Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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Having wrecked the housing market and then the criminal justice system, Newsom and his merry band of progressive lunatics now turn their sights on the healthcare system. In retrospect, it was inevitable.
Democrats propose California universal healthcare, funded by new income, business taxes
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SACRAMENTO — California would enact a sweeping, first-in-the-nation universal healthcare plan under a proposal unveiled Thursday by a group of state Democratic lawmakers, providing health services to every resident and financed by a broad array of new taxes on individuals and businesses.
Though some of the policy details of the ambitious plan were laid out last year, the way to fund it had not been determined. The proposal, now laid out in separate pieces of legislation, faces significant hurdles in the coming months — first at the state Capitol, with opposition from groups representing doctors and insurance companies, and then possibly at the ballot box, as voters would have to approve the taxes in an amendment to the California Constitution.
“There are countless studies that tell us a single-payer healthcare system is the fiscally sound thing to do, the smarter healthcare policy to follow, and a moral imperative if we care about human life,” Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), the proposal’s author, said Thursday.
Efforts to create a single-payer healthcare system, in which medical expenses for all residents are covered by a government-run fund, have been widely discussed in California for years. Supporters say the cost of providing care to the state’s residents would go down without the administrative expenses of private insurance plans.
They also point out the costs incurred by Californians under slimmed-down healthcare plans with high deductibles and co-pays — costs they argue will disappear if California creates a state-run program that blends state and federal dollars.
“What we’re trying to do is get rid of these dozens of buckets of funding — whether it’s private insurance, whether it’s employer, whether it’s Medi-Cal — put it into one bucket,” Kalra said.
Legislative efforts to push the idea forward have fizzled over recent decades, lacking the broad-based political support needed for a historic overhaul of the healthcare system. Kalra’s newest effort was quickly criticized by a coalition of powerful political players, including the California Medical Assn. and the California Hospital Assn. They will square off against one of the single-payer plan’s most vocal advocates, the California Nurses Assn.
Assembly Bill 1400 would create “CalCare,” a system governed by an independent board of directors that promises access to any doctor, regardless of network, and a wide variety of medical services. The new entity would push to bring payments to providers more in line with the costs of care and would seek to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs. The plan includes long-term care coverage and services for senior citizens and disabled people, and would remove barriers based on a patient’s immigration status.
Thursday’s announcement will undoubtedly set in motion a contentious process, possibly complicated by the politics of it being an election year. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces reelection in the fall, campaigned for office four years ago in part on support for a single-payer healthcare system.
“It’s about access,” Newsom said in a speech at the California Democratic Party convention in 2018. “It’s about affordability. And it’s about time. If these can’t-do Democrats were in charge, we wouldn’t have had Social Security or Medicare.”
A spokesperson for the governor didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the new effort. But Kalra, a Bay Area Democrat who has lined up support from a group of Democratic lawmakers, reminded those in attendance at a state Capitol event on Thursday of the governor’s campaign platform.
“Doing nothing is not inaction,” Kalra said of political promises that have not produced a plan. “It is, in fact, the cruelest of actions while millions suffer under our watch.”
The plan’s proposed tax increase might present the most difficult political hurdle: As a constitutional amendment, it would require a supermajority vote in both the state Senate and Assembly and then ratification by voters in either the June or November statewide election. While Democrats have held a supermajority of seats in both houses for the better part of a decade, they have rarely found enough support within their ranks for a broad-based tax increase.
The constitutional amendment would impose a new excise tax on businesses equal to 2.3% of any annual gross receipts in excess of $2 million. A new payroll tax would also be created, equal to 1.25% of total annual wages and collected from businesses employing 50 or more people. An additional payroll tax would be required for employers with workers earning more than $49,900 a year.
All but the lowest-earning Californians would also be required to pay more in taxes. The proposed constitutional amendment would raise personal income taxes on salaries above $149,509 a year — less for those at that level, more to be paid as income goes up. All Californians reporting an annual taxable income of more than $2.5 million would see a new 2.5% surcharge. And personal income tax increases to pay for the healthcare plan could rise with inflation in future years.
The size and impact of the tax increase will be at the center of the debate. Kalra and other supporters insist the taxes will total less than what employers and Californians now pay for private insurance.
Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, said the proposal would impose a financial burden on those struggling with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and most Californians can currently receive medical treatment when needed.
