President Barack Obama greets Linda and Russ Dickson, a Texas couple who wrote a letter to the President about the Affordable Care Act, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 10, 2014. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama autographs a sign while greeting neighbors and supporters before an event in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., April 10, 2012. Photo by Pete Souza
I'm sure the people who claimed Obamacare would destroy business will now apologize for being so wrong. https://t.co/hZEvNIkAWM
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(@igorvolsky) April 05, 2016GOP: "Obama's job-killing policies."
April Fools: We've gained 10 million private sector jobs since he took office. https://t.co/kBcak5atCt
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 01, 2016****
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No truth at all to the story that job growth has been all part time. It's all full-time. https://t.co/3qAKlOVnv2
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Steve Liesman (@steveliesman) April 01, 2016Economy adds 215,000 jobs in March, labor force participation rises. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 01, 2016****
A NEW RECORD: The longest string of private-sector jobs growth in US history. 73 months. So far.
(Previous top: 51 months from 1996-2000.)
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) April 01, 2016US employers add 215,000 jobs in March, driven by large gains in construction, retail and health care: apne.ws/1RQZleX
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The Associated Press (@AP) April 01, 2016****
Government jobs as % of total U.S. jobs, under…
Reagan: 16.6%
Clinton: 15.7%
W Bush: 16.9%
Obama: 15.4%
Source: BLS
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 01, 2016Jobs gained by sector since last year
Healthcare: +503k jobs
Retail: +378k
Food services/drinking places: +374k
Construction: +301k
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 01, 2016****
Wow. The health care sector added 503,000 jobs in the past 12 months per today's estimates — a new record.
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 01, 2016
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Tens of thousands of Minnesotans gained health coverage between 2013 and 2015, pushing the state’s uninsured rate to an all-time low as federal health reform took hold across the state. A biannual survey released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Minnesota showed that 213,000 more residents had health insurance last year compared to 2013. The share of Minnesotans lacking coverage plummeted from 8.2 percent to 4.3 percent, with progress in virtually all demographic groups.
State officials hailed the role of MNsure, despite vexing technical problems for the online marketplace, for connecting more Minnesotans with coverage they previously lacked or couldn’t afford. Expanded eligibility for the state’s Medicaid program helped as well, along with new rules allowing young adults to remain on their parents’ health plans. The results were “an unprecedented advance for the health and security of Minnesota families — particularly those who had previously been lost in the gaps of our system,” said Dr. Ed Ehlinger, state health commissioner.
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Ryan joined the Navy when he was 20 years old, and he was deployed to Iraq for the first time a few years later. He served on a team that disarmed roadside bombs and IEDs, and when those bombs exploded, they would rush to the scene to clear any remaining explosives while sorting through unimaginable wreckage and carnage. In recognition of his incredible valour, Ryan was awarded a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation Medal. But when Ryan returned home to his wife and two young daughters after his second deployment, the war stayed with him. He had constant splitting headaches, nightmares and panic attacks, and his ears just wouldn’t stop ringing. He would pace his home at night, worried that his family was in danger. One evening, he finally hit rock bottom. After laying awake in bed crying, he got up, headed to the bathroom, and prepared to take his own life. Through my work with service members and veterans as part of Joining Forces – the initiative Dr Jill Biden and I launched to rally Americans to honour and support our veterans and military families – I’ve seen that Ryan’s experience isn’t unique.
But the veterans and service members who do struggle are not alone – not by a long shot. In fact, roughly one in five adults – more than 40 million Americans – suffer from a diagnosable mental health condition like depression or anxiety. These conditions affect people of every age and every background: our kids and grandparents, our friends and neighbours. That’s why the Affordable Care Act expanded mental health and substance use disorder benefits and parity protections for more than 60 million Americans and required new plans to cover depression screenings for adults and behavioral assessments for kids. That’s also why my husband put more mental health counsellors in place for veterans and signed a bill to help prevent veteran suicide.
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.@FLOTUS: Let's change the conversation around mental health huff.to/1ooMWEz #YoungMindsMatter https://t.co/RRQeFIh0Yp
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Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) February 17, 2016In @HuffPostUK today, The Duchess explains why she is getting behind #YoungMindsMatter: bit.ly/1QHOn87 https://t.co/hppqCKG86G
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Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 17, 2016****
The wounds of war are visible and invisible. The First Lady on the work of @JoiningForces: huff.to/1ooMWEz https://t.co/0fibY7jbM1
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) February 17, 2016Today, @FLOTUS joins the Duchess of Cambridge to change the conversation around mental health → huff.to/1ooMWEz #YoungMindsMatter
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Joanna Rosholm (@Rosholm44) February 17, 2016In other words, the Beltway media is so shocked, awed, and dismayed by the success of the Obama coalition that they're pretending it died.
