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Mosaic's JournalWhat's At Stake When The Supreme Court Rules on Obamacare
Source: US News
The fate of the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare reform law enacted in 2010, will be unveiled Thursday after months of anticipation. But before the nine Supreme Court justices announce their decision, which may flip the law on its head, a clear understanding of the complex law is in order.
Obamacare, as it's been branded, aims to expand health coverage to more Americans, reduce the amount they pay for insurance, and trim the $2.6 trillion paid annually in the United States for healthcare.
The law's central and most controversial provision is the individual mandate, requiring nearly all Americans to have health insurance and issuing fines to those who do not. To help achieve this, the law expands access to government healthcare programs for children, the poor, and the elderly. The bill makes denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions illegal and creates a temporary plan for those people until 2014.
Read more: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/28/whats-at-stake-when-the-supreme-court-rules-on-obamacare
NPR is very establishment
They have a definitely right wing, corporate, nationalistic view of the world. They focus much of their "news" on the Middle East, which makes me feel they are an arm of AIPAC perhaps. We should have the right to know this.
Little Britain: why the UK is no longer a superpower
Economic crisis apart, the United Kingdom is still a major player on the world stage, right? Wrong
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It is not just a question of adopting a different system of taxation or limiting the ability of the commercial banks to create credit – however commendable those individual ideas may be in themselves. One hundred years of pretending to be a "big beast" have to end now. There has to be an acceptance, like that in Germany, France and Japan in 1945, that the country has hit rock bottom and needs to change. In football, this happens all the time: a new manager goes to a struggling club and proceeds to clear out the dead wood. This has never happened to the UK, and even now the country does not seem ready for the sort of cathartic moment that the defeated Axis powers had at the end of the second world war. Even now there is a belief that all will be well, that something will turn up, that Britain will muddle through. The temptation, as ever, will be to look at the events of the past decade as another occasion where disaster was averted by a whisker. The reality is different: this is the moment when the UK has to face the truth about its diminished status in the world.
• Extracted from Going South: Why Britain Will Have A Third World Economy By 2014
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/08/why-uk-no-longer-superpower?CMP=twt_gu
We already have a candidate
Meet George Martinez, Occupy’s Rapping Brooklynite Congressional Candidate
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/george-martinez-occupy-wall-street-rapping-candidate-for-congress.html
But this over rated bozo thinks he's a leader. He must have read about Martinez recently. We need thousands more like him.
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