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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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The CEO of BCBSMA is named Sarah, not Joe.

Yet another example of Republicans stealing everything not nailed down, then blaming Democrats for failing to nail everything down.
 
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National Uninsured Rate Reached All-Time Low in 2023 After Record-Breaking ACA Enrollment Period

  • The nation’s uninsured rate declined significantly in early 2023, relative to 2020, reaching an all-time low of 7.7 percent for U.S. residents of all ages in the first quarter (January-March) of 2023, based on new data from the National Health Interview Survey.
  • Approximately 6.3 million people – including 5.5 million adults ages 18-64 and 0.7 million children ages 0-17 – have gained health coverage since 2020. These gains in health insurance coverage are concurrent with the implementation of the American Rescue Plan’s enhanced Marketplace subsidies, the Inflation Reduction Act’s continuation of those subsidies, the continuous enrollment condition in Medicaid, recent state Medicaid expansions, and substantial Marketplace enrollment outreach by the Biden-Harris Administration in 2021-2023.
  • Uninsured rates among adults ages 18-64 declined from 14.5 percent in late 2020 to 11.0 percent in early 2023. The uninsured rate among children ages 0-17, which had increased during 2019 and 2020, fell from 6.4 percent in late 2020 to 4.2 percent in early 2023.
  • Approximately 5.8 percent of adults ages 18-64 reported having Marketplace coverage in early 2023 compared to 4.4 percent in 2020.
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CHEAPER

Here are the impacts of the ACA and the Biden Rescue Plan on health care costs. tldr: if your state uses it correctly, your costs go down. If your state has GOP politicals who play political games with it, you do not benefit as much, though some costs are still lower because they were out of reach of Republican ineptitude.

Conservatives sabotage programs and then blame the programs. When conservatives control the federal government, this is a disaster as it harms everyone. But when they do not, it's just funny because then they only harm those states or localities where majorities voted for them. Those populations, on balance, deserve to get it good and hard.
 
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Top 5 Worst States for Healthcare

1. Georgia
  • Third highest percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage (12.63%).
  • Fifth highest kidney disease mortality rate (18.87 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Eighth highest stroke mortality rate (44.27 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Eighth highest average deductible for residents with single health insurance coverage through an employer ($2,269 annually).
2. Alabama
  • Second highest rate of both stroke deaths (53.63 per 100,000 state residents) and influenza and pneumonia deaths (17.03 per 100,000 state residents).
  • Fourth highest infant mortality rate (7.42 deaths per 1,000 live births).
  • Seventh highest chronic lower respiratory disease mortality rate (53.13 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
3. North Carolina
  • Fifth lowest number of nurse practitioners (4.28 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Eighth highest infant mortality rate (6.76 deaths per 1,000 live births).
  • Ninth highest rate of both stroke deaths (44.13 per 100,000 state residents), and influenza and pneumonia deaths (13.40 per 100,000 state residents).
4. Mississippi
  • Infant mortality rate (8.74 deaths per 1,000 live births).
  • Stroke mortality rate (54.80 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Influenza and pneumonia mortality rate (22.57 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Kidney disease mortality rate (21.80 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Lowest number of physician assistants (0.40 per 10,00 state residents).
  • Second lowest number of critical care physicians (0.29 per 10,000 adults, tied with Arkansas).
  • Third highest percentage of hospital patients who did not receive written information about possible symptoms to look out for after discharge (15%).
  • Fifth highest percentage of residents who chose not to see a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost (13.10%).
5. South Carolina
  • Seventh worst state for healthcare costs
  • Seventh highest percentage of residents who chose not to see a doctor at some point in the past 12 months due to cost (11.70%, tied with Arkansas).
Top 5 Best States for Healthcare

