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I'm ashamed of all of you.
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Get rid of my bumps, my bumps, my bumps, my bumps.
My lovely baby bumps.
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Let's get it out
I got my rights
But then they shout:
"Don't go out and kill it-
Like, it's against my God!
Jump off the doctor's bed
Or die die OFF!"
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It is because it is a LEGAL medical procedure that should be kept as such. Taxpayers pay for lots of shit they don't use necessarily. I don't have any use for military and think that it shouldn't receive as much funding as it does. I don't have any use for vasectomies, Viagara, prostate exams and penis cancer screenings. But guess what, I pay for it, and I am proud to do so. It's a community for a reason, we are supposed to help one another.
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Today is just full of surprises.
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[www.nytimes.com]
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Can someone help an English expat get her head around this - what is an 'exchange'? And if your healthcare comes with your job, you still get to choose a plan with abortion, right? Or does your employer choose? Also, side issue, this 97% thing - who are the 3% who won't get the option for free healthcare?
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Here you go:
c) Exceptions-
`(1) DEPENDENTS- Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual for any taxable year if a deduction is allowable under section 151 with respect to such individual to another taxpayer for any taxable year beginning in the same calendar year as such taxable year.
`(2) NONRESIDENT ALIENS- Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual who is a nonresident alien.
`(3) INDIVIDUALS RESIDING OUTSIDE UNITED STATES- Any qualified individual (as defined in section 911(d)) (and any qualifying child residing with such individual) shall be treated for purposes of this section as covered by acceptable coverage during the period described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 911(d)(1), whichever is applicable.
`(4) INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN POSSESSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES- Any individual who is a bona fide resident of any possession of the United States (as determined under section 937(a)) for any taxable year (and any qualifying child residing with such individual) shall be treated for purposes of this section as covered by acceptable coverage during such taxable year.
`(5) RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE EXEMPTION-
`(A) IN GENERAL- Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual (and any qualifying child residing with such individual) for any period if such individual has in effect an exemption which certifies that such individual is a member of a recognized religious sect or division thereof described in section 1402(g)(1) and an adherent of established tenets or teachings of such sect or division as described in such section.
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1. An exchange is a system where different insurance companies can sell their plans to people who don't have employer coverage and some proposals will also let small businesses purchase through the exchange. It will have rules limiting what types of plans can be offered and how premiums can be determined.
2. If your health care comes with your job, you often have no choice at all. Many employers offer just one plan and you take it or leave it. Other employers offer a choice of 2-4 plans that cost different amounts. But your employer is choosing the plans offered and often, they don't understand what they are doing and just taking what the insurance broker tells them is in their price range.
3. Health reform is not providing 97% of Americans with free health care. Only people with extremely low incomes will get free health care. Everybody else will have to pay or have their employer pay. Most employers only pay a portion of the health premium. It can easily cost people $400 or $500 or even more a month to insure their families through their employer plan. The reform proposals will offer government subsidies to people with low incomes, but many will get subsidies that only pay for part of the cost.
4. The reason some people won't get coverage is that they still have to pay for it and they won't or can't pay for it, that some states won't have exchanges so affordable coverage won't be available, or they are undocumented immigrants who don't have employer coverage.
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Now I understand it more, I don't get why we're celebrating this. It seems like in many cases, a woman's access to abortion will still be in someone else's hands - her employer's.
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Insurance you have through the military has never covered elective abortion. Through Medicaid, only a few states offer coverage beyond life endangerment, incest or rape.
This is a great tool, click on the links to the left to see the key difference in the bills: [www.nytimes.com]
But you're right - we're "celebrating" this because Reid is a Mormon and our expectations were low...
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Bravo Latoya and Jez.
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While their coverage may be more inflammatory than explanatory, I think the fact that Congress has been debating this bill in the public eye, rather than as a footnote to news coverage of the executive office, probably had a significant effect on bringing both parties closer to their base in the discussions.
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