Tiberius Christ posted:

The gently caress? is it made by the elves from LOTR

Tiberius Christ posted:

The gently caress? is it made by the elves from LOTR

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We just should remember that, when — where we grew up is — when we were in our grade school that’s when the world was right and we tend to want to recreate that idyllic scene in our adulthood thinking that’s the best thing for America. And in my case, it is. I grew up with "Fun with Dick and Jane." Wonderful. But you know, while I was going on, he was going to a school in Indonesia, so his idea of America is entirely different than the idea that most Americans have of what we ought to be like, and he’s filling our country up with people that will continue to attack us.”

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Gov. Terry Branstad, who is pushing to shift management of the state’s Medicaid program to private companies on Jan. 1, said Thursday that the firms have signed more than 12,000 contracts with pharmacies, doctors and other health care providers.

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But most Iowa hospitals and physicians have not signed contracts to participate in the new system, according to the Department of Human Services. The issue is important, because the managed-care companies are supposed to show they have broad networks of health care providers willing to care for the new plans' members.

Branstad, a Republican who is seeking federal approval of the shift, touted the managed-care companies’ progress in signing up health care providers. He said 99 percent of pharmacies that serve the current Medicaid program are signed up with at least one managed-care company, and hundreds of long-term care services are on board.

“We are proud of our progress and we will keep working to serve Medicaid patients,” he wrote in a press release Thursday.

DHS released to The Des Moines Register on Thursday numbers showing that few hospitals have signed such contracts, however. None of the four managed-care companies reported signing more than 17 of the 118 Iowa hospitals now participating in Medicaid. One of the companies, WellCare of Iowa, said it hadn’t signed up any hospitals. Another, AmeriHealth, said it had signed up just two.

The managed-care companies reported signing contracts with from 200 to 1,116 physicians out of 6,685 who now provide care to Iowa Medicaid patients.

Leaders of several large hospital systems, including UnityPoint Health, Mercy-Des Moines, and University of Iowa Hospitals, have told the Register this week that they haven’t signed contracts with the managed-care companies.

The 12,000 figure cited by Branstad is the total number of contracts signed, not the number of health care providers who have agreed to participate. Each provider can sign up to four contracts.

Branstad contends the shift to managed-care companies will save millions of dollars for the state and federal governments while offering flexibility and coordinated care to Medicaid recipients.

Critics fear the change to for-profit management will lead to service cuts. They say Iowa’s 560,000 Medicaid recipients are being put in the impossible position of choosing a managed-care plan next month without knowing whether their doctors, hospitals and other health care providers will be participating in any of the networks.

Critics have asked federal administrators to at least delay the shift to private management. The Iowa Hospital Association has taken the matter to court, and Democratic legislators went to Washington, D.C., this week to plead their case with Obama administration officials.

Sen. Joe Bolkcom, an Iowa City Democrat serving on a committee monitoring the shift, said Thursday that the 12,000 figure touted by Branstad is unimpressive. He said that in a recent meeting, the managed-care companies said they each needed to sign up about 35,000 health care providers.

“It’s unbelievable that Gov. Branstad and Lt. Governor Reynolds would claim that it’s good news for Iowans that fewer than one-third of Iowa’s Medicaid providers have signed up for their proposed Medicaid privatization program,” Bolkcom wrote in a news release. “It is actually bad news because the effect of such low participation by health care providers would be to prevent hundreds of thousands of Iowans from accessing affordable, quality health care.”

According to the latest DHS figures, each managed-care company has signed up from 7 percent to 37 percent of the health care providers currently serving Iowa Medicaid recipients.

Luigi Thirty posted:

It's a gazillion layers of pastry dough filled with butter, nuts, and soaked in sweet syrup. It's like the unhealthiest thing you can possibly eat.

Dead Cosmonaut posted:

You couldn't be any more wrong about this. t don't how you got "Germans could have paid up but were politically unable to do so" from "defaulting on payments". They were required to give exports as part of reparations and their factories simply couldn't keep up. The second they did default, Allied powers marched in and started seizing national assets. A lot of countries at the time were feeling a financial crunch and were attempting to offload their burdens on Germany. There as passive resistance in the end, but only after the Allies got heavy handed. Remember, the Weimar government accepted the Dawes plan condition of foreign supervision of the Reichsbank.

