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Acebuckeye13 posted:Don't worry guys, Trump might not be lifting the Jones Act to help Puerto Rico, but he's doing it for the right reasons: Well, I mean...what good's a tragedy if no one profits?
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There Bias Two posted:Okay, and? You'll have to get someone else to talk to Trump about lifting the Jones Act. Hopefully they'll time their little conversation just right so nobody with US Shipping interests talks to Donny between the end of their conversation and him making a definitive tweet about it.
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No way he's actually going to sign an EO about selling insurance across state lines. Surely he just off the cuffed that and his advisors are now either explaining to him why he literally can't do that or distracting him with some tasty yum yums or something.
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I'm pretty sure we've seen this EO song and dance before. He's going to sign something directing HHS to draft a plan that would allow for insurance to be sold across state lines and think he actually made a law.
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empty whippet box posted:No way he's actually going to sign an EO about selling insurance across state lines. Surely he just off the cuffed that and his advisors are now either explaining to him why he literally can't do that or distracting him with some tasty yum yums or something. You have to remember that he thinks all the things he's been signing are Executive Orders, because he still doesn't know what an EO actually is. All those pointless signing ceremonies they've been holding where he signs toothless proclamations, statements, and requests for Congress to do something? He thinks' those are all things he actually made happen by signing them and now they're happening and man are all the previous Presidents dumb and low energy for not accomplishing so many thing as the golden Donald J. Trump.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:I'm pretty sure we've seen this EO song and dance before. He's going to sign something directing HHS to draft a plan that would allow for insurance to be sold across state lines and think he actually made a law. Followed by firing the head of HHS the next day.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:This so wrong. The idea is that all insurance companies would locate to the state with the most favorable conditions, ie Delaware. The consumer benefits are exactly 0. Well sure there's that too, but the funny thing is this won't even entice insurance companies into selling insurance to more states. The barrier to getting into a new state is not paperwork or regulation, its fear of adding a large book of business that is badly mispriced and you don't figure that out until you've already lost millions and are on the hook for millions more. When insurance companies expand, they do it cautiously and slowly. You aren't going to bribe them into rapid expansion with a slightly-more company-friendly contract language.
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Did this get posted? Jesus Christ. https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/913057532976955392
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I'm having chicken salad for lunch today. Karl Marx was right.
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Sep 27, 2017 19:32
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More like #standingonthelittlepeople.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Local Candidate Found Posting On Forums For Drug Users And Gun Nuts Local Candidate associated with Slenderman murders.
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Dear god do not post that you are running for office on a board where apparently people get doxxed by alt-right fucks.
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Mystic Mongol posted:He's a disaster for the country as a politician, but he was the real deal in Vietnam. His captors gave him the opportunity to leave (they found out his family was rich and thought they could get something for him) but he refused to leave without his subordinates, a decision that cost him five years and maimed him to this day. It wasn't just that his family was rich: his father was the commander of the United States Pacific Command. They literally captured the admiral's son and were trying to exchange him.
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The USS John S. McCain that was in the news recently for the mid-sea collision is named after his Father AND Grandfather.Rigel posted:Well sure there's that too, but the funny thing is this won't even entice insurance companies into selling insurance to more states. The barrier to getting into a new state is not paperwork or regulation, its fear of adding a large book of business that is badly mispriced and you don't figure that out until you've already lost millions and are on the hook for millions more. When insurance companies expand, they do it cautiously and slowly. You aren't going to bribe them into rapid expansion with a slightly-more company-friendly contract language. There's also the not-insignificant challenge of setting up a network of providers.
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Volkerball posted:Did this get posted? Jesus Christ. YOU BETTER STAND FOR THAT FLAG THOUGH!!!
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Wow great job one-upping Paul Ryan, Scotty, you're so with it.
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Taerkar posted:The USS John S. McCain that was in the news recently for the mid-sea collision is named after his Father AND Grandfather. I hadn't thought of that because its not as relevant in my flavor of insurance, but yeah you are right. Not already having agreements set up with the local hospitals is an enormous barrier to entry.
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For health insurance, the difference between state regs really only accounts for a very small percentage of the difference in the price of plans. No one in California is going to be saving a ton of money by purchasing a plan out of South Carolina. The plan would still be underwritten based on the expected cost of care in California. "Selling across state lines" is such a red herring in the health insurance debate that I can't believe anyone who uses it really believes it.
