Even as President Biden on Tuesday outlined new plans for battling the highly contagious Omicron variant, public health experts warned that the measures would not be sufficient to prevent a grim rise in infections and hospitalizations over the next few weeks. The administration’s strategy includes doubling down on vaccination campaigns and propping up hospitals as they confront a large influx of patients. Federal officials will direct resources, including Army doctors, to support health care systems and distribute rapid tests to Americans.
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| Dr Karim says Biden plan won't work! |
But Mr. Biden explicitly ruled out lockdowns and other harsh measures of the kind put in place as the pandemic first unfolded in early 2020. In interviews on Tuesday, some scientists argued that the variant’s rapid spread requires more vigorous mitigation measures. Some expressed frustration and alarm about what they described as a timid public health response, and bemoaned the apparent lack of will among politicians and society at large for more aggressive steps.
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| Get your fifth booster you lying dog faced pony soldier |
Omicron spreads so quickly that the United States cannot afford to wait to observe how things play out in other countries, as happened in previous waves, said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, of the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness. Nor can Americans “bet the farm” on the variant producing less severe disease, he said. The vaccines and booster shots encouraged by Mr. Biden should help reduce the incidence of severe disease, but the vaccinations are most effective two weeks after administration; in the meantime, those who have not gone for their shots are highly susceptible.
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| I am science! |
The Biden administration’s decision not to close entertainment venues, shops or restaurants, and to keep schools open with new testing procedures, points to the stark choice facing many governments as Omicron spreads, said Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, an associate member of the Ragon Institute and director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. “We can let people decide for themselves and businesses decide for themselves about the risk, or take structured action and say, ‘These things should not be done,’” he said. Given the fast spread of the virus, the choices must be made quickly: “Time is not on your side,” Dr. Abdool Karim warned.
In Rhode Island, there is little evidence that current measures are enough to contain the latest surge. In some hospitals, emergency room waits have stretched to more than 12 hours, and doctors are treating patients in parking lots, Dr. Ranney said. “There are no nurses,” she said. “There are no beds. There is no way to get an IV in folks out in the waiting room. There’s nothing you can do.”
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Tammy Bruce has it right -
Mark my words: The focus on testing is to increase “cases” to fuel Dem argument for universal mail-in voting for 2022. If we were focusing on actual health, they would spend the ‘free tests’ money funding therapeutics & treatment for those who are still getting sick.
Thecoldheartedtruth is the fact that the covid-19 virus and the new viruses that evolve will be part of our lives, possibly forever.
The only virus disease we have destroyed is smallpox. It existed for over 3,000 years and killed millions, especially when the Europeans came to America and infected the Native American who had never been exposed before 1492. It was ended in 1979.
The only way to handle this horror story is get every single person immunized, and unfortunately probably every year or less.
Wrap Speed was the greatest accomplishment by Trump.
It's not Sleepy Joe's fault.
I watched a new series 1883.
People who had multiple red spots on their skin had been infected with smallpox.
It reminded me of when I was about 13 I had a fever and because I had chickenpox when I was in 3rd grade, they were afraid I had smallpox.
But I recovered from smallpox.
If both sides would work together instead of focusing solely on politics.
Joe Biden is the most politically experienced President in history.
The only way to handle this horror story is get every single person immunized, and unfortunately probably every year or less.
O’Tay
WTF?
The last two paragraphs made my point Scott
Omicron spreads so quickly that the United States cannot afford to wait to observe how things play out in other countries, as happened in previous waves, said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, of the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness.
Nor can Americans “bet the farm” on the variant producing less severe disease, he said. The vaccines and booster shots encouraged by Mr. Biden should help reduce the incidence of severe disease, but the vaccinations are most effective two weeks after administration; in the meantime, those who have not gone for their shots are highly susceptible.
The quick spread of the variant is likely to strain already overburdened hospitals and leave vulnerable Americans, including older adults and people who are immunocompromised, at risk.
The only way to handle this horror story is get every single person immunized, and unfortunately probably every year or less.
Wrap Speed was the greatest accomplishment by Trump.
It's not Sleepy Joe's fault.
Because under our government system of The United States, the federal office doesn't have the authority to force everyone to get vaccinated.
Unfortunately too many people have sewn doubt about science. On the right wing media websites and Fox and Newsmax etc..
It reminded me of when I was about 13 I had a fever and because I had chickenpox when I was in 3rd grade, they were afraid I had smallpox.
