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Showing posts with label Sen pat roberts r tb KS. Show all posts
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Mark Reinstein/ZUMA WHAT A TOTAL ASS!!!!! he can apologize all he wants, but his comment shows just what he thinks about women, his real attitude toward women. His is one of the right wing fanatics that puts the PIG in REPIGLICAN. From +Mother Jones .....
His comment came hours before the House was supposed to vote on the Republican health care bill, whose fate is in doubt.
MAR. 23, 2017 2:04 PM
With Republican support for the American Health Care Act in jeopardy, President Donald Trump held a last-minute meeting with House Freedom Caucus members Thursday to discuss the possibility of eliminating one of Obamacare's signature elements: the requirement that insurance policies cover 10 so-called essential health benefits.
One of those benefits is preventive services, which include cancer screenings such as mammograms. According to a January report, more women across all income and education levels used mammograms under Obamacare than before the health care law was enacted.
But preserving affordable access to these types of benefits doesn't seem to be a major concern for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.). Asked on Thursday if he supported abandoning Obamacare's essential health benefits, Roberts reportedly scoffed, "I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms."
Under fire for the comment, Roberts later tweeted that he regretted his remarks:
The joke, which appears to make light of the fact that as a man he doesn't need the breast-screening test, came just hours before the House is slated to vote on Republicans' plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Republicans are reportedly scrambling to get the bill passed, and its fate remains in doubt.
As Trump met with Freedom Caucus members Thursday, White House official Cliff Sims tweeted the following image, in which the only woman present in the room appeared to be Kellyanne Conway:
CHRISTIAN sen pat roberts r tb KS, in a confusing perversion of his faith, deliberately deceived, manipulated, and lied about people loosing their health insurance in Kansas due to Obamacare / the ACA. His justification for doing so is to hold on to his US Senate seat. WHAT A TESTIMONY! Here it is, from +PolitiFact .....
"20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare)."
— Pat Roberts on Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 in a Web video
By Lauren Carroll on Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 6:39 p.m.
A recent video by
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., attacks his opponent, independent Greg Orman,
and says 20,000 Kansans lost their insurance because of the Affordable
Care Act.
In an unexpectedly tight race, Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of
Kansas is doing everything he can to paint his opponent -- independent
Greg Orman -- as a liberal henchman.
One of Roberts’ favorite points is Orman’s stance on the Affordable
Care Act. Orman says he does not support the health care law, but he
also says pushing legislation to repeal it is impractical, because President Barack Obama would simply veto it.
In a recent Web video, Roberts treats that view as support for Obamacare.
The ad starts out with video of Orman shaking hands with
constituents, one of whom asks him a question about repealing Obamacare.
Orman replies, "That’s an interesting question," and moves on down the
line.
"Greg Orman won't repeal Obamacare," the ad’s narrator says, "even
though 20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of it."
Roberts was expected to easily win a fourth term (the last time Kansas elected a Democrat to the Senate was in 1932).
Then, Democratic candidate Chad Taylor dropped out, and independent
Orman surged in the polls. Now the race is a toss-up. Some see a Roberts
win as necessary for Republican Senate control in 2015.
Both candidates say they do not support Obama’s health care law, but
we wanted to know how the law had affected Kansas -- did 20,000 people
really lose their health insurance?
The answer, it seems, is no. How many Kansans lost insurance?
We asked Linda Sheppard, health policy adviser for the Kansas
Insurance Department, how many Kansans had lost their insurance due to
Obamacare. She said the state does not require health insurance carriers
to report when people go on or off coverage, so there’s no way to
definitively know the answer.
However, Sheppard said insurance carriers do have to check in with
the department when they decide to terminate a policy. So 20,000 people
losing health insurance would have likely come to her attention.
"We are not aware of any wide-scale cancellation of policies," she said.
Here’s what happened. About a year ago, in October 2013, Kansas’
largest insurance carrier -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas --
sent letters to about 9,450 policyholders, according to numerous news reports.
Those members would be unable to renew their plans for 2014 because
those plans do not comply with new standards under the Affordable Care
Act.
Sheppard told us there are no official numbers for how many people
received these notices from insurance carriers other than Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of Kansas.
Roberts’ ad cites the 20,000 figure from an October 2013 story out of Kansas Watchdog, a conservative news website. That story says Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (which is primarily based in Missouri
but also serves two Kansas counties) sent out notices to about 10,000
Kansan policyholders, on top of the 9,450 from Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Kansas.
For Roberts, this is where the story ends. But in reality, the
thousands of people who received these letters did not end up without
insurance.
The following November -- after the failed roll out of HealthCare.gov
(Kansas uses the federal marketplace) -- Obama announced that people
who had recieved these nonrenewal notices could keep their policies
through 2014.
Then in March of this year, Kansas agreed to another transitional policy that allowed all of these policies to continue through 2016.
It’s Sheppard’s understanding that Kansas insurance companies turned
around and retracted those nonrenewal notices -- meaning the thousands
of people who received those notices were able to keep their health
insurance.
Retracting the nonrenewal notices caused some behind-the-scenes
challenges for the carriers, but "for the consumer it was pretty easy,"
said Scott Brunner, senior analyst at the Kansas Health Institute, a
nonprofit think tank.
Of course, these policyholders could have chosen not to renew. They
could have picked a different plan, switched to a different provider or
dropped insurance altogether -- but they were not forced out of health
insurance by the Affordable Care Act.