“California already has near-universal healthcare coverage,” Lapsley said in a statement. “AB 1400 would eliminate healthcare options and force everyone into an untested government-run program.”
The constitutional tax increase was introduced this week, while AB 1400 was introduced last year. As a holdover proposal from 2021, it must clear the Assembly by Jan. 31. Republicans were quick to pounce on the procedural changes approved by Democrats on Thursday to fast-track the bill, which has sat for months in the Assembly without any public hearings.
“The Legislature’s majority party just voted to move a radical single-payer bill forward without an independent cost analysis,” said Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Paso Robles), vice chairman of the Assembly Rules Committee.
The bill will be considered next week by the Assembly Health Committee. The panel’s chairman, Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa) said Thursday that he would vote in favor of the single-payer plan, a strong indication the measure will receive a vote by the Assembly where it needs only a simple majority to be sent to the Senate.
SACRAMENTO — California would enact a sweeping, first-in-the-nation universal healthcare plan under a proposal unveiled Thursday by a group of state Democratic lawmakers, providing health services to every resident and financed by a broad array of new taxes on individuals and businesses.
Though some of the policy details of the ambitious plan were laid out last year, the way to fund it had not been determined. The proposal, now laid out in separate pieces of legislation, faces significant hurdles in the coming months — first at the state Capitol, with opposition from groups representing doctors and insurance companies, and then possibly at the ballot box, as voters would have to approve the taxes in an amendment to the California Constitution.
“There are countless studies that tell us a single-payer healthcare system is the fiscally sound thing to do, the smarter healthcare policy to follow, and a moral imperative if we care about human life,” Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), the proposal’s author, said Thursday.
Efforts to create a single-payer healthcare system, in which medical expenses for all residents are covered by a government-run fund, have been widely discussed in California for years. Supporters say the cost of providing care to the state’s residents would go down without the administrative expenses of private insurance plans.
They also point out the costs incurred by Californians under slimmed-down healthcare plans with high deductibles and co-pays — costs they argue will disappear if California creates a state-run program that blends state and federal dollars.
“What we’re trying to do is get rid of these dozens of buckets of funding — whether it’s private insurance, whether it’s employer, whether it’s Medi-Cal — put it into one bucket,” Kalra said.
Legislative efforts to push the idea forward have fizzled over recent decades, lacking the broad-based political support needed for a historic overhaul of the healthcare system. Kalra’s newest effort was quickly criticized by a coalition of powerful political players, including the California Medical Assn. and the California Hospital Assn. They will square off against one of the single-payer plan’s most vocal advocates, the California Nurses Assn.
Assembly Bill 1400 would create “CalCare,” a system governed by an independent board of directors that promises access to any doctor, regardless of network, and a wide variety of medical services. The new entity would push to bring payments to providers more in line with the costs of care and would seek to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs. The plan includes long-term care coverage and services for senior citizens and disabled people, and would remove barriers based on a patient’s immigration status.
Thursday’s announcement will undoubtedly set in motion a contentious process, possibly complicated by the politics of it being an election year. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces reelection in the fall, campaigned for office four years ago in part on support for a single-payer healthcare system.
“It’s about access,” Newsom said in a speech at the California Democratic Party convention in 2018. “It’s about affordability. And it’s about time. If these can’t-do Democrats were in charge, we wouldn’t have had Social Security or Medicare.”
A spokesperson for the governor didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the new effort. But Kalra, a Bay Area Democrat who has lined up support from a group of Democratic lawmakers, reminded those in attendance at a state Capitol event on Thursday of the governor’s campaign platform.
“Doing nothing is not inaction,” Kalra said of political promises that have not produced a plan. “It is, in fact, the cruelest of actions while millions suffer under our watch.”
The plan’s proposed tax increase might present the most difficult political hurdle: As a constitutional amendment, it would require a supermajority vote in both the state Senate and Assembly and then ratification by voters in either the June or November statewide election. While Democrats have held a supermajority of seats in both houses for the better part of a decade, they have rarely found enough support within their ranks for a broad-based tax increase.
The constitutional amendment would impose a new excise tax on businesses equal to 2.3% of any annual gross receipts in excess of $2 million. A new payroll tax would also be created, equal to 1.25% of total annual wages and collected from businesses employing 50 or more people. An additional payroll tax would be required for employers with workers earning more than $49,900 a year.
