Progressive One

I see you don't understand the concept.....well, they told me I was the most qualified after the interview...they offered me the job during the interview. There is no sense in trying to relate to someone who has never experienced as much in every aspect of their life.......maybe you should read Condi's story unless you actually believe AA is for lesser performers....you couldn't piss me off...

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

I understand perfectly.

The KKK told you that you needed AA because you were inferior to white kids.

And you were ok with that.

It's easy to understand.


It's no wonder you're such a tender snowflake.

Progressive One

yeah...the klan just couldn't explain why I was inferior with higher grades....for 24 years 1-12 and 12 college...with not only higher grades...but more years put in and more graduations and higher grades..and scholarships and fellowships many of the white kids did not get awarded.........they wear dunce hats for a reason....racists never were smart people...........

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

They wear dunce hats, but they convinced you that you needed AA to be equal to their inbred children.

Progressive One

The sad part is...your false ass belief in white supremacy has you believing that you can actually control my thoughts and shape my self-perception.......you have me about to piss on myself laughing at YOU.........that cracka-ism runs deep in your heart huh? You can give a highly educated black guy an inferiority complex in your little pointy head huh? hilarious............got to give it to you....you people really want to have a grand view of yourselves.....

Progressive One

no they have convinced YOU....hilarious...once again....your cracka-ism actually has you believing that you can tell me what I think......you are FUNNAY!!!!

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

For a professor, your reading and comprehension skills really do suck.

I'm the one that told you that I thought you could have competed against snaggletoothed imbred KKK kids without AA. You're the one believed he needed AA to be equal to them.

Progressive One

I guess you think you're important and what you think and state matters a fk...............you sound like a fking idiot trying to tell someone what they think......your Mom should have jacked your Dad off or swallowed instead of giving him some...you're a waste of the conception process.......

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

My... You sure are angry.

It's almost as if being a hate-filled little precious snowflake isn't making you happy.

Tell yourself about all of your degrees. See if that makes you fell better.

Progressive One

oh yeah...i'm so angry I can hardly contain myself.....haha...

Oh yeah....I "fell" better...this time I landed on my feet like a cat....'sigh'............

PeterS

Naive? Trump hasn't a clue how a bill is put together or what marks it as good or bad. He told Ryan he just wanted something to sign and Ryan tried to deliver. That's not naivete but willful ignorance for which he got exactly what he deserved.

The only ones who are being naive are his followers. You somehow thought a non politician would be a wiz at developing legislative bills and walking them through congress. Hell as it stands he may not even be able to get his tax cut done as the fiscal conservatives are going to squawk over the debt it will generate. So what's that leave--infrastructure or another shot at healthcare? You really think he stands a shot at either? I don't. The man is not a president and he hasn't a clue as to how to become one. The more into this he moves the more he's going to be spending his weekends at Mara Largo. What else can he do--he sure as hell can't act like a president...

Progressive One

GOP aims for do-over to replace Obamacare
Chances of agreement between key House factions appear slim.
By Lisa Mascaro and Noah Bierman
WASHINGTON — Frustrated with their failure to repeal Obamacare, and wary of facing voters over spring recess, House Republicans are embarking on another push to salvage President Trump’s promise to replace the Affordable Care Act.
With the White House leading the effort, Vice President Mike Pence presented lawmakers options in meetings that were set to stretch late into Tuesday evening. Some Republicans say they want to stay in town this week to finish the job.
But chances remain slim that Republican leaders can build consensus between the GOP factions — the conservative House Freedom Caucus and more centrist Tuesday Group — that doomed the last effort. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) lowered expectations that a deal could be struck soon.
“Look, the president would like to see this done,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Tuesday.
“I’m not going to raise expectations,” Spicer said. “But I think that there are more and more people coming to the table with more and more ideas about [how] to grow that vote.”
The effort shows the risks ahead for Trump’s party after Republicans promised for years they would undo the healthcare law once they had control of Congress and the White House, only to botch it with last month’s abandoned vote.
Trump lashed out in anger at the Freedom Caucus after the failed effort, tweeting criticism of the group. When he called out leaders by name in high-profile attacks, the move backfired, with others coming to their defense. The result was more political infighting in the GOP.
But now, as Trump approaches the end of his presidency’s first 100 days without the key legislative win and GOP lawmakers head home for two weeks, they have common cause in urgently searching for a better message, or to at least show voters they haven’t given up.
“A lot of us have said we should stay and do it,” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), a Freedom Caucus member.
The proposals being floated are mostly tweaks to the bill Ryan engineered with other party leaders, which failed to generate enough support for passage.
That legislation, the American Health Care Act, would have resulted in as many as 24 million more Americans being without insurance, largely by clipping subsidies that help some buy insurance and scaling back some states’ expansion of Medicaid for low-income patients.
The measure House GOP leaders championed was deeply unpopular, and even now, nearly two-thirds of Americans polled said it was a “good thing” that it did not pass. At the same time, 75% — and a majority of Republicans — said Trump and his administration should do what they can to make the current law work, according to new polling from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
Pence is presenting options that the administration hopes can win over more Freedom Caucus members without chasing away those from the Tuesday Group.
Under the White House proposal, states would have the option of doing away with requirements that insurers provide a minimum level of 10 “essential benefits,” including those for pregnancy care and mental health treatment.
Conservatives want to end those Obamacare regulations because they believe fewer rules will lead to cheaper plans.
States would also be allowed to do away with the “community rating,” which would let prices rise for some patients, effectively gutting Obamacare’s guarantee that people can get coverage even if they are sick. The guarantee would be meaningless if, for example, a cancer patient could not afford a plan that covers chemotherapy.
The White House is also discussing more funding for high-risk pools that would offer coverage to sick people who could not get policies on the existing market.
Many states, including California, operated such pools before the Affordable Care Act, but they proved inadequate for covering sick patients.
Republicans may also revive an idea to continue a 0.9% payroll tax on high-income earners to produce $15 billion to ensure coverage for various patients.
Democrats, who have opposed GOP attempts to gut Obamacare, will almost certainly reject these changes, which they argue will lead to bare-bones policies and leave more Americans without necessary healthcare.
Spicer said Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus both “feel very optimistic with the tone of the conversation and the ideas that are coming out and the willingness of folks to find common ground.”
But House Republicans remained hesitant to suggest a deal could be struck in the days ahead.
“We’re not there yet,” said one GOP aide, granted anonymity to discuss the situation. “It’s not clear any of this will result in any movement from where they are.”
lisa.mascaro@latimes.com
noah.bierman @latimes.com
Times staff writer Noam
N. Levey in Washington contributed to this report.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Don't be a dumbsickle.

