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Steve Benen: ACA Scores Big On Customer Satisfaction
When the Affordable Care Act’s Republican critics were making all kinds of dire predictions about the inevitable “failures” of “Obamacare,” one of the charges was that American consumers will end up hating the coverage they receive through the reform law. And for those ACA detractors looking for something, anything, to bolster their contempt for the law, I’m afraid I have more bad news: Americans who received coverage through Obamacare tend to be quite pleased with the results.
Obamacare customers nationally also tended to be more satisfied with their plans bought in 2014 than people who primarily have traditional job-based health coverage – the majority of those with insurance – the study by the J.D. Power market research company found. Politico reported back in November: “A majority of Americans give good reviews for insurance they recently acquired through government exchanges within the past year, a new poll shows. With the second round of Obamacare enrollment set to begin on Saturday, 71 percent said their coverage through the exchanges was good or excellent, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.
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Did I tell y'all my eye surgery only cost me $35?
That's what having health insurance means.
So fuck all y'all conservatives!
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Hello? ….Thanks for another great ACA post, NW!
LP!!!!!
Thanks a trabillion Nerdy!!!!
GA Chips! …..somehow my 1rst comment double posted?
BTW: I think we here at TOD would Chip in to get you one of these :D
:lol: I saw it the other day LP and I’m still howling!
It doesn’t get much better than that!
that is so cute
You’re welcome.
Congrats on 1st LP :)
NW - thank you for your relentless commitment to spreading the truth about, and enormous value of #OBAMACARE!!!
:)
You’re welcome.
Hello? ….Thanks for another great ACA post, NW!
:)
“WASHINGTON — When diplomats at the Iran talks in Switzerland pummeled Department of Energy scientists with difficult technical questions — like how to keep Iran’s nuclear plants open but ensure that the country was still a year away from building a bomb — the scientists at times turned to a secret replica of Iran’s nuclear facilities built deep in the forests of Tennessee. There inside a gleaming plant at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation were giant centrifuges — some surrendered more than a decade ago by Libya, others built since — that helped the scientists come up with what they told President Obama were the “best reasonable” estimates of Iran’s real-life ability to race for a weapon under different scenarios. “We know a lot more about Iranian centrifuges than we would otherwise,” said a senior nuclear specialist familiar with the forested site and its covert operations. The classified replica is but one part of an extensive crash program within the nation’s nine atomic laboratories — Oak Ridge, Los Alamos and Livermore among them — to block Iran’s nuclear progress.
As the next round of talks begins on Wednesday in Vienna, the secretive effort remains a technological obsession for thousands of lab employees living the Manhattan Project in reverse. Instead of building a bomb, as their predecessors did in a race to end World War II, they are trying to stop one….Ernest J. Moniz, the nuclear scientist and secretary of energy, who oversees the atomic labs, said in an interview that as the Obama administration sought technical solutions at the talks, diplomats would have been stumbling in the dark “if we didn’t have this capability nurtured over many decades.” Although Mr. Moniz would not discuss the secret plant at Oak Ridge, parts of which date to the American and Israeli program to launch cyberattacks on Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant, he said more generally that the atomic labs give the United States “the capacity to carry through” in one of the most complex arms-control efforts in history….continued”
Is this transparency coming from the same Administration that’s being accused of secretly planning a bill that will wipe out the gains for the middle class that they’ve fought for the last six years to enact? *voice dripping with heavy sarcasm*
My thoughts exactly
Well you no how the media only likes to portray one side of the story….the one that suits the false narrative that they perpetuate.
Excellent snark, theo!
This is phenomenal!!!
This is absolutely amazing. Thanks, LP.
There has to be a furst!
I waited to long. Recount!
I wish President Obama could hold a long session with Dems on TPP much like he did early on in the Obamacare debate. He could make a formal presentation and take questions & hash it all out. EW and SB front and center.
I love your idea. SB is BS?
Bernie Sanders
Sherrod Brown.
Oh, thanks
I suppose so, but 7 D’s already voted it out of committee so the exercise would be in futility….it is going to pass w/ or w/o them. I say just let them keep looking stupid and raise their little money *opposing* the President
I definitely see your point, lp. But I just love watching The President bringing truth.