All but the lowest-earning Californians would also be required to pay more in taxes. The proposed constitutional amendment would raise personal income taxes on salaries above $149,509 a year — less for those at that level, more to be paid as income goes up. All Californians reporting an annual taxable income of more than $2.5 million would see a new 2.5% surcharge. And personal income tax increases to pay for the healthcare plan could rise with inflation in future years.
The size and impact of the tax increase will be at the center of the debate. Kalra and other supporters insist the taxes will total less than what employers and Californians now pay for private insurance.
Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, said the proposal would impose a financial burden on those struggling with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and most Californians can currently receive medical treatment when needed.
“California already has near-universal healthcare coverage,” Lapsley said in a statement. “AB 1400 would eliminate healthcare options and force everyone into an untested government-run program.”
The constitutional tax increase was introduced this week, while AB 1400 was introduced last year. As a holdover proposal from 2021, it must clear the Assembly by Jan. 31. Republicans were quick to pounce on the procedural changes approved by Democrats on Thursday to fast-track the bill, which has sat for months in the Assembly without any public hearings.
“The Legislature’s majority party just voted to move a radical single-payer bill forward without an independent cost analysis,” said Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Paso Robles), vice chairman of the Assembly Rules Committee.
The bill will be considered next week by the Assembly Health Committee. The panel’s chairman, Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa) said Thursday that he would vote in favor of the single-payer plan, a strong indication the measure will receive a vote by the Assembly where it needs only a simple majority to be sent to the Senate.
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Reminds me of the Roman Senate and the Emperor. Every time the Senate had a chance to rest some power back from an Emperor they would bitch out, even as the Emperorship got more and more unstable they refused to step up and be a body of any real value.
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couplaweeks. or tomorrow. depends on ow spicy the cucks feel.
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They've been hysterical since Eisenhower.
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Because as I've said so many times in the past, Roberts has a massive hateboner for federal overreach under the Conmerce Clause
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Well, one way the 2032 Presidential Election might be interesting is that the 2030 census is going to be fascinating as all hell.
Here is what happened in 2021. People absolutely fled California and New York for Florida and Texas, with Arizona and both Carolinas next up.
Minnesota lost 13,453 residents to other states in 2021, the most in more than 30 years
New Census Bureau population data show that Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people in 2021. One particularly alarming aspect of this was a loss of 13,453 residents to other states. This was the our state’s biggest net loss of domestic migrants to other states in at least 30 years. As...www.americanexperiment.org
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Some “fun” facts about Minnesota:
When you are paying California level taxes to live in a frozen tundra state and crime is exploding, it becomes much easier to leave for a income tax less state, like I did. And 13,000 others did. Walz wants to raise taxes on the top two tiers even though there is a budget surplus too. The Somali parasites deserve what happens when the bottom falls out there.
Hundreds of cops in Minneapolis left or found ways to go on disability after being told to allow the Third Precinct to burn. The black police chief recently announced he is retiring, I am sure due to not being able to do his job properly with the retarded city council denying him more officers. Those stories get swept under the rug because it makes the Dem handlers look bad while people quitting over vaccine mandates can be used by the media to make the cops look like ebil fascists who need to be abolished.
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iirc he tested positive for coof last week?
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Yeah, right. That’s why he was the deciding vote to allow Obamacare. Twisted his ass up in a pretzel to find a way to justify it.
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Looks like you've never actually read Sibelius. He very explicitly states that the Commerce Clause justification for the ACA was blatantly unconstitutional.
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Yet he voted to allow Obamacare to stand.
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On a bullshit penalty tax distinction, not on Commerce Clause grounds
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Obamacare was freshly minted legislation. Roberts doesn’t want to kill legislation if he can weasel out of it. The OSHA mandate is pure executive and Roberts will face no such compunction.
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At least the Romans had the excuse of going through about 100 years of successive strongmen from Sulla on becoming quasi-Emperors, occupying the city, and then mass purging any Senators who might stand up against them, effectively leaving only the most sheeplike and venal of them in office, to get to that state.
What was America's excuse? Because from where I stand, they just gave up power on issues they know aren't popular with the masses so the executive could do it without their input, no longer risking their seats and being freer to act as lifelong legislators to build their stock portfolio.
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I mean, I think you answered your own question.
Why govern, when you can enrich yourself with no risk?
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We make fun of communists for not understanding human nature, but democracy is guilty of also not understanding human nature.
at least they had the excuse of bitching out to protect their lives and property
these fuckers are protecting what?
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