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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1209103)	3/14/2020 6:30:42 PM
From: Winfastorlose	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo majaman1978 Respond to of 1577019

It's simple. Liberals are frauds. They talk one game and practice another. it has always been that way going all the way back to and before Marx and Lenin. It's like Bernie railing against millionaires until he become one. LIBERALS ARE INCOMPETENT TO RUN GOVERNMENTS. ALL THEY CREATE IS NEAR ANARCHY

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1209103)	3/14/2020 6:36:41 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1577019

BOMBSHELL: UNDER tRUMP MANY HOSPITALS CLOSED AS tRUMP CUT MEDICAID/MEDICAIR/ACA REIMBURSEMENTS FOR $1.5 TRILLION TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH nbcnews.com "A study released this month by the Chartis Center for Rural Health found that 30 percent of the state’s 105 rural hospitals are economically compromised and in danger of closing." “Clearly our hospitals cannot take a financial hit — they’re already on the brink," Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, told NBC News. “We’re really looking for ways to help them navigate and change their business models so that we can continue to provide health care services to our rural populations. Any cut in reimbursement is not going to be helpful at all.” According to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. That crisis peaked in 2019 with the closing of 19 facilities, and another four have shut their doors so far this year. The danger of rural hospital closures in Kansas, which lead to a lack of accessibility to emergency care, is in part what has helped propel the conversation for Medicaid expansion forward in the state. Kelly announced last month that she had reached a deal with state Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, a Republican, which they had hoped to have completed at this point in February. “I don’t see Medicaid expansion as a solution for all that ails our rural hospitals,” Kelly said, “but it would be one more tool in the box to help them work that issue out, and it would help buy them some time to work out a different business model.” Rural populations are more likely to be uninsured or use Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Receiving reimbursement from Medicaid helps make up for facilities that treat those populations. Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, defended her proposed rule this week. She wrote in a blog post Wednesday that the current payment system is filled with vulnerabilities that could allow states to game the system and avoid taking full responsibility for payments to providers. “Data indicates that these additional payments are used unevenly across states, leading to large funding inequities across the nation,” she wrote in defense of the new rule. “As providers come up with creative strategies to put up the state’s match, they are essentially allowing the state to skirt its responsibility to finance part of the program while increasing Medicaid costs without any clear connection to the volume or quality of services delivered.”

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1209103)	3/14/2020 6:41:59 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1577019

Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for action: Inside the Trump administration’s troubled coronavirus response washingtonpost.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1209103)	3/14/2020 6:42:37 PM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1577019

Mark Hamill Hammers Trump With Quotes From Previous Presidents huffpost.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1209103)	3/14/2020 6:43:05 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1577019

Trump’s Old Tweet About Responsibility Comes Back To Haunt Him huffpost.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1209103)	3/14/2020 6:45:04 PM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1577019

CONSERVATIVE NEWS SITE BLASTS tRUMP: 'Can't LIE & Bluff His Way Through' This Crisis huffpost.com Donald Trump is revealing how “ deeply unsuited he is to deal with a genuine crisis that he can’t bluff his way through,” according to an editorial published Sunday in the Washington Examiner, a conservative political news site and weekly magazine that often has the president’s back. This time, the Examiner had a serious problem with the president’s deceitful approach to the coronavirus threat. “It’s one thing for Trump to insist he had a ‘perfect’ phone call [to Ukraine] and have all his Republican minions fall in line. It’s another thing to downplay a growing epidemic as more and more Americans get sick,” wrote the Examiner’s executive editor Philip Klein. Trump’s comments on Friday while touring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were particularly disturbing, the Examiner noted. Instead of making sober, steadying statements about the concrete steps being taken to protect Americans, Trump attacked CNN, called Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) a “snake” for criticizing the administration’s handling of a disease that has killed 14 people in Inslee’s state and asked about ratings for his Fox News town hall meeting. Trump also claimed tests devised by the CDC were perfect and that anyone who needed one could get it, even though CDC and other federal officials revealed that early tests were flawed and that demand for tests had outstripped supply. Most stunning, Klein noted, was Trump’s reluctance to allow the passengers, including some 1,000 Americans, to leave the Grand Princess cruise ship, which is carrying nearly two dozen people who are sick with coronavirus, because it would increase the reported numbers of cases. “Trump appears to be more concerned with numbers that might make him look bad in the short-term, then [sic] he is with actually taking the most prudent measures to save lives over time,” Klein wrote. Trump has repeatedly insisted that the coronavirus threat is all but over, even as cases continued to mount. He also claimed that the 15 domestic cases reported last month would “go down close to zero.” As of Sunday, there were more than 500 cases — and 22 deaths. “Trump will be judged on his handling of the spread of a virus,” Klein warned. “And the outcome will be clear no matter how many things he makes up, no matter how confident he pretends to be, and no matter how many insults he heaves.”