Obamacare Price Hike, Donald in Denial
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 299
High Deductible: Just in time for election day, the Obama Administration says the premium for many mid-level insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act will rise by as much as 25 percent next year. Still, the administration claims that three quarters of people insured and subsidized by Obamacare will still be able to get policies for $100 a month or less.
The announcement hands ammunition to Republicans who say Obamacare is a failure and want to repeal it entirely. Private insurers have been pulling out of Obamacare in some states, claiming they can’t make money.
E Minus 14: Donald Trump told a farmers’ round table in Florida yesterday that as president he would cut most federal regulations. Farming is one of the most heavily regulated industries.
“We want clean air, we want clean water,” Trump said. “But we have and you have situations and regulations, which we’re gonna cut ― we will probably cut 70 to 80 percent of the regulations, OK?”
Trump is spending his third day in Florida today, a state he needs to become president. He trails He trails Hillary Clinton there by nearly four points, but claims he’s going to win the state.
He’s going down fighting against the whole system. Yesterday he tweeted, “We are winning and the press is refusing to report it.” He told a Florida crowd, “When the people who control the political power can rig polls, you see these phony polls, and rig the media, they can wield absolute power over your life.”
Non Ministrari sed Ministrare: Wellesley College is preparing to host a crowd of alumnae on election night to celebrate the college’s first graduate to be elected president. They’re betting on Hillary. Wellesley’s Alumnae Hall offered 1,000 free seats and all were taken 30 minutes after they were available online.
Orange is the New Black: Former Pennsylvania Atty. General Kathleen Kane was sentenced to prison yesterday for her conviction on perjury and abuse of public office.
Kane, a Democrat, came into office promising to break up the corruption of state government and for a while, she did. But then she was caught leaking grand jury information to discredit a critic, and lying about it to another grand jury. Kane’s two teenage sons pleaded with the judge, but he sent her away for 10 to 23 months. She and her husband are divorcing.
The Series: Cleveland Indians mascot “Chief Wahoo” makes his first World Series
appearance since 1997 tonight in amidst increasingly heated controversy over the use of Indian caricatures for sports teams. The Wahoo logo is a red-faced Indian with a toothy grin and a single feather sticking up from the back of his head. The Washington Post has called Wahoo “the most offensive image in sports,” but the team has resisted retiring him since the 1970s.
The series opens in Cleveland against the Chicago Cubs, which has not won a series in 108 years. Cleveland last won in 1948.
World: French authorities yesterday began clearing as many as 6,000 refugees out of what’s known as the Calais Jungle, a sprawling makeshift camp. Most of the occupants have been young men who escaped wars in Africa and Afghanistan. They’re being put on buses to temporary housing all over France.
The Obit Page: Bobby Vee, the 1960s pop singer who delivered the hits “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,” and “Devil or Angel,” has died of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease at age 73. Vee was also responsible for the extremely annoying “Rubber Ball,” but no one’s perfect.
Interestingly, although the two were completely different musical animals, Vee was close friends with Bob Dylan.
Dept. of Corrections: We said yesterday that Deborah Ross is the Democrat running for Senate in Pennsylvania. Uhh, that’s North Carolina.
Tweet, Tweet: Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, President Obama read out loud a tweet from Donald Trump that said, “President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States! @RealDonaldTrump.”
Obama said “Well, ‘at’ Real Donald Trump, at least I will go down as a president.”
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