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EugeneJ posted:How would everyone here feel about free/cheap healthcare for everyone making under $48,560 instead of single-payer? an example of a more solid policy is social security, which everyone can collect and everyone would complain about if cuts were to be made. its good to give a health benefit for people with less money, but it doesnt solve the problem of market based healthcare, which is still a problem for everyone, and it may be on shaky ground by having a limited base of beneficiaries.
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how is the essential plan administered? Is it through a typical insurance provider or is it the equivalent of a public option and all contributions are vested in / managed and disbursed by the government?
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Gunshow Poophole posted:how is the essential plan administered? Is it through a typical insurance provider or is it the equivalent of a public option and all contributions are vested in / managed and disbursed by the government? Administered by health insurance companies within the state using federal funds Note the final sentence here: https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/managed_care/essential/docs/2017_annual_report.pdf quote:The Essential Plan is funded primarily by Federal funds with some State funding. The Federal funds calculation is based on 95 percent of the tax credits and cost-sharing reductions that individuals would have received if they enrolled in QHPs. In State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2015-16, Federal funds covered 98 percent of program costs, with State funding covering 2 percent of the costs. The percentage of Federal funds decreased to 91 percent in SFY 2016-17 as QHP enrollees transition to the Essential Plan. State funds are expected to account for 3 percent of program costs SFY 2017-18 and consumer premium contributions for less than 1 percent of costs. State funds support the lower cost-sharing for consumers in the Essential Plan as compared to the comparable QHP plan. Program administration costs cannot be financed by the trust fund and must be financed with State dollars. Seems like weakening the state Medicaid program and relying on federal funding instead might backfire at some point
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i was about to say that if people making $48k per year were able to use medicaid, i'd say that might be worth it, but generally propping up for-profit and pseudo-non-profit insurers is a bad idea. weakening medicaid is flat-out unacceptable. i'm on it for one more year and it's worked wonders for me
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gravity knives finally loving legalized
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support Tiffany Caban for Queens DA, folks https://twitter.com/QueensChronicle/status/1134165210565136385 https://twitter.com/NYSIAF/status/1134107659794337795
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nypd caught under reporting rapes by 38% only disclosing vaginal rapes to the public and not oral/anal. accused of not following up on acquaintance/date rape, only stranger rapes. accused of closing cases immediately if victims dont cooperate in first interview. detective staffing is 1 per 100 cases vs 1 per 2.5 cases of murder. detectives told not to investigate misdemeanor sex assault.
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caban is great but it seems like she wasn't prepared for this level of success. three people reported that they were paid late a while back one of my ex-gfs was raped and she was one of the rare cases where the detective was overzealous about catching the perpetrators. unfortunately, he was still very insensitive because he demanded to interview her friend, and she didn't want a lot of people to know (she only told me and her supervisor at work) mixed news on the rent regulations front. Heastie and Stewart-Cousins want to present a unified front for the expansion of the rent regulations and tenant protections. even Cuomo has shown some level of support for locality opt-ins for rent regulations. however, Stewart-Cousins claims that only three of the eight bills taken up by the Assembly (as i mentioned, this does not include good cause eviction) have the votes to pass. i suggest contacting DSA Housing, New York Communities for Change, and tenant groups to see what you can do for activism
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very encouraging update on the rent law fightquote:Senate Dems Say They Have Support For 9 Housing Bills
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Real hurthling! posted:gravity knives finally loving legalized anyone seen a handy guide to whats legal now and what isnt? As a knife user who works with a ton of other knife users Id love to be able to point out what could or couldnt get people in trouble. For legal concealed carry is it just blades under 4 that arent stilettos, daggers or dirks? whatever that means.
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Snowy posted:anyone seen a handy guide to whats legal now and what isnt? As a knife user who works with a ton of other knife users Id love to be able to point out what could or couldnt get people in trouble. stiletto does 1d4+1 dmg so there's a statistically significant advantage over a knife. whereas a dagger can parry and a dirk gets a bonus to hit against armored targets
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get that OUT of my face posted:very encouraging update on the rent law fight tbh unless they expand rent stabilization/control it's not terribly meaningful except to those who already have fairly strong rights. private rents have little compared to even NJ.
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Those first 5 points are going to change rent stabilization dramatically, like mega dramatically. Good cause eviction is also a huge deal even for non-rent-stabilized people. Altogether it just seems way too good to be true (and wow I wish it'd been a thing in time for me to take advantage).
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Malcolm XML posted:tbh unless they expand rent stabilization/control it's not terribly meaningful except to those who already have fairly strong rights. private rents have little compared to even NJ. i'll post a link later but an Assemblymember posted a 21-minute video of yesterday's protests and wow, i wish i could have been there. even from a video you could tell they were charged up
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Are IAI and MCI changes included in those 9 bills?
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:Are IAI and MCI changes included in those 9 bills?
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get that OUT of my face posted:yes. one of them eliminates permanent MCI rent increases entirely and another prevents IAI abuse towards vacant apartments Dope. Our building is currently fighting an MCI - the owner is claiming ~$600,000 on replacing a broken boiler, replacing a broken elevator, and repointing brickwork. Will the changes help us at all, or are we boned because the improvements are grandfathered in or something? They also used IAI to increase the legal rent of my unit when the previous tenant moved out. The old legal rent was $800. Now it's $3,200 because they did the standard faux-luxury renovation during the vacancy. I kinda assume this unit is a lost cause, but it would be nice if the owner wasn't incentivised to keep doing this.
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one day after the wild success of a powerful protest in Albany that got the State Senate on board to pass all nine bills, the tenant movement is pressing Carl Heastie in the Assembly with... a twitter rally. that's a pretty fuckin steep decline in tacticsMalcolm XML posted:tbh unless they expand rent stabilization/control it's not terribly meaningful except to those who already have fairly strong rights. private rents have little compared to even NJ.
