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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the establishment of a new Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) that will offer coverage to uninsured Americans who have been unable to obtain health coverage because of a pre-existing health condition.
HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces New Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan
Seeded on Thu Jul 1, 2010 5:00 PM EDT
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That's telling. At the bottom of the article, it lists 29 states (plus D.C) that have chosen to operate their own Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans, and 21 states that chose to have the feds—HHS—operate theirs.
It almost reads like a list of red and blue states. Except the red states—the ones whose "conservative" elected officials complain about increasing federal power—are the ones choosing to let the federal government run their plans.
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#1 - Thu Jul 1, 2010 8:23 PM EDT...and they're all the ones most dependent upon federal aid.
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Funny how that works, isn't it? It'd be interesting to see how average red staters would fare if there were no federal government. That's why I think if they want to secede, we should allow it.
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Party on, teabaggers!
Tea Partiers don't think much of Lindsey Graham because he's willing to work with Democrats on the occasional issue. The conservative South Carolina senator doesn't think much of them, either. “The problem with the Tea Party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country," he tells the New York Times in a profile for Sunday's magazine. "It will die out.”
Graham recounts a contentious meeting with one group in which he challenged them, "What do you want to do? You take back your country—and do what with it?’ .... Everybody went from being kind of hostile to just dead silent.”
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