But I recovered from smallpox.
You cannot resist the temptation to make this about you when it has nothing to do with you alky.
You didn't have smallpox you idiot. You had the fucking chicken pox. We ALL got chicken pox when we were kids. It was practically a rite of passage for chrissakes.
You're mentally ill alky. That's your problem. And like CH said on the other thread, you're not getting anywhere NEAR the amount psychological help that you require. Medicaid Acres is giving you three hots and a cot and that's IT.
The only virus disease we have destroyed is smallpox. It existed for over 3,000 years and killed millions, especially when the Europeans came to America and infected the Native American who had never been exposed before 1492. It was ended in 1979.
The only way to handle this horror story is get every single person immunized, and unfortunately probably every year or less.
The chickenpox vaccine was not available in 1957 or 1958 when I was in 3rd grade school at the Canyon Lake Grade school
Joe Biden is the most politically experienced President in history.
With not a single notable accomplishment to his name in almost 50 fucking years.
Not ONE.
Experienced? In getting elected from a piss ant state, perhaps. THAT'S the sum total of his experience.
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."
- Skeets Hussein 0linsky
The only way to handle this horror story is get every single person immunized, and unfortunately probably every year or less.
Write this 6 more times it still won’t make sense, you imbecile
I missed about a month or school that year
Unlike most people I have a much stronger memory than others.
Chickenpox vaccine became available in the United States in 1995. Each year, more than 3.5 million cases of chickenpox, 9,000 hospitalizations, and 100 deaths are prevented by chickenpox vaccination in the United States.
Guess what might happen!!!@
An at-home treatment for COVID-19 that can prevent serious illness was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, offering a note of optimism for the future of the pandemic in an otherwise uncertain time as the world faces the omicron variant.
When taken early, Pfizer's pill was 89% effective at reducing the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, according to the company, and was effective against omicron.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla estimated that 1,200 deaths and 6,000 hospitalizations would be prevented for every 100,000 COVID-19 patients who take the pills.
If the President gets FEMA to distribute it to every single household the pandemic would fade away.
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus.
The long-awaited milestone comes as U.S. cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all rising and health officials warn of a tsunami of new infections from the omicron variant that could overwhelm hospitals.
FAQ: What to know about the omicron variant of the coronavirus
The drug, Paxlovid, is a faster, cheaper way to treat early COVID-19 infections, though initial supplies will be extremely limited. All of the previously authorized drugs against the disease require an IV or an injection.
An antiviral pill from Merck also is expected to soon win authorization. But Pfizer’s drug is all but certain to be the preferred option because of its mild side effects and superior effectiveness, including a nearly 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease.
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“The efficacy is high, the side effects are low and it’s oral. It checks all the boxes,” said Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic. “You’re looking at a 90% decreased risk of hospitalization and death in a high-risk group — that’s stunning.”
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s drug for adults and children ages 12 and older with a positive COVID-19 test and early symptoms who face the highest risks of hospitalization. That includes older people and those with conditions like obesity and heart disease. Children eligible for the drug must weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kilograms).
The pills from both Pfizer and Merck are expected to be effective against omicron because they don’t target the spike protein where most of the variant’s worrisome mutations reside.
FDA authorizes Pfizer’s anti-covid pill as omicron surges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/22/covid-pill-pfizer-fda-authorizes-paxlovid/
Unlike most people I have a much stronger memory than others.
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Even more important???
In a few weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are expected to announce a vaccine that is effective against all SARS and COVID-19 variants, including Omicron.
The vaccine has been in the works for almost two years, Defense One reported, after the army received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. The military at an early stage attempted to make a vaccine that would be effective against different variants, the news outlet reported.
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Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed's infectious diseases branch told Defense One said the vaccine has had "positive results" at the trial stage.
"Walter Reed's Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results," he said.
"Phase 1 of human trials, which tested the vaccine against Omicron and the other variants, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review."
rrbDecember 22, 2021 at 9:45 AM
Read your own link alky -
The share of sales to first-time buyers was just 26%, down from 32% in November of 2020. The share of sales to investors was 15%, up from 14% the year before"
I do enjoy watching others kick a mud hole in Alky.
Roger, your analysts of economics and financial issues is breath taking.
The long-awaited milestone comes as U.S. cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all rising and health officials warn of a tsunami of new infections from the omicron variant that could overwhelm hospitals.
