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While House passes GOP health-care bill, Senate prepares to do its own thing

By Sean Sullivan, Paige Winfield Cunningham and Kelsey Snell

May 4 at 7:24 PM

Republican senators are signaling that their strategy will be rooted in crafting their own replacement for the Affordable Care Act. It remains unclear how closely that measure will resemble the one narrowly passed in the House on Thursday or whether Republican senators will resolve their stark differences.

A small group of GOP senators met Thursday morning in the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to begin outlining their health-care priorities, said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), McConnell’s top deputy.

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The measure’s original version, introduced in March by Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), already contained elements at risk of being struck out in the Senate under budget reconciliation rules that allow tax and spending changes but not broader policy changes.

That proposal initially left many of the ACA’s insurance regulations alone — with the goal of ensuring it would pass muster with the Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan officer of the Senate who decides on what may go in a reconciliation bill — but not all of them.

The version of the bill the House passed Thursday undercuts the ACA’s insurance regulations even more by giving states a path to opt out of federal requirements for insurers to cover certain “essential” health benefits — and to allow them to charge sick people the same premiums as healthy people.

The GOP bill would allow insurers to charge older Americans five times what they charge younger people, as opposed to three times as much under current law.

And it would enable insurers to hike premiums by 30 percent for people who don’t remain continuously covered. Health-policy experts, including conservative ones, have noted that the parliamentarian may decide those provisions need to be stripped out.

While House passes GOP health-care bill, Senate prepares to do its own thing

House Republicans just passed Trumpcare. So what’s next?

reincepriebus:

Things this bill does:

  1. Only covers 5% of people with pre-existing conditions.
  2. Exempts Congress from the worst parts of this bill, though they say they’ll fix that.
  3. Lets insurers once again put annual and lifetime limits on coverage for people with employer plans, effectively ends Medicaid expansion, leaves gaps in benefits, threatens Medicaid home- and community-based services for people with disabilities, and more.

The bill goes on to the Senate, where many are saying it’s dead on arrival. Regardless, we need to send a message to House Republicans that they’ll pay for their “YES” votes by losing their seats. Here’s what you can do:

  1. Use Contacting Congress to find out who represents you in the House.
  2. If your representative voted “YES” [here’s the list]: Use Contacting Congress to call their office and tell them you disapprove of their vote.
  3. Whether your representative voted yes or not, do the following:
  4. Donate to SwingLeft’s campaign to raise funds for Democratic challengers to the 35 swing district Republicans who voted for TrumpCare.
  5. Use Town Hall Project to find out if your representative is holding a town hall during recess. So far, only 6 of the 217 are.
  6. Sign up to volunteer for SwingLeft and/or check out Indivisible Guide for more actions for you to take.

After you’ve done that, you can contact your Senators. Use the same website listed first above (Contacting Congress) to find your two Senators. Give them a call, show up at their town halls, and donate to their Democratic opponents if they indicate that they’ll vote for TrumpCare.

The only way we’re going to take down this bill is if we keep the pressure on the GOP and let them know that voting for it will result in them losing their seats.

  1. Find out if you’re registered to vote. If not, find out how to.
  2. Here are some answers to some questions you might have about registering.
  3. Student voters: This is for you.
  4. What to bring with you to the polls.
  5. Click here for more voting information, and to find out who’s going to be on your next ballot.

Special Elections coming up:

Most other midterms are November 6th, 2018. Get ready.

Reblog with an obscure game that nobody you know likes except you

monicawoe:

letspivot:

softhealingprincess:

For me it’s the Myst series and the Submachine series

this late ‘90s classic:

I love Myst! I think the most obscure favorite game I played was Primal- your character turns into four demon forms and she has a gargoyle pet voiced by Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar from Babylon 5 )

My brothers and I spent HOURS playing the Star Trek BASIC ascii pictured – text game waaaaaaay back in the 1980s.  I can’t tell you how revolutionary it was to be able to play an interactive game BY YOURSELF.  It’s not hyperbole to say that it literally changed the world.

literalliterature:

whatis2plus2:

child-of-dolora:

patrickat:

child-of-dolora:

patrickat:

child-of-dolora:

patrickat:

child-of-dolora:

patrickat:

child-of-dolora:

patrickat:

Anyone want to write the poem that begins:

My name’s Valjean…

And ends with:

I steal the bred.

?

My name’s Valjean;

I know this nite

(though candlestix

are gleeming brite)

my sister’s childe

might soon be ded.

I cannot wait –

I steal the bred.

My name’s Javert
I gard the law.
You rob’d a house
That’s wat I saw.
Fiv years wer owed
Until you fled
Nineteen all told –
You stole the bred!

He was my guessed
At Bishop’s haus
And early left
(silent as maus)
But slipped his mind
on leaving quik;
forgot the best –
so take these stix!

My name’s Fantine
The nite is cold
To save my childe
Myself I’ve sold
All of ten francs
Is wat they sed
What can I do? –
I shav my hed.

I am Valjean
And none shall herm
Yur yung Cosette:
I keep her warm.
So sleep, Fantine
And she’ll be ther
when yu awake.
Here comes Javert!

Our nam, monsieur?
Thenardier!
For our gud dede
What will you pay?
5000 francs –
You get the gist –
And dear Colette
(:: elbows :: Cosette)
Will not be mist

Oh come now, you can’t skip my favorite song.

Wen yung I’d dreme
I’d meet a prinz
(but have you seen
wuttz happend sinze?)
He ain’t Voltaire;
this shitty louse
is master now
of publik howse.

I am Javert
My way’s the Lord
For thos who fall
The flam, the sord!
Let me see him
Saf behind bars.
There’s no escap –
I swer by stars.

The peepul sing
like angry men;
they will not be
those slayves agin.
there beeting hearts
like noisy drums –
there life restarts.
tomorrow comes!

Dont you fret
I feel no Payne
And won’t be hert
By falling rayne.

Pleese don’t die
Deer God above
I heel your wounds
With wourds of lov.

You keep me safe
That’s wat you sed
But looke monsieur –
‘Ponine is ded.

My nayme’s Gavroche
And tho I mite
Be just a pup
I’ve stille got bite!
I’ll clymb over
The barricayde
And help my frends
Before I’m slayed.