Florida Republicans up to mischief in their "glitch" fixing session, including enabling more migrant relocation stunts like DeSantis' Texas to Martha's Vineyard caper last year.
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Freelance journalist, covering health care, business, law, culture, & wine. Have written for Kaiser Health News, ABA Journal, Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare.
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"I'm black, too, so it's like any slight movement, anything man, it could have been just all downhill," Flynt says. "It was terrifying. It shook my girl up, 'cause we didn't know what was gonna happen."
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The dealer might have already sold their trade-in. vehicle. That's called "unhorsing" the car buyer. "They are then sort of at the mercy of the car dealer," he says.
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Health care leaders should lobby Congress to pass legislation to rein in greed -- Reforming patent laws, changing coding and billing rules, strengthening antitrust enforcement, expanding price transparency, and accelerating global budgets.
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"It's been 40 years since they first realized that there was a safer alternative," Minkara says. "I think if they're going to act, they're going to have to be forced to act. And I think it's the job of the regulators to make that happen."
Despite a widespread belief among abortion rights advocates that the lawsuit’s claims are baseless, providers have been preparing for their worst-case scenario, with many ready to implement new protocols if they can no longer distribute mifepristone.
Rahimi took part in 5 shootings. Yet the 5th Circuit wrote in vacating his conviction for illegal gun possession: “Rahimi, while hardly a model citizen, is nonetheless part of the political community entitled to the 2nd Amendment’s guarantees."
What’s burning out health care workers is less the grueling conditions we practice under, and more our dwindling faith in the systems for which we work.
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Secondly, @jstein@wapo, it's astounding that you don't even mention GOP plans to cut and restructure Medicaid. House Republicans are far more likely to target Medicaid than Social Security or Medicare, as they did during the 2017 ACA repeal effort. A followup piece is needed.
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"I don’t agree with everything presented in 'The 1619 Project.' Hannah-Jones suggests the foundation of America was about slavery. I don’t think that’s true.
But the fact that I don’t believe that doesn’t invalidate the rest of her accounting."
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“Feel free to step aside if it isn’t too cushy of a job for you . Millions of us won’t mind. #stopwhining,” one Twitter user wrote, tweeting at her account. news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylo via
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Marjorie Taylor Greene just complained that her taxpayer-funded salary is too low, saying making $174,000 as a member of Congress has made her life “miserable.” She added that she’s “lost money” with her six-figure government salary.
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DeSantis "knows better. He knows that the culture wars actually win votes. He’s trying to get the Trump constituency."
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Leaving aside queer studies, hard to imagine how you teach a contemporarily relevant African American Studies course without discussing Black Lives Matter.
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“DeSantis is reaching down into the minute-by-minute personal lives of families and kids and schools,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told me. “The sum total of it all is really creepy.”
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This is an incisive critique of how American journalism is practiced.
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Yale history professor Timothy Snyder's seven deadly sins of American journalism.
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Good cautionary note to this story from Charles Gaba, who points out the dangerous aspects of Georgia's plan from a consumer protection perspective.
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, unless I missed it, 1 piece of information you don't provide is whether the Penn State student plan was a fully insured or self-insured plan. If self-insured, Penn State is the one on the hook for these bills, not United, and has more say on what's covered.
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United medical director Cates said he stopped seeing patients b/c “AIDS was coming around then. I was seeing a lot of military folks who had venereal diseases, & I guess I was concerned about being exposed.” He transitioned to doing insurance reviews: “I guess I was a chicken.”
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The two United staffers agreed that any appeal of the United doctor’s denial of the treatment would be a waste of the family’s time and money. “We’re still gonna say no,” Opperman said.
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, Trump didn't deceive his followers? Really? "For many loyal supporters, Trump’s dishonesty didn’t change their opinion of him, and they were forgiving of falsehoods as long as he didn’t deceive them."
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Florida’s 67 supervisors of elections unanimously said the proposal was “unnecessary and lacking adequate feasibility for implementation”.
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“It’s a system, created by the Republican-controlled legislature and Governor DeSantis even though it was opposed by Republican and Democratic county elections officials, that’s designed to fail,” Prof. Smith added.
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“Eliminating standing vote-by-mail ballot requests for voters who have become accustomed to utilizing this mode of voting will undoubtedly lead to many of these voters – likely more than 1 million in Florida – not requesting a mail ballot in time.”
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Under a GOP-backed state bill, Indiana hospitals would face a fine if they charge more than 260% of the federal Medicare reimbursement rate for a particular service.
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This type of gross ethical conflict would never be tolerated at any credible news organization yet it's allowed at the Supreme Court, whose members are far far more powerful than any journalist.
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A January 2023 Mississippi Today/Siena College poll found that about 80% of Mississippi voters said the State “should accept federal funds to expand Medicaid,” including 70% of Republicans and 95% of Democrats.
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When asked why Mississippi leaders refuse to expand Medicaid, Rep. Becky Currie, a Republican nurse, told Paul Gallo it's "because it has Obamacare, the word Obamacare—people have attached Medicaid expansion to Obamacare.”
"So can we call it Trumpcare?”
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Column: The stupid and dishonest idea of raising the Social Security retirement age is back, like a zombie
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There's been an open Texas seat on the Fifth Circuit since August 31 — for a vacancy that was publicly announced on January 13, 2022.
That's *385 days* without a nominee while the same party controls the Senate and the White House.
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ProPublica truly truly got the goods on UnitedHealthcare. absolutely a must read
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Gerth's CJR version of Russiagate echoes Trump’s distorted narrative and lets the man who assisted an attack on the United States off the hook.
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. & Jeff Gerth devoted 24,000 words to a piece criticizing media coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal &...totally missed the point of the scandal. Worse, they bolstered Trump's bogus, self-serving narrative. Please read (and RT) my critique of theirs.
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Cory Doctorow on how web platforms devolve: “First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
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"Our linguistic contortions, however well-meant, aren’t actually addressing our country’s desperate inequities or achieving progressive dreams, but rather are creating fuel for right-wing leaders aiming to take the country in the opposite direction."
The one problem that the estimable leaves out is that even if older workers want to keep working, they face insidious age discrimination in the workplace, making it hard for them to find and keep good-paying jobs even in their 50s.
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As for whether it’s “easier” to work into one’s 70s than it used to be, that may be true for authors of think tank papers in air conditioned offices, but not for the millions of Americans who spent their careers hauling, digging, driving and building, outside in the elements.
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Raising the retirement age is best described as a zombie reform plan. Despite being debunked repeatedly as a benefit cut that falls disproportionately on low-income and Black workers, it still walks among us.
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Amid a furor over the project to revise vocabulary to be more inclusive, I argue that this is liberal overreach that accomplishes little, bewilders and antagonizes voters, and ends up empowering right-wingers like Ron DeSantis: nytimes.com/2023/02/01/opi (I'm bracing myself!)
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