The drug, Paxlovid, is a faster, cheaper way to treat early COVID-19 infections, though initial supplies will be extremely limited. All of the previously authorized drugs against the disease require an IV or an injection.
An antiviral pill from Merck also is expected to soon win authorization. But Pfizer's drug is all but certain to be the preferred option because of its mild side effects and superior effectiveness, including a nearly 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease.
"The efficacy is high, the side effects are low and it's oral. It checks all the boxes," said Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic. "You're looking at a 90% decreased risk of hospitalization and death in a high-risk group — that's stunning."
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's drug for adults and children ages 12 and older with a positive COVID-19 test and early symptoms who face the highest risks of hospitalization. That includes older people and those with conditions like obesity and heart disease. Children eligible for the drug must weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kilograms).
The pills from both Pfizer and Merck are expected to be effective against omicron because they don't target the spike protein where most of the variant's worrisome mutations reside.
Pfizer currently has 180,000 treatment courses available worldwide, with roughly 60,000 to 70,000 allocated to the U.S. Federal health officials are expected to ration early shipments to the hardest hit parts of the country. Pfizer said the small supply is due to the manufacturing time — currently about nine months. The company says it can halve production time next year.
The U.S. government has agreed to purchase enough Paxlovid to treat 10 million people. Pfizer says it's on track to produce 80 million courses globally next year, under contracts with the U.K., Australia and other nations.
Health experts agree that vaccination remains the best way to protect against COVID-19. But with roughly 40 million American adults still unvaccinated, effective drugs will be critical to blunting the current and future waves of infection.
The U.S. is now reporting more than 140,000 new infections daily and federal officials warn that the omicron variant could send case counts soaring. Omicron has already whipped across the country to become the dominant strain, federal officials confirmed earlier this week.
Against that backdrop, experts warn that Paxlovid's initial impact could be limited.
For more than a year, biotech-engineered antibody drugs have been the go-to treatments for COVID-19. But they are expensive, hard to produce and require an injection or infusion, typically given at a hospital or clinic. Also, laboratory testing suggests the two leading antibody drugs used in the U.S. aren't effective against omicron.
First time buyers usually don't have equity funds from the their existing houses. So,if wages increase substantially, they will afford to down payment.
Higher wages will trigger more housing sales.
https://spectrumnews1.com/columbus/health/2021/12/22/pfizer-pill-becomes-1st-u-s--authorized-home-covid-treatment?firebaseString=true&cid=app_share
Roger is a care free guy, I know this because he does care if he post complete nonsense.
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Roger AmickDecember 22, 2021 at 12:19 PM
First time buyers usually don't have equity funds from the their existing houses."
Roger , explain what you think a first time home buyer is and how would they ever have "equity" from the sale of an existing home the own?
Higher wages will trigger more housing sales.
Higher wages aren't even coming close to keeping up with inflation.
If the house you already owned, is worth more than you owe on the loan, you can use the money to pay the downpayment on the new home.
Tax laws in California exept tax payments on the profit, when you use the profit aka equity funds for the down payment on the new home mortgage.
I wish I had bought homes and fixed them and flip them. I know people who made millions.
Roger, inflation has wiped out wage growth, Body Bag Biden policies caused it, take your due credit.
Your words.
"If the house you already owned".
Is that not thier first home?
Yes
Or
No?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/us/portland-protests-fbi-surveillance.html
Some serious problems with the first time rights..
I'm not going to post it but it's definitely difficult
Roger, you are such a dolt.
Your don't understand even the most basic of econimic/financial terms.
Your example of using "home equity" from a sale of a home so the "first time home buyer" would youse that "equity" as a down payment on Roger '"1st home" is nonsense.
You can't understand it.
A first time buyer needs a big downpayment to get the mortgage.
A home owner can use the equity or the difference between the money owed, for the downpayment on the mortgage.
Flipping houses can make a lot of money.
Go fuck the goat
Unlike most people I have a much stronger memory than others.
Then why do you forget that you posted some comment and then repeat it multiple times?
To fuck with them for fun things
W.E.D.em Boyz
Article:
https://twitter.com/LeftistWonk/status/1468806429855424514
Jeff Bezos' 9-minute joyride to the edge of space created more carbon emissions than 1 billion people produce in an entire lifetime
Wonder if he will cover this in his Washington Post ?
