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Week When Wingnuts Were Whacked
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The best part about this week’s asswhooping of rwnjs?
They are the ones who brought these cases before the supremes.
Talk about lighting your sorry lil asses on fire.
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That’s all folks.
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Thanks, Amk
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Jeffrey Sparshott: Economists React to the May Jobs Report: ‘Unambiguously Positive’
U.S. employers added 280,000 jobs in May, the unemployment rate rose to 5.5% from April’s 5.4% as more Americans joined the workforce, and wages firmed. With the labor market showing signs of strength, all eyes are now on the Federal Reserve, which has pinned interest rates near zero since December 2008. Here’s what economists had to say. “Any doubts about lingering economic weakness in the second quarter, at least as it relates to the labor market, were certainly erased with the release of the May employment report….In addition to the stronger-than-expected headline figure, revisions to prior months were positive 32,000 but perhaps most importantly, the average hourly earnings number increased by 0.3%. As a result, the year-over-year change in earnings is now 2.3%, the highest level since it briefly ticked there in August 2013.”–Dan Greenhaus, chief strategist at BTIG
“Even if one holds a long-term capped growth/secular stagnation view as we do, there can be and indeed are some unambiguously positive economic data in the meantime. Today’s payroll release was certainly one of them.” –Guy LeBas, managing director for fixed income strategy at Janney Montgomery Scott “This 280,000 rise in May payroll jobs, combined with a 32,000 upward revisions to job growth in March and April, reinforces our view that the decline in real GDP in the first quarter was an aberration due mostly to temporary factors and statistical problems acknowledged by the [Bureau of Economic Analysis]….I expect real GDP growth to rebound to at least 3.0% per annum in the middle two quarters of this year on strength in consumer spending, residential and nonresidential (including public) construction and less drag from private energy investment and net exports.” –Stu Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services “We see this as a very strong report, and it provides strong affirmation that underlying strength in the economy is building as the recovery moves back on track
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Total jobs created during this recovery:
Full-time: 8,657,000
Part-time: 47,000
(Time to retire the "they're all part-time" talking point.)
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 05, 2025Economists react to the May jobs report: 'Unambiguously positive' on.wsj.com/1ARPeRU via @WSJecon
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David Wessel (@davidmwessel) June 05, 2025****
Hospital giant HCA says OCare grew EBITDA profits by $500 million. Health employment up 100,000 ppl. GOP still says Ocare is terrible. Sigh.
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Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 05, 2025It's looking increasingly likely that the economy will be in a sweet spot, humming along near full employment on November 8, 2016.
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 05, 2025****
Household survey shows employment growth of 272k, which is darn similar to the 280k from payrolls. Whichever way you look at it, good news.
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 05, 2025IT'S A RECORD: The US economy has recorded 63 straight months of private sector jobs growth. Previous record was 51 months from 1996-2000.
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 05, 2025
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West Wing Reports: Guess How Much Healthcare Could Cost Now?
A report issued Wednesday says that the most recent official projections indicate that the U.S. will spend $2.5 TRILLION LESS on health care from 2014 until 2019 than had been originally estimated at the time the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010. That represents a nearly 11 percent decrease in projected spending, according to the report issued by the Urban Institute, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Russ Britt: Obamacare Making Insurers More Responsive, Efficient: Study
A provision in Obamacare governing spending guidelines for health insurers essentially has forced carriers to become more efficient and responsive, a study released Wednesday finds. The joint study from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says minimum requirements in the Affordable Care Act that mandate how much insurers must spend on medical care resulted in savings of
$5 billion for consumers in 2011 and 2012, the first two full years after Obamacare was enacted in March 2010. For 2011 policies, insurers paid $1.1 billion in rebates. By 2012, insurers had adjusted premiums to comply with the new guidelines, though they still ended up paying more than $500 million in rebates. But that adjustment in premiums saved consumers an estimated $3.4 billion, Clemans-Cope says.
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Study by @RWJF @urbaninstitute finds Obamacare is making insurers more responsive, efficient | from @russbrittmktw buff.ly/1e3HVfG
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Steve Anderson (@EyeOnInsurance) May 14, 2025Big change in projected healthcare costs. Trillions. westwingreports.com/guess-how-much…
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West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) April 08, 2025
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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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Laffn@u (@KimShoeCrzy) March 31, 2025ACA scores big on customer satisfaction: on.msnbc.com/1HAfPUi (Getty) http://t.co/1yGVMP2Skb
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