Oregon's Measure 101 Leaves Me Slightly Confused

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Friday January 05, 2018 · 2:48 PM PST

2018/01/05 · 14:48

[Originally posted at my personal blog here. Sharing just for funsies.]

My confusion is that I don't get why it's any more complicated than the following:

Whereas the 2017 Oregon Legislature passed the bipartisan Healthcare Protections Bill (HB 2391); and

Whereas basic healthcare should be viewed as a human right; and

Whereas 95% of Oregonians and 100% of children currently have access to healthcare in large part because of Medicaid Expansion; and

Whereas the bipartisan Healthcare Protections Bill provides funding to maintain healthcare expansion and obtain matching federal funds; and

Whereas provider assessments are used by 49 states to fund Medicaid, and have the support of healthcare providers and insurers throughout Oregon; and

Whereas without the Healthcare Protections Bill, Oregon could lose up to $320 million in state revenue, and more than $1.3 billion in federal revenue for providing healthcare, resulting in upwards of 350,000 low-income and working Oregonians losing their healthcare; and

Whereas Republican- and extremist-backed efforts have succeeded in qualifying a Referendum vote on major parts of the Healthcare Protections Bill for a January 2018 Special Election; and

Whereas a YES vote on the Referendum will affirm support for the Healthcare Protections Bill; be it therefore

Resolved that I, Tuffy, strongly endorse a YES vote on Measure 101 on January 23, 2018.

Tuffy

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Tuesday December 10, 2013 · 10:19 AM PST

2013/12/10 · 10:19

This is my first Diary at DKos in years (I'm always a lurker more than participant), but I'm kinda proud of what I wrote on my own blog, and since it isn't as off topic to DKos as my past Diaries have been, I decided to share it here, too.

Senator Wyden has released a new plan for management of Oregon & California Railroad trust lands, a plan that I think is intended to replace, update, or supersede the Northwest Forest Plan that Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994 for O&C lands. I'm glad new science is being brought to bear on an old problem, but I think the approach is wrong. I disagree with it's broader objectives, and thus with some of the specific things it tries to do.

Tuffy

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Friday May 22, 2009 · 11:15 AM PDT

2009/05/22 · 11:15

I thought I'd share this letter, in case anyone feels like reading yet another nobody's views on his own navel. After a brief intro contextually relating to previous exchanges, I wrote the following to my 16 year old cousin (slightly edited for anonymity & context).

*****

I was doing my normal political junkie thing and stumbled across this article about Obama's recent speech at Notre Dame. I read a phrase from that speech that felt particularly close to home and decided to share. Quick back story on the speech: ND is a catholic school, and some jack-asses felt like making a big protest about how Obama shouldn't be allowed to speak there because he's pro-choice and the church is not, while ignoring that there was no Bush protest, even though the church is equally against the death penalty (Bush loved putting the zap on inmates in Texas) and war.

Tuffy

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Monday March 09, 2009 · 2:39 PM PDT

2009/03/09 · 14:39

This is not a work of fiction. This is really how I'm processing an event I've recently been through. It started as a sort of personal journal entry, but then just . . . expanded. Maybe this isn't the right forum to post this, but I'm feeling an almost desperate urge to tell it, to get it out.

All I can think is I should have hit him harder. More. It doesn't get much more clear cut than it was that night. I had the excuse. I knew he was the bad guy, and I was defending myself and someone else. Aged fuck had nothing on me. But I just gave the lady time to get away and backed off. And now she's dead.

Tuffy

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Thursday January 22, 2009 · 9:57 AM PST

2009/01/22 · 09:57

Hey, y'all. I'm an infrequent poster around here. Most of you probably don't recognize me, and I'm ok with that. I never update my profile, I almost never put up diaries, and I only comment a couple times a week.

Nonetheless, I'm here every day. I read, laugh, and I weep along with the rest of you. I bought tickets to the first YearlyKos and then found myself unable to attend (donated the tix to another Kossack). I was here for the Dean Scream. I was here for the Pie Fight, the '08 Primary wars, and every internal battle in between.

And I gotta tell you, I was a touch worried about this place.

