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December 24, 2024

ACA Help needed please

So i signed up for an ACA plan I only need for 3 months, as Medicare is coming but I'm confused-
The plan says the most I pay out of pocket is 9K, but if I have a hospital stay, it's 40% coinsurance after deductible.
Wouldn't that be more than 9K if it's say, heart surgery? And if so, can I get a supplemental hospital insurance?
Any help will be appreciated, thanks.
And Happy Holidays!

December 11, 2024

Wow-some of our Dem Reps and Senators must not have read Timothy Snyder's 20 Lessons

On Fighting Tyranny-and here's a few:

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections.

10. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

All 20 at https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth

December 10, 2024

Who remembers David Frye?

He was am impressionist who did some some great albums lampooning Nixon and other politicians-some are online. I can recite some of the bits by memory 50 years later

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November 27, 2024

My brother's Thanksgiving grace many years ago

"Rub a dub dub,
Thanks for the grub,
Yay God!"

Been at least 40 years but it still brings a smile to my face

November 20, 2024

Please remember-recounts usually only find small handfuls of votes

When a race is very close, it's obviously helpful. But I think in this Presidential race, with the expense and the seperation of vote numbers in most states that we have now, recounts aren't really feasable IMO. I think we need to regroup and stand together for what's ahead. We have a rocky road, but we can and must survive.

November 11, 2024

Watch some billionaire try to buy Bluesky

Dissent not allowed in the new USA

November 6, 2024

Marcy Wheeler: Donald Trump Will Become America's Dictator on Day One

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/06/donald-trump-will-become-americas-dictator-on-day-one/

Fox News has called Wisconsin, and with it, the race for Trump.

Trump sold the country on a narrative of grievance.

The press showed no interest in checking him — much less explaining the governance successes of the Biden Administration.

What a catastrophic outcome for vulnerable people, the country, and the world.
November 6, 2024

SC is lost for generations

November 5, 2024

Which websites do you use to see the vote counts?

I think NYT makes you sign up to see the vote counts, ugh.

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