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No matter what Ryan does he will be criticized. Because you know....He's establishment or something like that.

Your example is the norm, Dorkington's would be the exception. It's a good measure for what can be done right now. Saves tax payers money, will end up lowering premiums relative to today's baseline. And: Senators like Murray and Alexander are senators who are truly interested in getting things done. Not this bull **** we see from all these other senators who are only in it either appease their narrow high voting propensity base or there to build their own personal brand.

Employer plan? or individual market?

I thought that they were both rated higher in the minds of some fans than what they truly were but thought that they'd both at least be playing decently, never did I expect them both to be playing this poorly. So I was wrong.

This is a game the Bills should win. I believe we match up well.

I'm guessing Bills would be looking for a 2nd or 3rd rounder and a quality contributing player along with him.

No, I don't think so. I think that is reserved primarily for nitpicky douches.

I think it's a fair question. At what point does Sammy's production stand on it's own two feet?

You can speak to your interpretations to the constitutionality and I will speak to his motives and the consequences of those actions. And what is undeniable is that because of his decisions middle class folks who purchase plans on the exchange had already been screwed because of the ACA now will be even screwed more so by the tune of about 20% higher than what they had been paying. That is a fact. What is also undeniable is that not only will middle class folks pay more for their plans thanks to Trump, but the US taxpayer, including yourself will now be on the hook for hundreds of billions of more dollars over the next 15 years because of Trumps actions. That is a fact. If Rand Paul or Ted Cruz would have been elected and right from the very beginning they had done this, I wouldn't have been surprised because that's who they are. They are literalists when it comes to the Constitution and I wouldn't have scoffed. Trump on the other hand is a know-nothing, could give two ***** about the constitution and his prime motivation behind this action was not because he cared about following the letter of the law but because he wanted to create as much chaos as he possibly could on the ACA market place hoping to force Democrats to the table. His miscalculation is that Democrats don't give a **** about the people just like the Republicans. Both Democrats and Republicans only care about driving their voters to the polls and painting the other party as the reason why everything sucks. Democrats don't care about the potential affects, they are perfectly happy bludgeoning Trump for these decisions.

If his true motive was that it was unconstitutional then there is no rationale to wait until after. C'mon, we've all seen Trump do we really believe he is a man is driven by actions to uphold the constitution? I think we all know that answer. I'm not referring to that, I'm referring to his motives. He was not driven by the potential of it's constitutionality.

It's not that I'm upset, it's that it is stupid and makes a bad situation even worse. Also, lets not pretend that he did this because it was "unconstitutional". If that had been his motive he would have signed this executive order in his first month rather than wait until 2 weeks before open enrollment. He used the potential unconstitutionality as a rationale to do so but the real reason why he did this is because they failed at repealing Obamacare and now he's moved on to plan B, which is to to attempt to undo it himself via executive order.

For this year the answer is simple. Execute better. Next year, get more talent and continue to develop chemistry.

Yes and there are lots of people who believe that TT isn't the problem and that the Sammy trade was a good one. I'm sure if you took a poll of both opinions that it would be somewhat 50/50.

I didn't see that. Can you provide a link to that?

I always thought that BADOL had some of the worst takes on TBD.... I still do. In regards to TT, I still respect him as a man and a leader, I don't believe he will end up being the franchise QB that this team will need. I wish he hadn't made that comment. But I'm willing to give him a mulligan because character wise he's always owned up to his mistakes and his whole body of work to judge him on shows that's he's a man of integrity and character.

It's just one man's opinion.

That's not how it works. Those regions show the highest CSR usage. Meaning that in those regions there will be less affected by Trumps executive order than areas that have less overall CSR usage. Why? Because consumers who qualify for CSR will largely be unaffected because CSR assistance stays intact. Those regions represent populations who are less affected because the population makeup has a higher percentage of low income families. Low income families are barely affected. The region's who have lower CSR usage are the ones who are more affected. Why? Because these regions have less people who qualify for the CSR meaning they won't qualify for the premium subsidies to offset the increased premiums. If they wanted to show a map of people who will ACTUALLY be affected by the executive order than they should have made an inverse map showing regions of less CSR usage that show more middle class folks that would be affected by the decision. Make sense? That's how the media works. When they report things in this manner they are either ignorant to the affects of the law or are purposely sensationalizong and misrepresenting the facts and creating more fear and confusion among their viewers. And let's be real, they are all a bunch of shills for the progressive party.

Analysis from the CBO: I largely agree with their view. Without a new law being implemented, the exchanges would continue.

Most likely not this year. So I've done tons of research on this over the past couple days. It appears that many carriers, State insurance commissions and in some cases some state exchanges have anticipated that this would happen. For almost all consumers of insurance or for that matter news, this is news to them. But by no means has this caught the insurance industry off guard. It appears that this has already been factored in. Covered California and some of the other state based exchanges had already slapped surcharges to the plans. Those surcharges were in anticipation of this happening and that money is to be distributed to all the carriers who offered and sold silver tiered plans on the exchanges. Some State insurance commissions increased the prices of some of the plans, some added it to all the metal tiers (bronze, silver, gold) what they are calling broad Broad Metal Load . Some are only applying it to the Silver plans, calling it Silver Metal Load. They did this in anticipation of the Trump administration doing this and that would help offset the CSR discrepancies. Some State insurance boards instructed the carriers to submit 2 sets of rates, one assuming that CSR payments would be made from the Federal government and one without. Some carriers just took it upon themselves and increased the rates (Such as Molina), assuming that Trump would do this. If you want real actual information and not sensationalized info then here is a good site. This is a phenomenal spreadsheet with detailed info. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2EQhCXowRDDuqJhy6PUJtIGHjoND9f_K7oALyDAbLg/edit#gid=0

I'm not ready to write his obituary but he's quickly approaching a looming inflection point in his career if he is not able to turn it around.

I'd like to make the point that the actual people who receive the CSR assistance largely, will not be affected. Doesn't matter where you live. This map is by and large, useless. The entities that will be affected by this decision are the following: A) Insurance providers. Why? Even though the government (for now) is cutting off the CSR subsidy TO THE CARRIER'S, the health insurance providers are contractually obligated to maintain the CSR assistance to the clients if they decide to participate on the exchange. Meaning they have to come up with the money to pay for the CSR assistance. B) The tax payer: Why? Because premiums will go up even higher and as premiums go higher then the subsidies go higher meaning that tax payers will shoulder the majority of the increase. C) Middle Class/Upper income people who purchase plans through the exchange: Why? Because the premiums will go higher because of this decision. However, they don't qualify for the subsidies and since they do not qualify, they will have to pay for the increased premiums. Who will not be affected? A) Lower income folks who are receiving both premium and CSR subsidies. Why? Because the carriers are contractually obligated to continue offering the CSR assistance. Meaning that the CSR subsidies will remain for lower income folks. (Unless carriers bail out of the exchanges leaving no carriers to provide coverage in that area)

Not sure what happened to The Hill. They used to be right down the middle but over the past year or so, whoever is charge of their social media posting content is a complete uber left winger.

I subscribe to the "Where there is smoke there is fire" philosophy. It's not conclusive but it's damning.

no offense Tiberius, but it's an ignorant take. It's not evil, just misguided

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