What’s interesting in the news today?
1. So they’re paying for insurance that’s pretty much useless barring a major illness. What a rip off.
From TheNYTimes “About 7.3 million Americans are enrolled in private coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, and more than 80 percent qualified for federal subsidies to help with the cost of their monthly premiums. But many are still on the hook for deductibles that can top $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for families — the trade-off, insurers say, for keeping premiums for the marketplace plans relatively low. The result is that some people — no firm data exists on how many — say they hesitate to use their new insurance because of the high out-of-pocket costs.
Insurers must cover certain preventive services, like immunizations, cholesterol checks and screening for breast and colon cancer, at no cost to the consumer if the provider is in their network. But for other services and items, like prescription drugs, marketplace customers often have to meet their deductible before insurance starts to help.
While high-deductible plans cover most of the costs of severe illnesses and lengthy hospital stays, protecting against catastrophic debt, those plans may compel people to forgo routine care that could prevent bigger, longer-term health issues, according to experts and research.
“They will cause some people to not get care they should get,” Katherine Hempstead, who directs research on health insurance coverage at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said of high-deductible marketplace plans. “Unfortunately, the people who are attracted to the lower premiums tend to be the ones who are going to have the most trouble coming up with all the cost-sharing if in fact they want to use their health insurance.””
And the prices are going up, but you can’t find out how much until after the elections.
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2. Meet Hillary’s Benghazi “fixer.” Same as it ever was huh?
From TheDailySignal “To Sonya Gilliam, a recent account of improper sorting of Benghazi-related documents at the State Department brought back vivid memories of her own encounters with high-level government officials who withheld, deleted or destroyed public records.
And one name stood out for its familiarity: Cheryl Mills.
A former deputy assistant secretary of state had told The Daily Signal that Mills was present during an after-hours document operation in a basement room of the State Department in October 2012. Mills was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
The purpose of the session, former State Department official Raymond Maxwell said, was to “separate” documents damaging to Clinton before records were turned over to an independent review board probing the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.”
“My stomach dropped,” Gilliam says about hearing the allegation last month that Mills was involved in Benghazi document sorting: I said to myself, oh my gosh, here we are, 14 or 15 years later, [and] Cheryl Mills is still in charge of document ‘production’—I’ll use that term loosely.”
Sandy Berger would be so proud.
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3. Chairperson fight!
DWS whistles past the graveyard like nobody’s business.
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4. Peyton is The TD Man.
From MSN “Peyton Manning’s receivers played keep-away with his milestone memento and the NFL’s new leader in career touchdown passes toyed with the San Francisco 49ers in the Denver Broncos’ 42-17 victory Sunday night.
Manning went into the showdown two TDs shy of Brett Favre’s record of 508, and threw four touchdown passes to reach 510.
“It’s special because of the way our team played,” said Manning, who surpassed Favre’s mark with an 8-yard strike to Demaryius Thomas late in the second quarter.”
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Wandering Views 
I have never seen so many big wigs of the Democratic Party come to our area and/or state. We will have Joe Biden at a near by community college. Also, the first lady and several others. Usually our area is a shu-in for that party and we are pretty much ignored. Fascinating to watch and read the letters to the editor this campaign season.
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Around here Obama is about as popular as the plague. Even the liberals don’t want him to come campaign. That makes me smile.
But they’ll stick elect an Obama wannabe for Gov.. Go figure. 🙄
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Didn’t a General once say something about “Don’t get stuck on stupid?”
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