Don’t get me wrong, this proposal is by no means perfect or even the thing I would ideally address first.
But making more options for small companies and loosening the restrictions on what qualifies for health insurance will help curb the cost of medical care overall.
What is the point of having cheap insurance options if said insurance does not cover or actually do anything? It’s worthless junk literally! Instead of taking the insurance you’d be better off pocketing the money and forgoing it all together.
I don’t know how you can blame “Obamacare” for medical prices increasing when it is clear that they would have and will continue to rise no matter if “Obamacare” still exists or not. When healthcare is about profits and is a business, whether any of us live or die does not matter to these companies.
I have to jump thru hoops, wait, and pay a significantly higher out of pocket for any imaging outside of X-rays. Due to my employer, I am locked into a single provider. Sure, I can (and do) have supplementary insurance, but FFS why is that even necessary?
The answer to all of the above, IMO?
Corporate greed, enabled by government intervention.
The Affordable Care Act isn’t our real problem, we can lay that at the feet of Richard Nixon .
i mean, i agree that we should do something about healthcare prices & that obamacare is not faring so well right now. but trying to make it easier to get junk healthcare plans without doing anything about decreasing the price of full-fledged healthcare plans will just make things worse, & lead to a situation where low-income people are priced out of even being able to afford a full healthcare plan & forced to either default to these “short-term”/association plans or not have any at all
Even taking into account that we’re talking about the rural South, a rightfully elected Black man being denied the ability to serve due to the color of his skin, in a town that is overwhelmingly Black (85%) is absolutely mind-boggling.
MoCo, for the unaware, is huge—as a county it has a population of over 1,000,000—so even with a few caveats this still applies to quite a lot of people:
An amendment crafted by Luedtke will exempt from the bill any unit owned by a “natural person” landlord, as termed by the legislation. That means an individual—as opposed to a corporate entity—who owns four or fewer rental units in the county will be exempt from the legislation. Another amendment will provide a 15-year exemption for buildings that “have been substantially renovated or rehabilitated,” per the amendment language.
Holy moly this is a wild story. I really hope people don’t get murdered, and Braxton gets a positive outcome from the legal system. But beyond the shock from reading this, I’m left with anger.
The sheer audacity of these racist clowns, and the fact that its working!? Like, courts just refuse to hear cases on a lot of the discrimination that happens surrounding elections, so even though it might be illegal its the white courts that decide that. And they BURNED DOWN LEWIS’ HOME! Holy shit is that terrifying, and we know nobody’s ever facing any consequences for it.
One thing that is truly inspiring amidst all the racism and systemic violence is the mayor himself. This guy is out here practicing mutual aid, organizing community events, and fighting to get food for his community. One of his goals with becoming mayor was to get a grocery store in town, huge respect for this guy.
Fuck White Supremacy, fuck the State, but hats off to this man. I hope he gets what he’s fighting for.
Agreed, and this couldn’t be said better. This made me angry just reading it, that we still have some parts of the country living like its the mid 1900s.
Yeah, “But Ray Epps!” is a right-wing conspiracy theory talking point to claim that Jan 6 Was An Inside Job . It could easily get this guy killed, the way those people operate.
City Council President Andrea Jenkins and Chughtai, who co-authored the rent control item in question, were at odds Thursday about how the mix-up occurred.
Jenkins, who presided over Wednesday’s meeting, took exception to Chugtai, Jamal, and Ellison’s joint characterization of the vote as “inappropriate, purposeful, and exclusionary.”
“We tried our best to be accommodating, so I can tell you it was not planned, it was not intentional,” said Jenkins, who voted in favor of the rent control measure. “To say that it was contrived to disenfranchise anybody is just flat out wrong.”
Further down in the article:
Ellison said that when he has served as chair under such circumstances, he has motioned either to delay the vote or to make no recommendations on the measure, even when he disagreed with the policy.
“As the chair of a meeting, you can pretty much look around, read the room, and make a decision, and that is what she did,” he said, referring to Jenkins. “I think the decision was a strange one, to say the least.”
Jenkins said Chughtai, Jamal, and supporters of the rent control measure did not request in advance that she delay the vote to another meeting.
“It didn’t occur to me, and no one asked me,” Jenkins said. “Had my colleagues asked me, I would have.”
City Council doing God’s work out here. This is frankly a little embarrassing for literally everyone involved in this situation.
Can’t say I’ve experienced this myself (millennial). Maybe I’m the bad influence in my friend group? I’ve definitely turned down going to things because I couldn’t afford it. That said, when gaming at least, I tend to just buy the game for my friends as I want to play with them and don’t want them to have to worry about that cost. Games are, relatively speaking, pretty cheap so I view it comparable to paying for a night out, which is often about the same cost.
The more likely explanation for your not having experienced it yourself is that the numbers cited are bordering on silly. Millennials and Gen Z make up roughly 20% each of the population of the US [1], so something like 6 million each. The “study” polled roughly 1000 people. Drawing any conclusions at that sample size is pretty spurious, and even then, the percentages that agreed with the headline are in the 20 and 30% range.
The size of the sample compared to the size of the population doesn’t really matter. What matters is how representative the sample is.
If they got a truly random sample (they didn’t), then 1000 is plenty.
Realistically, it’s probably 1000 Millennial and Gen Z Credit Karma users (already a niche group) who bothered to open an email and take a survey, which is not a realistic representation.
Now California needs to make a law that any books that have a sexual content rating cannot be sold to public schools. Vendors can then choose between which state they want to sell.
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