Maybe then Biden wouldn't need his "green new deal" in he stopped Bozo's recreational joy rides ?
win/win
The Wall Street Journal reported again and again and again and again agree with me about inflation rates
FRANKFURT—A booming U.S. economy is rippling around the world, leaving global supply chains struggling to keep up and pushing up prices.
The force of the American expansion is also inducing overseas companies to invest in the U.S., betting that the growth is still accelerating and will outpace other major economies.
U.S. consumers, flush with trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus, are snapping up manufactured goods and scarce materials.
U.S. economic output is set to expand by more than 7% annualized in the final three months of the year, up from about 2% in the previous quarter, according to early output estimates published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. That compares with expected annualized growth of about 2% in the eurozone and 4% in China for the fourth quarter, according to JPMorgan Chase.
Major U.S. ports are processing almost one-fifth more container volume this year than they did in 2019, even as volumes at major European ports like Hamburg and Rotterdam are roughly flat or lag behind 2019 levels. The busiest U.S. container ports are leaping ahead of their counterparts in Asia and Europe in global rankings as volumes surge, according to shipping data provider Alphaliner.
I fixed the typo for roger:
Roger Amick said...
Unlike most people I have a much stranger memory than others.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Sky News
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1472577665399812106
'Pigcasso' sells painting for £20,000.
Pigcasso's talent was discovered when she was rescued by an animal shelter in South Africa and her owner describes her painting style as abstract expressionist
Scott Adams
I don't know if Hunter Biden has a pet, but I just had a great idea for him.
Simpleton Roger , a "first time home buyer" can already have a home to sell.
I only used your example to show your stupidity.
Actually this is spectacularly wrong.
"Roger AmickDecember 22, 2021 at 1:06 PM
You can't understand it.
A first time buyer needs a big downpayment to get the mortgage."
God you really are as dumb and clueless as you seem.
Alice Su
https://mobile.twitter.com/aliceysu/status/1471890179723911169
Fantastic @Reuters reporting on how Amazon bent over backwards to sell kindle & cloud services in China, including by promoting Xi’s books as “best sellers,” censoring reviews of propaganda films & providing a dissident’s IP address to authorities
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-china-propaganda-arm-win-beijings-favor-document-shows-2021-12-17/
So when 200 billionaire Bezos isn't polluting as much as a billion people or printing his propaganda Washington Post he is aiding Communist China.
A true democrat
and he made much of his fortune on the back of Chinese slaves
a role model
Roger, never ever owned a clear title on a home and it shows.
Zero down loans are available to first time home buyers.
Always so spectacularly wrong Roger does it again.
""Roger AmickDecember 22, 2021 at 1:06 PM
You can't understand it.
A first time buyer needs a big downpayment to get the mortgage."
Nope: zero down loans are made to first time home buyers.
He’s never had a clear title on a car
Oh and Roger , fyi, my first home was a zero down and no PMI, VA and they are still made today.
"No down payment, no mortgage insurance
These are perhaps the biggest advantages to a VA loan."
Bureau of Veterans Affairs
Caliphate4vrDecember 22, 2021 at 1:39 PM
He’s never had a clear title on a car"
Funny and true.
The only land alky ever owned was the dirt on his shoe.
Roger, no need to run from your topic.
A home equity loan is a type of loan in which the borrower uses the equity of his or her home as collateral. The loan amount is determined by the value of the property, and the value of the property is determined by an appraiser from the lending institution.
No shit
My first home I needed $5,000 to get a mortgage.
My mother in law loaned us most of it
We paid her back a year later .
Glenn Greenwald
THREAD:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1473274536707690500
This WPost op-ed by "3 retired Generals" - calling for the US military to turn its planning against the citizenry on domestic soil in the name of stopping "insurrection" and "misinformation" - is vastly more dangerous and anti-democratic than 1/6 itself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/
Remember: **before 1/6**, the "US intelligence community" was claiming the greatest threat to the US Homeland is "domestic extremism." It's long been clear that this "Insurrection" narrative is so vital because it justifies any domestic powers in the name of stopping it.
For those complaining about the Washington Post's paywall not allowing them to read this authoritarian, borderline-fascist op-ed by those 3 Generals, here's a CNN segment predictably heralding their prescience. Uncritically interviews one of the authors:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/12/20/retired-generals-wapo-op-ep-2024-insurrection-anderson-ebof-vpx.cnn
Jeff Bezos's Washington Post and CNN
enemies of the people
President Biden’s message yesterday was both important and worth paying attention to: COVID, omicron edition, is seemingly everywhere, but we have the tools, high tech and low tech, to beat it. The Big Science vaccines, for which Biden correctly credited President Trump’s administration, are the way to victory. And simple masks will hinder spread when worn indoors.