Mr Hootington posted:

So good news for people on Medicaid in Iowa! It is being privatized. It rolls out January 1st

Mr Hootington posted:

So good news for people on Medicaid in Iowa! It is being privatized. It rolls out January 1st even though EVERYONE in the state seems to range from mildly annoyed to foaming at the mouth angry about this.

Govener Branstad assures us it is going as planned.


Doesn't sound so bad! Let's take a look at those numbers.


Well I'm sure it will turn out in the end. I mean it isn't like Branstad did anything else this year. I mean he didn't destroy the "iowa niceness" and pride in working together that our legislative process had and caused future gridlock by vetoing a hard fought compromise on education funding between the two parties in Iowa. Or have a corrupt hiring of a university president. Or support the use of eminent domain to build the Bakken pipeline. Which would run underneath Iowa farmland.

MonsieurLongDong posted:

No. I suspect for some of this we cribbed from the same handbook published by a pro bono organization that does CLE classes. The middle paragraphs should be the same.

If you're talking about a fellow attorney that's in the Ohio area, then I know who you're talking about. The community is small.

Some of the stories here are different and I've added some other stuff for clarification. Some of these processes are absent in the U-Visa/T-Visa process because those are functional refugees that are already located in the states for some reason. I edited to clarify some of those differences.

I've edited the initial post above to give credit to the primary source at the BAULA service who produced the CLE packet.

Mr Hootington posted:

So good news for people on Medicaid in Iowa! It is being privatized. It rolls out January 1st even though EVERYONE in the state seems to range from mildly annoyed to foaming at the mouth angry about this.

Govener Branstad assures us it is going as planned.


Doesn't sound so bad! Let's take a look at those numbers.


Well I'm sure it will turn out in the end. I mean it isn't like Branstad did anything else this year. I mean he didn't destroy the "iowa niceness" and pride in working together that our legislative process had and caused future gridlock by vetoing a hard fought compromise on education funding between the two parties in Iowa. Or have a corrupt hiring of a university president. Or support the use of eminent domain to build the Bakken pipeline. Which would run underneath Iowa farmland.

Mr Hootington posted:

So good news for people on Medicaid in Iowa! It is being privatized. It rolls out January 1st even though EVERYONE in the state seems to range from mildly annoyed to foaming at the mouth angry about this.

Govener Branstad assures us it is going as planned.


Doesn't sound so bad! Let's take a look at those numbers.


Well I'm sure it will turn out in the end. I mean it isn't like Branstad did anything else this year. I mean he didn't destroy the "iowa niceness" and pride in working together that our legislative process had and caused future gridlock by vetoing a hard fought compromise on education funding between the two parties in Iowa. Or have a corrupt hiring of a university president. Or support the use of eminent domain to build the Bakken pipeline. Which would run underneath Iowa farmland.

Joementum posted:

The RNC is now selling "I Miss W" hats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkFOyeXviaM

Logikv9 posted:

The article states that he is still seeking that federal approval for the shift. Is there a chance it will be blocked, or is it purely a procedural thing that gets auto-approved once things are in order?

Yoshifan823 posted:

My aunt who lives in Western Iowa is getting a new job, and (semi-jokingly) offered me room and board to help run the little shop she owns in her town, and literally the only reason I even considered it is because it would put me in Steve King's district so I could spend all my free time following him around and yelling at him.

JeffersonClay posted:

Uh, Krugman is deeply concerned with inequality and thinks reducing inequality is more important than growth.

http://nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/krugman-why-inequality-matters.html

evilweasel posted:

Germany could easily have kept up on reparations but were politically unable to do so. The Ruhr crisis was, as I said, largely because keeping up with reparations was politically untenable, for the reasons I suggested. I'm aware of the Ruhr crisis, but it does not explain much of anything about World War II - the factors that lead to Hitler's rise to power, the continuing illegitimacy of the Wiemar government, and the complete unwillingness to accept the post-WWI settlement had little if anything to do with reparations. The "stab-in-the-back" myth was why Germany never accepted the verdict of the war, why the democratic government which arose in the mutinies that ended the war was never legitimate, and why they refused to accept their territorial losses after WWI and meekly accepted the end of the unified German state for half a century after WWII. They also meekly accepted the Russians basically looting everything that could be moved to Russia until they decided that it was better to build up East Germany since it was essentially their front line. Hell, german POWs held by Russia were essentially slave labor for half a decade with some being held more than a decade after the end of WWII.

