Pedophilia's cultural language became exposed in Australia as a television personality was revealed.

27 September 2017

B-LOVERS and "P"s who want kids to GNOC. (click here) This is just some of the secret codes used in the world of online predators - by today's self-titled "boy-lovers" and paedophiles engaging in disgusting abuse of children on social media and gaming sites where they can fly under the radar.

And GNOC? It means Get Naked On Cam, and shows why parents should Google any unfamiliar slang or acronyms their kids are using online, according to Cyber safety expert Susan McLean.

This brand of disturbing language came under the spotlight yesterday when vile messages exchanged by former Channel 9 star Ben McCormack and another man were exposed at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney....

Russia has practicing cannibals.

September 27, 2017
By Cleve R. Woolson, Jr.

Warning: Disturbing content: (click here)

Investigators believe a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution.

At times, the couple tried to turn soldiers at the military academy where they worked into unwitting cannibals, slipping "canned human meat" into their food.

And the people in the city of Krasnodar may never have known about any of that if not for a broken cellphone lying on a city street, authorities say....

They have no value for the lives of others. They only see people as a potential meal. This is about the most bizarre event. These folks not only killed people for meat, they served it to others.

What the heck? People were disappearing and no one paid attention? I want to hear the Russians explain this one.

Why do right wing extremists receive the left's vote? Because they tract to the left when they need to.

I don't want the rhetoric. I don't want a position statement to a particular bill. I want to know what Roy Moore's plans are for health care and where is the bill he is going to propose.

If there is no bill proposal, I am not interested. I want to read something that will answer problems and not simply treat me like a mindless voter willing to play populous directed. 

There were left wing voters for Trump because he carried a leftist message, such as, anti-NAFTA and anti-TPP. Once in office Trump did not turn his back on those voters and did as he promised. He took the position of THE PEOPLE and not THE ESTABLISHMENT. TPP and NAFTA were on the Republican agenda. Clinton signed NAFTA, but, it was passed by a Republican Congress. Because Clinton signed it the Establishment Left believes they have to own it. That is not the case. Everyone who agreed with Trump's position should embrace the fact he agrees with a Democratic agenda. 

The Democrats should be a friend to THE PEOPLE and point to the fact while the TPP was defeated, the current density of Goldman Sachs employees in the federal government only opens up those voters to risk of losing their demand anyway. 

September 21, 2017
By Juliegrace Brufke

Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore of Alabama (click here) wouldn’t vote for the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill, his campaign announced Thursday, signaling trouble for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s agenda if Moore wins.
Moore — who is currently leading over Sen. Luther Strange, the leadership-backed candidate in the Senate runoff polls — is looking for a more conservative option to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“If Graham-Cassidy is anything less than a full repeal, Judge Moore will not vote for it,” a Moore spokesman told MSNBC.
Senate GOP leadership is currently attempting to gain the support needed to pass the bill, which aims to replace Medicaid expansion and insurance subsidies with block grants provided to the states....

Saving the lives of Puerto Ricans is the direct responsiblity of the Executive Branch of the USA. GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY!

Why isn't the Dominican Republic involved with Puerto Rico?

Haiti can't do much. Guantanamo is right there. If there were no detainees there, the military could fill Gitmo with people in need of help.

Why hasn't anyone asked Cuba to help if it can? This is life and death. Four days is a very long time to wait for a hospital ship.

Get people to Jamaica. Supply MONEY to the islands that are still functional and can actually provide a vital life line to Puerto Rico.

Florida has it's own problems.

Guyana is newly selling rice to Cuba. As Cuba to allow those sales to come to Puerto Rico. Where is Nikki Haley in all this? She can't work with countries near the USA border to move help to Puerto Rico? Money moves far faster than ships.

The United States and Suriname enjoy a constructive partnership. The two countries work together to enhance the security and prosperity of the region through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), prevent communicable diseases, promote healthy lifestyles through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), strengthen military-to-military cooperation, and promote a more environmentally sustainable Suriname through cultural and educational programs and exchanges.

Ambassador Haley needs to get moving on this. She needs to knock down barriers to allow help to arrive in Puerto Rico.

Everyone of these countries understand the region. They are not interested in an assault or war. They have to be trusted to provide help to Puerto Rico. It is absolutely necessary to save lives.

The Puerto Rican debt just was forgiven and has become a problem to the USA Congress. This is a human rights violation and people should be held responsible for the dire circumstances in Puerto Rico. This is an outrage!!!!!!!!

