March 24, 2017

TEN ESSENTIAL #ACA BENEFITS are on the chopping block TODAY!

If you have not called ALL your senators and Rep, please do so NOW.




Dan Diamond Retweeted
Jake Sherman?Verified account @JakeSherman 3h3 hours ago

The health-care bill tomorrow WILL include elimination of essential health benefits-- one of the freedom caucus asks.


https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/844764136877654020






TEN ESSENTIAL BENEFITS

Ambulatory patient services

Emergency services

Hospitalization

Maternity and newborn care

Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment

Prescription drugs

Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices

Laboratory services

Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management

Pediatric services, including oral and vision care

TEN ESSENTIAL BENEFITS

Ambulatory patient services

Emergency services

Hospitalization

Maternity and newborn care

Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment

Prescription drugs

Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices

Laboratory services

Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management

Pediatric services, including oral and vision care





https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/844700541376745474

March 24, 2017

Paul Ryan FAILED to pass #Trumpcare, his first big test as a Leader of the House..

says Lawrence on Last Word

March 24, 2017

Trump demands do-or-die Friday vote on healthcare plan

Source: rawstory.com


23 Mar 2017 at 20:48 ET


U.S. President Donald Trump will get a second chance to try to close the deal with Republican lawmakers on dismantling Obamacare in a high-stakes vote on a new healthcare bill rescheduled for Friday.

After a week of calling Republican lawmakers and bringing them into the Oval Office for meetings, Trump was dealt a setback on Thursday when a vote on what was supposed to have been his first legislative victory had to be postponed because of opposition from two flanks in the party.

(READ MORE: House of Representatives cave to Trump demand for healthcare vote on Friday)

Conservatives felt the bill did not go far enough to repeal Obama’s namesake healthcare legislation, and moderates felt the plan could hurt their constituents.

House Republican leaders had signaled they were ready to work through the weekend to figure out a way to reconcile their differences. But Trump sent his top lieutenants to a dramatic meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday night with a message: he was done talking.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-demands-do-or-die-friday-vote-on-healthcare-plan/

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So, now it on for Friday.




https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/845074875723251713





Graphic on Obamacare and Republican healthcare bill (http://tmsnrt.rs/2n0ZMKf)

Graphic on shifting positions in the U.S. Senate on Republican healthcare bill (http://tmsnrt.rs/2mUE4Xf)

Graphic on poll on Americans’ views of the Republican healthcare bill ( http://tmsnrt.rs/2n7f3e4)

March 23, 2017

GOP leaders: the WH is done negotiating, Trump wants a vote. The great negotiator FAIL...

This is the banner running across cnn right now.

March 23, 2017

Trump Would Rather Spend Tax Dollars On Endless Opulent Vacations Than Help Seniors & Vets

I clicked on the Raw story link but nothing like this headline showed up.



https://twitter.com/RonHall46/status/844943513905180674




Wisdom Rocks? @GetWisdomDude

45 Would Rather Spend Tax Dollars
On Endless Opulent Vacations
Than Help Seniors & Vets
http://ln.is/www.rawstory.com/201/4mBDo …


https://twitter.com/GetWisdomDude/status/844649592432013312

March 23, 2017

Fact Check: Trump Misleads About The Timess Reporting on Surveillance

Source: nytimes





By LINDA QIU MARCH 23, 2017


WASHINGTON —..........................

Here’s an assessment of Mr. Trump’s references to The Times’s reporting.


Mr. Trump accused The Times of altering its headline.

“Here, headline, for the front page of The New York Times, ‘Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides.’ That’s a headline. Now they then dropped that headline, I never saw this until this morning. They then dropped that headline, and they used another headline without the word wiretap, but they did mean wiretap. Wiretapped data used in inquiry. Then changed after that, they probably didn’t like it. And they changed the title. They took the wiretap word out.”

False. Mr. Trump was referring to an article published online on Jan. 19 and in print on Jan. 20 that disclosed that American law enforcement and intelligence agencies were examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of Mr. Trump.

There were in fact two different headlines on the online and print versions of the article, which is typical. At no point was either headline altered.......................

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/fact-check-trump-misleads-surveillance-wiretapping.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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Not Backing Down Retweeted
Adam Schiff?Verified account @RepAdamSchiff 6h6 hours ago

.@POTUS: Obama wiretapped me!
FBI: Nope.
NSA: Nope.
DOJ: Nope.
Brits: Nope.
@POTUS: I feel partially vindicated!
1,270 replies 12,804 retweets 24,164 likes

Laura

👠Marlin Retweeted
Impeach Trump? @RubyCodpiece 22h22 hours ago

This is Trump's Watergate and no amount of "Obama wiretapped me!" chicken little bullshit is going to save him.
1 reply 47 retweets 97 likes

Catherine and 2 others Retweeted
Christopher Titus?Verified account @TitusNation 5h5 hours ago

Trump's claiming he WAS wiretapped because foreign agents WERE under surveillance...and Trump was talking to them? So you WERE colluding???

March 23, 2017

Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basi

Always remember that Trump was will to gut these important aspects of #Trumpcare--just to save face and get a bill passed today. #Shame!




TWEET
NYT Politics?Verified account @nytpolitics 2h2 hours ago

Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basic benefits. http://nyti.ms/2mZ07w2


https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/844996873589018624




................After all the negotiations, passage seemed, if anything, farther away. Some rank-and-file members balked at the removal of coverage and benefits their constituents depend on. The president scheduled a late-afternoon meeting at the White House with members of the centrist Tuesday Group.