Tuffy

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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 7:40 PM PDT

2008/07/23 · 19:40

I'm pretty sure my daughter Rory is traumatized for life after the last couple years. She's almost three, and waaaay too familiar with hospitals. It started in January of '07, when she got a staph infection; basically flesh-eating bacteria. We took her to the emergency room when she developed a fever and a pimple on her leg turned into a swollen area the size of my wife's palm. The emergency room sent us home with the wrong antibiotic, and said to contact her pediatrician within the next three days or so.

In the morning she wasn't any better than when we'd left the hospital, so I demanded a same-day appointment with the pediatrician. Apparently, if we'd waited for day two, she'd have lost the leg, and if we'd waited to day three, she probably wouldn't have made it.

Follow me across the jump if you don't mind reading a diary that doesn't touch on McCain's latest gaffe. It gets worse. Skull surgeries and broken vertebrae abound.

Tuffy

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 9:54 AM PDT

2006/05/11 · 09:54

Wow. I read a diary yesterday about an author's speech at the International Reading Association Conference in Chicago was cancelled because of her views on NCLB.

I was going to send this along to my conservative baptist mother-in-law, and ask what she thought about it. NCLB is like the one issue where she has problems with Bush, so I thought it would make an opening to a nice discussion.

But I just . . . couldn't . . . stop . . .

Read the train-wreck of a rant below. Read More

I love my dad, but ... (w/ Poll!)

Tuffy

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Monday July 18, 2005 · 8:56 AM PDT

2005/07/18 · 08:56

I just got this joke e-mail from him entitled "Its Tuff Being a Liberal." I've copied it below the fold for you to see, and added a poll for my own amusement. It really isn't that good. I could laugh if it was actually a funny joke, but this only got a smirk, a) because my dad knows my positions, and b) because of my name here at DKos.

Anyone got any good responses I can send back at him? Read More

Goodbye, East Bay Kossacks!

Tuffy

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 · 12:05 PM PDT

2005/05/17 · 12:05

This has been diaried already, but I thought I'd drop an update for anyone who missed it. The East Bay Kossacks Meetup group is in its death throes, and we've begun to move on.

You see, whoever first organized the East Bay Kossacks group has kinda disappeared. Since there is no longer an official "Organizer," the board is closed until someone steps up to fill the void. I am not that someone. Sorry. Don't have the $20/month to spare.

More below the fold. Read More

Alert to Firefox Users

Tuffy

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 11:07 AM PDT

2005/05/13 · 11:07

This Tuesday, a story came out saying there were some rather nasty security flaws in the last version of Firefox (1.0.3). These flaws revolved around JavaScript, and could potentially allow hackers (in the common parlance) to launch programs and code from your computer. (See the BBC NEWS article here.

By the way, aside from this one instance, I've never seen anything negative said about Firefox's security. It's a great program, and Tabs are the only way to browse, particularly here at DKos.

More below the fold. Read More

East Bay Kossacks Meetup!

Tuffy

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Monday February 07, 2005 · 11:07 AM PST

2005/02/07 · 11:07

A while ago, someone posted a diary on using meetup to facilitate local Kossack communities getting together for better or for worse, for beer or for activism. Well, there's an East Bay group meeting tonight at Jupiter!

It isn't an official location registered on the meetup board, as none was "officially" chosen, but a number of us have agreed to show up at Jupiter this evening between 7:00 and 8:00. Remember to check in with the bartender or someone up front so they know where the group is sitting.

We have 5 people RSVP'd as Yesses, and 5 as Maybes. I just thought I'd post it here so people who missed the comments in that previous diary can still hear about it and attend. I look forward to seeing whoever can make it! Read More

Hand Shaking at the Debates: Saddam's Playbook Page 1

Tuffy

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Monday September 27, 2004 · 6:11 PM PDT

2004/09/27 · 18:11

I was reading an entry by Bob Harris at http://www.thismodernworld.com about the debates when a thought struck.

The idea has been circulated that when they shake, Kerry should stand close to W so his height advantage and the tilt of W's head make Kerry look more presidential, and W look less mature.

I then remembered something else I heard about gaining an advantage in a handshake. Read More

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