Well then feel free to explain why the cost of my insurance went up every year since the inception of the AHCA, and it was even mentioned during our open enrollment sessions at work that our plans were changing /adjusting and that the costs were as well do the the AHCA. So EVEN if it's not "true", the publics perception is that is had some sort of affect on it. Negatively.
I mean, it kind of sounds like you explained it perfectly. Insurance companies told people that they were raising prices because of the ACA (the AHCA is a different bill), and people who don't know much about the topic believed them, even though it wasn't true, because they had silly ideas like "no policy can have worked unless my monthly insurance cost goes down."
Jeopardy (game show) reference.
seems insurance was going up regardless, and is cheaper under ACA than without
Yeah... how does the corporate benefits account into this graph though? It seems skewed to show an ACA advantage, and having been through 12 years without the ACA and 3-4 with it ... the increase with, was MUCH higher than before it was in place, but that's just my personal point of view.seems insurance was going up regardless, and is cheaper under ACA than without
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-premiums-20160726-snap-story.html
The primary purpose of the ACA was to help people in the greatest need -- especially people who could not get insurance, could not afford insurance, or could not afford preventative care.
Pre-ACA healthcare costs were not rising at a steady rate, they were rising at an increasing rate. Which is to say, it would have been even worse.
Exactly what the study is suggesting, the ACA curbed an even higher cost. It's why premiums seem extra high for 2018 and 2019 because of trump removing the mandate.
Please stop it's too cringey we all know that Biden is creepy.
He is the poster child for "name recognition advantage" which is a phrase I just invented. There is no fucking way he goes anywhere in a 2020 democratic primary. He will get eviscerated in a debate and ruin the good will that he could just as easily ride off into the sunset with.
The Democratic Party is using Bernie's popularity for their own benefit? How opportunistic! They should get their own popular senators instead of pulling in Independents.
You could at least take the gif out of your quote if you sincerely want to make it stop. It legit makes me uncomfortable.
many thanks lol.Fair enough
I think they will. Trump is a unique case. Or I mean, I hope he is.
The poor kids hopefully got a chance to talk to an adult after
I have yet to see Biden get “eviscerated” in a debate. Granted, 2012 was the most recent major one, and against Paul Ryan (lol), so he could be a bit rusty. But I always thought he was a great debater from what I’ve seen.
Vote for him, he's better than Trump. But first he has to get there, and that is not guaranteed by a long shot.bigwinnerx said:
Not in the Democratic party, left of centre are the liberal/centrist wings.
These primaries have shifted the alignment slightly, wouldn't they be conservative Democrats now? In the 90's and early 2000's they'd be in the centre left category. I hope both of those guys lose.
You know, while that is a very old quote and Bernie has been very vocal in his support for the LGBTQ community since then, he will need to have good answers for shit like this, because it's going to continue to resurface. For starters, he needs to apologize for making such a ridiculous, disgusting statement. After that, he needs to explain his past decisions and reassure his constituents that saying something like that will never happen again.
Nah, I know people are going for the Clinton treatment comparison but it's nonsensical. One is saying he wouldn't make it a priority, one supported doma and kept talking about marriage between man and woman into the 2000s
It's primaries, every single part of his life and history will be dug up - along with everybody else. It's true he's improved on that issue but this still is something he will have to explain to the public.
To be fair, this is the one for the easiest cheap shots he could fix in an interview or two. Candidates can't hide from comments like that in 2019.
No voter that doesn't already hate Sanders is gonna care about that. This is donut Twitter circlejerking about something to feel clever and nothing more.
Like any candidate Bernie needs a coalition to win, this isn't for the true believers (they won't have the numbers to make him the winner) it's for the fence sitters and anyone who can be converted from the other candidate's supporters. He's going to face these sort of challenges through the primaries, this is just the first salvo. This is nothing to what's coming, Bernie should be able to wrap this up real quick without losing momentum. There's going to be a lot of voters which fit between the Hate Bernie and Love Bernie spectrum to appeal to which this will work on, and he has the receipts to confirm he's a changed man.
Exactly. If he can't make it through this, then he doesn't have any business running for president in the first place.
All I'm saying is that you should get used to this happening to all of the candidates in the primaries. That's how it works.
Sure, there's no problem with bring anything up, but he's talking the types of protections we still don't have in most states right now in 2019. He's still light years ahead of everyone else at that time in 1988 if that's all they have on him. Even in 2008 it was fairly progressive just to be for don't ask don't tell.
Jesus, this is not a hard concept to understand. I'm gonna call it dumb then like I'm doing now, this ain't my first rodeo, this is not a teachable moment.
Fine by me, I was just giving my two cents because I come across those kinds of comments a lot from people who are new to the primary cycle. Of course, you're free to express your opinion how you see fit.
PP came out in support of Clinton, he never attacked their work, he said if it means fighting them (politically) so be it. You can't hide behind a planned parenthood endorsement.