1. Minnesota
  • Third highest number of critical care nurses and certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), with 5.53 per 10,000 adults.
  • Fourth lowest percentage of residents who chose not to see a doctor at some point in the past 12 months due to cost (6.60%, tied with North Dakota).
  • Fifth lowest percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage (4.46%).
2. Massachusetts
  • Lowest percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage (2.50%).
  • Highest number of specialist physicians (32.13 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Second highest number of primary care physicians (23.34 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Second highest number of nurse practitioners (14.59 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Second highest number of critical care physicians (1.01 per 10,000 adults).
3. Rhode Island
  • Highest number of primary care physicians (25.89 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Highest percentage of need met in primary care provider shortage areas (72.13%).
  • Third highest number of specialist physicians (26.85 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Fourth lowest percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage (4.34%).
  • Fourth highest number of critical care physicians (0.91 per 10,000 adults, tied with New Hampshire).
  • Fifth highest number of physician assistants (6.02 per 10,000 state residents).
4. Connecticut
  • Highest number of physician assistants (7.26 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Third highest number of critical care physicians (0.98 per 10,000 adults).
  • Fourth highest number of primary care physicians (20.91 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Fourth highest number of specialist physicians (25.43 per 10,000 state residents).
  • Fifth highest number of nurse practitioners (13.50 per 10,000 state residents).
5. Vermont
  • Lowest infant mortality rate (3.15 deaths per 1,000 live births).
  • Lowest influenza and pneumonia mortality rate (5.50 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Lowest kidney disease mortality rate (3.57 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Fourth lowest diabetes mortality rate (16.97 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Sixth lowest stroke mortality rate (29.97 deaths per 100,000 state residents).
  • Second lowest percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage (3.66%)
  • Second highest number of community health centers (1.70 per 100,000 state residents).
  • Third lowest percentage of residents who chose not to see a doctor at some point in the past 12 months due to cost (6.20%).
The corruption of Republican politicians (they know all these results very well, they just rake in the bribes from the Health for Profit industry, Pete Peterson, and Heritage) and the stupidity of Republican voters means that more Republicans get sick and die or go broke. Nobody forces you to vote for Republicans. When you do, there are consequences.
 
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Kepler said:
Conservatives sabotage programs and then blame the programs. When conservatives control the federal government, this is a disaster as it harms everyone. But when they do not, it's just funny because then they only harm those states or localities where majorities voted for them. Those populations, on balance, deserve to get it good and hard.
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They do this because they can make money selling the programs. Just wait until they try to privatize the IRS. Then they can really blame the poor for ruining the economy and country.

They have even gone so far to privatize some of the military. People get paid mint, they can run risky things, and then the dumb ideas can't be blamed on Rs.

The disgusting part is how they are privatizing the care of our veterans. Ruin the VA, blame them, "raise" a bunch of money via ads, and then let our vets suffer even more. For people they want everyone to worship, they are horrible to them.
 
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Not at all. It's "if you are an idiot with money then obviously you are never going to improve your life or your children's, generation after generation after generation, no matter how much you pray to your fictitious god and no matter how much you hate all the people your relatives hate" shaming, and it's good.

Accountability.

There are people who can't make it because they never had a chance. But righties fail to make it because of their pathetic combination of entitlement and victimhood, capped off by ineptitude and deliberately cultivated ignorance, and they deserve everything they get.
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Help me here. I keep hearing about how dumb all the posters who don’t agree with you are. The inbreds and great unwashed are not on your intellectual level and cant compete with you to get ahead. Success has been ladled on you, but has supposedly eluded the rest.

But then I peruse threads like "Cars: 2015". The cars being talked about are Camry's, Sonata's, RAV 4's and then Kepler states "I'm buying a used Honda CR V this weekend, change my mind". All of those are solid cars, not disparaging the choices. But shouldn’t the "stupid people" who have trouble living in society, let alone excelling, see references to Audi S7's, BMW M Cars, Cadillac's? Why not - "I'm buying a Cayman GT4 this weekend, change my mind"?

And if you choose not to buy those cars on principle or you just want solid transportation, then why reference taking out a loan? Smart, successful, high achievers like you should be paying cash, correct? Why should the interest rate or total amount of interest paid enter the equation? Just take it out of the Fidelity account and call it a day. Not like you are going to miss the money in Joe's roaring economy right? Portfolio doing great, inflation under control, crime is a non-factor, EVERYONE taking cruises - right?

Can you shed some light on this dichotomy of facts?
 
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I have him Ignored but good gravy I gots ta know. Can you give me just the tip?
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"If Kepler's so smart, how come he's taking out a loan on a used CR-V and not paying cash for a BMW?"

Apparently paying cash for a BMW is an unambiguous and reliable marker for intellect.
 
Worst investment you can ever make is a new car. Loses 20% of its value the moment you drive it off the lot.

Was that gem coming from whalers or Chucklefuk?
 
rufus said:
Worst investment you can ever make is a new car. Loses 20% of its value the moment you drive it off the lot.

Was that gem coming from whalers or Chucklefuk?
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In the past few years people have actually paid more for cars when they were used than what they cost new.
 
Drew S. said:
In the past few years people have actually paid more for cars when they were used than what they cost new.
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You mean the $5000 Ferrari that is now worth $15M? Or my classic that I got for $5k and is now worth $40k?

OR do you mean the anecdotes of car shortages from a few years ago that is now very much over?
 
rufus said:
Worst investment you can ever make is a new car. Loses 20% of its value the moment you drive it off the lot.

Was that gem coming from whalers or Chucklefuk?
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On the other hand, someone has to be getting new cars, otherwise we would run out of used cars.
 
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