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Continue reading ‘Propane Jane Brings The Fire And The Truth’
Time's running out to #GetCovered before the January 31 deadline. Check out your options: ofa.bo/g9gW https://t.co/81GzIQY83h
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 25, 2016****
When Alexander Star was 15 years old, he thought he was the picture of health, especially after he made the varsity basketball team. But when he told one of his teachers he needed to go to the bathroom every 10 minutes, she rightly told him he should be checked for diabetes. Frequent urination is a classic warning sign. When the doctors tested Star’s blood glucose level, it was 1,300 mg/dL – dangerously high considering that even in people with diabetes the goal is to keep blood glucose levels between about 100 and 150 mg/dL. “The doctors wondered why I wasn’t in a coma,” says Star, who is now a 29-year-old recording artist/songwriter living in Florida. “That was the beginning of my journey as a type 1 diabetic.”
He was covered under his father’s insurance plan until he turned 26 – when he suddenly found himself without health insurance he could afford. “The COBRA plan I was on shot up from $120 a month to $512 a month for the exact same plan, a cost that was not do-able for me,” Star says. Fortunately, the Obamacare marketplace opened up soon after and he enrolled in a new plan. “If it wasn’t for Obamacare, I don’t know how I’d be capable of taking care of myself,” Star says. “Even if I had a lot of money, before Obamacare they could still decline me because I have a pre-existing condition.” Star signed up for a plan with better coverage and more personal attention than he received from his previous plan. His premiums are around $150 a month and he doesn’t pay anything extra for his insulin pump or continuous blood glucose monitor – diabetes management options his previous provider never even told him about.
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People with diabetes are getting better care thanks to the #ACA. #GetCovered by 1/31! buff.ly/1JiiRAr https://t.co/acOdxmt6g8
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Amy Lynn Smith (@alswrite) January 26, 2016Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. The private sector hasn’t lost jobs since: onforb.es/1aP6xY4 https://t.co/RqfLT5jaVg
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) January 08, 2016Obama said gun owners would support his new restrictions. He was right. wapo.st/1n82Anx
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 08, 2016****
I wish I could vote for Barack Obama in November. His leadership on gun violence is absolutely extraordinary. #GunsInAmerica @AC360
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Chris Barca (@CBarcaQC) January 08, 2016Tonight @POTUS rebutted an oft-cited pro-gun argument. #GunsInAmerica https://t.co/xcoPFw8zsX
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Jennifer Mascia (@JenniferMascia) January 08, 2016****
The simple, common sense ideas that Pres. Obama is forced to explain as if they are complicated is embarrassing #GunsInAmerica
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samuel roukin (@samuelroukin) January 08, 2016****
My son Alex's right to life,liberty&happiness was stolen in #Aurora Theater. We stand w/@POTUS @AC360 #GunsInAmerica https://t.co/TBtc8ED11k
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Caren Teves (@carenteves) January 08, 2016This is basically the perfect Trump lie:
✓ sense of grievance
✓ totally false
✓ hairspray
politicalwire.com/2016/01/01/tru… https://t.co/fMPLWIlN3J
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David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) January 04, 2016****
Every fatal, police-involved shooting that occurred last year wapo.st/1ZKium8 https://t.co/k0wt4KLgxa
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 04, 2016That time when cops shrugged off a dude open carrying his way to a mass shooting. cc: Texas motherjones.com/politics/2015/… https://t.co/o0pCQvu131
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Mark Follman (@markfollman) January 01, 2016****
Wait... https://t.co/3Rip8AuBqa
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D-Money McSmoothie (@KashannKilson) January 03, 2016****
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a new paper shows one place where the law has been a clear success: narrowing the race gap in health insurance. So why aren’t more Democrats shouting that from the rooftops. In 2013, the year before most of the law’s provisions for subsidized insurance took effect, non-elderly blacks were 47 percent more likely than whites to be uninsured.
For American Indians, that figure was 93 percent; for Hispanics, 120 percent. In 2014, not only did the share of whites without insurance fall; the share of blacks and Asian Americans fell by more. The difference between whites and Hispanics shrank, from 14 percentage points to 11.8 percentage points. What’s odd about the race gap isn’t its persistence, but that its narrowing isn’t more celebrated as one of the law’s accomplishments. Narrowing the race gap in health insurance counts unequivocally as progress.
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Obamacare is closing insurance's race gap. Where's the celebration? bv.ms/1Oe5vHa https://t.co/uHDI0tjykY
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Bloomberg View (@BV) December 19, 2015
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