You know that many states didn’t set up their own Affordable Care Act exchanges. Many of the same states refused to accept Medicaid expansion, despite the fact that participating states will only have to pay a tiny percentage of the cost. Now there’s this: If you live in a red state and need to use the federal exchange and are eligible for a subsidy, now a growing number of conservatives wants to prevent you from getting that subsidy.
Just because … well, just because apparently it’s really, really important that you not get access to health care insurance. Sens. Cruz, Rubio, Lee and others have signed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit which is trying to block these subsidies and then there’s this email I got last night from TPM Reader JW who notes State AGs who are also on board …
Billionaire Sam Zell says denigration of 1% must end, “we just work harder.” Watch.
Notably Zell’s recent work has focused on destroying a series of historic news organizations.
New IG Report shows Medicare is dramatically over-paying for penis pumps.
Democrats were hoping for a good half dozen Todd Akin’s to be running for Senate this year. They did. And they’re all in Georgia.
Republicans are already getting ready to quietly put down immigration reform. How can we tell? Sahil Kapur reports that Speaker Boehner is preemptively blaming Obama: “Listen, there’s widespread doubt about whether this administration can be trusted to enforce our laws.”
We haven’t focused much on this. But the White House stood down and forced AIPAC to cave in its efforts to torpedo the White House’s Iran nuclear diplomacy. That happens very rarely. (AIPAC is going back to the well and pouring money now into pushing the Senate into Republican hands next year.) Nobody has ever won anything betting on success from any sort of Israel-Palestine peace-making efforts. A bit of an exaggeration but barely.
The Georgia Republican primary for an open Senate seat is perhaps best summed up by a Democratic operative in Daniel Strauss‘ story today: “shitshow.”
Nichole Perkins writes about the much-discussed Spike Jonez movie “Her” and how it’s really an updated “My Fair Lady”: “When the woman, or rather the operating system, who only metaphorically ‘comes to life’ this time continues to develop, it’s clear that her advancement is unwelcome.”
So the House GOP’s new big historic push for immigration reform lasted about two weeks.