New Details about Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act has come under a great deal of scrutiny lately by the media.  Randy Rhodes spoke of a little known “grandfather clause” in the Act itself and Rush Limbaugh even pointed out that the Las itself states that you can’t be kicked off your old insurance plan but can keep it if you want to - - and many of these “junk plans” will be allowed.  But the problem as Rush and Randy describe it is that the insurance companies themselves voluntarily choose to bollix up the system by changing their policies and jacking up premiums to prove who knows what point- - thus making them no longer qualified to be “grandfathered in” to this new golden age of Obama Care.  Then Randy Rhodes came out with a slightly different story.  She says that these “junk plans” you buy for just $56.00 a month won’t insure you much against anything because the limitations and deductables are so high and so many medical procedures- - such as drugs and hospitalization aren’t even covered thus making them useless.  So it’s pointed out that while some people- - and a minority according to Randy Rhodes, may pay a little more for their insurance, you get a whole lot more coverage than from under the old policy they were on.  For instance there are ten things that any policy must supply to be on the new Exchange.  These are things you know about like no maximum limit, you can’t be kicked off; you can be suddenly disqualified because they suddenly discover a “pre existing condition”, which is an oxy moromism when you think about it.  It’s like I may be in fine health now but in ten years when I actually need it my company may suddenly discover a “pre existing condition”.   You can’t charge more for women then for men, and you have to cover regular medical visits for “health maintenance”.  That’s after all what HMO stands for, but people like Keiser in particular do a piss poor job of “maintaining’ anyone’s health, because doctors under such plans get paid not to treat you.  And it’s pointed out that the State Exchanges that got on board with the thing are doing just fine with lower rates and all, and their web sites aren’t flaking out the way that the national website is doing.  And of course the red states contain the poorest populations most in need of seeing a doctor.  But these governors won’t even take free federal money to upgrade their Medic-Aid programs, because “It’s the principle of the thing”.  I’d like dearly to see a whole lot of these red state jackass Republican governors get voted out of office next year.

Stephanie Miller had this jerk-off caller who was one of this breed of “fioux” enlightened people who are “post racial” or something- - and their favorite pastime is saying that it’s liberals who are the ones who are racist.  But of course then they go and say “the Trayvon Martin case had nothing to do with racial bias”.  They will point to one case in Chicago or Tennessee or something where a bunch of Blacks beat up a white woman and called her a “white whore”.  But if you research these obscure cases you’ll find the people were duly punished and given long prison terms.  This is unlike the Trayvon Martin case where the suspect was not even arrested and “the system” did everything to get him off with one of the worst prosecution efforts that wouldn’t merit a “D” in a law school exercise.  It’s silly to say there is no racism when people wear black face masks with a bloody spot over the heart- - and your friend (white) wears this neighborhood watch Tee shirt and makes a hand gesture like a gun and you pose for a photo.  And Clarence Thomas’s name came up and Jim Ward or somebody points out that “Clarence Thomas got the benefits of affirmative action and yet turns around and does everything in his judicial power to deny it to others.  The caller says “You say that Clarence Thomas benefited from affirmative action?  That sounds like a racist statement to me!” The guy at this point was just being a jackass.  He doesn’t believe that for a minute - - as though he were somehow so in sympathy with it- - he wants nobody even pointing it out.  As for myself I am on the fence about racial quotas.  I blow one way on it and then the other.  The topic merits discussion and when someone like Clarence Thomas slipping though the system, it gets you to wondering.  Thomas is the most uniquely - - Unqualified people ever to serve on the Supreme Court. 

