The point is that she is a fashionista and has never just thrown something random on. She chose to wear this coat on this trip knowing full well it would be seen by millions.

My Assets Get Access

#17 | POSTED BY CHUFFY AT 2018-06-21 02:58 PM | REPLY |

My favorite version is

Mueller Ain't Going Away

As it stands the customers who use our services pay that cost while no one else does. What would be the benefit for anyone if everyone payed that cost?

#139 | POSTED BY TAOWARRIOR AT 2018-06-21 03:51 PM

The benefit is cost spreading and risk spreading. Everybody pays a little but nobody pays a lot and nobody dies so you can save a few bucks a month on your premiums now while you are healthy.

So you want to pay for the cheap insurance that only works for healthy people now but if we allow that then if you do get sick or injured you will still get care but be bankrupted by it and leave EVERYONE ELSE with the bill. You are gambling with OUR money. single payer gets rid of gambling.

The reality is if American parents put their kids through what these immigrant parents have done to their kids -- they would be charged with child abuse."

It would be so much better if they stayed where they were to be beaten, raped or killed.

Many times I have heard the right wing tell people who said there are no jobs here to pick up and move to where the jobs are. That is exactly what these people are doing.

My sympathies to HATTER5183, that's a sad tale.

#108 | POSTED BY DANNI AT 2018-06-21 12:34 PM | REPLY

It's all good Danni. Obamacare allowed me to retool for a new career and I am doing just fine now. Renting a house but On my way back up. If recission actually comes back I could be in trouble

"That was the #1 cited cause of bankruptcy in America prior to Obamacare. "
The cap? --------.

#111 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2018-06-21 12:39 PM | REPLY

Didn't bother to read the article did you? Obamacare reduced the bankruptcy rate by 50%

It's pretty simple logic. No insurance company is going to sell you insurance at lower rates unless they know they will be paying out less money. They do not exist to watch your back. They exist to make money. Insurance companies used to employ small armies of people whose only job was to find a reason to deny coverage to people. Obamacare ended most of that. We are going back to the bad old days.

A cap isn't a big concern to me necessarily as very few folks have ever been exposed to it.

#92 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2018-06-21 10:59 AM | REPLY

That was the #1 cited cause of bankruptcy in America prior to Obamacare. With the cap every American who isn't a millionaire and even some of them are one bad day away from bankruptcy.

The Cap knocked me from living in a 6 bedroom restored historical home to living in a studio apartment. I paid over $600,000 out of pocket AFTER my insurance ran out.

I find it particularly telling that the right wing rather than realizing single payer is an improvement for everyone, seem to think that they need to demand concessions from the people who can least afford to lose the little they have

Would you be willing to greatly reduce welfare benefits to achieve single payer?

#82 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2018-06-21 07:20 AM | REPLY

Single payer would cost us half what we are paying now. We could actually REDUCE THE DEFICIT without cutting services and telling people "tough luck you are on your own"

They often have annual caps that wont cover a single day inpatient in a hospital. The Obamacare deductible did not apply to most preventive care. There is a whole list of common things that must be provided even on the cheapest bronze plans without copay or deductible. Some of these skimpy plans had extremely high deductibles much higher even than the maximum out of pocket allowed by Obamacare and they cover NOTHING until you meet the deductible. They are designed so they never pay any benefits unless you have a major claim and then they cap the total. Some covered as little as $2,000 worth of medical care in a year, with a $1000 deductible while charging hundreds of dollars in annual premiums.

If indeed it has always been standard procedure

#185 | POSTED BY SENTINEL AT 2018-06-20 12:53 PM | REPLY

It has NEVER been standard procedure to do this to immigrant families until Trump changed the rules. Immigrant families were kept together in shelters. This is new this is evil and it is caused by the direct action of Trump and the republicans who did this not reluctantly because they had to follow the law , but by design and by choice

I worked my entire life. I got my first job delivering newspapers when I was 12. I worked hard. I was a drywall mudder. I Bought a 6 bedroom historic home and renovated it over 3 years doing much of the work myself. Found the original building contract from 1896 and used that as my guide. new roof, rebuilt chimney, new siding, new windows, new plumbing, new electric, remilled crown molding and picture rails. re landscaped the property to match the original drawing. restored the hardwood floors. I married and had a daughter. Then my kidneys failed. I had insurance through my employer. I got very sick. I was hospitalized for 26 days. I hit the annual cap on my "good" insurance the first week. I was on the hook for the rest. Around Thanksgiving the insurance company dropped the entire company I worked for. They couldn't get insurance with me on the payroll so I was let go. The company I worked for was too small to qualify for COBRA. I could not buy insurance. I was unhireable. My home, My truck, my life savings were consumed by medical bills. Like millions of other Americans I had a medical bankruptcy. I wound up living in a studio apartment. Then Obama got elected and we had Obamacare. I was able to take a loan and go back to school knowing that I would be able to get a job and pay back my loan. I went back to school and retooled for a career I could do within my physical limitations. I graduated with a 3.96. One B in a English Lit class because I was focused on my Technical courses. I got hired and have been working full time ever since, working 8-4:30 and then going to dialysis from 5-9 3 days a week while I wait for a kidney transplant. I paid more in taxes last year than the total amount of government benefits I received while I was out of work.

