Attilatheblond
Attilatheblond's JournalSomething I posted on FB the other day. ACA isn't just help paying premiums, it also added regulations.
ACA, also known as Obama Care, is NOT just about money going to insurance companies to help people pay premiums so they can be insured. It is ALSO about putting regulations ON insurance companies.
It's about requiring insurance companies to spend a certain % of what they charge on actual medical care payments. If an insurer does not spend that % of the premiums they collect on actual care, they must refund or lower the rates they charge. ACA limits the % of profits insurance companies can make! Without some regulation, insurers have no incentive to pay for claims, they can deny more and more to assure THEY get more profits.
The ACA puts demands on insurers to cover every client, not just the ones who don't use a lot of health care. It keeps them from only covering healthy people and refusing to cover people with per-existing conditions. Ending ACA would mean the people who need coverage the most would be unable to get health insurance, or it would be as such a high cost that most would be unable to afford it, which is essentially the same as them not being allowed into the insurance programs.
Trump thinks everyone is as ignorant as his maga voters. He thinks he can pretend they are saving money, or getting money back when what he is trying to do is give Big Insurance the OK to deny claims and/or deny coverage to people more likely to need care and have claims. in order to make obscene profits again.
Please remember these aspects of the ACA and help others to recall that it's not just money to subsidize premiums for consumers. It is also about making insurers do better to provide health care instead of just taking people's money.
Supreme Court declines to hear case on constitutionality of same-sex marriage
Waiter, please send a bottle of your finest wine to the celebration at Pete & Chasten's table. And a bottle of badly corked sour grape wine to that hypocritical, 3 times divorced 'champion of holy matrimony' Kim Davis's slop tray behind the dumpster.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-case-on-constitutionality-of-same-sex-marriage/]
As is generally the case when it denies petitions for review, the court did not provide any explanation for its decision not to hear Davis’ case. If any justices disagreed with the decision not to take up the case, they did not note that disagreement publicly.
Pay up, Kim! Maybe your ex-husbands will contribute to your fund to pay the lawsuit you lost.
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This portal will verify your status as a registered voter in AZ then take you to a list of candidates with petitions to get on our ballots. It's easy and very well done.
https://apps.azsos.gov/apps/election/eps/op/]
I suggest we all bookmark the site and share it with others in AZ. Help candidates get the signatures they need to get on our ballots.
AZ Grand Jury indicts 20 in firearms trafficking conspiracy to Mexico
If Trump-Antionette and his court of fools were really interested in stopping drugs and gang violence, they would be doing what Arizona investigators, courts are doing: Bust the people trafficking guns and ammo to Cartels.
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/border/arizona-indicts-20-in-firearms-trafficking-conspiracy-to-mexico/article_1befc51a-bb25-429b-92c6-e5cfb28a0e1c.html?]
The defendants allegedly provided funds to purchase firearms and compensated straw purchasers who forged Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forms to conceal the true buyers, according to the indictment. The trafficking organization obtained approximately 334 firearms during the conspiracy, prosecutors say.
Law enforcement tracing through the ATF eTrace system revealed that many of these firearms have been recovered in Mexico, the attorney general's office says. The charges include misconduct involving weapons and other felony offenses under Arizona law.
We have border checkpoints a few miles north of the border on most, if not all northbound highways. Northbound vehicles have to go thru checkpoints. Sometimes you get a wave thru, sometimes a CBP sniffer dog gets to noise around your vehicle. Sometimes they pull you aside and tear the seats out of your vehicle and you get to put it all back together yourself. (by the way, these checkpoints can be put up anywhere in the special enforcement area, which is ALL the way around the continental US, including ALL coastal areas)
What is missing is standard inspection stations for SOUTHBOUND traffic. Makes it easy for gun traffickers to earn some gig income hauling guns into Mexico. As more traffickers are getting busted, maybe Sec Nome and her goons will stop harassing lawful citizens and immigrants and focus on the criminals making sure Cartels are well armed.
Nah, just wishful and practical thinking on my part.
Maybe DU needs a 'hear-say' forum?
General discussion is one thing, but stuff that has no evidence being posted more and more is getting pretty weird. It'd be nice if it was all in one place and then could be moved to General Discussion if some actually information comes up.
Just spit balling here.
Check on GOP House reps in your area/state. Let me know if they are espousing this 'concern' re medical care resources
Trying to gauge how many GOP Reps besides Seldom Seen AZ 6 Rep Ciscomani's are voicing 'concern' and invoking a new GOP talking point to blame DEMs when rural medical care all but disappears under GOP policies.
Rural reps must be feeling insecure as so many rural facilities face disaster due to GOP funding slashes.
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/cochise_county/ciscomani-urges-cms-to-ensure-fair-rural-health-fund-distribution/article_9911d7ae-1768-4740-a108-e4e5d4a36fe4.html?emailmd5=a1ac3f8b54e4f38eac45f2e75f54651c&emailsha1=24315811922823421145739103116121352153160199146216&emailsha256=71f7f3c212c9e68005bbed1843b7ab0ad44028a222d6a2196b39af31a4e88db3]
The lawmakers sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz regarding the Rural Health Transformation Fund, according to Ciscomani's office. The $50 billion program over five years represents the largest federal investment in rural hospitals and was enacted as part of the Working Families Tax Cut Act.
The Republicans expressed concern that funds could be diverted to urban centers rather than rural healthcare providers facing financial challenges. The letter was signed by representatives from states with Democratic governors, including Arizona, Washington, California, Minnesota and Colorado.
Re Firefox browser: anybody else who uses it as default browser notice a change in browser home page?
Just opened it after being offline for a few hours. All the 'tiles' of sites I use most often are gone. Stuff like news sites I check regularly, social media sites I use, and a few retail sites I use. POOF, vanished. Can't get that browser opening page back
Did Firefox do this to comply with Trump Administration wishes/command to slow people down from getting onto trusted sites quickly? Anybody else have this blank page staring at them when they open firefox tabs?
Meta Stock Drops On News It Used Taylor Swift As Chatbot Without Permission
https://gizmodo.com/meta-taylor-swift-chatbot-no-permission-2000651450]Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez were also reportedly impersonated.
Many of these AI personas engaged in flirtatious or sexual conversations, prompting serious concern, Reuters reports.
While many of the celebrity bots were user-generated, Reuters uncovered that a Meta employee had personally crafted at least three.
::shaking my head::
Sorta think something HAS to be done about tech run amok. We have too many people already living in delusions instead of reality. This stuff isn't going to help over all national mental health.
Foul wind commin. Haboob-warning for a pretty big swath of our county and into some others
Put the vehicle in garage. I leave it out to cool off after running errands before putting it in the garage so garage doesn't get too hot . Put the dog cots in a safe place in the back yard so they don't take flight. Hoping neighbor's trampoline is well anchored. Have seen crashed trampolines in pretty weird places after big wind around here.
It's a big, long front, stretching for miles and miles. Phoenix gets these sorta regularly but they are rare where I live. This is second one this summer. Doesn't bode well for our futures.
Fingers crossed it won't be as bad as all the weather alerts said it might.
Glad I haven't dusted and vacuumed already today.
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