"Oh, it was reparations" has never been true. They weren't exactly the greatest foreign policy move ever, but that they led to WWII has been completely debunked. Reparations were a symbol, not a cause: they were one of the things that Germans could focus on as a tangible "we lost" part of the Treaty, but their real beef was that they were treated as losers when the german public sincerely believed that they'd graciously agreed to an honorable peace between equals.

Luigi Thirty posted:

It's a gazillion layers of pastry dough filled with butter, nuts, and soaked in sweet syrup. It's like the unhealthiest most delicious thing you can possibly eat.

Boon posted:

This is literally the only timecI have ever heard this, so you might want to cite this if it's been, "completely debunked"

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

ah, so is this the reason general patton (?) said "the germans never knew they'd been defeated; we're gonna have to do it all over again"?

evilweasel posted:

Germany could easily have kept up on reparations but were politically unable to do so. The Ruhr crisis was, as I said, largely because keeping up with reparations was politically untenable, for the reasons I suggested. I'm aware of the Ruhr crisis, but it does not explain much of anything about World War II - the factors that lead to Hitler's rise to power, the continuing illegitimacy of the Wiemar government, and the complete unwillingness to accept the post-WWI settlement had little if anything to do with reparations. The "stab-in-the-back" myth was why Germany never accepted the verdict of the war, why the democratic government which arose in the mutinies that ended the war was never legitimate, and why they refused to accept their territorial losses after WWI and meekly accepted the end of the unified German state for half a century after WWII. They also meekly accepted the Russians basically looting everything that could be moved to Russia until they decided that it was better to build up East Germany since it was essentially their front line. Hell, german POWs held by Russia were essentially slave labor for half a decade with some being held more than a decade after the end of WWII.

"Oh, it was reparations" has never been true. They weren't exactly the greatest foreign policy move ever, but that they led to WWII has been completely debunked. Reparations were a symbol, not a cause: they were one of the things that Germans could focus on as a tangible "we lost" part of the Treaty, but their real beef was that they were treated as losers when the german public sincerely believed that they'd graciously agreed to an honorable peace between equals.

Epic High Five posted:

I'm literally going back to bed for an hour so that this image doesn't mark the start of my day. Thnx facebook

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Ah, yes, the American Civil War: a conflict in which President Lincoln oversaw the daily expansion of mass graves and concentration camps within eyesight of the White House and when roaming religious death squads pressganged and murdered everyone in sight.

A truly manly war.

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Ah, yes, the American Civil War: a conflict in which President Lincoln oversaw the daily expansion of mass graves and concentration camps within eyesight of the White House and when roaming religious death squads pressganged and murdered everyone in sight.

A truly manly war.

[e]: The joker behind this image must be so ignorant of history, they only saw the words 'civil war' then the synapses in their brain stopped firing.

baw posted:

They didn't flee to another continent though for hopefully obvious reasons.

Epic High Five posted:

I'm literally going back to bed for an hour so that this image doesn't mark the start of my day. Thnx facebook

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Instead it marks the start of my day.

I hate the person who made this

Bullfrog posted:

White supremacists from /pol/ apparently showed up at the Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis last night, armed, and are planning to do so again tonight: https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterMinneapolis/videos/1010885932288533/

http://pastebin.com/FkA1B2rq

Epic High Five posted:

I'm literally going back to bed for an hour so that this image doesn't mark the start of my day. Thnx facebook

Boon posted:

This is literally the only timecI have ever heard this, so you might want to cite this if it's been, "completely debunked"

botany posted:

As it turns out, most of the reparations conditions that were demanded of Germany were never fulfilled, which was tacitly ignored by the allied powers, mostly due to the diplomatic genius of Stresemann.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lmao Because there totally wasn't a whole issue with people buying their way out of the draft or hiring substitutes.

Dead Cosmonaut posted:

Krugmandefendingmalthusianecenomics.txt

Epic High Five posted:

botany posted:

That's pretty much scholarly consensus. If you want a good overview on the time between the world wars, I can recommend Sally Marks' The Illusion of Peace, she talks about the economic consequences of the Versailles Treaty at length. As it turns out, most of the reparations conditions that were demanded of Germany were never fulfilled, which was tacitly ignored by the allied powers, mostly due to the diplomatic genius of Stresemann.

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Huh, really? I thought the steep payments on reparations and loans were what forced Weimar Germany into hyperinflation due to printing so much currency for those and other things like wages and interwar veteran pensions.

If not that, then what caused hyperinflation?