 ABC network news was from Miami to introduce the new English language version of “The Fusion Network”, and appeals to the Millennial generation of those under 35.   This group has a higher share of Latinos in it and also of course I pro Obama and votes democratic.  They said the percentage of Latinos in the population at large will rise to impressive proportions like over thirty percent nation wide by 2040 or so.  I guess despite the immigration cuts, the birth rates alone will increase population percentages.  There is still a lot of talk about N S A spying that has of course been going on since 2002 by the Bush administration.  This is spying on our allies- - and the five countries most affected are France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil.   Many are offended that the most personal phone calls of foreign leaders have been intercepted by the NSA.   Naturally the President can’t discuss this in nearly as much detail as the tea party congress would like, but nothing ever satisfies them anyhow.   There has been a lot of talk that since 9 – 11 the Americans have become a whole lot more accepting of government snooping than have Europeans, who still place a value in their privacy.  As far as the way the World Series games have ended- - Sunday night’s game ended with a Cardinal being picked off at first base, when he wasn’t that far from the bag to begin with, but it ended the game in the ninth.  That score was 6 to 4.  Last night’s game ended on a pup up fly that was caught - - also during Cardinal last ups.  They said that if the Cardinals win they will have to do something not done since 1979 of winning the final two games in the other team's ball park.  In that case it was the Pittsburgh Pirates pervailing against the Orials.  But if the Red Sox win, it will be the first time the Red Sox have won in their home stadium since 1918, apparently before The Bambino put the hex on them.

The soap opera consisted of a lot of wrangling over this and that with Samantha and Brady Black in a rather comic argument about “Who is going to have the most disasterous wedding.  But the highlight of the episode was Nicole and her confronting that lady Hotel clerk or whatever- - and how her words to Eric had kind of hung Nicole out to dry in some highly biased relating of events.  Nicole pretty much put her in her in her place plainly showing her that no way could things have happened the way she and Father Eric’s scenario “concoction”.  But like Janet, this lady “Didn’t want to discuss it”.    I was not called for Money Draw and didn’t expect to me.  But people have a way of acting Stupid.  For instance in the Trayvon Martin case now they are saying "Trayvon Martin was walking suspiciously show; he should have run".  But the thing is Trayvon did run, in one of the most damning pieces of audio evidence in the trial.  George Zimmerman was talking with the 911 dispatcher and was going on about observing Martin and then suddenly goes "He's running" and you hear him running as though on a police pursuit - and the next thing you know - -  - well, Trayvon's own phone was knocked out of his hands as Zimmerman apparently jumped him.   But there are no lengths that some people won't go to demonstrate themselves to be total assholes.  Of course in the Resurrection story of Jesus- - if you follow that like a court case you are faced with Absurdities.  For instance there are these two people on the road to Emmeus.  Where they had just left- - Matthew states that there was a powerful earthquake and the graves were opened and the bodies came to life and began walking through the city.  Common sense tells me that this event would Ecclipse any other possible conversation they had.  It's certainly more news worthy than three women getting lost and not finding the right tomb because they just got up too early in the morning or something.  But it's dinner time- - and when Jesus breaks the bread they immediately head back to Jerusalem.  They find the eleven disciples and tell them they have seen Jesus.  "And while they were telling this story- - Jesus appears among them".  So we know that these two disciples were in the room when Jesus appeared.  But John said there were ten disciples and not eleven, and that they met "behind locked doors for fear of the Jews".  The question is why they were "meeting" at all, because to fulfill scripture which says "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered" we would infer that all of the disciples ran away for fear.  So why now are they all meeting together.  And how did John forget that that these two others got into the room - - past the locked doors.  But of course Isaiah 53 says that "He was reckoned as dead to those of his own generation' or something like that.  John goes on to say that Jesus "gave them the Holy Spirit" right there and without Thomas.  He also gave them the power to either forgive sins or refuse to forgive them- and either way God would honor their decision.  Luke says nothing about any of this.  Luke says something entirely different.  First of all Jesus uses that phrase I have often quoted.  "These are the events I told you about while I was still with you".   That line "while I was still with you" kind of implies that he - - is no longer with them.  And he "opened up their minds to the scripture fulfillment".  So - - is that enough inconsistencies for you?