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Another tooth is forming on the alligator of disapproval. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/913111799632994304
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So, a nice thing about being in California is that my insurance has to cover trans-related health care. Could a trans person in say, North Carolina, purchase Californian insurance with trans coverage and have it covered? Or could the insurance company still deny those requests because of state laws not requiring coverage for trans related care (eg hormones)?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:wtf is bridage Number of brides in a given area.
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Rigel posted:Another tooth is forming on the alligator of disapproval. I think we have to accept that for the next 6-12 months, unless the economy crashes, Trump's approval rating will hover between 35-40%. Which is terrible, but not low enough to cause Republicans/Supporters to abandon him in the run up to the mid terms.
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Mystic Mongol posted:He's a disaster for the country as a politician, but he was the real deal in Vietnam. His captors gave him the opportunity to leave (they found out his family was rich and thought they could get something for him) but he refused to leave without his subordinates, a decision that cost him five years and maimed him to this day. He hasn't been "the real deal" at any time in his loving life. He only became a pilot through his father's connections, and by most accounts he was a lovely, unsafe pilot. You know why he didn't take the offer to get released? Because it'd have required him to make disloyal statements and violate the Code of Conduct, risking a court martial. It was an offer given to many and it meant speaking out against the US and lying about the treatment they got to the press. They had to admit the US was a war criminal and the treatment they got from the North Vietnamese was "lenient and humane". Refusal was common. Nothing extraordinary there. Want to know the only extraordinary part? That he was the son of a Navy admiral. And how did the NV discover this? Because McCain told them. Because within 2 weeks of capture he broke down and spilled the beans on loving everything.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:wtf is bridage French. masculine noun (automobiles) speed governing Or maybe he typed brigade wrong.
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farraday posted:French. I'd rather think he spelled birdage wrong and it was a dumb joke about tweet storms
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Rigel posted:That wouldn't really be "buying insurance across state lines". Currently insurers choose whether or not they want to sell to people in say, Chicago. (The requirements to file rates and comply with state regulations are not a big deal) The requirements to fill rates with state DOIs are a big deal because the state DOIs have some say on those rates. Those rates are derived from risk pools. Vis a vis, the risk pool is limited to your state. I'm part of a "national account" (i.e. my company has offices in multiple states), but technically the company that insures me (UnitedHealthcare) is a local CT subsidiary, and the largest possible risk pool is the population of CT (about 10 million people). Right or wrong (and I'm not an actuary), the idea is that if you could sell to larger risk pools, you could have lower rates. This probably impacts the regional health plans more than the large national ones: if you can suddenly sell to 10s of millions of people rather than your current state, it might open up more competition.
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Conspiratiorist posted:Want to know the only extraordinary part? That he was the son of a Navy admiral. And how did the NV discover this? Because McCain told them. Because within 2 weeks of capture he broke down and spilled the beans on loving everything. yeah what a dickless loser for suffering psychological collapse after two measly weeks in a brutal prison camp. there are guys in guantanamo who have gone longer than that without suffering intense mental harm. what a dumbass
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boner confessor posted:yeah what a dickless loser for suffering psychological collapse after two measly weeks in a brutal prison camp. there are guys in guantanamo who have gone longer than that without suffering intense mental harm. what a dumbass Correct, he was just another PoW, no more heroic than the many that broke under pressure. For those two weeks. Afterwards he was called the "crown prince", kept isolated from the others and given special treatment including medical care, since he became an invaluable propaganda tool.
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Honestly if he's allowed to say his name, i would assume they would figure out the rest sooner or later. The fact that he chose to remain there rather than leave isn't in dispute though, I believe. As far as McCain as a politician - I disagree with his politics, but he does represent a kind of Senator that believed in the purpose of government and the worthwhile-ness of having rules and conventions. So from that perspective, more people like him would be better than more jackasses who don't believe in anything but blowing things up and then cashing out.
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Gnossiennes posted:So, a nice thing about being in California is that my insurance has to cover trans-related health care. Could a trans person in say, North Carolina, purchase Californian insurance with trans coverage and have it covered? Or could the insurance company still deny those requests because of state laws not requiring coverage for trans related care (eg hormones)? If the California insurer's plan documents state that they cover something, they'd have to cover it. They couldn't retroactively say "oops you live in a place where we don't legally have to cover this so we aren't." The idea behind buying across state lines is people saving money by buying worse plans from states with fewer regulations. But like I mentioned the impact would be minimal.
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McCain wasn't a lovely pilot. He also did heroics on Forrestal fire, and had plenty of opportunities to avoid combat. He helped fellow inmates during captivity, and had a good career after pow time in increasing naval aviation safety under his command, and did a good career in the Navy. This can be disconnected from his politics.
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