You never gave Olinski Obama for the longest economic recovery in history like Biden just said
A first time buyer needs a big downpayment to get the mortgage.
Not particularly. The minimum down payment is usually 10% of the purchase price. The down payment can be wrapped up in the mortgage instrument itself. It's always a matter of how much a monthly payment you want or can carry. (Personally I always put 20% down to avoid PMI and escrow of taxes, home owners insurance and other requirements for a mortgage.)
A home owner can use the equity or the difference between the money owed, for the downpayment on the mortgage.
Providing real estate prices haven't crashed. And then you would need to sell the old property.
Flipping houses can make a lot of money.
Real estate investments are as risky as the stock market. In fact if we're not talking about a primary residents then a it would be smarter to invest in real estate trust and or mutual funds. This is especially true if you want invest income as well as capital gains.
Jesse Kelly
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1473049839873282054
If you won’t let family visit because of they’re unvaccinated, you’re a piece of trash who deserves to die alone and unloved. And you probably will.
Family is everything. Lotta people out there would kill to have one. If you tossed it away for fear, you truly are the worst.
Christmas is when you can reflect on how successful a life you have lived and to share that with others.
And to give thanks.
Gathering together is more precious than anything on this earth
If the house you already owned, is worth more than you owe on the loan, you can use the money to pay the downpayment on the new home.
Well who knew?
Maybe someone should come up with a word to describe what it means when your house has more value than what you owe on the loan. Maybe the banking and real estate professions should look to Roger for help here?
It reminded me of when I was about 13 I had a fever and because I had chickenpox when I was in 3rd grade, they were afraid I had smallpox.
But I recovered from smallpox.
Last outbreak of smallpox was in 1949. The baby boomers was the first generation to live smallpox free.
Last outbreak of smallpox was in 1949
Have you seen pictures of Roger?
He could easily pass for a guy in his mid 80's...
This WPost op-ed by "3 retired Generals" - calling for the US military to turn its planning against the citizenry on domestic soil in the name of stopping "insurrection" and "misinformation" - is vastly more dangerous and anti-democratic than 1/6 itself.
https://www.washingtonpost
They are basically arguing for the military to stage a coup to prevent a democratically election Republican president from taking office.
Talk about military extremism.
He could easily pass for a guy in his mid 80's..
He actually looks like the mummified remains of the pharaoh Khufu.
Maybe someone should come up with a word to describe what it means when your house has more value than what you owe on the loan. Maybe the banking and real estate professions should look to Roger for help here?
I was shaking my head on thinking anyone would think this was some great revelation but I must admit I never had heard the term upside down until the 2008 downturn.
So I bit my tongue...
It was destroyed in 79
“The House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol riot said Wednesday it has asked for a meeting with Republican Rep. Jim Jordan to discuss his communications with then-President Donald Trump on Jan. 6,”
Jordan is a fascist
It was not eliminated until 79
Kevin Liptak
https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1473654104463495168
After Biden said today [yesterday] that Manchin "was speaking to a liberal caucus in the House and said 'Joe Biden didn't mislead you, I misled you,'" the White House follows up: "The President wanted to clarify that Senator Manchin did not characterize himself as having been ‘misleading.'
Larry O'Connor
The White House clarifies that Biden made up an imaginary story about Joe Manchin.
"That thing the president said happened, didn't actually happen"
That's a hell of a clarification.
That's why the White House hides Joe
and the lapdog press is silent...
If you need help to understand about your home remodeling plan all I need is pictures and the blueprints..
I understand plumbing and electrical panels and structures.
If I was in the job market I might be a building inspector.
80!@!
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1473756934616453122?t=gH8VNUhC90fitH-JtJ2HUg&s=19
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1473756934616453122?t=gH8VNUhC90fitH-JtJ2HUg&s=19
VENICE, Calif. — Inside a two-bedroom apartment, 11 blocks from the ocean, there is a man in free fall, though he has nowhere to go. He wears a monitor on his right ankle, government-issued, blinking green beneath his tapered track pants. He doesn’t leave, except for court appearances and medical appointments. He makes calls on a red flip phone, designed for seniors by a company called Jitterbug: big buttons, no internet, cell service from Cricket Wireless. His old iPhone — the one where he handled his TV bookings, tapped out tweets and called reporters, wresting each story into the version he wanted, with charm, with pure aggression, with whatever the day required — now goes straight to voicemail. Maybe you had his number. Back then, for a while at least, who didn’t?
