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"Obamacare got some very good news on Thursday. In 2009, the Congressional Budget Office predicted..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:35:51 -0400

“

Obamacare got some very good news on Thursday.

In 2009, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that a medium-level “silver” plan — which covers 70 percent of a beneficiary’s expected health costs — on the California health exchange would cost $5,200 annually. More recently, a report from the consulting firm Milliman predicted it would carry a $450 monthly premium. Yesterday, we got the real numbers. And they’re lower than anyone thought.

…The California exchange will have 13 insurance options, and the heavy competition appears to be driving down prices. The most affordable silver-level plan is charging $276-a-month. The second-most affordable plan is charging $294. And all this is before subsidies. Someone making twice the poverty line, say, will only pay $104-a-month.

Sparer plans are even cheaper. A young person buying the cheapest “bronze”-level plan will pay $172 — and that, again, is before any subsidies.

California is a particularly important test for Obamacare. It’s not just the largest state in the nation. It’s also one of the states most committed to implementing Obamacare effectively. Under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — remember how that really happened? — California was the first state to begin building its insurance exchanges. The state’s outreach efforts are unparalleled. Its insurance regulators are working hard to bring in good plans and make sure they’re playing fair. If California can’t make the law work, perhaps no one can. But if California can make the law work, it shows that others can, too.

And perhaps others will. We’re beginning to see competition drive down proposed rates in some exchanges around the country. Remember Maryland, where CareFirst grabbed headlines with a shocking 25 percent proposed increase in rates? More plans have streamed in with lower bids. Kaiser Permanente, for instance, is only increasing its rates next year by 4.3 percent — a modest increase that will make CareFirst’s proposal almost impossible to sustain. My guess is when the exchange actually opens in October, CareFirst will have dropped its price substantially. If they don’t, then Kaiser and others will grab all the market share.

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- The Washington Post, “Some Very Good News for Obamacare.”

Well, well, well.

(via inothernews)

SUPERMOON

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:14:49 -0400

mardallie:

Tonight is a rare night where the moon and earth come within 10 miles of each other.

Science.

Ten Right Wingers Freak Out Over Boy Scouts Policy Change

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:09:00 -0400

Ten Right Wingers Freak Out Over Boy Scouts Policy Change:

stfuconservatives:

After more than three-fifths of delegates to the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council voted Thursday to lift the organization’s ban on openly gay youth — a move that preserved the ban on LGBT adult leaders and volunteers — groups ranging from GLAAD to the LDS Church embraced the change. But several of the most […]

I just want to say that it’s pretty unique for an organization to find a way to piss EVERYONE off: liberals are mad that adult gays still aren’t allowed, and conservatives are mad that young gays ARE allowed. It’s a beautiful thing.

Also mad that they made people vote. It was as if they were dying for an excuse to say, “well we WANTED to allow gay kids, but we just couldn’t get enough votes, sorryyyyyyy! It was out of our control! We’re a democracy so we can’t do anything without a majority vote, sorry!”

They were looking for an excuse to carry on with their exclusionary bullshit, they just didn’t expect it to blow up in their faces.

Photographic knicknacks: fffemme: how did my blogging day turn into trying to stop people from...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:55:49 -0400

Photographic knicknacks: fffemme: how did my blogging day turn into trying to stop people from...:

fffemme:

how did my blogging day turn into trying to stop people from sending sexually explicit hate mail to a little girl who sent RFN hate mail and is now complaining about people messaging her.

sometimes i just really hate the internet all around.

also she said rfn was an obnoxious…

For what it’s worth, her tumblr clearly said she was 25. Prob not true but that’s what happens when you try to play with the big kids.

la-la la la la

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:50:39 -0400

la-la la la la

sixtyforty: Dr Pepper for MEN AXE shampoo for MEN Hair care for ANTS Body wash for SUPERMASSIVE...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:55 -0400

sixtyforty:

Dr Pepper for MEN

AXE shampoo for MEN

Hair care for ANTS

Body wash for SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES

Toothpaste for INVASIVE GRASS

Mouthwash for THEORETICAL ELEMENTS

Face wash for METALLIC HYDROGEN

Shower gel for THE CREMATED REMAINS OF LOVED ONES

likeafieldmouse: Tommy Nease

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:55:48 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Tommy Nease

stfuconservatives: pilosopogyno: This man, James Verone,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:40:05 -0400

stfuconservatives:

pilosopogyno:

This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.

On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”

He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.

Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.

To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.

This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.

This is what sick people in America are resorting to. But BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, right guys?

My pretty, pretty fronds.

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:00:37 -0400

My pretty, pretty fronds.

8 months old, with the eyebrows of a goddess & the corn of a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:17 -0400

8 months old, with the eyebrows of a goddess & the corn of a much older woman.

"The only thing more ugly than a basic bitch is a real bitch trying to act basic. "

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:33:16 -0400

-ChaeGod

Ray J is on Watch What Happens Live

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:27:50 -0400

Dude is turning into R Kelly right before my eyes right now.

What a creep.

This couldn’t be more awkward if it was scripted by Woody Allen AND Larry David AND Louis CK.

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:07:17 -0400

iheartsoul: Awwww..This is so cute! Ovary melting afternoon...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:33:34 -0400

iheartsoul:

Awwww..This is so cute!

Ovary melting afternoon toddler serenade

Me lately

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:47:54 -0400

Me lately

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:22:53 -0400

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

woman-of-class: americanbeauty1: #justice #truth #love true

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:10 -0400

woman-of-class:

americanbeauty1:

#justice #truth #love

true

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:46 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:31:45 -0400

Audio

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:05:42 -0400