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Weather patterns of relatively low humidity, strong winds, dry fuels and dry lightening pose serious fire risk.
As I understand it, the PREVENTATIVE rolling blackout plan occurs when wind forecasts could throw branches and debris into power lines or topple trees, sparking wildfires.
The goal is to mitigate opportunities for wildfires.
Got a better idea?
Does PG&E have any competition? No. Does it have any incentive to improve in aging infrastructure? No.
Do I have a better idea? Yes. Open the market up to competition, get the state out of private electricity.
We are living in jetson times with flinstone services
No one goes without the opportunity to buy and have medical insurance. If you are poor you have Medicaid. If you're indigent we'll send advanced medical equipment to you via 911, and transport you directly to a hospital.
The issue is really the tweeners... people who make more than the Medicaid cut off, but don't have medical benefits from their job. This may include people who work off the books, people who own a business and work for themselves, and people who are in good health and most importantly people who are struggling to make ends meet.... for what ever reason.
Did you vote for Trump? Why are you trying to hold a politician that you didn't vote for to your agenda? I think Trump will address this in his second term. But you have to vote for that second term to find out what's in it.
Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal and simultaneously ? replace Obamacare with something wonderful that would take care of everybody and the government is going to pay for it?.
It is no more ? out there? than the Medicare for all scheme.
If there is an intent to deliver on his original campaign promise during the second term, where is the plan?
( I voted Trump in 2016 and will not do so in 2020. Likely will not vote for the Democrat nominee, either.
You think it's funny that millions of Californians have to endure electricity cutoffs? There has already been at least one death recorded due to the lack of power to required medical devices.
Left-wing California is quickly becoming Venezuela with its arbitrary electricity shut downs. Like I said, lack of basic services.
According to this person, Bernie's plan will save us all money and ultimately provide a huge tax cut for all Americans.
Person asked me where the Government gets revenue from, I said "taxpayers" and they told me I was wrong.
Can we just send all of these people over to Europe?
Girl told me I don't understand basic math...
Soooo, I had to unload these pesky statistics....45% of Americans pay no income tax, and nearly half of babies born are Medicaid.
We have no sense of making decisions to lower costs plus the Democrats need about 100 millions 3rd world immigrants to get free health care and welfare for votes to finish off the country so that's why I changed my mind and now against socialized health care.
Yes and no. For example, my auto insurance premiums are quite low because I'm low-risk. Auto insurance premiums for those with a lot of traffic violations and/or auto accidents are much higher. IOW, premiums are risk-based. Those who are higher-risk pay higher premiums. Same is true of my homeowner's, flood, and wind/hail policies. I'm in a higher risk area for the latter two, so my premiums are much higher than what others pay.
Exactly. Medicare is NOT "free."
Both Parts B and D require that seniors pay premiums out of pocket for that coverage.
Part B premiums range $136- 461, dependent on income, per person ,per month for a 80/20 Plan. Those enrolled in traditional Medicare who can afford to do so, buy private Medigap insurance to help pay for what Medicare does not.
Obviously those premiums are inadequate, given general revenues are used to subsidize the majority of the costs of reimbursing medical bills- Part B.
Younger/ healthier seniors may find a Medicare Advantage Plan a viable alternative to traditional Medicare. Private insurers, United Healthcare, Humana and BCBS are the dominate players in the Advantage market.
As I understand it, about 40% of seniors choose Medicare Advantage over traditional Medicare because it is a better bang for the $.
We have no sense of making decisions to lower costs plus the Democrats need about 100 millions 3rd world immigrants to get free health care and welfare for votes to finish off the country so that's why I changed my mind and now against socialized health care.
All insurance, not just healthcare, mutualizes ( socializes) risks.
Premiums are based on geo location. This was true before the ACA and remains true today.
The number and type of claims made in a local location matters, regardless of any individual?s claim history.
The ratio of healthcare providers: the local population matters.
The ratio of hospital beds: the local population matters.
The number of insurers ( the competition) in the local area matters.
Florida has 69 geo locations. The premium for the same plan sold by the same insurer in Florida is a variable by geo region. Same is true in other states.
No wall necessary to accomplish that. All that is necessary is to hold employers ( mostly small businesses and individual households) responsible for employing undocumented people. Seize assets.
Q: Why is it that only a handful of states made e-Verify of all employees the law? Why have these laws been written with intentional loopholes? Why don't these states fund employer audits?
A: State legislators know who butters their bread.
No wall is high enough. No patrol is deep enough so long as US people continue to hire undocumented people.
Illegals don't take US jobs. Employers recruit and hire undocumented because they will works for less.
E-verify, as it currently exists, fails to correctly identify more than half of those unauthorized to work in the US because they use/are using stolen/forged IDs, a recent example of which is Mollie Tibbetts' illegal alien murderer, who used stolen/forged ID and SS# to get his job. The Fed Gov investigation reported that he wasn't who he presented himself to be with the stolen/forged documents he showed his employer. He was employed under a name other than his own.
From the USCIS:
Quote:
"As seen in Exhibit 2, approximately 3.3 percent of all E-Verify findings are for unauthorized workers incorrectly found employment authorized and 2.9 percent of all findings are for unauthorized workers correctly not found employment authorized. Thus, almost half of all unauthorized workers are correctly not found to be employment authorized (2.9/6.2) and just over half are found to be employment authorized (3.3/6.2). Consequently, the inaccuracy rate for unauthorized workers is estimated to be approximately 54 percent with a plausible range of 37 percent to 64 percent. This finding is not surprising, given that since the inception of E-Verify it has been clear that many unauthorized workers obtain employment by committing identity fraud that cannot be detected by E-Verify"
"Identity fraud cannot be detected by E-Verify" Let that sink in, and don't for a second think that illegal aliens aren't aware of that fact...
A unique biometric identifier such as fingerprints, retinal scan, etc., would be required from every US citizen, LPR, and authorized temporary non-citizen worker to make e-verify work as well as it was intended to. E-verify has no such database, and I doubt you'd get every US citizen, LPR, and authorized temporary non-citizen worker to agree to submit such biometric identifiers to the Fed Gov. It's too intrusive and a violation of our 4th Amendment Rights.
You think it's funny that millions of Californians have to endure electricity cutoffs? There has already been at least one death recorded due to the lack of power to required medical devices.
Left-wing California is quickly becoming Venezuela with its arbitrary electricity shut downs. Like I said, lack of basic services.
As I understand it, the rolling blackouts are anything but arbitrary. It?s based on localized conditions, especially wind and are preventative measures to mitigate wildfires.
Governments and political ideologies don?t control the weather.
Create any type of government run program you like.....
Fine by me.
As long as participation (including the tax) is voluntary.
As to programs/services that have no Constitutional mandate (such as health care, etc.), Agree 100%.
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