GOP calls move to private exchanges #brokenpromises

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Wednesday September 18, 2013 · 5:26 PM PDT

2013/09/18 · 17:26

A sign sits at the Walgreen's pharmacy in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to buy Duane Reade Holdings Inc. from affiliates of Oak Hill Capital Partners for $618 million to expand in metropolitan New York. Photographer: JB Reed/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives sends out frequent press releases. Committee Member Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC2) often shares info from the Committee, as she did on the local evening news in Raleigh tonight.

Today the Committee issued a release that implied that the move by Walgreens to change how it provides health benefits to its employees was in response to "Obamacare" implementation. The hashtag #BrokenPromises was included in the release.

While it is still too early to fully evaluate whether the change by Walgreens and other large employers will be positive or negative for employees long-term, it is certain the slant of the Committee's press release stretches the truth.

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Monday September 16, 2013 · 9:06 AM PDT

2013/09/16 · 09:06

Americans for Prosperity spent more than $60,000 in North Carolina to run a television ad that questions the new health care law according to the Raleigh News and Observer.

The ad features the mother of a young girl who has had four open heart surgeries. She worries that the law will restrict the freedom of patients to keep their doctors.
The group plans to spend $41,375 on WSOC and $20,050 at WBTV, according to Political Moneyline. Both stations operate in the Charlotte market. The AFP is running the ads in Tampa, Fla., Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.

“The average North Carolinian feels very strongly about their freedom to choose their own personal doctor,” said Chris Farr, state director of AFP in North Carolina. “For those citizens who have a serious illness affecting their loved ones, the freedom to choose a doctor becomes even more crucial. Obamacare threatens that freedom, and people are not going to sit by and quietly accept this impact on their lives.”

Another obvious attempt to confuse citizens on the effects of the Affordable Care Act and create fear. I have Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage now, and I have networks of healthcare providers. That is how HMOs and PPOs work and have worked for years.
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Women's Equality? Separate but equal still?

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Monday August 26, 2013 · 3:22 PM PDT

2013/08/26 · 15:22

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Voting Rights Scandal in NC

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Monday August 19, 2013 · 2:00 PM PDT

2013/08/19 · 14:00

Public boosterism in North Carolina for years has flourished as popular magazines selected North Carolina as a top choice as a place to live year after year. Now North Carolinians are seeing another side of being in the news frequently, as our state and local governments make national news--and not in a good way.

MSNBC has led the media pack with almost nightly stories of voter laws gone awry and students who have voted before being told they can no longer vote where they go to college. Rachel Maddow has excelled at getting this story before her viewers.

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Monday August 05, 2013 · 12:29 PM PDT

2013/08/05 · 12:29

Please sign our petition at Change.org protesting the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. We currently have almost 400 signatures from across the nation. Our goal is 500 signatures by Wednesday.

Here is the video of the segment from NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

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NC Democrats: 'We will not lie down'

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Saturday July 27, 2013 · 4:54 PM PDT

2013/07/27 · 16:54

The North Carolina AFL-CIO is offering aspirin bottles to the Republicans of the NC General Assembly. Union leaders think the NCGA majority will need the aspirin to help them recover from hangovers. The GOP leaders were apparently drunk on power during the just ended session of our North Carolina Legislature.

I just had a brief chat on FaceBook with Randy Voller, Chair of the NC Democratic Party, and Yevonne Brannon of Great Schools in Wake. Voller's message to Democrats was posted earlier today (see 'Extreme GOP Pandemic'...). Randy is speaking truth to power in many venues including the mainstream media, but perhaps more importantly, to the people themselves in events across the state.

Chairman Voller responded to the Guv (Pat McCrory) and his campaign promises of jobs for the people of NC in a ABC interview. As Randy puts it, "The GOP seems to think JOBS is a four letter word," now that they control the government of NC.

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Monday July 15, 2013 · 9:35 PM PDT

2013/07/15 · 21:35

I don't usually make predictions on elections this far in advance, but I will in this case.

I think the RNC will pick a woman to back in North Carolina's Hagan Senate race, and the most likely suspect is Congresswoman Renee Ellmers. She is not much of a Congresswoman, but she is a better candidate to appeal to moderates than any of the legislative leaders. All of them are tainted by the low regard of the NC General Assembly among NC voters.

For those of you who do not already know, North Carolina has become the "new Wisconsin," as our notorious legislature has practiced big government encroachment on all kinds of local issues, including taking the Charlotte airport and the Asheville water supply. The list of interference in local government even extends to local school systems like Wake County's public school system.

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Sunday July 14, 2013 · 12:06 PM PDT

2013/07/14 · 12:06

In the wake of multiple shootings by persons identified as having a mental illness, especially the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, state and federal governments have heard from those who would lock up or forcibly medicate those they consider dangerous.

Even President Obama has focused his administration's response to the Connecticut shootings on gun background checks for those with a history of mental illness.

This focus on dangerousness is promoted in the media by a couple of zealots, D. J. Jaffee and Dr. E. Fuller Torrey. Their constant barrage of press releases has poisoned the well at media outlets across the country, who print their version of events without question. The result is a resurgence of stigma for those labeled with a mental health diagnosis.

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