Behind a tall fence in the backyard, he can hear the lilt of brunches on Rose Avenue, laughter and music. There’s an ice cream parlor he likes on the corner, 482 feet away, but to get delivery, as with anything requiring internet access, the order must come from his roommate
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/22/michael-avenatti-rise-and-fall-house-arrest-profile-525301
sure sounded like roger for a while
ROFLMFAO !!!
A record number of Americans have signed up for health plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces for 2022, after Congress lowered the cost of Obamacare insurance and the pandemic rocked many Americans’ employer-provided coverage.
The Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday that 13.6 million people had enrolled in coverage that will begin on Jan. 1, more than in any previous year of the program. Enrollment remains open until Jan. 15 for those who want coverage that would begin in February.
“What a great day it is to really see how the programs are working as they are intended,” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the marketplaces, told reporters on a conference call.
The Biden administration has invested heavily in promoting the availability of insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, and expanded the network of professionals available to help people enroll. But Ms. Brooks-LaSure said she thinks the main driver of the enrollment increase was the lower prices most Americans would pay.
lower prices most Americans would pay.
lower prices most Americans would pay.
If I was in the job market I might be a building inspector.
Alky, I wouldn't trust you to inspect a fucking bird house.
I'm having fun watching the right wing media websites go fucking crazier every day Scott
Joe Biden and the Democrats are embarking on a new campaign of terror over the Omicron variant, (“a winter of . . . death” for the unvaccinated), which is, in fact, a Christmas blessing. There are fewer than 10 fatalities reported in the entire world as a result of this new variant on COVID. It is like a conventional flu, except that 90 percent of the people afflicted have mild or no symptoms and all of those afflicted benefit from the reinforcement their immune systems are getting against all variants of the disease. No greater gift to herd immunity from the COVID family of viruses could have been sought or imagined. Yet it is being used to justify a renewed campaign to transform Americans into a nation of cowardly, paranoid, and hypochondriacal moles.
The defenders of the Biden Administration have almost vanished. Chris Wallace, who was trilling on Inauguration Day about Biden’s speech being the greatest inaugural address of Wallace’s lifetime—not excluding John F. Kennedy in 1960—has scuttled over to CNN and professes delight at joining “Jeff Zucker’s great team” (of Trump-hating myth-makers). Historian-for-hire Jon Meacham, who deserted the Bush hagiography industry to become a speechwriter of Biden’s and then a TV commentator praising Biden for being poetic and generally praising his speeches without mentioning his own role in composing them, has gone mercifully silent.
Where once there was a chorus of thanksgiving for the liberation of America from the Trump menace to democracy and his assault upon good taste, and window-rattling ululations of joy over the man of dignified moderation and humane intelligence that was replacing him, there is now a subdued relief that the bad orange monster has gone, tainted by wistfulness that his replacement is dangerously inadequate.
This is a way station on the rockslide of the Trump-hate myth.
0linsky-care STILL sucks...
Dig a little deeper, and Obamacare’s troubles become evident. Premiums are ticking down only after rising for years. Much of the coverage on offer confines enrollees to narrow networks of covered doctors and hospitals. And enrollment is up largely because the government is picking up a major share of most beneficiaries’ premiums.
Rather than fix these problems, the Biden administration wants to obfuscate them—by lavishing even more taxpayer money on the exchanges.
Premiums have retreated slightly over the past three years. Yet the average monthly individual exchange premium nationwide doubled between 2013 and 2019—and tripled in five states.
Many enrollees haven’t noticed because taxpayers are covering a significant share of their premiums. Nearly 90% of the exchanges’ 10.7 million enrollees received federal subsidies in 2020.
It’s no wonder exchange enrollment is at a record high. Taxpayers are essentially paying people to sign up for coverage.
Those sky-high premiums don’t buy much in the way of coverage. Roughly three-quarters of exchange policies feature narrow networks. Beneficiaries can only choose from a limited number of doctors and hospitals.