The Army Corp MUST provide a jet runway, NOW! They will have to be sure there is a functioning port!

I think Americans have been heard.

September 26, 2017
By Thomas Kaplan

Washington - Sen. Mitch McConnell (click here) on Tuesday officially pulled the plug on the latest plan to repeal the health care law, telling senators they will not vote on the measure and effectively admitting defeat in the last-gasp drive to fulfill a core promise of President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers.

McConnell’s announcement came less than 24 hours after a pivotal Republican senator, Susan Collins of Maine, declared firm opposition to the repeal proposal, all but ensuring that Republican leaders would be short of the votes they needed.
Senate Republicans already tried once this year to approve repeal legislation, an exercise that ended in defeat when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gave a thumbs-down in July to kill that repeal proposal.
This time, McConnell, R-Ky., the majority leader, and his fellow Republicans were trying to make one more attempt at passing a bill, and a deadline was fast approaching: They have only until the end of this week to pass a repeal bill using special budget rules that shield it from a Democratic filibuster.... September 26, 2017By Jeff Eisenband Even as a broadcaster (click here)whose career has included some of the greatest games and the most powerful moments, Bob Costas says the protesting of NFL players and personnel this past Sunday was unique."A handful of people became hundreds of people," Costas says. "What centered around one issue, a valid issue -- calling attention to inequities in the justice system or law enforcement -- became about something bigger. It became about the whole tone and the culture wars in this country and the political divisiveness in this country, and I hope it's not confined to just one day and not confined to gestures, but leads to productive conversations."
Costas, who was born in 1952, can draw some similarities between the activists of his youth and the current voices of progress, but he notes that today's athletes are taking that to a new level....
..."When I was growing up, a lot of athletes -- Curt Flood, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King -- a very long list of athletes were outspoken and we may be entering an era, sparked by a confluence of events in which athletes find that voice again. People like LeBron James are finding increasingly sophisticated voices. It's one thing to be concerned about an issue. It's another thing to grasp that issue in a nuanced way and be able to carry it forward beyond gestures. I think we're seeing a number of people that are willing and able to do that."...

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article175466446.html#storylink=cpy

Senator John McCain's duty continues.

For some time I had wanted to post a request of Senator McCain and the USA military.

I am quite confident there are records of the torture Senator McCain sustained while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. He needs to bring to life in a video his experience in defending his country, his capture and imprisonment in North Vietnam.

While that information is most likely not classified so many years later, such a video should be a requirement to all soldiers and officers in the USA military. Senator McCain should provide a current statement before the viewing of such a video.

I believe American soldiers need to understand what they face when in battle. Senator McCain's service extends into a prisoner of war camp whereby he sustained torture and a sense of responsibility for other American soldiers imprisoned with him. His particular insight when realizing he has served his country all his life and into a seat of power in the legislature is unique.

American soldiers should know the enemy and that enemy's capacity to reach into the minds of captured soldiers to extract information. Senator John McCain never violated the trust the American people placed in him in his service to the country. He never gave in to the demands for more and damaging information regarding the US military while fighting a war in South Vietnam.

Senator McCain not only had loyalty to other captured soldiers, he provided an uncommon reality to his captors. Senator McCain protected the USA military still at war and he protected the country he believed vulnerable to the enemy. His service defended the country while a prisoner of war.

The USA military is no place for people unwilling or unable to face the reality of being a prisoner of war. I think Senator McCain, an American hero, should address the military today and in the future. The extent the USA has tried to resolve all those missing in action from Vietnam proves the dedication of the country to it's soldiers as well.

It does not matter how a person may view the Vietnam War, his reality is a fact. The military should not forget.

Kim Jong Un has nothing to lose by setting off an atmospheric nuclear test the size of the last hydrogen bomb test.

The area of the Pacific that could accommodate such activity has shipping lanes throughout it. That was not the case 38 years ago. China has the greatest exposure to such an extreme show of power.

Considering the heat release into the troposphere of such an explosion the global community should consider such an act, one of war with the rest of the world.

Maybe that is what Un wants. Maybe he wants to make a huge expression of aggression against the world so there will be no doubt about the plans of his regime.

I would take the threat seriously, measure the outcomes and act on that.

Where does it stop?? Oops, Un wasn't aiming for Japan? Or China? Or Russia? Or South Korea? Or the very people of North Korea?

