🚨 The American Medical Association is about to make it a lot more expensive to have a baby in America.
Since they have a monopoly over medical billing codes, they've decided to jack up hospital bills for new mothers by moving to an a la carte system for services instead of bundling them.
Why do we even allow medical bills to be priced like this?
How do you run a country where a random Libyan whose mother was in the US for 24 hours to give birth is now qualified to be the President of the United States?
Fixing the loopholes created by the Biden Administration is a great way to lower costs for all Americans and is in line with this administration’s efforts to curb waste, fraud, and abuse. https://t.co/k7ylKVGEoM
It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.
When the GOP establishment doesn't want to do something their base clearly wants them to do, they try to create a specter of inevitability over the outcome: "It's impossible. You're ridiculous for even asking. Manage your expectations. We know things you don't about why this can't possibly happen because YOU are a peasant and WE are Very Smart."
The Capitol Hill press (Punchbowl, perfect example) play a very important role in this process, "reporting" completely subjective leadership opinions (or their own opinions) as hard fact.
All the establishment excuses are usually fake or intentionally lacking context about what's possible. Usually the real reasons are a) they legitimately just prioritize other things (as Thune said: Russian sanctions, permitting reform, housing!), or b) it requires effort and the one thing the Senate hates most is working.
Trump should just take some leftover judgment fund settlement money and give it to a bunch of politically aligned nonprofits.
Oh wait, sorry, that was what Obama did with $380 million in the Keepseagle settlement.
Reducing the SAVE America Act to a talking point amendment is embarrassing. But a masterful display of Washington failure theater: a low effort/no effort way of trying to placate the masses that “we tried” without ever having any intention of trying.