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    New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate

    Poll Positions: America Gets New Hope For Public Option

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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    Thank you Latoya! This going out to my friends and family! #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    I want to punch Olympia Snowe in the face. She doesn't support real reform, she's playing games to get any bill that passes completely watered down. #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: Snowe is screwing her own constituents. I've said it before: Maine has some of the highest premiums in the country. #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    I AM NOT A PROBLEM TO FIX. #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    It's only a matter of time before bleeding from your bits every month is considered a pre-existing condition. It's so important that women (and men) realize that fighting for reproductive freedom and health care doesn't just mean access to abortion. Picketing Planned Parenthood isn't just going after 'babykillers,' it's an effort to deny women essential services. As usual, men are considered the default, and women are strange others with weird, malfunctioning parts that need smears and tests and check-ups, all 'extras.' #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    I have sent more letters to congress because of Jezebel than I did when I volunteered with Amnesty International. #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    Thank you very much Jezebel for everything you do. It felt so good to politely educate my Republican Marine Brother-in-Law about the atrocities acted out by the insurance companies when he started going on about how 'his insurance is good'.

    His mind was blown when I told him about the 'pre-existing conditions', and hope that helped sway his opinion. #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    The "men make the rules... but women pay" is kind of ham-fisted, but overall I really like the commercial. I had no idea we paid 84% more in health care even when the plans don't cover maternity leave. It's enough to make you ill - but don't tell them that; bias-induced nausea is a preexisting condition!!! #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    @Ultraprison!: 'The "men make the rules... but women pay" is kind of ham-fisted' – totally, but I blame the voice actor! #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    In reply to New Ad Campaign Aimed At Women Refocuses Health Care Debate
    being a woman is not a pre-existing condition is my new motto. #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy: i like "a vagina is not a pre-existing condition" #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/23/09

    @shannanigans slash pterodactyl: But... but... it looks like you used to have a penis and a monster ripped it off!

    What? Important medical decisions can't be based on weird Freudian complexes? #nationalwomenslawcenter
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Poll Positions: America Gets New Hope For Public Option
    I read that title as, "Poll Positions: America Gets New Hope For Public Opinion" and my mind went to, "Wait, why are they polling people about public opinion?". That might just be the political scientist in me.

    Anyone? Anyone?

    *crickets* #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    @joannabobanna: I appreciate the political scientist (nerd) in you. I suspect all the methodological problems of polling people about public opinion came to mind, and maybe you were musing about how people always lie to make themselves seem smarter than they are when polled. Or maybe that was just me when I read your comment. #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    @joannabobanna: Am I missing something? That is what it says, right? #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    @Her Grace: It's gotta pass the Senate, whose Blue Dogs are afraid of not getting elected again. Maybe the poll can assure centrists that taking the plunge will not sink their reelection campaigns.

    That said, I think the Senate has become a perversion of its purported self, especially now that the filibuster is just a matter of normal procedure (although I wouldn't get rid of it). #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    @BearDownCBears: No, I mean, I read that title as, "Poll Positions: America Gets New Hope For Public Opinion"--that is what it says, right?

    I understand the rest without explanation. I was confused by the phrasing of the OP's comment. #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    @Her Grace: No, the article says "Public Option" whereas I read, "Public Opinion". #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    @highjump: No no. Not just you. I'm actually working on my masters in political science and so I always seem to have research methodology/public opinion on my mind (maybe because I'm in a methodology class AND a public opinion class). All day long I think about it. It's sick, really. #healthcare
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    10/21/09

    @joannabobanna: Oh--I'd been reading it wrong this whole time! #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Sotomayor Dressed For Success • DNA Evidence Helps Solve Cold Cases
    Wow, I worked at McD's in college and the area I was in was female-dominated. The store I was at promoted a pregnant woman to a manager. Our store manager was a woman. We only had a male in management briefly. I feel kind of good about the one I worked at now. #genderdiscrimination
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Poll Positions: America Gets New Hope For Public Option
    Gender rating is not arbitrary. Actuaries who consult for self-funded plans will tell their clients the cost will be higher with a larger female population. Self-funded plans are used by many large employers. The employer pays the claims and has their own actuarial consultant determine the cost, while the insurance company only provides the network and administrative functions. So it is not just insurance companies making this up. Our reproductive system is a major factor - not just pregnancy, but also breast and uterus cancers and the screening for those cancers. Many studies have also found that women have more chronic pain than men.

    I would not be surprised if, on the individual market, insurance companies charge above and beyond the difference gender would make. Especially if they think women are more likely to buy insurance regardless of price. So there may be gender rating plus. #healthcare
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Sotomayor Dressed For Success • DNA Evidence Helps Solve Cold Cases
    Postnatal insomnia, forsooth. Seek help how? You're awake because the BABY IS and IS CRYING CONSTANTLY. Babies do not sleep. At all. Ever. #genderdiscrimination
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Poll Positions: America Gets New Hope For Public Option
    I like to think of them as "the party of party poopers." That would be a terrible party to be at.

    Barbara Mikulski, I think I like you. I am pleased you are my senator right now. You can keep sending me emails if they has more stuff like this in them. #healthcare
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Sotomayor Dressed For Success • DNA Evidence Helps Solve Cold Cases
    So I suppose the way to relate is by smoking crack with hookers, Marion Barry?

    Shut up! #genderdiscrimination
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Sotomayor Dressed For Success • DNA Evidence Helps Solve Cold Cases
    And anyone listens to anything Marion Barry says because??? He has excellent judgment, after all. #genderdiscrimination
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