Ryancare went down because it was 1/10th as stupid as Obamacare.

Being a political hack is a talent Trump doesn't have, if that's what you mean. The Democrats were able to ram through an anti-American Obamacare bill, so cudos to them.

Progressive One

Improve the ACA, don’t kill it
By Raul Ruiz
W hen I became a doctor, I went to work in an emergency room that admitted and treated the kind of hard-working, low-income farmworker families I grew up with. For many of them, the ER was their first and last resort after avoiding the doctor for years because they had no health insurance.
We didn’t check a patient’s political affiliation before treating them. I didn’t check the party affiliation of the other doctors and nurses, either, and they didn’t ask me for mine. Rather, we worked together as a team, following through on the Hippocratic Oath we had taken to treat patients to the best of our ability and, above all, to “do no harm.”
I treated patients before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and I treated patients after, just as the legislation was beginning to take effect. I noticed firsthand that many patients stopped fearing the cost of their ER visit as more were covered by insurance. When they pulled out their insurance cards, I could tell they felt peace of mind.
If only politicians were required to take an oath to do no harm. Since gaining a majority in Congress, most Republicans have been actively working to bleed the ACA dry so that it will fail, thereby fulfilling their own prophecy. They voted repeatedly to repeal the law and sued to stop it in court.
Now that they have full control of government, they’re trying to sabotage it.
After Republicans pulled Trumpcare from the House floor last month, President Trump responded with a blame-filled diatribe in the Oval Office — 10 minutes of finger-pointing in which he offered up the cynical hope that our healthcare system will “explode.” The president of the United States actually stated that letting the healthcare system “explode” was “the best thing we can do politically speaking.”
More recently, the Trump administration has stopped promoting the open-enrollment period for health insurance plans, a move that is now being investigated by the Office of Inspector General in the Department of Health and Human Services. The idea, apparently, is that if people don’t know by what date they need to sign up for a plan, they won’t enroll, fewer people will be covered, premiums will rise for everyone else, and the administration will have even more grounds for saying the ACA doesn’t work.
Coupled with the absurd failure of Trumpcare, these destructive moves lay bare what many of us suspected all along — the Republicans aren’t interested in improving the ACA; they’d rather attack it for political gain. Trump and the Republican leadership have been fundamentally dishonest to the American people for the purposes of winning votes and securing power. This is exactly what disgusts voters about Washington.
With the right wing up in arms over their failure to repeal and replace the ACA, Republicans are sure to try again. But they seem to have learned no lessons from their first attempt. They continue to show no intention of reaching across the aisle to work on commonsense solutions.
According to some policy experts , the Trump administration could immediately reduce the size of deductibles and other healthcare costs for low-income Americans by permanently funding cost-sharing reductions — federally subsidized discounts that Republicans have filed lawsuits to prevent. Republicans could also instantly repair the ACA’s risk corridor provision , a program that helped insurers to share risk and offset losses, and which Republicans effectively undid in 2014, driving dozens of insurers out of the marketplace. Unfortunately for the American people, Trump has made it clear that these solutions are not in his political interest.
To the White House and Republican leadership: When are you going to get it? Even after years of attacks and sabotage, Americans want the Affordable Care Act. They want it to work, and they want Republicans and Democrats to work together to make it better.
You are doing harm to real people for your own political gain. You’ve undercut the ACA every step of the way and now you own it. You claim you want a healthcare system that covers more people and reduces costs, and that’s what Democrats have been working to achieve. When you’re ready to get serious, take an oath to do no harm and quit the sabotage and partisan games. Only then can we work together to help people.
U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert) is an M.D. and former emergency physician who represents California’s 36th Congressional District.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

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