House Dems insist their legislative fix to Obamacare is totally different from Obama’s own attempted fix. Here’s more on today’s vote on the separate House GOP proposal.
TPM Reader TZ, an ACA supporter with a very vested interest in the program succeeding, tells us he’s at the end of his tether …
So, I have a huge vested interest in ACA working out. I am self-employed (as a consultant, laid off from pharma two years ago) and when our COBRA at company rates ran out 18 months ago I went onto the open market and sought insurance for me and my family (wife and two kids). Aetna refused to cover me because I am overweight (zoftig!). So, I had to stay on my company insurance but paying full freight, while my wife and kids went onto a crappy Aetna plan. So, one family, two plans. We also purchased dental on our own, it’s not very good, but its not great either. It’s a pain to have the family on two different plans.
A fascinating look at the hundreds of thousands of letters Jackie Kennedy received in the immediate aftermath of her husbands assassination. They take us back behind the veil of nostalgia and conspiracy theory to a country united in mourning but already fractured over the civil rights movement and its possible role in Kennedy’s murder.
There are actually right-wing groups paying big money to convince young people in Alaska not to sign up for health insurance.