"It is disingenuous to focus on those who lost insurance without
acknowledging that it doesn’t mean they are currently (uninsured)," said
Roberta Riportella, a professor of community health at Kansas State
University who supports the Affordable Care Act.
Roberts’ ad also ignores that the number of uninsured Kansans who have gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Because the state does not meticulously track the number of insured
folks, and the law only became fully implemented this year, it is hard
to know with certainty how many people gained insurance as a result of
Obamacare.
But about 57,000 Kansans are now enrolled in the health insurance
marketplace, Riportella said. If Kansas follows national estimates, then
roughly half of those people were previously uninsured.
There’s no evidence to suggest that more people are uninsured now
than before the Affordable Care Act was implemented, Brunner said.
"The expectation would be that with the Affordable Care Act that the number would continue to decline," he said. Our ruling
Roberts said, "20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare)."
There’s no official information to corroborate Roberts’ claim.
Several thousand Kansans received notices that their insurance plans
could not be renewed because they did not comply with Obamacare
standards, but the notices were retracted about a month later.
Meanwhile, about 57,000 Kansans obtained insurance on HealthCare.gov. If
the state follows the national trend, roughly half of these people were
uninsured before the law.
We rate Roberts’ claim False.
THE latest US Senate forcast from +FiveThirtyEight It is obvious we can not sit on our butts, campaign contributions are needed for funding get out the vote operations, canvasing and voter registration. We need to keep up the pressure on both republican / tea-bagger candidates as well as the electorate. If you live in a state holding a senate election this year volunteer for the Democratic candidate, even an hour or two every few weeks can make a difference. If you can't volunteer consider making a donation. Again, no matter how much you are able to donate it can make a difference. I posted an appeal for donations for Sen Al Franken D MN and I donated $5.00, that is what I can afford right now. But it adds up and it helps. Read this, and consider everything at stake and do something to help the cause for the good of our nation. AND REMEMBER TO VOTE ON 4 NOV 14!!!!!
Democrat Chad Taylor listens to arguments before the Kansas
Supreme Court on Tuesday in his petition to remove his name from the
ballot after he withdrew from the U.S. Senate race.
Charlie Riedel / AP
Another day and another uptick in the odds that Democrats keep control of the Senate this November.
The latest FiveThirtyEight forecast
gives Democrats a 47 percent chance of keeping at least 50 seats.
Republican chances of winning a majority have dropped from 64 percent
when the FiveThirtyEight model launched two weeks ago to 53 percent Tuesday.
The biggest mover Tuesday: Kansas. A new Public Policy Polling
(PPP) survey put independent Greg Orman ahead of Republican Sen. Pat
Roberts 41 percent to 34 percent. Democrat Chad Taylor, who has
suspended his campaign and is appealing to the Kansas Supreme Court to remove his name from the ballot, came in at 6 percent. It’s the second poll in a week to have Orman ahead, though the previous one had Orman up by only 1 percentage point.
The Kansas race is still volatile. Besides the question of whether Taylor will be on the ballot, Republicans are only now waking up
to the fact that they have a competitive race on their hands. In the
polls released since Taylor dropped out, Orman has garnered an unusually
large — 25 percent to 30 percent — share of the Republican vote. That
could change.
We continue to have only limited polling in Kansas, and so the
FiveThirtyEight model is still giving weight to the state’s long history
of favoring Republicans. Roberts has a 51 percent chance of winning,
according to the latest forecast. (Kansas is the closest race in the
nation, according to the model.)
Yet, Kansas is part of an unnerving trend for the GOP; Tuesday was
the latest in a string of bad polling days for Republicans. A PPP poll
released Tuesday in North Carolina gave Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan a 44
percent to 40 percent lead over Republican Thom Tillis. Just a week ago,
Hagan had no better than a 50 percent chance of winning, but PPP is the
fifth pollster to release a survey in the past week that has her up by
at least 3 percentage points. Hagan is now a 70 percent favorite.
Why have Democrats been moving the ball? It’s not the national environment, which favors Republicans. And many less competitive races haven’t moved one way or another.
On Monday, my colleague Nate Silver suggested
one theory: Democrats have been out-fundraising Republicans by a
substantial margin in many of the most competitive races. The Cook
Political Report’s Charlie Cook noted in a column Monday
that Republicans are worried mega donors on the right are not opening
their wallets to the degree they did during 2012 campaign.
And a new report
released by Wesleyan Media Project, using data from Kantar Media/CMAG,
reinforces Nate’s hypotheses. Democratic Senate candidates and the
outside groups supporting them have enjoyed advertising edges in almost
all the competitive Senate contests over the past few weeks. Three of
their larger advertising leads have been in Colorado, Michigan and North
Carolina — the three states where we’ve seen the biggest movements
toward Democratic candidates in the FiveThirtyEight forecasts. New
Hampshire, one of the few competitive states to move toward the GOP over
the last week, is also one of the few states where Republicans have had
an advertising advantage.
It’s important not to oversell this point. Democrats also have large
advertising advantages in states where the polls don’t look so good for
them, including Georgia. And the raw number of ads each side is airing
is less important than what time the ads are on, because people are more
likely to be watching television at some times than others.
Still, it’s clear that Democrats are dominating the airwaves. The
question is whether Republicans and their affiliated groups can catch
up. If they can, then we may see a reversion to the mean, and the
Republicans’ more robust position might be restored. If Democrats
maintain their lead on the air — and if that edge is what’s driving the
Democratic run over the past few days — then they might able to overcome
a bad national environment. Check out FiveThirtyEight’s latest Senate forecast.