His scientists don't have the capacity to control such an outcome, the idea the global community would tolerate such an act of hate and confrontation is hideously permissive of a regime.

With all the activity in the Pacific Ocean these days, there is no way of protecting everyone. And when will it be safe again? It is a ridiculous idea. We already know these weapons are a hideous reality of where men have gone for control of fear.

The nuclear issue is not about what we know, but, when would they ever be appropriate to use? Non-proliferation is the only method forward. To think a nuclear release to protect life is appropriate is absolute insanity. The brinkmanship is laughable. There are nearly 8 billion people on Earth. Earth's fisheries are under assault by heat and overfishing.

The fisheries will be damaged and where will the food come from? This is unthinkable. I think the United Nations needs to realize if they are going to set North Korea on a suicide path with sanctions it may have an outcome no one expects.

To the left is the storm record for 2017 thus far in the West Pacific (click here). What is going to happen with such a release into the troposphere? It will never be contained. Are the leaders of Russia and China and The West willing to gamble with the lives of millions that there will be no adverse effect? Don't lie to yourselves. 

It is time to assign a special commissioner to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Former Governor Mitt Romney seems to have the interest Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands need. This is not an easy assignment. But, a former governor might be exactly what is needed.

President Trump should put this assignment on the front of the help to our most troubled Americans.

I am not surprised Former Secretary of State Clinton has become involved in trying to spur help to the islands, including Puerto Rico. I remember as I am confident she does, Haiti and the earthquake that took place very early in the Obama administration. I thank her and former Governor Romney for taking interest in a place where all previous support is falling apart.

September 25, 2017

By Nik DeCosta-Klipa

President Donald Trump (click here) has yet to use his social media platform to raise awareness for hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is among a number of high-profile political figures stepping in to fill the void.

In a tweet Monday afternoon, the former Massachusetts governor called on political leaders in Washington, D.C., to set aside political difference to “rescue” Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The two U.S. territories — home to a combined 3.5 million American citizens — have been devastated this month by Hurricanes Maria and Irma.

Romney said he had spoken with former Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuño, who said the island is on the “brink of humanitarian disaster.”...                    

Thank you, US Senator Collins for voting no for the latest version of a health care bill. I thought your involvement seemed a bit out of character. I am sure being a Senator with constituents this upset kept you very busy up to now. Thank you, again.

As long as the bill is still moving forward I will continue to read it.

Health care and government monies as an investment. I think I agree. The idea is to have a healthy work force.

The American demonstrators regarding the Cassidy bill are absolutely correct. People will die from the loss of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

I wish Lindsey Graham and others would stop talking about Medicaid as if it were Social Security or Medicare. Medicaid is not funded from a trust fund.

Medicaid is a 'paid for' insurance coverage, no different than regular health care insurance, except, the provider is the USA Government.

So, up to now, the people that disdain Medicaid have lied to the public about it's cost and who pays for it.

The Medicaid program (click here) is jointly funded by the federal government and states. The federal government pays states for a specified percentage of program expenditures, called the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP).

FMAP varies by state based on criteria such as per capita income. The regular average state FMAP is 57%, but ranges from 50% in wealthier states up to 75% in states with lower per capita incomes (the maximum regular FMAP is 82 %). 

FMAPs are adjusted for each state on a three-year cycle to account for fluctuations in the economy. The FMAP is published annually in the Federal Register....

This is the bill the US House passed, now before the US Senate in committee where Americans are pleading for their own lives.

In reflection about Graham's statements, I suppose Senator Graham simply might not know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare.

Shown Here:

Passed House amended (05/04/2017) (click here)

American Health Care Act of 2017

TITLE I--ENERGY AND COMMERCE

Subtitle A--Patient Access to Public Health Programs

(Sec. 101) This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to eliminate funding after FY2018 for the Prevention and Public Health Fund,

Shown Here:

Passed House amended (05/04/2017) (click here)

American Health Care Act of 2017

TITLE I--ENERGY AND COMMERCE

Subtitle A--Patient Access to Public Health Program

(Sec. 101) This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to eliminate funding after FY2018 for the Prevention and Public Health Fund,

It is a little late for the defunding, isn't it?

FY 2018 is from October 1, 2017, through September 30, 2018. (click here)

Ya get the feeling this Congress doesn't know what it is doing? I hear their answer to a poorly comprised health care bill is to pay off a couple of female Senators in order to pass it. Really?

which provides for investment 

I have never once thought about health care as an investment. I think of investments as options for placing money believing it will have a return of some percentage of the original money paid. But, if health care has to be an investment then it is an investment by the government for a healthy workforce, especially when it comes to Medicaid. See, without Medicaid the poor, working poor and lower middle class have a difficult reach to become healthy and a good employee. We all know poverty breeds poor health if not death.

