Thread on Government Shutdown: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OFFICIALLY REOPENED!
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yes because I have the choice to move out of that state if I dont want to comply
Might get a Hyundai they care
So go to Canada if you don't like Obamacare
So you can't go to a different country?
As if there is a difference?Now you're just arguing semantics. In terms of government intervention and in the context of your argument, federal and state government are synonymous.
No they arent, clearly you dont understand the concept of separation of federal and state powers as it relates to regulatory controls... its why the federal government doesnt regulate car insurance as the other poster suggested
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This bill is necessary for the future or it will cause a bubble larger than the housing market or do you understand that?
Might get a Hyundai they care
So go to Canada if you don't like Obamacare
they told blacks to do the same thing if they dont like slavery
This bill is necessary for the future or it will cause a bubble larger than the housing market or do you understand that?
This bill gives unprecedented power to future Presidents and Congresses... do you understand that?
You really in here biting my posts
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/thre...fficially-shutdown.151612/page-6#post-5643599
kevin arnold
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17 that are needed have jumped over. More are going to keep coming. Boehner is gonna have to put it on the table soon
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I'm not afraid of my government. Have a nice day.
Never said you were, but thanks for informing me
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Obamacare Health Exchange Websites Had More Than 10 Million Unique Visitors On Day One
(Reuters) - The online health insurance exchanges at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare law opened for business on October 1, although technical glitches stalled the launch in many states.
Here are some first day statistics reported by the exchanges, states and the federal government:
* About 2.8 million people visited healthcare.gov - the main website for the 36 state exchanges being run by the federal government - between midnight and mid-afternoon, theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.
* NY State of Health, New York state's exchange, reported 7.5 million website visits by mid-afternoon.
* Kentucky's exchange, kynect, saw 57,625 unique visitors from its midnight launch until 2:30 p.m., according to the Kentucky governor's office. Nearly 2,000 applications had been started, with 1,235 completed. The kynect contact center fielded 3,243 calls and 110 e-mails. The average visitor stayed on the site for 11 minutes.
* Access Health CT, Connecticut's exchange, reported 28,280 unique visitors as of 4 p.m. It processed 167 applications, 83 of which were for subsidized purchases of commercial insurance products, while 84 were for Medicaid coverage. The call center received 1,930 calls during the day, with the average call time trending at about 9 minutes.
* Nevada Health Link reported 2,179 accounts created through its exchange as of 1 p.m. local time, and 1,111 phone calls received.
* Arkansas's Health Insurance Marketplace website, arhealthconnector.org, had registered 15,934 hits from midnight to 3 p.m., according to the Arkansas governor's office.
* The Connect for Health Colorado Marketplace said it had over 34,500 unique visitors and more than 1,300 accounts created in the first three hours.
* Illinois' exchange, Get Covered Illinois, reported 65,043 unique visitors as of 3:30 p.m. CST after opening at midnight. The state received more than 1,100 online applications, while the help desk received more than 350 calls.
(Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf and Sharon Begley)
This post originally appeared at Reuters. Copyright 2013.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-exchange-website-2013-10#ixzz2gaoC62gC
(Reuters) - The online health insurance exchanges at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare law opened for business on October 1, although technical glitches stalled the launch in many states.
Here are some first day statistics reported by the exchanges, states and the federal government:
* About 2.8 million people visited healthcare.gov - the main website for the 36 state exchanges being run by the federal government - between midnight and mid-afternoon, theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.
* NY State of Health, New York state's exchange, reported 7.5 million website visits by mid-afternoon.
* Kentucky's exchange, kynect, saw 57,625 unique visitors from its midnight launch until 2:30 p.m., according to the Kentucky governor's office. Nearly 2,000 applications had been started, with 1,235 completed. The kynect contact center fielded 3,243 calls and 110 e-mails. The average visitor stayed on the site for 11 minutes.
* Access Health CT, Connecticut's exchange, reported 28,280 unique visitors as of 4 p.m. It processed 167 applications, 83 of which were for subsidized purchases of commercial insurance products, while 84 were for Medicaid coverage. The call center received 1,930 calls during the day, with the average call time trending at about 9 minutes.
* Nevada Health Link reported 2,179 accounts created through its exchange as of 1 p.m. local time, and 1,111 phone calls received.
* Arkansas's Health Insurance Marketplace website, arhealthconnector.org, had registered 15,934 hits from midnight to 3 p.m., according to the Arkansas governor's office.
* The Connect for Health Colorado Marketplace said it had over 34,500 unique visitors and more than 1,300 accounts created in the first three hours.
