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discocrisco01's JournalTrump's healthcare act is an embarrassment for the 'greatest country in the world'
Well it finally happened: The announcement to repeal and replace Obamacare was made with much fanfare and thunderous applause resembling a Saturday night frat party.
The reverse Robin Hood "Trumpcare" will adversely impact low- and middle-income segments of the population – including a majority of Trump supporters – in favor of large tax breaks for corporations and insurance companies. It will also de-fund Planned Parenthood and eliminate abortion coverage.
The Republican proposal retains Obamacare’s requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing conditions and allows children below the age of 26 to be included in their parent’s health plan, but the revenue-generating "individual mandate" to buy insurance and associated fines has been replaced by a confusing set of age-based tax credits. As someone ruefully observed, this is like throwing a “six foot rope to rescue someone trapped in a 20 feet well.”
Read more at http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/trump-obamacare-scottish-referendum-brexit-a7624941.html
UC Board of Regents to Consider Capping Out-of-State Undergrad Enrollment at 20 Percent
Source: KTLA
In an unprecedented move to ease controversy over its admission policies, the University of California on Monday proposed a 20% systemwide limit on nonresident undergraduate enrollment and vowed to continue giving Californians top priority.
The proposed limit on students from other states and countries — which would be the first ever for the 10-campus public research university — comes after a scathing state audit last year found that UC was hurting California students by admitting too many out-of-state applicants. UC President Janet Napolitano has blasted those findings as unfair and unwarranted, but state lawmakers are requiring that UC adopt a policy restricting nonresident students in order to get an additional $18.5 million in funding this year.
Read more: http://ktla.com/2017/03/06/uc-board-of-regents-to-consider-capping-out-of-state-undergrad-enrollment-at-20-percent/
ISIS Appears to Lose Ground in Fight for Its Raqqa Base
Source: New York Times
The Islamic State appeared to suffer an important setback on Monday when American-backed militia fighters in Syria said they had seized the main route that connects Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital, to its territory in southeastern Deir al-Zour Province.
The development, if confirmed, essentially severed the last remaining access for supply deliveries to Raqqa and may have eliminated an escape route for Islamic State fighters.
Syrian government forces lost control of Raqqa in 2013 to the opposition, and the Islamic State captured the city later that year. Raqqa was the Islamic State’s most important territorial triumph at the time, and the extremist movement regards the city as the center of its self-proclaimed caliphate.
The seizure of the Raqqa exit route on Monday by the American-backed militia, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, was reported by its members and corroborated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory said the militia fighters were just five miles outside the Raqqa city limits.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/middleeast/isis-syria-raqqa-siege.html
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