We all do know that, don't we? We know the poor die prematurely. Right? We also know allowing that FACT to exist without recognition is immoral, right? We do know it is immoral, right? I don't care if the wealthy hate paying taxes because they believe they should not have to pay for others health or food or otherwise, like housing. I DO NOT CARE if the wealthy, boo-hoos over their tax dollars. DO NOT CARE! Why, because, the people that belly ache over their taxes don't care about this country or it's future!

I am sure the wealthy have hankies to dry their tears when they pay their taxes.

in prevention and public health programs to improve health and restrain the rate of growth in health care costs. Funds that are unobligated at the end of FY2018 are rescinded.

Rescinded?? I am confused. Block grant funding has no ability to be rescinded. Medicaid monies unspent in a fiscal year can be rescinded. So, if the Republican law wants to rescind funding unspent by the states that creates an entirely different bureaucracy. We want another bureaucracy? We are going to be auditing the states? OMG.

State and federal budget pressures, (click here) rising health care costs, and new waiver initiatives have prompted debate over restructuring Medicaid at the state and federal levels. There are many aspects to this debate -- Medicaid provides coverage and long term care services to more than 50 million people; it affects virtually every aspect of the nation’s health care system; and it is an economic engine in communities throughout the country. The consequences of a major overhaul of Medicaid are far-reaching and substantial....

...In its Fiscal Year 2004 budget, the Administration proposed replacing that system with capped allotments under what is sometimes described as a “block grant.” The proposal provoked a debate over the future of Medicaid and the differences between a block grant program in which federal funding is capped and an “entitlement” program in which federal funding is provided on an as-needed basis. Since labels can inform or obscure the discussion, it is important to be clear about the key aspects...
 
Has anything changed with the GOP since 2004? No? That might explain a few things. This is ideology. Ideology rarely does well in reality.

(Sec. 102) The bill amends the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to increase funding for community health centers.

When Cassidy spoke about the "Jimmy Fallon Test" the day after this bill was introduced he stated CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) (click here) was still in force to take care of children. In this Section 102 of this bill it discusses increasing the funding for CHIP for COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS. That completely changes CHIP as it stands today. So, Cassidy lied. Again. It places children's health in question.

(Sec. 103) For one year, certain federal funds may not be made available to states for payments to certain family planning providers (e.g., Planned Parenthood Federation of America).

I have visited this before. The funding to family planning providers save womens' lives. It is just that simple. The idea of removing that funding equates into deaths. That is a fact and the digital age has not changed that fact.

I am finished for today. I'll take this up tomorrow. Probably tomorrow evening. This is the worst piece of legislation regarding the health of Americans ever written. BUT, if Republican Senators aren't really interested in American health care this is going to be the result.

Later.

Oh, yeah, whatever happened to "Trump Bad Lip Reading?" Is it proving impossible?

He really is a lousy president. Who ever picks on the NFL?

September 24, 2017
By Manuela Tobias

A vehicle plows (click here) into a group of counter-protesters marching in Charlottesville.

President Donald Trump (click here) blamed low National Football League ratings and attendance on unpatriotic players.

"NFL attendance and ratings are WAY DOWN. Boring games yes, but many stay away because they love our country. League should back U.S.," Trump tweeted on Sept. 24, 2017. 

This is the year 2017, nearly 2018 and there are still White Supremacist demonstrating, killing people and of all places, holding office in Congress. I think the NFL has it's head screwed on straight. Trump has a long way to come to get his screwed on straight.

FOX News wants the NFL to lead a constructive conversation about race. Really? Why not start with Heather Heyer's mother and the people assaulted in Charlottsville, Virginia.

There is actually something to dialogue about? I don't think so.

This is the way I see the current Senate legislation to substitute with the great Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a substandard option.

I think reading HR 1628 is a complete waste of time. The bill takes a long way around to end Medicaid. The entire bill reaffirms the fact the states, healthcare insurances and the insured do not have to offer or enroll in health care.

The funding of the bill HR 1628 will run out in 2025 as the states can receive advances in monies against the following years. The advances are to be taken from the 2025 funding. What happens if a state has a negative balance as of 2025?