* Illinois' exchange, Get Covered Illinois, reported 65,043 unique visitors as of 3:30 p.m. CST after opening at midnight. The state received more than 1,100 online applications, while the help desk received more than 350 calls.
(Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf and Sharon Begley)
This post originally appeared at Reuters. Copyright 2013.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-exchange-website-2013-10#ixzz2gaoC62gC
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Top Conservative: Not ‘The End Of The World’ For Women And Infants Losing Food During Shutdown
By Alan Pyke on October 2, 2013 at 11:13 am
Nobody will starve if Republicans drag the government shutdown out long enough to merge the fight over funding levels with brinkmanship over the debt ceiling, conservative pundit Bill Kristol predicted Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I don’t think it’s the end of the world,” Kristol said of the shutdown, explaining that “we will go right into the debt ceiling negotiation anyway.”
“It’s not going to be the end of the world, honestly, even if you’re on nutrition assistance from the federal government,” Kristol added. “I believe that no one is going to starve in Arkansas because of the shutdown.”
Kristol’s downplaying of the impacts on hunger came in response to Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein’s observation that the delaying strategy Kristol recommended might help Republicans, “but those two weeks that you wait it out are consequential for a whole number of people.” “Maybe in your world it’s not the end of the world,” Stein said. “Eighty-five thousand people are losing nutritional assistance in Arkansas. That’s not inside the beltway, that’s in Arkansas. Thirteen Head Start programs are closing in Connecticut. That’s not inside the beltway.”
Watch the exchange:
Reality doesn’t support Kristol’s faith that charities can cancel out the impact of the shutdown on federal funding for pregnant women and infants at risk of undernourishment. The shutdown means no additional funds are available for federal programs that supply food to those charities, and those programs had already begun cutting back their supply efforts for food pantries prior to the shutdown.
Meanwhile, food pantries said over the summer that they were already stretched beyond their capacity due to prolonged high unemployment and can’t pick up the slack. Hunger has hit alarming highs across the country since the Great Recession. Arkansas scrounged up leftover federal funds that will buy two weeks’ worth of school meals for tens of thousands of those kids, but when that money runs out no more will come from Washington unless the government reopens.
There is no guarantee other states will share Arkansas’s good fortune, either. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will not issue new payments to states, meaning that any state that has already spent all its federal food assistance money will be without recourse. Utah’s WIC program shut down suddenly on Tuesday, leaving 65,000 residents without nutrition assistance. WIC administrators in Chicago and Wisconsin told Forbes they do not know how much of a funding cushion they have and fear a surprise cutoff to services. In Tennessee, contingency funding may or may not last into next week.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2...hutdown-he-caused-could-lead-to-attack-on-us/
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By Alan Pyke on October 2, 2013 at 11:13 am
“It’s not going to be the end of the world, honestly, even if you’re on nutrition assistance from the federal government,” Kristol added. “I believe that no one is going to starve in Arkansas because of the shutdown.”
Kristol’s downplaying of the impacts on hunger came in response to Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein’s observation that the delaying strategy Kristol recommended might help Republicans, “but those two weeks that you wait it out are consequential for a whole number of people.” “Maybe in your world it’s not the end of the world,” Stein said. “Eighty-five thousand people are losing nutritional assistance in Arkansas. That’s not inside the beltway, that’s in Arkansas. Thirteen Head Start programs are closing in Connecticut. That’s not inside the beltway.”
Watch the exchange:
Reality doesn’t support Kristol’s faith that charities can cancel out the impact of the shutdown on federal funding for pregnant women and infants at risk of undernourishment. The shutdown means no additional funds are available for federal programs that supply food to those charities, and those programs had already begun cutting back their supply efforts for food pantries prior to the shutdown.
Meanwhile, food pantries said over the summer that they were already stretched beyond their capacity due to prolonged high unemployment and can’t pick up the slack. Hunger has hit alarming highs across the country since the Great Recession. Arkansas scrounged up leftover federal funds that will buy two weeks’ worth of school meals for tens of thousands of those kids, but when that money runs out no more will come from Washington unless the government reopens.
There is no guarantee other states will share Arkansas’s good fortune, either. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will not issue new payments to states, meaning that any state that has already spent all its federal food assistance money will be without recourse. Utah’s WIC program shut down suddenly on Tuesday, leaving 65,000 residents without nutrition assistance. WIC administrators in Chicago and Wisconsin told Forbes they do not know how much of a funding cushion they have and fear a surprise cutoff to services. In Tennessee, contingency funding may or may not last into next week.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2...hutdown-he-caused-could-lead-to-attack-on-us/
video in link