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Jwheel86

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  1. Only hesitation I have about voting the republican primary tomorrow is that the Democrat running for AG is a rising star with a big target on his back. Race, money, mystery: Democratic primary for North Carolina attorney general heats up WWW.WUNC.ORG Two prominent Democrats will face off in next week’s primary for attorney general. But the biggest spender in the race isn’t the two campaigns — it’s a shadowy group based in Washington, D.C. It has been confirmed Republicans are funding the ads, this after the General Assembly deleted his Congressional District.
  2. So Congress can effectively repeal a Constitutional amendment by repealing the enabling legislation? Very cool.
  3. This is a stupid argument. Are Cabinet Officers immune? We know Judges aren't if they corruptly do official act, same with Congress.
  4. Jesus Christ they privatized their waiver populations too, not even NC has gone that far (yet).
  5. Pressure from rural hospitals imploding and lobbying by Managed Care Organizations (privatized Medicaid under private insurance carriers like UHC) is a hell of a drug.
  6. They balance the books by selling all their tanks and taking out life insurance on everyone in the suicide mission Marine Littoral Regiments?
  7. Congress shouldn't pass a federal right to IVF, force these state to repeal their State Constitutional Amendments.
  8. When will the lesson be learned?! (Churchill, probably). Right wing online media will never allow a bill like this to go forward.
  9. Same payer that's covered her hospital stay, Medicaid. That's a huge issue and if it isn't addressed the acute care hospitals are going to be the long term care providers of last resort. This girl's care in the hospital likely cost NC Medicaid several million dollars over 5 years. The money is there, and the service models within Medicaid are there, the trick is untethering it from the most expensive service models while drastically raising rates for those community based service models to get the work force. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm betting that hospital nurses would rather do Private Duty Nursing and CNA in nursing homes would rather do home care. The problem is wages and benefits are under the community models.
  10. It's this. Likely contributing is they couldn't find a nursing home in NC that's contracted with NC Medicaid, a problem that's going get worse as states (which NC has ~90% completed) privatize their Medicaid programs with much more limited networks of providers (NC Medicaid has gone from basically one easy state ran fee for service model to 6 different private plans each requiring contract negotiations with providers, that'll be increasing to 10 different plans this summer, as a result a bunch of big providers are refusing to sign with all 10). The demographic cliff is already hitting, untrained caregivers are already demanding $20-$25/hr starting wage and I don't think $30-$40 is going to be crazy in the next decade. All that boomer wealth is going to be sucked up by long term care costs. In her case the best option would be Medicaid Private Duty Nursing combined with a Medicaid Home and Community Based Services waiver living in a college dorm. That'll give her the skills to manage her independence while surrounded by college kids who can jump in to help. That's basically what the Muscular Dystrophy community does along with older quads.
  11. A hospital is suing a quadriplegic 18-year-old to make her go to a nursing home WWW.NPR.ORG A young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own home, close to family and her school. Cliff notes: Quad since she was a young child in a car accident, raised by her grand father until she was 13. Has been in the hospital since she was 13 years old. She's graduated high school with a high GPA and has been admitted to a small liberal arts college in her home town. Hospital wants send her to a nursing home out of state away from family. Hospital threatened to not let her return if she left to attend her high school graduation, a judge had to issue a order letting her attend graduation.
  12. Speaking of the Yakuza..... U.S. Attorney Announces Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader WWW.JUSTICE.GOV Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division; and Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced the issuance today of a Superseding Indictment charging TAKESHI EBISAWA with conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials from...
  13. I have a different idea, IVF Clinics should surrender freezers full of frozen embryos to local fire stations under Safe Haven laws and make them Wards of the State.
  14. If you read the real guy's wiki and the book's wiki you'll kind of understand why they included that entire plot in the show. There is 1 major and 1 spoilers in it fyi.
  15. I'm one episode away from being caught up. How is this show not getting more attention?
  16. Hesitant to post this because GunTubers take the algo to dark places, but still an interesting hour plus interview with a Brit and American Ukraine combat veterans discussing very low level infantry tactics. Everything from drones, trenches, getting hit with artillery, and different Russian units they've fought.
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