The bill is sloppy. It does not follow standard form because it was never written to be law so much as to eliminate law and health care for the Poor, lower Middle Class and the Working Poor. 

But, since states such as California, New York, Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey and others (click here) have a conscience I will read HR 1628, the current legislation before the USA Senate for health care policy.

Until tomorrow.

I will begin reading the bill tomorrow.

United States Senate - Active Legislation (click here)

115th Congress (2017-2018)
September 20, 2017

Bills are arranged alphabetically by popular title or subject so they're easy to find. Bill numbers are provided to facilitate research in Congress.gov.

H - Active Legislation

Health Care Repeal and Replace ACA - HR 1628

HR 1628 (click here)

North Korea's nuclear weapon program is not ready for testing. The scientists don't have control.

I thank the "South China Morning Post" for this article. I think it is well done. I also believe Russia and China have to provide incentives to contain the North Korean nuclear program. It is far too dangerous for the region.

September 15, 2017

The underground explosion at the Punggye-ri test site in the far northeast of the hermit kingdom caused earth tremors that could be felt across the border in China and as far away as Russia’s eastern sea port of Vladivosto.

...The resolution on Monday (click here) was the ninth since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006. Kim has thumbed his nose at each of the last few rounds of sanctions, responding to each with either another nuclear blast or by launching a missile. Room remains to further tighten the fuel or economic screws, but there are limits to how far China and Russia, the North’s closest allies, are willing to go. Far better, as they stated after the latest measures, for the US and South Korea to stop provocations through staging joint military drills, scrap a controversial missile shield system and talk with Pyongyang.

But stability also requires Kim to reach out. He complains that his nation is threatened by the presence of the US military in the region. Yet each new explosion or missile launch drives American allies South Korea and Japan to seek better weapons protection. There is now a danger of further nuclear proliferation through both working for atomic weapons....

...talks between Pyongyang and Washington that lead to a peace treaty to finally end the Korean war are the only viable way to ensure peace and stability. Sanctions and provocations will not deter Kim; war, at times threatened by the US, can never be an option given the massive loss of life that would result on the Korean peninsula. China can help facilitate negotiations, but there has to first be a willingness for dialogue from Kim and US President Donald Trump.

There are many reasons countries across the globe are more interested in their sovereignty and quality of life of their people. The Olympics is one of those reasons. If North Korea continues to destroy humanity and civilization much will be lost.

September 22, 2017
By Karolos Grohmann

France’s Olympic Committee (click here) on Friday played down security concerns over next year’s winter Games in South Korea, as organizers said athletes’ wellbeing was their priority and expressed confidence the event would go ahead.

With tensions on the Korean peninsula threatening to bubble over, the government in Paris on Thursday became the first to publicly raise the possibility of skipping the Feb. 9-25 Pyeongchang Olympics on safety grounds.

North Korea, which conducted a sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3 to global condemnation, said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to destroy the reclusive country.

“We are monitoring the situation on the Korean peninsula and the region very closely.” an International Olympic Committee spokesman said....

The American people are complacent.

The USA is not in a good place with it's politics. If the atrocity that was Flint occurred anywhere else in the world we would be calling it a pattern leading to genocide.

Limiting a woman's ability to give birth and polluting water with poison are all forms of genocide. It doesn't matter if it happens over time, it is still genocide.

It is very troubling to have Americans in that much danger and no one cared for years. The American people assume their air, water and food are all safe because no one is complaining.

In the "W" administration there was a big push to have water reporting made to the people across the country. That initiative is both good and dangerous. How many people seek to understand the report received from their water department? Very few I think. People drink bottled water primarily. I am sure everyone in the USA has a bottle of water in their refrigerator. Where is the report about your bottled water? A government water officer should be as interested in the bottled water coming to the people as the water at the treatment plant.

The American people should be afraid of their own complacency and vulnerability. What occurred in Flint was not resolved until it became a national problem. Ten deaths, a thousand or more children with brain damage and now hundreds of infants that never were born because their mothers were poisoned. 

These are all human rights abuses. The USA is a very powerful country and can crush enemies with little effort; although that has fallen into doubt as of late; and that power can be used it's people. Complacency is a White Supremacist agenda for peaceful genocide. They will be in Flint to demonstrate and when they do they will be joyous at what occurred there.

You can say Flint is a wake-up call, but, the USA needed a wake-up call that killed 10 people, seriously injured children, poisoned it's people and aborted hundreds of babies. A wake-up call? Flint is not a wake-up call. Flint is a failure of government and worse than that it was the government that turned on its people.

