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Matthew Chapman
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This is why I have no respect for right-wingers who generally oppose Trump but support his judicial picks.

Federalist Society judges are hacks. The legal principles they talk about mean shit to them. They'll rule for Trump on anything, and against Dems in the same kind of case.
If you don't think Thief Justice Gorsuch and Judge Beer Bong won't immediately change their views on executive power when a Democratic president takes office and rule the exact same agencies have zero discretion to interpret the law on anything, I have a bridge to sell you.
I'm with Mayor Pete on this. Our top priority once taking the presidency and Senate should be nullifying the power of these ill-installed RNC operatives with gavels.

I'm done going through the motions of pretending our federal courts still function. This is war.
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Matthew Chapman
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All surprise medical bills should be illegal.

Hospitals should be prohibited from tacking extra bills onto patients paying for a large procedure out of pocket if they didn't disclose that bill as a possibility up front.

Period.
When you go to a hospital for, say, a major surgery, the hospital should tell you *every* doctor who might bill you, their likely price range to within a certain degree of accuracy, and what it costs to treat complications.

Anything not disclosed up front shouldn't be billable.
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This does, however, touch on something I've noticed about GOP ideology. Republicans seem to think it's the govt's job to give people the *pride* of having earned health care, job security, money, education, what have you — even if it means fewer people actually have these things.
There's this weird axiom in Republican thinking, backed by no social science or empirical evidence whatsoever, that the government giving something to people erases people's pride in having it, which means no one will work for anything.

It's in everything they do.
But what's telling is that GOP ideology is silent on whether structural inequality that gives people something for nothing erases pride and work ethic.

The same people who want work rules for Medicaid lose their minds about an estate tax, for instance.
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Hi. Once again, I'd like to remind you that the Guttmacher survey you keep citing to support this claim doesn't say anything of the sort.
The survey that @xan_desanctis keeps claiming proves that "most women" have abortions late in pregnancy for reasons other than fetal or maternal health 1) includes second-trimester abortions, and 2) explicitly drew from a sample of women who said they had *elective* abortions.
This is grossly misleading for two reasons. First of all, she keeps referring to these as "late-term abortions," which is not a term that has any broadly agreed upon medical meaning. In fact, almost none of the women in this survey had their abortions in the third trimester.
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