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Monday, February 12, 2018

Medicaid recipients find $1 premiums too confusing to pay

Medicaid recipients find $1 premiums too confusing to pay
"Imagine if you were poor and you got Medicaid, heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, but you had to pay between $1 and $15 a month in premiums.
Wouldn't that be confusing?
For many people, it is so confusing that they don't understand how to pay and end up being kicked off Medicaid.

While the work requirement is unprecedented in the history of Medicaid, Mr. Wagner and others say they're just as concerned about other new rules that will be confusing and hard to follow. For example, many adults who don't pay their small premiums can be locked out of Medicaid for six months, unless they complete a financial or health literacy course. Others will lose access to dental and vision care.

Critics of the plan point to Indiana, which dropped about 25,000 adults from its Medicaid program from 2015 through 2017 for failing to pay premiums there.

Some also find the new work requirements some states have imposed troubling:

I'm wanting to go back to work, but if I was told, 'You have to go back,' I do think that would step up my anxiety," Ms. Penney said. "Volunteering would be less pressure, but you would still want to be consistent and reliable."

She expects she will find a way to pay the new premiums she'll owe under the plan – $4 a month – but predicts [that] it will mean going without other necessities at times.

"I was at the store yesterday, looking in my wallet and going, 'Do I have enough money for dog food?'" she said. "The thought of taking on even one more expense feels overwhelming."

Imagine having to eat dog food to pay $4 a month in premiums! Or, alternatively, imagine working a minimum wage job for 20 minutes, long enough to earn $4. Some people would rather eat dog food. But Ms. Penny is fighting back!

[S]he's a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed last month to stop Kentucky's new requirements from taking effect.

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Will the FISA memo turn into Obama's Watergate? | TheHill

Will the FISA memo turn into Obama's Watergate? | TheHill:

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"These crimes have the potential to shake American confidence in otherwise prestigious institutions like the FBI, and the sanctity of our constitutional rights as citizens, especially those afforded by the Fourth Amendment, specifically protection “against unreasonable searches and seizures” or warrants being issued without “probable cause.”
Despite the months it has taken for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the matters before them and declassify their initial findings, we are still just at the beginning of knowing how broad and deep a scandal we face. Nevertheless, the facts already laid out by the memos are shocking enough by themselves and, specifically, in the consequences they may have for all Americans."

Barack the Brick-Thrower

Barack the Brick-Thrower:
"The same Saul Alinsky-style community organizing methods that served Barack Obama well on the Southside of Chicago became indispensable tools in his quest to "fundamentally transform" the whole world from "what it is" into "the world as it should be."

It was Barack Obama's friend and former chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, who confessed to NPR that community organizers in Chicago would throw bricks through the window of Democrat campaign headquarters and call a press conference to blame the opposition.
So when Obama accused Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin of colluding to steal an election, the brick that landed on the accuser's toe was one he planted there himself.

Let's not forget that although the International Court of Justice deems interfering in a foreign election a violation of international law, and notwithstanding the fact that U.S. regulations ban the use of tax dollars to sway foreign elections, it was brick-throwing Barack, not Donald Trump, who repeatedly defied the law on behalf of a larger global agenda.

In 2006, U.S. senator Obama traveled to Kenya on the taxpayer's dime at a time that coincidentally corresponded with Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leaders strategizing to help Muslim-sympathizer Raila Odinga unseat incumbent President Mwai Kibaki.

Obama delivered the $1 million he had raised for the Luo tribesman's bid for the presidency and showed up at rallies with Odinga, where he criticized Kibaki and preached "hope and change."

After Obama's alleged distant cousin lost by more than 200,000 votes, Kibaki appointed Odinga prime minister in a power-sharing deal, but not before Alinsky-style chaos broke out in the streets.
When it was over, the new prime minister's sharia-supporters had killed thousands of Kenyans, destroyed 800 Christian churches, and incinerated fifty Christian believers inside an Assemblies of God.

Apparently, tossing blocks of cement through his own window for all these years has caused Obama to forgot that in 2009, the late Hugo Chávez's friend, Honduran president Manual Zelaya, decided to ignore term limits and keep his presidency open-ended..."
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Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure

Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure:
"An Oregon hospital contacted an illegal immigrant on Tuesday and told her she could not be on the liver transplant list.

The hospital stated it “requires proof of lawful presence for transplant services.”
Now the hospital has done an about-face after the ACLU and others applied public pressure.

The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Mat dos Santos, responded to the woman’s receipt of the letter from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) by calling the policy “cruel and inhumane.”...

Lunch video-----White Farmers Slaughtered in South Africa | Lauren Southern and Stefan M...

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Grassley Graham Memo Affirms Nunes Memo on FISA & Steele Dossier | National Review

Grassley Graham Memo Affirms Nunes Memo on FISA & Steele Dossier | National Review:

$Image result for flickr commons images Sen. Grassley$ "Instead, it was the other way around. The Grassley-Graham memo corroborates the claims in the Nunes memo: The Obama Justice Department and FBI used anonymously sourced, Clinton-campaign generated innuendo to convince the FISA court to issue surveillance warrants against Carter Page, and in doing so, they concealed the Clinton campaign’s role. "

Detroit court investigating why convicted killer never got sentenced | MLive.com

Detroit court investigating why convicted killer never got sentenced | MLive.com:
"For years after his conviction, a 78-year-old Detroit business owner who shot and killed a man, remained free because the court forgot to sentence him.
"I've been on this bench for 35 years," Wayne County Chief Circuit Judge Robert J. Colombo Jr. "I don't' remember this ever happening before."
Colombo said the court is investigating what led to the oversight..."
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#1 Movie this week 1992-----The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. (Trailer 1992).

'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger - Slashdot

'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger - Slashdot:
"mi shares a report from Phys.Org:
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu -- long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels -- is actually growing in size, new research shows.
A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu's nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery.
...Co-author Paul Kench said the research, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, challenged the assumption that low-lying island nations would be swamped as the sea rose.
It found factors such as wave patterns and sediment dumped by storms could offset the erosion caused by rising water levels."

#1 This day 1950-----Red Foley - Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy

Researchers Discover Efficient Way To Filter Salt, Metal Ions From Water - Slashdot

Researchers Discover Efficient Way To Filter Salt, Metal Ions From Water - Slashdot:

"schwit1 shares a report on a new study, published in Sciences Advances, that offers a new solution to providing clean drinking water for billions of people worldwide:
...The University of Texas at Austin, have recently discovered that MOF membranes can mimic the filtering function, or "ion selectivity," of organic cell membranes.
With further development, these membranes have significant potential to perform the dual functions of removing salts from seawater and separating metal ions in a highly efficient and cost effective manner, offering a revolutionary new technological approach for the water and mining industries..."
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