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Located in the center of Provincetown, close to shops, bars and clubs. (1 block from the A house). All rooms have 19 LCD TV (some have TV/DVD). We have both private bath or semi-private bath rooms (semi-private is 2 rooms to 1 bath). Rooms can accommodate up to 4 guests. In the Victorian Parlor you will find the guest phone, and a large 37 LCD TV for your...
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When you stay at The Inn at the Oaks in Eastham, you'll be near the airport and minutes from Schoolhouse Museum and Salt Pond Visitor Center. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of Arnold's Mini Golf and Eastham Windmill. Make yourself at home in one of the 13 individually decorated guestrooms. Conveniences include phones and irons/ironing boards...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 117 reviews
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I arrived after 8 pm and there was a very welcoming letter attached to the front door. My room-on the 3rd floor--was spotlessly clean. Bed was very comfortable Plenty of pillows and blankets. Private, clean bathroom with shower. Breakfast had nice selection-coffee, juice, milk, cereal, scones, coffeecake, fresh fruit to name a few. House fascinating to walk through. Friendly staff to greet me in the morning. Will stay again.
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Cape Cod's Penny House Inn is a romantic, relaxed, bed and breakfast inn. The inn offers several types of accommodations including rooms and suites with king size bed, whirlpool tubs for 2 and fireplaces. A Select Registry member since 2002, the Penny House Inn's main focus is on its guests. Spa services are also available at the inn. Wrap yourself in on...
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Melissa and the rest of the staff are absolutely wonderful. They make you feel right at home at the inn. The room was beautiful and the breakfast was delicious!
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A stay at Moffett House Inn places you in the heart of Provincetown, steps from MacMillan Pier and Pilgrim Monument. This guesthouse is within close proximity of MacMillian Wharf and Provincetown Town Hall. Make yourself at home in one of the 10 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and DVD players. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you co...
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It was clean, quiet (off the street) and not a major hotel chain.
The house is a bit old (you can tell from the construction) and not having parking near the hotel was annoying.Moffett house is great at what they offer. Good thing this place is not for kids, nor for people needing large rooms for spending a long time in their hotel room. Great place to stay if you want to spend as much time exploring town as possible, but need a quiet, clean, comfortable place to sleep.
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The view was fantastic; right at the end of the Cape.
The hotel and rooms are antiquated. Right out of the 1960's! I thought I was checking into the 'Bates Hotel'....Not much else to say. The pixs of the rooms on the web site are very misleading. The walls were paper thin and the bathroom needed upgrading. Especially the bathroom window which which connects to the hallway. No privacy and the hallway light shines right through the bathroom leaving no privacy. We could not believe this.
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The people that work there (mostly I dealt with the front desk) could not have been more helpful and pleasantIt far exceeded my expectations
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With a stay at Snug Cottage in Provincetown, you'll be minutes from Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Provincetown Public Library. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of MacMillian Wharf and Provincetown Theater. Make yourself at home in one of the 8 air-conditioned rooms featuring DVD players. Complimentary wireless Internet access is a...
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very nice staff, good breakfast with self-baked bread
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The friendly staff really made this place. The location was great. Our room was on the beach - when the tide cracked in the lovely sound of tree waves was so soothing.good breakfast and clean outside pool.
Good 7.0
Great location. Nice staff. Nice to have free breakfast.
Bathroom smelled of dog. Toilet seat cheap plastic and very loose. Small beach was fine with lovely view, but loaded with dried black seaweed and debris, which could have been raked away easily.We wished there were at least some rooms that had not been occupied by dogs, or at least where there was no evidence of them. We asked at the desk and they said they were not supposed to be on the top floor but people sneak them in.
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When you stay at Sandcastle Resort and Club in Provincetown, you'll be by the ocean and close to Provincetown Theater and Pilgrim Monument. This beach condominium resort is within close proximity of Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Whydah Museum. Make yourself at home in one of the 135 guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and stov...
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The view of the ocean and proximity to the beach
The Jacuzzi was broken and they did not fix in the timeframe they promised. The 'free coffee and pastries' were only if you sat through an hour long timeshare sales pitch. Ten bucks to pay for other breakfast-Bland pancakes were rip off.This hotel was not up to four star standard. The Jacuzzi was broken and they did not fix it by the promised time. Free coffee & pastries in the morning ONLY if you listened to an hour long time share sales pitch we they advertised as 'Learning about the community.' Ten bucks for a small breakfast which included bland pancakes. I'm staying somewhere else next time I'm in town.