The Michigan Emergency Manager law became toxic to it's people. Snyder was supposed to prove capitalism, even at it's worse has benefits. Capitalism killed those 10 people, poisoned an entire city, injured children and aborted babies.

The American people need to change the direction of its politics. The people have to value the quality of life with zero tolerance to any insult to it. Flint, Michigan should never have happened. There were people all along the way that didn't question. That is dangerous. If Americans aren't questioning their own city water and their own drinking water, what else aren't they questioning?

The Emergency Manager law of Michigan needs to be dismantled. It needs to be litigated in civil courts and Snyder who ignored and destroyed a referendum of the people needs to be on trial and jailed for every life affected by his actions in seeking FISCAL EFFICIENCY.

Flint is still facing a long-term choice for quality water. Flint needs to stand above every demand to compromise, because, compromise has several meanings and to compromise and allow harm is simply OPPRESSION and nothing short of it.

Across the USA fail in government to protect the people has occurred in one form or another, including illegal and immoral wars leading to gross destabilize of nations of people. There are international courts where these people can be tried and charged even in absentia. Someday, those held in absentia of human rights abuse in the USA will be tried in open court and sentenced. We all need toward to that goal. Call it silent justice.

The Kent State Truth Tribunals (click here)

The Kent State Truth Tribunals were presented to the United Nations. The truth was captured in our day, but, will live forever. It is a truth that cannot be ignored. Every human rights violation needs to find its organization and record past, present and future occurrences. History will be corrected and embellished with the truth. It will change the course of the USA.

This is a reality no one was counting on.

September 21, 2017
By Christopher Ingraham

The fertility rate in Flint, Mich., (click here) dropped precipitously after the city decided to switch to lead-poisoned Flint River water in 2014, according to a new working paper.

That decline was primarily driven by what the authors call a “culling of the least healthy fetuses” resulting in a “horrifyingly large” increase in fetal deaths and miscarriages. The paper estimates that among the babies conceived from November 2013 through March 2015, “between 198 and 276 more children would have been born had Flint not enacted the switch in water,” write health economists Daniel Grossman of West Virginia University and David Slusky of Kansas University.

In April 2014, Flint decided to draw its public water supply from the Flint River, a temporary measure intended to save costs while the city worked on a permanent pipeline project to Lake Huron. Residents immediately began complaining about the odor and appearance of the water, but well into 2015, the city was still assuring residents that the water was safe to drink....

The tragedy never ends. It goes on and on and on. The State of Michigan needs to be sued.

Fetal death (click here) refers to the spontaneous intrauterine death of a fetus at any time during pregnancy. Fetal deaths later in pregnancy (at 20 weeks of gestation or more, or 28 weeks or more, for example) are also sometimes referred to as stillbirths. In the United States, State laws require the reporting of fetal deaths, and Federal law mandates national collection and publication of fetal death data. Most states report fetal deaths of 20 weeks of gestation or more and/or 350 grams birthweight. However, a few states report fetal deaths for all periods of gestation. Fetal death data is published annually by the National Center for Health Statistics, in reports and as individual-record data files.

Just a word about east coast USA storms. Jose is still a tropical storm with it's central eye south of Massachusetts.

Maria is a class 3 hurricane crossing over Turks and Caicos.

The east coast tides are reaching over 7 feet.

All I heard during the time Congress worked to pass the ACA, "The people don't want it." It was the Republicans demanding the people had rights.

The former RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, spoke about the Republican health care bill. He was extremely reasonable. He made the best sense of the issue than any other Republican I have heard. 

He doesn't believe the American people's health care should be a focus of politics.

He also said that the Democrats would have a real reason to win elections in 2018 should this bill pass. It is completely obvious this is a political issue and not a national health care issue.

‘‘(h) SHORT-TERM ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS COV- 7 ERAGE AND ACCESS DISRUPTION AND PROVIDE SUPPORT 8 FOR STATES.— 

‘‘(2) PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS.— 24 ‘‘(A) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall issue guidance to health 7 LYN17709 S.L.C. 

