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Wednesday December 04, 2013 · 3:05 PM PST

2013/12/04 · 15:05

I never see this discussed on the news, the pundit shows, or anywhere else.

Want to know the dirty little secret about why the wealthy hate Obamacare?

3.8%

We hear the right-wing screaming all the time about Obamacare, of course, and how it's a travesty that will destroy freedom, take our guns and womenfolk, and will destroy Christmas! We have op-eds from people like Edie Stansby telling us of one horror after another. Even our well-to-do friends on Facebook bemoan their premium increases...while the middle class right wingers keep saying that they'll be paying the tab for the poor and the "takers," etc. It's all tied together, of course; those middle class folks are being fed that by the puppet masters.

Make no mistake about it, the wealthy hate Obamacare. And it's got nothing to do with premiums.

it's got to do with a single number: 3.8%

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Monday October 21, 2013 · 8:05 PM PDT

2013/10/21 · 20:05

Okay, I keep seeing people posting on Facebook and message boards and comments' sections of news stories, claiming that that they got a letter from their insurance company saying they're getting hosed with a huge premium hike.

Some of this might be conservatives spouting without having any idea what they're talking about, sure. Or even outright lying - we've seen that a thousand times. And some, while real, might be apples-to-oranges comparisons of what was acceptable insurance before the new standards compared to what they have to purchase now. Before htey had junk, probably without even knowing it, or something like that.

Some of it, though, might be something more nefarious.

Please follow me over the squiggly - this is important, I think.

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Thursday June 13, 2013 · 12:52 PM PDT

2013/06/13 · 12:52

To be perfectly honest, for the most part, I feel a general blase about the NSA "revelations." I know that as a good liberal, I'm supposed to be up in arms about this intrusive Big Brother super-scandal, but for some reason, my hair simply won't ignite.

No matter how hard I try, no matter how many times I start re-reading "1984," there's no smoke, let alone open flame.

I do, however, find myself getting very agitated over the pie fights erupting regarding this matter. They are the more dangerous aspect going forward, I believe.

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Tuesday April 16, 2013 · 10:24 AM PDT

2013/04/16 · 10:24

I put this up on my Facebook page, so I thought I'd share it here. I know this area of Boston quite well - I'm there 50 times a year. You can't help but feel like you're a part of something bigger when you're in and about Commonwealth Ave, Boylston Street, Copley...the place is just so alive and beautiful and...international.

Yesterday hit home for me. I thought about it a lot, and thought, too, that 33 people were killed in a bomb blast in Iraq yesterday. These poor people have been going through this kind of trauma day after day for ten straight years now. Unfathomable.

So I tried to make some sense of it, and wanted to share...

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Tuesday November 13, 2012 · 12:31 PM PST

2012/11/13 · 12:31

We've seen all the stories about how the GOP must change, or what they must or must not say, and all the rest, but the truth is, the Republican Party has a bigger problem on its hands than a damaged brand, and I doubt they can fix it.

And that problem is...the phenomenon of numbing.

(I love me some Marshal McLuhan, what can I say?)

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 4:58 AM PST

2012/11/06 · 04:58

(for what it's worth)

I believe that I've swung at least a dozen people this election cycle, at least from what they've told me. More importantly, there are at least two people who seem to have awakened from the fevered dreams of talk radio in the last few months.

In any case, here's my closing argument, posted on my Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/...

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 6:09 PM PDT

2012/11/01 · 18:09

Just clicking through and saw Nate putting Obama at 80.8 now with 303.2 EV's.

Florida is down to 55.2 for Romney (bet it goes lower as some of the stronger, older polls drop off) and Virginia is up to 65.9% for Obama, with Colorado up to 64.5 and Ohio, you guessed it, up to 80+%.

Not much to complain about there...

Please Read - Warren v. Brown

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Monday September 24, 2012 · 2:09 PM PDT

2012/09/24 · 14:09

Here comes the kitchen sink. Republicans are freaking out. They know they've lost the White House again, so all that money will come pouring down on close Senate/House races...

Elizabeth Warren is suddenly getting hit with all kinds of echo-chamber idiocy.

Native American?
Asbestos?

And now the coup de grace: SHE PRACTICED LAW WITHOUT A MASS LICENSE!!!!!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!!! OOooooooo, game, set, match!

It's baloney. There is no evidence to support such a thing.

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Saturday June 30, 2012 · 5:46 PM PDT

2012/06/30 · 17:46

Okay, I am not kidding here - I just got a letter from the Chamber of Commerce (my local one, not the one that's always in the news), from whom I purchase my Tufts health insurance, as a small business.

Here's a new acronym to add to our vernacular as the election approaches: MLR - Medical Loss Rebate. I just got a CREDIT toward my insurance for $1,334, because Tufts apparently overcharged last year.

So much for those Eeeeevil tax increases, I guess. $1,334 back in my pocket - think I'll donate it to Elizabeth Warren, mwahahahahaha!

So who says Obamacare won't lower the price?

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Monday June 25, 2012 · 6:04 AM PDT

2012/06/25 · 06:04

Many of you have heard about the fall of 38 Studios, a company with which I was quite involved for the last few years, working as a consultant (COW - Creator of Worlds...Moo).

Well, with the sudden collapse of that studio, several hundred people got a quick instruction manual on the value of Romneycare.

Let me explain...

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Sunday May 06, 2012 · 7:53 AM PDT

2012/05/06 · 07:53

Anyone who doubts that President Obama has a solid lead, should simply watch This Week this morning.

The media desperately wants a close election, don't you think?

Well, if you had any doubts about either of the above, find a clip of this show.

I need to scream - figure I'll do it here...

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Friday February 24, 2012 · 7:46 AM PST

2012/02/24 · 07:46

I've got some doc friends who really hate the electronic file provisions in PPACA, and their complaints range from a simple aversion to something so new, to the prohibitive costs of this software, to the inefficiency they see in the inputting of patient information.

Some of this is unavoidable, of course, given the laws for privacy and the many different styles that doctors have in their notations, and also given a very human aversion to change, particularly when that change is being forced upon you.

There is a way to make this better, though.

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