“We’re certainly trying to get to ‘yes,’” said Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. “We’ve made very reasonable requests and we’re hopeful that those reasonable requests will be listened to and ultimately agreed to.”

As Mr. Trump pressed to persuade conservatives to support the measure, the changes he has incorporated have alienated some other Republicans who were already nervous about the bill. Those lawmakers have the potential to cost the bill vital support in the Senate.

“There’s a little bit of a balancing act,” Mr. Spicer conceded.

But he defended the removal of the so-called “essential health benefits” regulations, saying it would accomplish Mr. Trump’s stated goal of reducing health care costs.

“Part of the reason that premiums have spiked out of control is because under Obamacare, there were these mandated services that had to be included,” he said.............................

March 23, 2017

Sen. Pat Roberts apologizes for 'mammogram' line

Source: CNN




Updated 2:54 PM ET, Thu March 23, 2017




Story highlights

Republicans are considering scrapping 10 "essential benefits" in their repeal of Obamacare
Sen. Pat Roberts' description of why those benefits weren't essential landed him in hot water

(CNN)Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, apologized Thursday afternoon for making an apparent joke about mammograms related to what features are or are not included in Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.

"I deeply regret my comments on such an important topic," Roberts said in a statement. "I know several individuals whose lives have been saved by mammograms, and I recognize how essential they are to women's health. I never intended to indicate otherwise, and I apologize for my comments."

Roberts, who's known for employing a dry sense of humor, told a Talking Points Memo reporter earlier in the day: "I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms." ........................

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/politics/pat-roberts-apology-mammogram/index.html

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https://twitter.com/AliceOllstein/status/844951177649360896



Replies:



Anita Creamer?Verified account @AnitaCreamer 4h4 hours ago

@AliceOllstein Apparently, Sen. Roberts has no female constituents -- nor does he realize that men can get breast cancer.
12 replies 104 retweets 696 likes
JCT? @jct_ucb 4h4 hours ago

@AnitaCreamer @joannesmoot @AliceOllstein Too bad for him that breast cancer in men is not a joke. Mammos in men are imp for diagnosis
1 reply 17 retweets 106 likes
Elizabeth? @RegulatoryHell 4h4 hours ago

@jct_ucb @AnitaCreamer @joannesmoot @AliceOllstein Not to mention men w/breast cancer have worse outcomes & limited treatment options.
3 replies 16 retweets 107 likes
Julie=EveryWoman? @TruthEqualsFact 4h4 hours ago

@RegulatoryHell @carmenvellon @jct_ucb @AnitaCreamer @joannesmoot @AliceOllstein It's the only time dicks care, when it's all about them.

March 23, 2017

LIVE: Hundreds on the move in downtown DC against #Trumpcare....

Good for them. I hope you all are calling your Senators and Rep. Thanks in advance.


Alejandro Alvarez? @aletweetsnews 40m40 minutes ago

LIVE: Hundreds on the move in downtown DC against the healthcare bill. #AHCA #WeFightBack


https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/844981188511043584







https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/844960852096765952




Jesus Gonzalez? @JesusGonzalezNY 5h5 hours ago



BREAKING: people from across country flood halls of congress. Paul Ryan Constituent sends clear message at office #WeFightBack @popdemoc pic.twitter.com/V4aInGDtPi


https://twitter.com/JesusGonzalezNY/status/844922899496652800

March 23, 2017

9 bonkers things Donald Trump said in his new exclusive interview with Time

9 bonkers things Donald Trump said in his new exclusive interview with Time[/

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/23/15035286/trump-time-interview-lies


“I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not.”


Updated by Matthew Yglesias


@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com Mar 23, 2017, 12:36pm EDT


In an exclusive interview with Time’s Michael Scherer, published Thursday, President Donald Trump basically gives three types of explanations for why it’s okay for him to say things that aren’t true.

Trump thinks it’s okay to repeat a false claim as long as he is accurately stating the fact that someone else made the false claim. He thinks it’s okay to say something false as long as it later turns out that something vaguely similar is true. And he appears to think it’s okay to just straight-up lie and then keep lying for no reason.

Here are three quotes on category one misstatements, where Trump says he was accurately saying other people said something false, so there’s no reason for him to apologize for spreading misinformation:

“I’m just quoting the newspaper [about Ted Cruz’s father being involved in the JFK assassination], just like I quoted the judge the other day, Judge Napolitano, I quoted Judge Napolitano, just like I quoted Bret Baier, I mean Bret Baier mentioned the word wiretap.”
“Well, I’m not, well, I think, I’m not saying, I’m quoting, Michael, I’m quoting highly respected people and sources from major television networks.”
“Well if you look at the reporter, he wrote the story [about Muslims celebrating 9/11 on rooftops in New Jersey] in the Washington Post.”

Here are two quotes on category two misstatements where Trump says it’s okay to say something false, because something different would later happen that was kind of similar to the thing he falsely said earlier:

“Sweden. I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems.”
“Because a wiretapping is, you know today it is different than wire tapping. It is just a good description. But wiretapping was in quotes. What I’m talking about is surveillance. And today, [House Intelligence Committee Chair] Devin Nunes just had a news conference.”

And here are four quotes..........................