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The state of the republican party

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  1. Kim

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    Pretty funny. :D
     
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    It's actually a legally fair take. He's being more consistent than others who think abortion is not a constitutional right, yet marriage (straight, gay, interracial) is.
     
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    Marriage isn’t a constitutional right but under fair faith and credit and the Fourteenth amendment you shouldn’t be able to limit marriages in interracial or other basis.
     
  4. NewRoxFan

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    Is Trump on some “Biden is just a puppet, and Obama is the real president orchestrating things in the shadows” conspiracy nonsense?

    Is this some sort of inside joke?

    surely he knows who the president is

    Has nobody asked him why he keeps doing this?
     
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    Trying not to derail this thread too much. You are correct, but there's nuance. Congress actually passed a law last year about gay marriage, in case SCOTUS overturns the protection. The law basically affirms full faith and credit to marriages being recognized in others states, but does not require states that don't recognize gay marriage to perform gay marriages, per the religious freedom of those in that state. Full faith and credit is a lot, but ain't everything. My driver's license is good in other states, but not my hunting license.
     
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    He's been slipping mentally for awhile now. He's done that a lot, even though Obama has been gone for years. We need a younger strong Democrat to take over. Biden and Trump are too old, and the last thing this country needs is some old snake oil salesman con as President who wants to turn this country into an Autocratic regime, put his loyalists in all positions of power, so he can and his crime syndicate businesses freely, while spitting on Democracy and the justice system.
     
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    Neither is my architectural license but marriage is different in that it represents a state sanctioned contract between individuals. As such full faith and credit means contracts are valid in other states a marriage should be recognized.
     
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    That's a big number. Roughly 1 in every 9 kids in TX lost medical coverage, if that report is correct. Damn.
     
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    I am sure Ted and company will be giving "Thoughts and Prayers" when this happens. They always say, "we have got to protect the children!!" so, I am sure they will find a way to undo this or come up with a better solution, after all its for the kids

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    Since the article is behind a paywall:

    More than 810,000 Texas children booted from Medicaid coverage
    Marin Wolf - The Dallas Morning News (TNS) Nov 23, 2023 Updated Nov 23, 2023
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    At least 812,000 Texas children have lost health care coverage in the last seven months following the end of pandemic-era continuous Medicaid renewals, according to the latest data from KFF.

    Children are 58% of the 1.4 million Texans who have been dropped from the federal health insurance program. The state has both the highest number of people booted off Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the largest percentage of those disenrolled who are children among states that differentiate enrollment data by age.

    Texas’ disenrollment numbers have already surpassed the 1.3 million-person total researchers originally estimated could lose coverage as eligibility for the insurance program was recalibrated. The state already has the highest uninsurance rate in the country.

    “We knew we were going to have problems, to be candid. I’m sorry we’re seeing the kind of numbers that we’re seeing,” said Steve Love, president and CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. “This is going to really exacerbate the problems we already have with the uninsured in Texas.”

    Nearly 70% of people kicked off Medicaid in Texas lost coverage for procedural reasons like failing to return renewal packet requests from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Texas falls closer to the middle of the pack for procedural disenrollments, which ranges from 96% of people removed from Medicaid rolls in New Mexico to only 7% of those kicked off the insurance in Oregon.

    States are required to first try to renew Medicaid recipients through what’s known as an “ex parte” process, or using already available data sources, like state wage databases, to access ongoing eligibility. Only 8% of Texans who retained coverage did so through the ex parte process, the lowest rate of any state. By comparison, 99% of people who were renewed for Medicaid in North Carolina were deemed eligible through the ex parte process.

    Someone can be deemed ineligible for Medicaid for a number of reasons, including surpassing the program’s income limits. Many women who received Medicaid for Pregnant Women have since timed out of the program, while some children have turned 19 since the start of the pandemic, disqualifying them from coverage.

    In June, the state did expand Medicaid for new moms to a whole year after birth.

    Nearly one-quarter of Texas Medicaid renewals are still pending a decision from the state as of Nov. 14, according to KFF.

    Almost 760,000 Texans had their Medicaid or CHIP coverage renewed as part of the continuous renewal unwinding. State and federal official started readying an off-ramp from continuous enrollment around a year ago.

    The process has been arduous, requiring Texas’ health agency to hire staff to get updated contact information for people who moved during the pandemic. The state agency and local governments began a public awareness campaign warning people on Medicaid that they would have to apply for renewal sometime after March 31. Once the state requests information from an enrollee, they have 30 days to return their renewal packet.

    Losing health coverage can have ripple effects that extend beyond individual access to care, Love said.

    “From the adult side, it’s going to affect the health of the workforce. You’re going to have workers that don’t have the medical coverage they need, and as a result, they’re going to miss more work,” Love said. “Children are going to miss more school. Children aren’t going to get the care they need, even some of the well care that they need in their early check-ups because they don’t have the coverage.”

    The latest numbers reflect a worrying trend in children’s access to programs that are meant to support North Texas’ most vulnerable families. A recent report from Children’s Health and the University of Texas at Dallas showed that pediatric health coverage has been on the decline since long before the start of the pandemic, with nearly one in six children in Dallas County living without health insurance in 2021.

    “Pediatric health is a prime indicator of a healthy adult life,” said Christopher Durovich, president and CEO of Children’s Health. “Too many children are starting at a disadvantage.”

    Other children’s support programs have seen similar declines. enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, increased from 2021 to 2022. Those rates have yet to return to 2018 levels in Dallas and Tarrant counties
     
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    I guess $77,000,000 isn't all that much corruption in Mississippi...

     
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    "Think for one moment"... How anyone in government could be so dense to say such a ridiculous lie...



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    The US has acquired numerous territories through conflict, including: 1848, Mexico ceded 55% of its territory: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo 1898, Spain ceded Guam, Puerto Rico & The Philippines. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/spanish-american-war 1899, US acquires American Samoa after the 2nd Samoan Civil War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Convention
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    Lazy ass kids should get jobs
     
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    To be fair, we did pay money to those countries for that land. What we didn't do was fairly compensate indigenous people that actually settled the land. Instead we paid European colonial powers.
     

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