pacino wrote:yes, they're going to be all over. stay local if you haven't already made travel plans.

This made me curious: Did Oller have any regrets about her vote? Does she now think that maybe it was a Democrat, rather than Trump, who would do better at fixing the Affordable Care Act?

She didn’t. Johnny had a FaceTime conversation with Oller this past week, and she still believes that Trump will make Obamacare work better — that because of his history as a businessman, he will come up with a better plan.

To be clear: Trump did release an Obamacare replacement plan during the campaign, and independent estimates found that it would increase the number of uninsured by 21 million people. Other Republican proposals also lead to millions losing coverage, too.

But Oller had made her decision: She felt like where people are right now, where they can’t use their coverage because the deductibles are so high, is the worst possible situation. She felt like things couldn’t get any worse for the people she has signed up for coverage.

“I’m confident he’s going to have another plan,” she says.

Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, which has emerged atop the new administration’s to-do list, is the top priority for Trump voters, 85 percent of whom identify it as an “extremely or very important priority.” But only 44 percent of the general public puts it in that category, according to a new poll on priorities for Trump’s first 100 days conducted by POLITICO and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

For instance while 78 percent of people who voted for Trump list dramatic action to curb illegal immigration as a top priority, only 38 percent of the general public does. And Trump’s vow to boost defense spending is a priority for 68 percent of those who voted for him, but one that is only shared by 43 percent of the public on the whole.

Tax cuts for businesses and upper- and middle-class Americans is an urgent priority for 58 percent of those who voted for Trump but just 36 percent of the public.

On tax cuts, which is also a signature issue for House Speaker Paul Ryan, almost twice as many Trump supporters as the general public — 62 percent versus 32 percent — believe they would lead to new jobs and major economic growth. Only 5 percent of Trump voters say such cuts would produce no new jobs, compared with 26 percent of the general public.

Interestingly, the survey found relatively little popular support for the corporate rate cuts at the core of Republicans’ campaign to overhaul the tax code. Only 39 percent of Trump voters believe corporate taxes should be cut, compared with 22 percent of the general public.

pacino wrote:gettin' swampy:

Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited the company, raising new ethics concerns for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary.

Price bought between $1,001 to $15,000 worth of shares last March in Zimmer Biomet, according to House records reviewed by CNN.

Less than a week after the transaction, the Georgia Republican congressman introduced the HIP Act, legislation that would have delayed until 2018 a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that industry analysts warned would significantly hurt Zimmer Biomet financially once fully implemented.

Zimmer Biomet, one of the world's leading manufacturers of knee and hip implants, was one of two companies that would have been hit the hardest by the new CMS regulation that directly impacts the payments for such procedures, according to press reports and congressional sources.

A Price aide claimed the congressman learned about the stock purchase on April 4, 2016 -- a few weeks after the source said the financial adviser made the transaction. Price continued to hold about $2,000 worth of shares in the company, the source said, despite having introduced the bill that would have helped the firm just days earlier.

Tom Daschle had to withdraw from the same position because he accepted a driver and then didn't properly pay the taxes on it. It'd be nice to see some consistency.

Bucky wrote:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/17/ads-two-dozen-cities-offer-protesters-2500-agitate/

looks like if it's a ruse it's a big one.

pacino wrote:he has to have a better plan, he just has to

what a frustrating read/watch

This made me curious: Did Oller have any regrets about her vote? Does she now think that maybe it was a Democrat, rather than Trump, who would do better at fixing the Affordable Care Act?

She didn’t. Johnny had a FaceTime conversation with Oller this past week, and she still believes that Trump will make Obamacare work better — that because of his history as a businessman, he will come up with a better plan.

To be clear: Trump did release an Obamacare replacement plan during the campaign, and independent estimates found that it would increase the number of uninsured by 21 million people. Other Republican proposals also lead to millions losing coverage, too.

But Oller had made her decision: She felt like where people are right now, where they can’t use their coverage because the deductibles are so high, is the worst possible situation. She felt like things couldn’t get any worse for the people she has signed up for coverage.

“I’m confident he’s going to have another plan,” she says.

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Paul LePage: John Lewis should thank Republican presidents for ending slavery, fighting Jim Crow @CNNPolitics

Doll Is Mine wrote:

andrew kaczynski@KFILE
Paul LePage: John Lewis should thank Republican presidents for ending slavery, fighting Jim Crow @CNNPolitics

Oh here we go...

Monkeyboy wrote:

Bucky wrote:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/17/ads-two-dozen-cities-offer-protesters-2500-agitate/

looks like if it's a ruse it's a big one.

If it's real, I'd be really interested to see where that money came from. Could be russian money to agitate and cause further chaos or could be money coming from trump supporters in the US to justify them paying for a large security/protest force of their own. This just doesn't smell right. Your don't need to pay large numbers of democrats to protest Trump. They'll do it for free.

philliesphhan wrote:I feel like I've heard a few times now "He won the most counties of a Republican president since Reagan" or something to that effect

You don't "win" any counties. And even if you did, he'd probably lose a few states he won if they counted em like the electoral college. PA counties that went for Hillary likely have more people than Trump ones do.

WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday that repealing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, while leaving other parts in place, would cost 18 million people their insurance in the first year and could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 32 million in 10 years, while causing individual insurance premiums to double over that time.