What happens when you combine wild hog-hunting You Tube videos, a Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting at the Rodeway Inn Cow Palace in Lamar, Colo. and a Department of Defense contractor? You get a Colorado ban “prohibiting the use of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) as an aid in scouting, hunting and taking of wildlife.”
Heath insurers and state insurance regulators — whose cooperation is necessary to implement the President’s attempted fix for Obamacare — both expressing serious concerns about the fix’s impact on insurance markets.
It’s been really surprising that with all the terrible press and definitely suboptimal reality of the Obamacare rollout, support and opposition to the law remained basically totally unchanged. Well, that changed this week.
TPM Reader T(heda) S(kocpol) on the President’s ‘fix’ and the big picture on the bumpy roll out …
I doubt that the Obama people think this newly announced move is really a fix. It deflects blame and buys time, simply because even with various Dems defecting on this or that vote or bill, as they surely know many will, Congress won’t be able to act on this issue any more than it can act on any other.
Great enterprise piece about how rogue ‘insurance’ providers are telling customers they’ve found a way to get around Obamacare regulations and still sell “junk” insurance policies. Important read on what’s happening down on the ground.
There are actually right-wing groups paying big money to convince young people in Alaska not to sign up for health insurance.
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.
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.
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.
Now we hear from ACA “loser” TPM Reader BW …
Since it’s been estimated that about 3% of the US population will end up “losers” under Obamacare, I thought I’d write in and give you my perspective as a 3-percenter. However, I suspect that I belong to a smaller subset of the 3%, that being people who find it appallingly self-indulgent and shamefully self-pitying to think of ourselves as losers.