Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Whatever happened to all of those people who were going to sign up for Obama Care?


The latest numbers are not good for Obama Care, according to California Healthline:
 "Last year, CBO estimated that about 21 million people would be enrolled in ACA plans in 2016 (California Healthline, 1/27/15).
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has estimated that about 10 million U.S. residents will be enrolled in health coverage purchased through the ACA's exchanges by the end of 2016 (California Healthline, 12/23/15).
The ACA's current open enrollment period launched Nov. 1, 2015, and is scheduled to end Jan. 31 (Hensch, The Hill, 1/23)." 
So what's going on? My guess is that people are looking at the options and deciding to go without insurance and paying the penalty.
The result is that fewer enrollments means serous cash problems for Obama Care. The AHCA was based on young people and the healthy signing up to pay for the old and unhealthy.
It's not turning out that way.

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RIP Abe Vigoda (1921-2016)


We learned that Abe Givoda passed away.   He was 94.

 Most of us remember him in "The Godfather" as Tessio and then Detective Fish in "Barney Miller".   He also appeared on "The Godfather II".

 He was born Abraham Charles Vigoda in 1921, or when President Harding was in the White House.   He was the son of a tailor and both of his parents were Russian immigrants.

 Before playing Tessio in "The Godfather", Mr Givoda played several roles in Broadway and movies.   

 RIP Abe Givoda

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It’s not climate change… it’s the confusion

It’s enough to drive you to drink. Thank God that I don’t! I drink water when I get mad.
On one hand, we get a story that 2015 was the warmest in 135 years or since records were kept. Isn’t it a bit misleading to say warmest ever? What happened to the world before 1881?  Don’t we teach history from that period?
On the other hand, we see a story today that maybe it’s not so according to Patrick J Michaels:
Surface temperatures are indeed increasing slightly: They’ve been going up, in fits and starts, for more than 150 years, or since a miserably cold and pestilential period known as the Little Ice Age. 
Before carbon dioxide from economic activity could have warmed us up, temperatures rose three-quarters of a degree Fahrenheit between 1910 and World War II. 
They then cooled down a bit, only to warm again from the mid-1970s to the late ’90s, about the same amount as earlier in the century.
Again, it’s all enough to drive a person like me crazy.    
Look at that Time magazine cover about the cooling age. The man on the cover looked like he was present at the Packers-Cowboys game known as “The Ice Bowl” or the 1966 NFL Championship Game.   
Then there is other Time cover about global warming with the poor little penguin wondering about his future.
Add to this that President Obama keeps calling “climate change” our biggest threat but has never addressed the nation or couldn’t get Senate Democrat majorities to give him anything.    
So here is a suggestion for the next president: Get to the bottom of climate change or the controversy.
Form a blue ribbon committee with enough smart people from both sides. Tell them to go into a room and come back with a report that addresses the problem without the alarmist tone of recent years.   
Are we cold or are we warm? Tell me the truth.
After that, tell us what the remedy is.      
Tell me what all of this alternative energy is going to cost? Is it going to drive a lot of manufacturing to China or elsewhere?   
We need a serious discussion of climate change because today’s back and forth has me lost.
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A chat with Sylvia Guzman, new president of Denton LULAC.



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