For what it's worth, my own family here in Michigan will NOT be able to take advantage of ANY of the above programs next year.

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HOWEVER, due to a variety of wonky actuarial factors as well as the way that ACA subsidies are structured, it turns out that there's a way of leveraging the tax credits into plan pricing which benefits enrollees which is not only perfectly legal but which is actually *more* in line with the law!

there isnt a single person alive with more public ties to this child sex trafficking ring than donald trump

I mean, if you take the historic root meaning of the word soup, anything soaked in broth is soup...but we don't consider meat roasts braised in broth to automatically be soup unless spooned liquid is the main event. With ramen the main ingredient is the noodles, it belongs in the noodle bracket.

A failed GOP candidate's lawsuits prevented Al Franken from joining the Senate for 8 critical months after he won.
The moral of the story is that the GOP stopped playing by the rules, norms and traditions DECADES ago, and Dems apparently remain unaware of this serious circumstance.

All the rich corrupt twits keeping food assistance out of the mouths of babes can go pound sand off-planet, I don't particularly care where but they should find no peace anywhere they go on Earth.
Indecent wanker fuckwads.

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said