Insurers employ these narrow networks to keep their own costs down amid Obamacare’s myriad regulations, which mandate that they cover 10 essential benefits and prevent them from charging the old any more than three times what they charge the young.
Each additional benefit costs money. If insurers can confine their beneficiaries to a narrow network, they may be able to convince providers to accept lower reimbursement rates.
Beneficiaries, meanwhile, may give up on seeking marginal care if one of the few providers covered is inconveniently located, or if they can’t get an appointment.
You’d think a program that features rising premiums for low-quality coverage needs reform. Instead, the Biden administration wants to double-down on the exchanges’ failing structure.
In March, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law, which increases subsidies for everyone shopping on the exchanges with income up to 400% of the federal poverty level—about $106,000 for a family of four—through 2022.
The law also caps premiums for people who make more than four times poverty at 8.5% of income. This was the first time that this group of six-figure earners qualified for taxpayer-funded coverage— “welfare for the wealthy.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/20/despite-what-the-white-house-says-obamacare-is-deeply-troubled/
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Alky, I wouldn't trust you to inspect a fucking bird house.
Well he does know a lot about cuckoo birds
Probably where his education came from
Roger , focus dumbass.
You said a 1st time home buyers uses "equity" from their home they sold.
Weaseling will not save you.
You also said real first one home buyers have to have a large down payment.
Wrong again.
Zero down, no PMI, loans are made all of the time.
What the fuck is this horse shit?
CNBC
"WHO says vaccine booster programs will prolong Covid crisis: 'No country can boost its way out of the pandemic'"
OK, NOW THEY ARE JUST FUCKING WITH US.
We have top men, TOP MEN, in charge...
Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.
The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said Roy Dotson, the agency’s national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, in an interview. The Secret Service didn’t include COVID-19 fraud cases prosecuted by the Justice Department.
While roughly 3% of the $3.4 trillion dispersed, the amount stolen from pandemic benefits programs shows “the sheer size of the pot is enticing to the criminals,” Dotson said.
Most of that figure comes from unemployment fraud. The Labor Department reported about $87 billion in unemployment benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud.
The Secret Service said it has seized more than $1.2 billion while investigating unemployment insurance and loan fraud and has returned more than $2.3 billion of fraudulently obtained funds by working with financial partners and states to reverse transactions. The Secret Service says it has more than 900 active criminal investigations into pandemic fraud, with cases in every state, and 100 people have been arrested so far.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pandemics-us-secret-service-9d5c43814ef2c1ffb45c2a6f4e13faa9
OK, NOW THEY ARE JUST FUCKING WITH US.
They've been fucking with us since 'two weeks to flatten the curve.'
24 months and counting.
That is truly amazing news from The Guess W.H.O..
Comedy Central is never that funny.
Omg, shut the Fuck up already.
🤡Omicron could burn through the U.S. — and potentially hasten the Covid pandemic's end, says expert
Published Wed, Dec 22 2021 3:22 PM EST
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What's funny Roger...
Whatever the "right wing" is doing seems to be working to make Biden look so bad, huh? Apparently the conservatives are just sooooooo much smarter than all of the liberals that they can convince everyone that things are bad....
Would you agree that right wing people are smarter?
or perhaps it is just that Biden is actually a failure?
Albert Smith irish Independent Journalist appears in Gorings Biography describing the publication as a "good offering" yet despite this and the fact the books author was sentenced as a nazi and fined 2.5 million for the production he is still a member of the National Union of Journalists....bizzare beyond belief.Owen exposed Grove MP with the same book authors on facebook.This case (below) mentioned on this site is evidence and is PROVED to readers that the internet is not addressing REAL issues.Here is the NUJ the pillar stone of the British press protecting racists and allowing them NUJ membership what do our readers think of all this??
lets start right from the begining so our readers dont get ED >>> CHARGED,The clinton Foundation is partially CIA oriented, lots of evidence,now Big Bills bezzy number 1 mate in ireland is Dennis O Brien richest dude of all and he owns a pro CIA outlet known as the Irish Independent Newspaper.In the book Clinton cash Obrien is exposed as giving cash gifts to Clinton.Dennis Obrien is therefore known to the CIA as a clandestine member of the foundation, go check out his rewarded telephone contracts with far away countries and how he obtains them and where all the data and recorded calls go to!!/Albert Smith is still paid weekly by Obriens newspaper (yandex hackerz found his not so secret accounts).Smith is a racist that appears in the digital version of Gorings Biography descibing the book as a good offering (sick desturbed person) despite this Smith is still a member in the National Union of Journalists.Smith carries and uses weapons and jumped a writer destroying in the process his laptop hard drive which at the time had 130 or so bitcoins in it which where cheap enough to buy then!!the writer was exposing the irish independent newspaper involvement with GCOC bugging affair with his laptop( his articles can still be found online with there coresponding dated codes and blots) when he was ambushed for no good reason by smith an irish independent sub editor who in a fit of rage grabbed and smashed his equipment on the anniversay date of martin luther kings death..say no more PROVEN..