1 insurance issuers regarding how to submit a notice of intent to participate in the program established under this subsection

‘‘(B) NOTICE OF INTENT TO PARTICI- 5 PATE.— to be eligible for funding for a calendar year under this subsection, a health insurance issuer shall submit to the Administrator a notice of intent to participate not later than March 31 of the previous fiscal year, in such form and manner as specified by the Administrator, and containing— 

Even if the health care insurance issuer notifies the administrator they will participate there is no requirement to do so. It leaves the government wide open to fraud. Cassidy knows it, too, because the following verbiage becomes narrower and narrower about fidelity to the law. Insurers won't participate because of the specificity to participate. The CEOs will worry they will be caught up in bureaucracy that will lead to the dedication of funds to lawyers. They won't do it. Their bonuses are more important and this law will lead to litigation of participation for fraud and potential fines.

‘‘(B) WAIVERS.— 20 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to clause 21 (ii), the Secretary shall waive the requirements of the following Federal statutory provisions with respect to health insurance coverage in a State for a plan year during which the State has an application ap- 13 LYN17709 S.L.C. 

1 proved under this subsection and to the extent that such application includes a request for such a waiver and the informaion described in subparagraph (A)(iv): 

In order to get participation by insurers every state will file for a waiver. They won't get participation because the costs to these people are higher.

Why would a state accept an enormous amount of money to do as it pleaes and then accept pre-conditions into their insurance law?

‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—Only the 50 States and the 23 District of Columbia shall be eligible 

This is racist. NONE OF THE USA TERRITORIES ARE PROVIDED FOR. The ACA provides for all Americans including those in the territories including Gaum. So all the people not displaced from the Caribbean islands will never receive health insurance if they have a pre-condition. There are many people in the territories that have difficult health problems because of IMPROVERISHMENT!

‘‘(B) ALLOTMENTS; AVAILABILITY OF AL- 6 LOTMENTS.—

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a State with an application approved under this subsection with respect to a year

Even IF the state voluntarily participates in the program it is not assured to receive allotments because the state has to be approved by the administrator. There will be lawsuits to the Supreme Court for years.

‘‘(G) 2026 REDUCTION FOR STATES RECEIVING ADVANCED PAYMENTS IN 2020.—For 24 calendar year 2026, the amount determined for a State for such year under subparagraph (C) 31 LYN17709 S.L.C. and adjusted under subparagraphs (D), (E), and (F), shall be reduced by the amount of any increase to the State’s allotment for calendar 4 year 2020 under paragraph (9).

What a payoff up front to provide incentive to participate. The states can request ADVANCED PAYMENTS. That means come 2026 the state may not even receive payments.

There is no obligation anywhere in this bill to provide health insurance period, yet alone Americans with pre-condition. After this bill is passed and any time afterward a state can discontinue Medicaid and end all health care insurance programs. While not participating in this law. After this bill is passed and Medicaid is dissolved there is no obligation for a state to provide coverage to anyone. The state can dissolve the insurance administration for health care within it's administration. The entire bill seeks to provide incentive based in money payments and states need for balancing a budget.

There won't be any payments in 2026 because participating states will have received that money in advanced payments. So, this bill actually ends in 2025.

‘‘(I) LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUAL.—In this 10 paragraph, the term ‘low-income individual’ means an individual— 

‘‘(i) who is a citizen or legal resident;
 ‘‘(ii) whose income (as determined under section 1902(e)(14) (relating to modified adjusted gross income)) is greater than 45 percent but less than 133 percent of the poverty line (as defined in section 19 2110(c)(5), subject to subparagraph (O)(ii)) applicable to a family of the size involved. 

For familes that are receiving health insurance within the 400 percent of the poverty line will NOT BE ELIGIBLE for help under this program.

This bill, if it passes into law, will be in litigation for years and tie up courts worse than exists for the Undocumented immigrants.

THE BILL DISCRIMINATES BASED ON THE DIAGNOSIS.

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘clinical risk category’ means a grouping of low-income individuals based on their clinical characteristics that is established by the Secretary under this subparagraph. 

I need some coffee. This bill is horrible. It sets standards that can permeate laws into the future filed with the redefinition of an American. They currently don't consider the territories as American. The territories, under this bill, has no definition at all as if they don't exist.

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION.

I hate it, but, I am going to have to dedicate some time today to read this mess. It is worse than I thought.

Later.

If Bill Cassidy has't read his own bill, perhaps someone should.

US Senator Cassidy is one of the authors of the controversial bill. He didn't read it?

SEC. 101. ELIMINATION OF LIMITATION ON RECAPTURE OF5 EXCESS ADVANCE PAYMENTS OF PREMIUM6 TAX CREDITS. (CLICK HERE)

This is Title I of the bill. The bill reaches back to 2010 to the monies accumulated over four years to implement the Medicaid Expansion. 

