I looked so tall and macho and powerful in that video … rolling around on the ground and everything … off to Hollywood I go.”
Expect to see him hired by FOX any day now. Expect the FOP to start bitching that a fine officer had to leave policing.
Hmm?
And the Tax Payers of TX are still obligated paying for his pension, right?
The 1st step is, his departure.
Yes, he’s gone, but not forgotten.
The fact that KIDS can’t enjoy a pool party on the last day of school is un-American. Sure, they’re loud, but it’s a once-a-year event, just let them have their fun.
Can’t speak to his pension — have no idea how long you have to be employed by McKinney police to qualify.
re: today’s “big” story, judging by the whining, self-centered MSM (who would not get a passing grade during emergency drills in the real world):
I think we all could have figured out that “effort to observe reaction” thingie, true or not. My first reaction was this would be an excellent reason to cancel the televised press briefings, so nobody could watch how they evacuated a part of the White House.
PBO was outstanding today. (As always, of course — clueless MSM doubling-down on the clueless award).
SheriffFruitfly hits the nail on the head, LOL:
That’s what the GOP gets for bringing the suit, and the GOP SCOTUS gets for taking the case.
And if they rule the wrong way, their gullible base are going to suffer badly.
How badly DO they want to (try to) destroy PBO’s legacy? We’ll find out.
Oh noes! Who will protect those scared McKinney racist hausfrau from those scary black swimmers now?
They ought to start a registry of these disgraced/criminal officers to see where they turn up next. If only the residents of Ferguson knew where Darren Wilson came from…
I hope the others on that force do not seek out or torment the teen girl as retribution. Hopefully the action taken will have them change their behaviors. If I were her parent I would want to accompany her places for awhile.
too easy. He needs to be held accountable, sued and he owes that child’s mother/father a face to face conversation.
THISSSSSSSSSSSS!!
Ohhhhhh. Don’t tell the Duggars!
BFF, have you found any live streaming links for FLOTUS? I’m having no luck so far.
No, I don’t have anything.
No worries, thanks BFF.
((( @VP )))
{{{{{ ❤ VPB ❤ PBO ❤ }}}}}
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/05/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-tesla-model-s/index.html
Nerdy: Please delete this link. I cannot figure out why this is happening.
MightyP, just got your email about this, the link is working fine for me, it just goes straight to the story. What happens when you click it??
Oh, boy, I am feeling positively demented at the moment, almost embarrassed you guys let me keep playing with your smart selves. Duh. Maybe I should log off, take a tea and chill myself out. I guess sleep deprivation can be real, and MP is counting some serious deficit last 3 weeks.
{{{Mighty P}}}
YooHoo!! CIC – Chipsticks. Lesser mortals need your help via email, please Ma’am!! ❤
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MightyP, just got your email about this, the link is working fine for me, it just goes straight to the story. What happens when you click it??
I so love our FLOTUS.
So yesterday on twitter, the woman who was involved in attacking the young people at the pool party was identified as a BofA employee. Several people tweeted BofA. This is their response:
I’m not a B of A customer, but hopefully they won’t be able to sweep this under the rug totally. The only action acceptable is to get her off the payroll of any establishment that wishes to keep good faith with its customers, “vendor” or not.
Is there any word on who the ‘vendor company’ is Meta?
Not yet. I don’t think people are going to let this go. See Propane Jane’s TL: https://twitter.com/docrocktex26
Woah, excellent, she’s been brilliant on this. Interesting from BofA: “We have asked the vendor to investigate and take action” – methinks they’re nervous.
LAWSUITS
To quote unohoo, egg sackly 🙂
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/06/09/chat-away-603/