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applegrove's JournalSo prexisting conditions will mean a huge increase in healthcare costs
for the sick in the states that use the waiver and rich people will pay the increase for themselves if they get sick. Still cheaper for them than paying into a pool that covers preexisting conditions for everybody. This is a tax cut for the rich.
Single payer is only two thirds as expensive as the private insurance industry
that the US has now. All those rich people complaining about their tax dollars going to pay for healthcare for the less well off will have to pay 1/3 less than they do now for each person's health care their tax dollars cover now. They could cover more people. It would cost less in taxes on corporations than it costs corporations to cover their employees with health care. What is so bad about that?
Should Bernie have coordinated his Single payer proposal to a time in a few
weeks when the Senate would need 60 votes to pass Trumpcare? I'm just pointing out the obvious. That a party member coordinates better. I like Bernie. But I feel this criticism is due. Look at what Lindsay Graham said:
https://thinkprogress.org/grahamcassidybreitbartacarepeal-d551621b2433/
"SNIP........
Graham painted the plan as the antithesis of the single-payer health care bill unveiled by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) last week, which would, over the course of four years, expand Medicaid eligibility to all residents.
“This is Bernie Sanders’ worst nightmare,” Graham said on the Saturday radio show. “It’s either this or we’re going to Obamacare and Berniecare. Now, Berniecare is full-blown single-payer socialism. It is his dream and that’s where Democrats are going.”
........SNIP"
And now they only still need 50 votes to pass the lasted version of TrumpNOTcare.
Trump gets down to Un's level. Or Trump is at Un's level. So they go tit for tat. Other presidents
would be weirded out by North Korea threats and not give them any oxygen. IMHO
If Trump starts working bipartisan with Democrats, his base, the former GOP base,
could follow him to begin to like democrats. Could happen 
It just occured to me that Trump may not resign if things get bad
because he needs to keep the power of the pardon for himself. Investigations into Russia could go on for years.
Psychopaths use cognitive openings in people's lives to fill them with
bullshit because at dramatic times of people's lives they are particularly open to new information. Kellyanne knows people are open to new information during a 1000 year crisis, new information is how humans survived crisis. She knows they could very well start to care about climate change as they wonder the meaning of Harvey in the days and weeks to come. No doubt the GOP have had this response at the ready. They deal in the dark psychological arts. Chris Como was naturally informing the public of the meaning of such a tragedy. That is his job. Kellyanne is the one disrupting that process for political reasons.
Changing jet stream, extreme weather linked to humans: study
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4043390Johanna Wagstaffe - CBC News
March 29, 2017 (from Canada but could be applied to tropical storm Harvey over Houston)
"SNIP........
The team of international scientists found that warming caused by greenhouse gases impacts the massive conveyor belts that live in our upper atmosphere. Driven by temperature differences, these giant jet streams transport heat and moisture around the northern hemisphere.
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth. As well, land masses warm more quickly than the oceans. These two factors have led to the overall temperature difference between the two — essentially the fuel for these jet streams — to decrease.
As our climate changes, the temperature gradient isn't as strong between the Arctic and the tropics, meaning there isn't as much energy to help move these waves — and weather — along. When these planetary waves get stuck in place, droughts or floods can occur. And it's part of a growing trend that can't just be accounted for by usual variability in the weather, the researchers said.
The team of researchers analyzed temperature differences between the equator and the poles recorded since the 1870s and reconstructed the changes over time. They found that the frequency of these jet streams stalling out has increased by 70 per cent since the Industrial Revolution, with most of the effects in the past four decades — indicating a clear fingerprint of human activity.
.........SNIP"
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45242
Bad timing. Jet stream on us canada border stalled due to climate change.
That is why there is a tropical storm sitting right over Houston for a whole week. Bet you the people there will be open to scientific information in the weeks to come.
Oh he was great. And who could forget Al Gore chartering a jet and flying
into Louisianna to get people out of there.
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