WHAT IS CASSIDY GOING TO DO WITH THE MONEY?

Allow cronies to get their monies back out of the federal government since 2010?

(2) REPEAL.— 19 (A) IN GENERAL.—Subpart C of part IV 20 of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal 21 Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 22 section 36B. 

§36B. Refundable credit for coverage under a qualified health plan (click here)

This entire section is to be eliminated.

(a) In general

In the case of an applicable taxpayer, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this subtitle for any taxable year an amount equal to the premium assistance credit amount of the taxpayer for the taxable year.

SEC. 103. MODIFICATIONS TO SMALL BUSINESS TAX CRED- 14 IT. 

Everyone is listening to lies. No one is stopping to ask, "Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reducing health care costs?" This study found the costs are decreasing. (click here)

June 24, 2016
By Vann R. Newkirk II

...The Affordable Care Act (click here) is likely reducing the country’s medical bills. A new report from the Urban Institute provides strong evidence that the law is directly lowering total health-care spending, even as it expands coverage to unprecedented levels. The report shows that projected national spending on medical services, doctors, drugs, and devices between 2014 and 2019 is now $2.6 trillion less than what was projected when the ACA was passed in 2010, and $2.1 trillion less than pre-ACA estimates. Most of this decrease in spending is likely due to external factors such as the sluggish economic recovery—people generally spend less when they have less, even on health....

Stop listening to the lies by people that want to defeat the ACA for political reasons. 

The Republicans are talking about complaints they receive from some of their constituency. What about the larger percentage that aren't complaining?

Regardless, the bill at hand is simply just bad law. There needs to be studies conducted and DEFINITIVE directions to move when legislating the health care of the American people. The ACA was based upon methodologies already established in Massachusetts that work. It was not pulled out of the sky that someone thunk up. 

Americans always think Medicare is untouchable. Right? How many Americans knew the Sequestration bill of 2011 reduced Medicare (NOT Medicaid) spending?

This sequestration (click here) results from provisions in the Budget Control Act of 2011, which raised the debt ceiling and will reduce net federal spending by $2.1 trillion over ten years. ... This sequestration is projected to reduce Medicare spending by $11 billion in Fiscal Year 2013.

Remember Sequestration and the Republicans bellyaching about the military spending? Remember that? Why weren't they bellyaching about the reduction in Medicare spending?

This is the country's health. It takes much more preparation than a knee-jerk political reaction for politics by Republicans.\

The paragraph below is from the Cassidy bill. It needs to be known how popular the idea of grants are and whom if any will be seeking them.

‘‘(II) UNUSED AMOUNTS TO BE USED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.— Amounts allotted to a State for a calendar year that remain unobligated on April 1 of the following year shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury and shall be used for deficit reduction 

The health care insurance industry is not interested in the Republican bill. As a rule the private sector isn't interested in EXPERIMENTATION when focused on profits. See, if there is no interest by the industry, just put those grant monies into the treasury and leave it there. 

September 20, 2017
By Robert Pear

Washington — The health insurance industry, (click here) after cautiously watching Republican health care efforts for months, came out forcefully on Wednesday against the Senate’s latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, suggesting that its state-by-state block grants could create health care chaos in the short term and a Balkanized, uncertain insurance market....

If there is no or little interest by Wall Street of the experimental policies for people with pre-existing conditons; which has to be far more that 50 percent of the country (very few women have no uterus on birth) then most people will be dumped off their health insurance and won't get it back.

So, there are billions in the federal budget for the Medicaid Expansion. I know that for a fact. What happens to all that money when the Republicans end that program? 

The Republicans are stating that monies left over from the experimental grants are going to pay down the national debt. What happens to the budgeted Medicaid money? More military spending? And with those billions and trillions of dollars floating around and are supposed to be dedicated to the national debt WHAT KEEPS CONGRESS FROM SPENDING IT ALL OVER AGAIN ON MILITARY ADN WARS? 

The Cassidy bill is lacking a great deal of SPECIFICS and reasonable answers to the future of American Health Care.

All the programs in the Republican bill are voluntary. No one is compelled to participate in a major industry in the USA.

There is no compliancy within the bill. 

The ACA also had a lot of money set aside for education of health care workers including Primary/Family Physicians or General Practitioner. What happens to that money? Where are we going to get our new doctors, nurses and assistants?