My favorite to this day is when he went to the GOP House retreat and schooled the whole lot of them!
Me too!!
I don’t think anything will ever top that, Forus!
BTW I saw that the Hawks are going to play the Wild now….on the plus side the Bulls look good w/ Cleveland’s recent bad turn of events w/ Love & J.R. Smith.
‘I saw the Hawks’ :roll:
I guess you are going to have to submit a drug test now that you have already violated your probation in ~1 hour! SMH
You would do well working for one of those Repub governors!!!
Well Florida weather is much more desirable than Indiana’s fluctuations :cool:
So I hear. :D WE won’t meet in either place though.
Bbbbut emo progs are whining that Obama never calls out Republicans, only Democrats.
They have such short and selective memories. :-/
This was the absolute best day. The absolute best!
You mean, BUCKIT??!!
:lol: ….pretty much!
Hehehe, I posted an article that said that lawmakers had access to the info, but so far only 40 had done so.
Good grief. That’s disgusting.
<3 <3 ACA, aka, ObamaCares ;) Nerdy Wonka's Posts. Thank you very much.
LP has the Au :star: :)
:)
More reasons to be proud of Ireland, Chips!
Thank you once again, Nerdy for keeping the Obamacare banner and story aloft. It is so important to so many people!
Steve Benen and Paul Krugman have both been relentless on pointing out the merits of the ACA and calling out the RW GOP and DINO false positions on it. Benen, today and Krugman yesterday .
JER! there you are :-)
Please notice what is going on in Baltimore right now.
Deray Mckesson’s tweets are a good place to begin.
CABLE NEWS ARE GLUED TO BALTIMORE AND PRAYING FOR RIOTS TO BREAK OUT……..SCUM SUCKING PIGS!
Disgusting.
As always.
You got it!
Wonderful
Live streaming from Baltimore
http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
This seems to be going very very well. I am so happy.
The Obama Administration keeps moving on all fronts - PBO, VP Joe, SoS Kerry, always working
Yes, GGail. What a trio!!!!
Shut up and dance.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2015/04/shut-up-and-dance.html
Well look at that. It’s like someone is reading my mind :D
:grin: :grin: Off to find something to eat while you continue your dancing.
Whoooo Hoooooooo :D
and there you go.
HELP! I desperately need a twitter expert! I accidentally retweeted something to the wrong twitter account (I have my personal one, and one for school). It was a finger twitch and now it is on my school account. I can’t find a way to delete it. I went to the help menu and it said go to the profile page, click on ‘more’ and choose delete, but when I do that I don’t see a “delete” option. It says, copy, embed, block , report but no delete. Can someone suggest something else? I’ve been able to delete tweets from my personal account before but it doesn’t seem to be working. I really need to get this off my account. Any help would be gratefully received.
Hi Mary, just click the retweet button under the tweet and it will un-retweet it!
Wow! I will try that!!!
It’ll work, promise! After you click RT again refresh the page and the tweet will be gone.
No expert me, but was this originally your tweet, Maryl? I get the feeling you can only delete a tweet that you originated and in that case when you click on the 3 little dots that’s in same line with reply, retweet etc button, ONE of the options is ‘delete’.
I think that’s the problem - it was a retweet.
Eg I RTed 3Chics yesterday, if I wanted to un-retweet it and remove it from my timeline, I’d click the retweet button again
Goin
g to try it now…
Oh! WHEW!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! i COULD HUG YOU AND KISS YOU!!! MWAH!! MWAH!!! <3 <3 <3 <3!!!!! It worked!!!! (Maybe you could tell????) I can't tell you how relieved I am! This is my second grade class account and I don't think they want to be read Greg Sargent. I will just have to keep my hands away from the keys when I read tweets from now on. Oh my. Can I send you a great big beautiful sherry trifle?? (The only thing I can make decently). Big bunches of flowers??? My first born?? (She really is quite helpful!)??? I was afraid I was going to have to delete the whole account and start over. You are the best and I don't say it often enough, everyone here keeps me sane day after day after day.
“My first born” :lol:
I think I discovered that completely accidentally Mary, so now if I see a tweet I love I spend my time unretweeting it and retweeting it so it’ll keep popping up!
Any way, thrilled the problem solved!