THANKS OBAMA!

Now that pre-existing conditions and rescission will become legal again I may be end up losing my job again. If I do YOU will be paying for my food and rent and medical care.

You can thank Trump for that.

The difference between liberals and Conservatives in America

Liberals get upset when they see our country doing things that Germany did in the beginning of the NAZI era

Conservatives get upset when liberals call attention to it.

6 million people were rounded up and killed.
How on earth can you people say there is any semblance of similarity between the two.
Are they not teaching WWII history in schools anymore?
#147 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON AT 2018-06-20 09:34 AM | REPLY |

12,000 children have been ripped from their parents.

What is the magic number for you Bill?

Would it have been OK and no cause for concern if Hitler had only rounded up 12,000 Jews?

This is 6 weeks, 2,000/week. What about after a year when the number is 52,000 kids

Will it still be meh?

What will you say if we expand to all illegal immigrants and go after rounding up the full 12 million?

Will it be ok as long as we don't gas them?

What about due process? Do we give up that part of our constitution?

Tell us Bill, do 6 million have to die before you will admit the path is the same?

The republican plan is to let people who think they are healthy gamble with OUR money. As long as they stay healthy we all win. If they get a major injury or illness they win the lottery. They don't pay. The Hospital, doctors and insurance companies pass the cost onto us paying customers. Heck they can even charge higher rates than they do to insured customers.

1) This is a problem

2) This problem did not exist until Trump's executive order created it

3) The DR right is defending the practice

4) The right voted for Trump

5) the right support Trump

6) The only ways it can be fixed is by republicans in the House or Trump

The republicans OWN this. By their inaction they reveal who they are.

Since our people don't have any unmet needs that are higher priority than more weapons that will never be used...

We have limited revenue. Its about priorities. The party that claims to be about fiscal responsibility wants a shiny new toy. No space force until we take care of educating and feeding our citizens and ensuring they have health care and fixing our roads and bridges

Good job Trump. What a great time to be alive.
#27 | POSTED BY BOAZ
I'll ask you too, where's the money going to come from?

#28 | POSTED BY TFDNIHILIST AT 2018-06-19 07:04 AM | REPLY

Military spending is the kind of FREE stuff republicnas like. We can reduce medicare benefits for their aging parents to pay for it. There's also some schools that still have enough money to buy pencils with erasers that can have funding cut

When pot dispensaries opened, the Mexicans flooded our streets with heroin and meth to make up the profit loss.

#114 | POSTED BY MR_HATMAN

In states that have legalized Marijuana Heroin and Meth use and crime rates are DOWN

It is how the game is played and you know it, if it was as bad as you people continue to screech the Democrats would get to the table and begin working on the problem. The Democrats don't cause they like seeing the 24/7 screeching directed at trump like it is his problem, its not. It's congress and sitting down doing their job and making laws to follow for immigration.

#52 | POSTED BY CRASSUS AT 2018-06-18 12:28 AM | REPLY

In this administration the democrats are not allowed in the room where the table is. The republicans are enacting policy. If there is something the government is doing that offends you only the Republicans bear any responsibility.

"You're right, the kids should go the the jail lock up with their parents, that won't bother em a single bit.
#70 | POSTED BY CRASSUS"

They did at a special facility set up for whole families until Trump changed the rules

No, it's about cause-and-effect. Those coming here that are not refugees are coming here for work. If they couldn't get work, we would only be seeing refugees trying to come across the border (and most of the "coyotes" would be out of business).

#10 | POSTED BY WHODAMAN AT 2018-06-18 02:59 PM | REPLY It has been 18 months since Obama stopped presidenting. Unless you can show a vote for a bill that was prevented from becoming law by democrats in the last 18 months, every policy in effect is the policy that Trump and the republicans put in place or CHOSE not to change.

Trump has not cracked down on employers.

The mostest transparentest administration everrrr!!! Bigly!!!!

This is the latest media emergency to attempt to lower Trumps approval rating...they failed to keep him out of the oval office, even with the help of the FBI and DOJ....they have failed to help Demos in states like California....this an attempt at a ratings boost.......desperation at its best.....

#95 | POSTED BY SCOOTER28054 AT 2018-06-18 01:27 PM | REPLY |

So you are ok with the policy itself just not the media telling us about it?

Or was DHS lying and They are not arresting the parents and sending them to adult facilities while sending the kids elsewhere?