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get that OUT of my face posted:one day after the wild success of a powerful protest in Albany that got the State Senate on board to pass all nine bills, the tenant movement is pressing Carl Heastie in the Assembly with... a twitter rally. that's a pretty fuckin steep decline in tactics Well my issue is that rent stabilization has the same problems as rent control, namely that it might as well not exist for the vast amount of the market. So expanding rent stabilization to basically everyone is >> increasing existing rent stabilized tenants' rights since there's a lot already. The only way to curb landlord power is to curb it for everyone, not just the lucky few. 9 bills will pass the senate but Cuomo and crew know that they can divide and conquer.
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get that OUT of my face posted:good-cause eviction and opening the door for localities to enter rent regulation are excellent and necessary and i'm glad they're back on the table. good cause eviction, in particular, looked extremely doubtful because Heastie wouldn't put it on the package of the other rent bills the good cause eviction bill whips rear end
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Buffalo News refuses to run any articles on the New York Health Act, but published this editorial: Another Voice: Single-payer system is wrong prescription for N.Y. health care quote:As an an independent insurance broker in the field of health and employee benefits, I, along with a vast number of my insurance industry colleagues, truly understand and empathize with many of the opinions voiced lately regarding the confusion and frustration in our U.S. health care system. But that doesnt mean we should throw it out for a single-payer, government-run system. lol
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EugeneJ posted:Buffalo News refuses to run any articles on the New York Health Act, but published this editorial: Speaking of which, what are good local newspapers I should consider subscribing to? I think I might start doing that in a few paychecks.
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I like The Post Star out of Glens Falls. They do sales pretty often.
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swinging back to bad news on rent laws, the legislative leaders agreed to negotiate with the head goomba. cuomo is as close to a dictator in the current american system as you can get, and second only to Huey Long in that category historically. shame that our voters are stupid enough to keep voting him in i would legitimately move to New Jersey if the situation there wasn't reversed (good governor, godawful legislature). can we combine forces and kick out the bad elements so that we have a half decent political system in both places? at least neither of us are Massachusetts, home of the straight pride parade get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 15:06 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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that huge tower going up at 3rd and 88th that was in the news for shady zoning shenanigans a few years back just had all construction stopped. turns out the city didnt check how many floors they were allowed to build and approved the plans with too many. they may have to remove 5 floors of already sold apartments. its loving glorious. edit: sorry, its at 63rd street. different shady zonng shenannigan tower on 3rd ave than the one i was thinking of. (so many) Real hurthling! has issued a correction as of 00:50 on Jun 7, 2019 |
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Real hurthling! posted:that huge tower going up at 3rd and 88th that was in the news for shady zoning shenanigans a few years back just had all construction stopped. turns out the city didnt check how many floors they were allowed to build and approved the plans with too many. they may have to remove 5 floors of already sold apartments. its loving glorious. holy poo poo this owns
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can we please get a link? "63rd st tower zoning" gets me nowhere, and I need to tell a small-town town planner asap
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tyvm, that also led to the NYT article if anyone's interested. My planner friend is going to love it, he regularly makes people do the same thing, but like Home Depot sheds, not five stories of a luxury high rise
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passed this going on yesterday  how many of you goons are in there?
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oh, was just reading about the Cabn/Katz race. here's a solid rundown: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/07/queens-new-york-district-attorney-race-melinda-katz/
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I appreciate that the race hasnt gone negative enough to really bring out this sort of dirty laundry, but the part of me that flips through tabloids while I wait in line at the deli really wishes someone would blow the lid off what the gently caress went down between Katz and Curtis Sliwa over the years. (For those not familiar, heres a 2016 article that waves in the direction of the various incredible elements of this tawdry tale: https://nypost.com/2016/04/14/curtis-sliwa-plans-ultimate-revenge-against-ex-gal-pal/ ) quote:In 2014, Sliwas second ex-wife, Mary Galda, took him to court over support payments. Chevy Slyme has issued a correction as of 13:49 on Jun 7, 2019 |
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CaptainPsyko posted:I appreciate that the race hasn’t gone negative enough to really bring out this sort of dirty laundry, but the part of me that flips through tabloids while I wait in line at the deli really wishes someone would blow the lid off what the gently caress went down between Katz and Curtis Sliwa over the years.  Incredible.
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get that OUT of my face posted:DA primary races in NY, for some reason, seem pretty tame compared to other ones. the last Brooklyn one also wasn't that heated. i can see Manhattan's getting pretty nasty though, especially if Dan Fliedner runs I mean, these are positions that until the past few years, all had incumbents with literal decades on the job. There's a reason they haven't had competitive enough races to get heated.
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get that OUT of my face posted:DA primary races in NY, for some reason, seem pretty tame compared to other ones. the last Brooklyn one also wasn't that heated. i can see Manhattan's getting pretty nasty though, especially if Dan Fliedner runs I loving hope Cy Vance is booted, and that whoever replaces him manages to uncover evidence for all that loving bribery. Edit: In other legal news, anybody hear about this body? I might be getting paranoid, but it seems to me like they're advocating for the legal services equivalent of payday loans: https://twitter.com/ALFA_Law/status/1137103688168857600 Link to the Times Union article in case the tweet or account magically disappear Absurd Alhazred has issued a correction as of 05:58 on Jun 8, 2019 |
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CaptainPsyko posted:I mean, these are positions that until the past few years, all had incumbents with literal decades on the job. before Ken Thompson (R.I.P.) the incumbent Brooklyn DA had not lost an election in over 100 years
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