Albert Smith Irish independent Journalist and alleged owner of parpoint publishing admitted in a court case under duress that he assaulted a person over an alleged “litter” incident in which a laptop hard drive was destroyed.A neighbour was filmed and taped on camera admitting that he heard Smith screaming at a person during the assault.The reason we belive Smith admitted in court an incident occured was because The police themselves had access to the film along with a statement and he also knew his neighbor had turned states on him.
That said and done a number of issues remain to this day that are points of evidence the first and most important are the failings in court by the Judge and police to administrate legal proceedings against Smith for assault and destruction of a hard drive.In law should a person admit to an offense in court it does not make them imune to prosecution, Sergeant John Heraughty who was present at the hearing questioned Smith prior to the hearing who initially denied an assault ever took place and the Judge had the affadavit and film evidence to hand at the hearing.Sergeant john heraughty within law should have stood up in court and stated clearly to the Judge at the point when Smith admitted the incident occured that Smith had lied to him prior to the hearing in stating to him personally there was no incident, however for what ever reason Sergeant Heraughty remained silent in court about his own personal questioning of the matter and subsequently purposely did not provide prosecutable evidence against Smith in court which can be classified as a federal offense in the US.As for the Judge we question as to why he did not immedietly detain and hold smith for admitting to committing a criminal offense during court proceedings that of the criminal offense of liening to a police officer.
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https://www.independent.ie/regionals/braypeople/news/hammer-and-stone-used-during-enniskerry-fight-27616724.html
Hammer and stone used during Enniskerry fight
January 26 2006 12:11 AM
AN Enniskerry man who assaulted his sister's neighbour has been fined ?450 and bound to the peace for two years, following his appearance at Bray District Court.
32-year-old unemployed single man, Paul Quinn, of Naomh Ciaran, Enniskerry, was convicted of assault, criminal damage and public order offences arising out of an incident at the Monastery Grove estate, last summer.
The defendant had pleaded guilty to breaching the peace and being drunk in public at 22 Monastery Grove, Enniskerry, on July 17 last.
But he had denied breaking Patrick Jackson's window or assaulting him.
The court heard that Patrick Jackson was a neighbour and friend of the defendant's sister Adele Quinn, but Paul Quinn wanted to prevent the two from socialising together as Adele has a drink problem.
Jackson said he had called to Adele's house that morning, where the defendant, who was drunk at the time, had shouted abuse at him and followed him out of the house, but had fallen.
Jackson returned to his own home, but was followed by Quinn and a second man.
Both pushed their way into Mr Jackson's hallway, where they started fighting with Jackson and his son.
After being ejected from the house, the pair returned again. Quinn's accomplice had a hammer with him which he used to break glass panels in the door.
Quinn was 'strutting around like a bantam cock' and threw a stone at the window, cracking it, added Mr Jackson.
When Enniskerry Garda Sergeant John Heraughty arrived at the scene, he called to Adele Quinn's house at 62 Monastery Grove.
When he knocked on the door Adele let him in. Paul Quinn ran across the garden in a drunken state, screaming abuse and telling the Guard to keep out of it.
Quinn admitted that he was very drunk at the time and said he only 'vaguely' remembered the events.
Denying the charge of assault, he said he was 'too drunk to fight, let alone stand.' He admitted giving Jackson 'a lot of abuse' but didn't remember threatening him.
'The fact of the matter is, Mr Quinn advanced on Mr Jackson's house with someone with a hammer who then tried to batter down the front door of the house,' said Judge Connellan, convicting Quinn of assault in spite of solicitor Joe Maguire's request for a direction in light of the fact that Jackson had given no evidence that he was physically assaulted by Quinn.
Quinn was fined ?250 for criminal damage, bound to the peace for two years for the assault on Mr Jackson and fined a total of ?200 for breaching the peace and being drunk in public.
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