I’ve done this myself and it’s a bit hair-raising. One of the features I hate about twitter is how you have to log out of one account and log into another account. You should be able to just toggle back and forth. Or maybe that would cause even more problems trying to keep the two entirely separate?!!
I try to just use the school account at school and the personal account at home, but I was just taking a break reading through TOD after school and my finger accidentally twitched and retweeted. :P
I know! It’s super easy to forget which account you’re logged into.
Come back from supper and learn something new! :cool: Glad you found the solution, Maryl! Don’t tell her I said so, but Ms Chips-y wispy is a real versatile doll; she constructs beds, desks, stores tree trunks, and often produces helpful answers in moments of need! :D
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smh - ‘Tis a bit frustrating there’s no privacy in TODland.
[BTW, I still hate those flashing eyes. It’s bad enough your bird creeping up on folks but those eyes are a bit much.]
Would you like me to build you an eagle-shaped wardrobe? :cool:
:shock: Now you’re suggesting I hide from your bird in a bird wardrobe? So your spy can feel he has company? Really?!!
:lol:
You are as sick as your gif mentorS!
Lord, I pray for Chips. Please hear my prayer and let my cry come unto thee.
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A woman invited some people over for dinner. At the table she turned to her six-year-old daughter and said, “Would you like to say the blessing?” The girl replied, “I wouldn’t know what to say.” “Just say what you heard Mommy say,” the mother answered. The daughter bowed her head and said, “Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?
A 5 year old boy was sitting down to eat when his mother asked him to pray for his meal. He replied, “Mom we don’t have to. We prayed over this last night.” His mother had prepared leftovers from the day before.
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/children-s-prayers
Read more: http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/children-s-prayers
My lips are sealed, vc! I’ve also noted vast improvement in her baking skills - witness yardarms’s cake! Truly, a woman of many parts!
:cool:
I noticed your compliment to her that day, Maryl, but decided not to cause friction on YA’s b-day by agreeing that she had indeed come a loooooong way.
Wonder what the kitchen looked like…after…
No worries. Don’t forget, she now has DannyO to help with kitchen clean up…..or to blame for the mess.
Of course! He could probably eat the plates and lick off the counters. Or eat the counters. I wish he were in my kitchen right now. It needs a bit of licking.
:) :)
I bet PBO is so tickled! I know I am :-)
He looked exceedingly smiley!
What a day. This is really amazing to see these two brilliant individuals in the Oval Office.
Glorious! :-)
Seriously? You’re some rich, gay dude in Texas and you don’t know Cruz’ positions on LGBT rights?
Why do dumb people get rich?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380680/-Gay-NYC-businessmen-who-hosted-Ted-Cruz-try-to-repair-image-but-it-s-not-selling-in-Texas
That was stunning. What a day! First, Loretta Lynch sworn in by VP and soon a State Dinner.
Caught in bold-faced fundraising lies, Elizabeth Warren has quickly moved the goalpost. After arguing for months that she is trying to stop a “secret” deal that turns out not to be a secret to her at all, Warren is now demanding that every write and rewrite of every section - and from what I’m gathering every email and text message - must be done in the public theater so she can better use the mob mentality of the ideologues.
Sen. Warren, please go FY.
Co-sign.
say it again Vicki.
the National Guard…because that is what they do
Citing the threat of more unrest like that seen Saturday night, Superintendent George Arlotto today canceled all school system field trips and activities scheduled to be held at venues in Baltimore City through Sunday, May 3.
http://www.aacpsnews.org/pressr/?p=2214
Is this the same short-sighted dope who canceled the buses that would have taken kids home instead of into the street?
And short-sighted is giving the benefit of the doubt to whoever is responsible for making it easier for children to not go home and instead of following their normal routine, left in the streets?
If I am a parent of one of the misbehaving kids I’d like to know why my child couldn’t catch his/her usual ride home to safety!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please tell me who canceled the buses that would have gotten the kids home safely??????????????????
Actually, this is not a bad idea. Would have been better if it had happened earlier in the Ferguson situation. The situation is not pretty, and once again a part of the problem appears to be people who are taking advantage of the legitimate protests to further their own agendas. And in some cases, that agenda is to go after police.
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/27/history-6/