"The questions surrounding premiums in the individual market in 2014 have attracted considerable attention and generated some dire predictions of dramatically higher premiums resulting in 'rate shock,'" the Democratic report states. The actual proposed rates in the first five states to publish the rates do not support these dire predictions."
Insurers have filed preliminary rates for 2014 in Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state. In most cases, rates haven't spiked as a result of the healthcare law.
Premiums for the cheapest insurance plan in Oregon are expected to fall by an average of 11 percent, and customers in Washington could see a price drop of 21 percent for the cheapest policy, according to the Democratic summary of state rate filings.
Insurers in Vermont and Rhode Island said rate increases would not be significantly affected by the Affordable Care Act.

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jerseyhoya wrote:Bush would have won regardless of what the Supreme Court decided.

If submit that if the Supreme Court decided that Gore won, I think Gore would have won.

pacino wrote:Considering more people voted for Gore in Florida, I doubt it.

The conversation was allegedly recorded for the benefit of Cuban President Raúl Castro, but its authenticity has not been independently verified. Writing on Twitter, Silva dismissed the recording as a Zionist plot.

Brit Hume, a senior political analyst on Fox, said on the air Monday that the Justice Department had crossed a “clear bright line” when it seized the records on what he called “the pretext that this activity was criminal.”

“The Obama-Holder Justice Department is now prepared to treat the ordinary newsgathering activities of reporters, trying to seek information from government officials, as a possible crime,” he said.

A U.S. magistrate judge, Alan Kay, signed off on the search for two days’ worth of Rosen’s personal e-mails and all of his correspondence with Kim in May 2010. The warrant was unsealed in 2011, but a Fox executive confirmed that the network was not aware of the characterization of Rosen as a co-conspirator until Monday.

The Justice Department was not required to inform Rosen that his personal e-mails would be seized, according to an opinion by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in 2010.

thephan wrote:The press thing is interesting because the press desperately wants privileges like a doctor-patient has, but there are no guarantees under current law. While the press is free, it should rightly expect that if sensitive through classified information is published that there will be fall out. I am not certain the exact material leaked or its sensitivity, but it is reported as classified. I think that reporters should reasonably be able to discern if the type and quality of information being received is so specific (capabilities, operational methods, staff, technical specifications, equipment identification, etc.) and otherwise not known about military, intelligence or security topics that there might be a problem publishing. In the least they should have a method to test the sensitivity if there is question.

Bucky wrote:Me

Houshphandzadeh wrote:pretty great article by Jim Webb in the National Interest about troubling trends in how Presidents wage war these days:

http://nationalinterest.org/article/con ... ation-8138

Roger Dorn wrote:Obama did promise that this would be the most transparent administration though

Roger Dorn wrote:Obama did promise that this would be the most transparent administration though