Obamacare will double my monthly premium (according to Kaiser)

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Monday September 30, 2013 · 1:36 PM PDT

2013/09/30 · 13:36

My wife and I just got our updates from Kaiser telling us what our 2014 rates will be. Her monthly has been $168 this year, mine $150. We have a high deductible. We are generally healthy people who don't go to the doctor often. I barely ever go. The insurance is in case of a major catastrophe.

Well, now, because of Obamacare, my wife's rate is gong to $302 per month and mine is jumping to $284.

I am canceling insurance for us and I am not paying any fucking penalty. What the hell kind of reform is this?

Oh, ok, if we qualify, we can get some government assistance. Great. So now I have to jump through another hoop to just chisel some of this off. And we don't qualify, anyway, so what's the point?

I never felt too good about how this was passed and what it entailed, but I figured if it saved Americans money, I could go along with it.

I don't know what to think now. This appears, in my experience, to not be a reform for the people.

What am I missing?

I realize I will probably get screamed at for posting this, but I can't imagine I am the only Californian who just received a rate increase from Kaiser based on these new laws.

UPDATE: Updated the title per some requests. I appreciate all the helpful comments. I am now on baby duty but will go through these later for more information. I can't keep up with all the comments right now.

I really do appreciate the helpful comments. Peace all. Peace out.

GOP nominates Kerry to State; Obama agrees

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Friday December 21, 2012 · 9:11 AM PST

2012/12/21 · 09:11

After a tough political fight, the GOP has successfully brought the nomination of Senator John Kerry to President Obama's consideration.

And it looks like he will get the post. Although Kerry was not the President's first choice, he was the first choice of the GOP. The GOP pushed hard for Kerry, and despite being the minority in the Senate, and losing the Presidential election, they have shown a resolve Democrats just couldn't ignore.

Next up, Hagel at DoD.

What's your special interest, Joe?

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Wednesday December 12, 2012 · 12:36 PM PST

2012/12/12 · 12:36

In 2011-2012 the Obama Administration came into California with a scorched earth policy towards medical cannabis dispensaries. An out of control AG, Melinda Haag, with all the zealotry of an Inquisition priest, shut down dozens of legitimate dispensaries, threatened landlords and property owners and utterly disrespected the voter approved laws of the State of California.

Now, I am not going to get too into what has been well discussed on the marijuana issue, but the idea that marijuana is some crazy dangerous drug has been well discredited. We know we spend an unjustified amount of resources on imprisoning marijuana "offenders", we know the law is used in urban areas to harass minority youth. We know the law is unequally policed.

We also know that marijuana makes up roughly 65% of illicit drug use in this country and with pharmaceuticals abuse making up the next 15%, it is clear that without marijuana's illegality, there would be no war on drugs. There would be a health issue for those remaining 20%.

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Thursday May 10, 2012 · 6:48 AM PDT

2012/05/10 · 06:48

It is sad to watch everyone jump for joy over the Presiden't's eventual realization that gay couples should have the same rights as everyone else.

He didn't take this stance until now. Meanwhile the dark lord, the arch criminal Dick Cheney did 4 years ago.

Politics in this country is nothing more than team fandom.

Jump for joy, but don't make this into something it is not. The President is a political opportunist and you have been played. Yeah yeah yeah he's got my vote.

But don't lie to yourself. Obama is four years behind Cheney on this issue. Explain that.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 11:10 AM PST

2010/01/21 · 11:10

I don't have time to flesh this out, hopefully someone with more time will, but Sam Stein has an article over at the HuffPo that states 10 defense contractors spent $27 million on lobbying for the surge in Afghanistan last year.

The ten largest defense contractors in the nation spent more than $27 million lobbying the federal government in the last quarter of 2009, according to a review of recently-filed lobbying records.

The companies are Boeing, United Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell International, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, L3, Textron and Goodrich.

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Thursday October 22, 2009 · 8:58 PM PDT

2009/10/22 · 20:58

Honestly, if you really want to sum up the Bush years, you could do it with Bernie Kerik. Kerik was police commissioner of New York City on the day of 911 and therefore a National Hero automatically.

No other thought process is necessary. That's a tough looking guy, self made man. I like him. Send him to Iraq to do something, some thing positive. Give him a title. Rudi likes him, and Rudi was there too.

So Kerik gets a title in Iraq. They call him the "Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq" and he goes over there.

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Monday June 29, 2009 · 3:12 PM PDT

2009/06/29 · 15:12

How can Senators look America in the eye knowing that 76% of Americans want a working public option and tell them it is too difficult to accomplish? It's the money.

Since 1990 the health industry has spent a total of $837,545,190 on politicians.

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Friday May 15, 2009 · 2:59 PM PDT

2009/05/15 · 14:59

The MSM is now talking about Dick Cheney using torture to establish fabricated links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq in order to justify a war against Iraq to the American people. Right before Hardball started today, David Shuster primed the subject:

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Monday April 27, 2009 · 2:57 PM PDT

2009/04/27 · 14:57

On Hardball just now Matthews brings up the use of torture to produce the evidence to validate the invasion of Iraq. For some reason he didn't expand on it too much, so it is important to note that it was the drought of evidence linking Saddam to 911 that brought the push to legitimize torture.

The Iraq War relied on WMD (yellow cake from Africa) and Saddam's link to terrorism. Both of these items made their way to the 2003 State of the Union Address.

But we really caught me was Buchanan's response because he brought up something that I haven't really seen addressed yet.

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Sunday March 08, 2009 · 12:59 PM PDT

2009/03/08 · 12:59

The media is often pushing the question of whether President Obama is living up to his campaign promises. I have seen very little narrative from the media, outside of Rachel's show, on what Obama has actually accomplished. The list is quite long and it matches up nicely with his campaign pledges.

It is not perfect, but is that the standard we are holding Obama to? Is this the standard the media talking heads are holding him to? Is the model the most base, most simplistic understanding of the world and then applying an absurd narrative on top of it?

Rather than honestly report what Obama has done, the media's constant focus is on what he has not done, or, supposedly not done. And the standards applied to the left are certainly not applied to the right. Neither are the mannerisms.

This is what John King exhibited to me this morning. I missed the 8 o'clock shows because of this silly daylight savings time, so I caught a bit of King's show, and have determined he is the moon that orbits planet Blitzer.

Below are two back to back interviews King had this morning; one with Peter Orszag, the current Director of the OMB, and the other with Representative Eric Cantor, the vapid Minority Whip.

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Sanchez lassos Pence on GOP spending under Bush, Pence responds with lies

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 1:56 PM PST

2009/03/03 · 13:56

Rick Sanchez asks Mike Pence the big question, basically, where do you guys get off even mentioning government spending; and Pence has to BS his way out of it, basically the only way out...

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Sunday March 01, 2009 · 12:48 PM PST

2009/03/01 · 12:48

Serbian Intel Chief was CIA Ally

The LA Times has an interesting story out this morning on former Serbian intelligence chief, Jovica Stanisic.

Stanisic is facing trial at the Hague for his alleged involvement in ethnic cleansing...

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