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Lankford: "Didn't read it."
Hoeven: "Didn't read it."
Braun: "Didn't read it."
Alexander: "Didn't read it."
Portman: "Didn't read it."
Cotton: "No comment."
Blunt: "Ask me later."
Rubio: "(nonanswer)"
Risch: "Nothing there"
Rounds: "(nonanswer)"
Ernst: "Didn't read it."
REMINDER: The entire complaint is only 8 pages long with wide margins.
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Aw, screw it: here’s one more, to #ExpandTheHouse:
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Charles Gaba
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⚠️⚠️⚠️ ADVANCE WARNING: Long wonky MLR rebate thread ahead! All 50 states + DC!
One of the provisions of the #ACA is the “Medical Loss Ratio” provision, which requires health insurance carriers to spend a minimum of 80% or 85% of their premium revenue on actual healthcare/medical claims. It’s 80% for the Individual & Sm. Group markets, 85% for Lg. Group. 1/
Simple version: If an insurance carrier spends *less* than 80% (85%) on medical claims, weighted over a 3-year average, they have to *pay back* the excess to the policyholders.

So, if they bring in $100M in premiums & only pay out $75M in claims, they have to rebate $5M. 2/
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Charles Gaba
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📣 EXCLUSIVE: MICHIGAN: 2018 #ACA MLR Rebate Payments (& potential 2019 rebates as well!):

acasignups.net/19/09/04/exclu…
I recently posted an explainer re. how the #ACA’s MLR provision works. Short version: Insurers have to spend at least 80-85% of premium revenue on actual medical expenses, leaving a 15-20% gross margin for operational costs/overhead and, yes, net profit.

acasignups.net/19/08/29/impor…
Over the past 7 years, the ACA has made carriers pay back nearly $4 billion in excessive premiums to policyholders, with around $1.3 billion going to individual market enrollees & the other $2.7 billion going towards the group (employer) market. 3/
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Charles Gaba
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Un fucking believable. “The candidate who WASN’T a Hitler-wannabe deserved no votes from any state she didn’t happen to visit.”

When the choice is Hitler vs. NotHitler, YOU FUCKING VOTE FOR NOTHITLER, PERIOD.
Would it have been WISE for her to visit Wisconsin a couple of times? Sure. Would it have guaranteed her winning the state? No...after all, she outperformed Russ Feingold, for God's sake. And she still would've narrowly lost MI & PA, so I've never understood this argument.
But this "if the candidate doesn't knock on my door in person, I'm not voting for them" stuff is bullshit. Christ, even in Wyoming, where she lost 4:1, 56,000 people still voted for her, and I guarantee they weren't expecting her to hold a rally in Cheyenne.
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Land of the Free
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Senate votes to block Trump national emergency over border wall. WE HAVE 11 GOP TRAITORS IN SENATE. cnbc.com/2019/09/25/sen…
Susan Collins of Maine
Mitt Romney of Utah
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rand Paul of Kentucky
Mike Lee of Utah
Jerry Moran of Kansas
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Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Roy Blunt of Missouri
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Rubio refused to vote
It’s not a veto-proof majority though and Trump WILL veto so he can build the wall
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Adik-adik sekarang dah hebat, tak dapat masuk UPU, tak dapat ambil kos yang nak, terus tag nama Maszlee, Teo dengan Saddiq kat Twitter suruh ambil tindakan.

Hehe engkau siapa, dik?
Berak tu nak suruh menteri lap pakai tisu jugak ke?
Zaman orang ingat budak-budak Melayu bodoh, malas dan tak layak masuk universiti dah berlalu. Sekarang ramai pelajar Melayu berdiri sama tinggi, duduk sama rendah dengan pelajar lain.
Did you say you didn’t get your first choice?
Maybe you’re not good enough, then.
#Blunt
Sis malas nak cakap, tapi pelajar-pelajar Melayu dah kerap dibrainwash yang mereka dapat ambil kos yang mereka nak, dapat masuk U sebab mereka Melayu.
Jadi dalam psike mereka ‘kalau aku bukan Melayu’ mesti aku tak dapat.
WRONG! Some of you are good, if not better than others.
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Cyrus Toulabi
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#THREAD: WHAT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER DOES...AND DOESN'T DO.

Trump begrudgingly "caved" due to the backlash.

But, as it was all about holding the children hostage to get his demands...the order still pressures Congress to act quickly to avert the problems it delays and creates.
1. KEEPS FAMILIES TOGETHER...WITH BIG CAVEATS.

While the DOJ will continue to prosecute ALL adults crossing the border illegally, it keeps families together but only "where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources."

Leaves flexibility.
2. KEEPS FAMILIES W/ DHS.

Parents can stay with their children in detention with DHS, but the catch is only to the "extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations."

BIG CAVEAT...THE FLORES AGREEMENT PREVENTS CHILDREN FROM BEING DETAINED AFTER 20 DAYS.
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Adam Townsend
@adamscrabble
1/x @NRA and stuff.... Piece of shit advocacy group, BUT, the blasts against them are fukin idiotic, peoplealways grab for the easy moral authority, #Rubio shud resign cos he has no intellectual ability to take their miney and still possess any civic virtu
2/x @nra but now, having said that, can we dig deeper beyond the NRA, the american left has NO Democratic Party opposition to war. the fake Wakanda domiciled liberals and progressives have been manipulated to allies of the military-industrial-complex
3/x #nra Democrats who wore kente cloth and/or boycotted the State of the Union cannot find their voices to object to America’s bombing of Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Somalia. hmmm
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Brian Cates
@drawandstrike
Read point 2.
The morons never read it. They never read the ACTUAL CABLE.
Don't ask me why.
They just don't.

wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…
These are the facts:

1) The uranium belonged to Russia. We caught people who had smuggled it out of Russia.
2) After we caught the smugglers, the highly enriched uranium (HEU) they attempted to smuggle & sell was held at a US. Dept. of Energy site.
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