Here’s what we’ve got, including a late entry on the local front:
- State grand jury to investigate Harrell ethics allegations (thestate.com) — Right on the eve of the new legislative session. This is on the charges raised by the SC Policy Council. AG Wilson is referring them to the grand jury.
- Rebels risk losing U.S., U.K. support (BBC) — Uhhh… what support?
- Iran to implement nuclear deal (The Guardian) — “Comprehensive agreement” implementation to start Jan. 20, says Kerry.
- Health Care Plans Drawing Older, Less Healthy People (NYT) — Interestingly, the WashPost took the opposite tack on its headline (Young adults make up almost one-quarter of health signups) — but the story is more like the NYT’s and WSJ’s).
- Christie administration cut access to mayor, files show (WashPost) — We’re talking about a whole other mayor here.
- City drops charges against SC NAACP president (thestate.com) — As reported previously today.
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Harrell has collected $300K for using his own private airplane.
People don’t run for office for the salary. It’s the expense accounts, the campaign funds, the kickbacks, the patronage, the nepotism, the rigged government contracts that feed their private businesses.
Here again is one of those things that keep Doug and me from agreeing on things: He believes everything is about money…
What is this ethics (and most) charge about? Baseball cards? Politics is about money.
[#5] The story about cutting off Jersey City’s mayor’s access to Christie looks like a non-starter to me. They’re essentially saying that they canceled a meeting after learning that the mayor wasn’t going to endorse Christie. I’m not sure that even counts as news.
(I don’t like your headline on this story–did you or WaPo write that? It sounds like they blocked citizens’ access to the mayor, not the mayor’s access to Christie.)
That’s odd. This was Rachel Maddow’s top story tonight. She dug a little deeper than the NYT story. I still don’t think the Jersey City story will float, but if Hoboken didn’t get emergency aid as some sort of retaliation, then he may be finished not just as a national candidate, but as NJ governor as well.
Yep, it’s awkward. I just copied and pasted that. Looks like they put a better hed on it later…
[#4] This was easy to predict. The folks who need it most are going to be the ones who sign up first. Young folks will come along as they learn the benefits of coverage (or suffer the consequences of no coverage).
I’d like to see data on how long it took young folks to get enrolled in Massachusetts’s plan. Somehow, they got most of them enrolled, but they probably didn’t have a faction fighting to discourage young people from signing up.
@Norm – it’s not going to happen. Young people aren’t going to pay for something they don’t feel they need. Especially when the penalty for not signing up is so low.
But they did, eventually, in Massachusetts. I found this article that has a graph illustrating the rate for Massachusetts enrollment–the young didn’t sign up in large numbers for several months. SOMETHING motivated them to do so….
It’s not the same program as much as Democrats want to try and use that meme. If it was, why didn’t the federal government just take exactly what Massachusetts had (including the website if one exists) and just scale it out?
With the high deductibles of most plans, I would imagine a young person looks at it as a consumer and says “I’ll take my chances and keep my money in my own pocket.”
Squinting backwards at my 21-year-old self, I can easily imagine choosing to take my chances. Even after I started working a job that provided insurance, I didn’t think about its importance until I was married at 26. I can understand why so many young people would rather pay the penalty. I’m hopelessly hopeful, I suppose.
You know what I’m waiting for?
That moment when the sponsor realizes that in spite of the marketing, the slogans, the jingles, the focus-group-tested graphics on the label, the packaging, the endless promotions . . .
the dogs still won’t eat the dog food.