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With a stay at Harbor Hotel Provincetown in Provincetown, you'll be on the waterfront and convenient to Provincetown Theater and Pilgrim Monument. This beach inn is within close proximity of Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Provincetown Public Library. Make yourself at home in one of the 119 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD te...
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Very in need of serious updating. No safety grab bars in tub shower. Concert floors no carpet. Poor communications with staff ie didn't know about continental breakfast until checkout. Over priced for dated hotel.
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Great location, clean rooms, lovely gardens and decks.
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Close Assault
Winter Storm says
2008-10-12 21:59:27
Armor overrun (Comment / Question)
1) Can a tank unit fire at a unit that is not adjacent to it after taking ground during an armor overrun?
2) Does the tank unit still have the additional die during armor overrun?
(the general rule in the FAQ says that a tank unit that has an additional die in close combat still has it after armor overrun but RBorg in the Forum apparently said that tanks have not the additional die in armor overrun when the close assault card is played)
gheintze says
2008-10-17 06:08:29
Armor Overrun Answer (Comment / Question)
1) Yes, it is as a normal Armor Overrun.
2) No, the additional die only applies to the initial close combat roll.
Tulfa says
2010-06-26 01:00:52
Close Assault with Seishin Kyoiku (Comment / Question)
Q. Does the +1 from the card stack with the +1 from the Japanese Command rule?
A. The one thing I have found indicates that it does:
gheintze says
2010-07-30 04:02:44
Close Assault Questions from the FAQ (Comment / Question)
Q. When the Close Assault card is played and a unit retreats, which puts it next to a unit that originally was not adjacent when the order was issued, can it battle?
A. No. Only units adjacent when the card is played are issued orders. If you have a lot of units being ordered with the Close Assault card, you may want to mark all the units you order prior to any attacks to avoid confusion.
Q. When playing the Close Assault card, can a unit designated to Close Assault still fire if the unit he was to Close Assault is no longer adjacent to him?
A. No. Ordered units may only Close Assault.
Q. After a successful Armor attack using the Close Assault card, that results in the destruction or retreat of the target, can the unit Armor Overrun with the extra die if it is still attacking an adjacent unit?
A. No. Units ONLY get the extra die for the initial attack. After eliminating a unit or forcing a retreat, Armor units can do a normal Armor Overrun (no extra die) or attack a distant unit if there are no adjacent targets.
Q. On Close Assault, if my ordered unit A was next to enemy B, and enemy C is forced to retreat next to my unit A, may my unit A attack enemy C?
A. Yes. The important point in this example is that unit A was already ordered by the Close Assault Command card and when unit A is going to battle it may choose enemy unit B or C to Close Assault.
player698128 says
2011-01-27 09:08:10
ARTILLERY (Comment / Question)
can I ORDER Artillery for close assault?
GoboGobo says
2011-07-06 09:44:20
Artillery (Comment / Question)
Yes, you can order Artillery, but only to attack a unit that is next to it. Even artillery does Close Assault.
Jaykay2010 says
2012-01-01 02:32:40
Artillery (Comment / Question)
I don't the believe the first answer to this question is correct. The close assault card only mentions infantry or armor units that are in close assault, NOT artillery. The online game doesn't allow you to select artillery when yoy olay this card, even tho you may be adjacent to an enemy unit, so I presume the only units you can order with this card are infantry and/or armor, as the card states.
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the advisory. Fortunately routers normally have HTTP disabled
by default, so there shouldn't be too many break-ins on the
Internet. Unfortunately HTTP is normally enabled on switches
by default. Even worse, many network administrators don't
realise this, so I expect a number of internal networks are
now in serious trouble.
Actually, it has been my experience during assessments and pentests that
administrators lean toward "ease of use" and actually activate HTTP
interfaces on ANY device which allows it. When they install new routers
or new software in general, they tend to key in on HTTP capabilities as
a "bonus" which will make their work easier. They never have to leave
their browser, let alone their cubicle! The only ones who dont are the
ones who take the time to read all of cisco's security papers..and these
seem few and far between.
I see too many security products moving toward a web interface where
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encryption mechanisms may be enough, but HTTP by itself, without SSL
implmented somwhere, makes it too easy for us, let alone the kiddies out
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(don't even get me started on the amount of info flying around networks
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If you're serious about security then you shouldn't be using
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realise that the browser sends the enable password in
cleartext on every HTTP request.
The problem here is of course simply "lack of awareness", which is the
black plague of IT.
The average workload, especially in these days of mass-cutbacks, of an
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ease-of-use function such as HTTP on their switches, the engineers tend
to say "hey, that's easier/faster...hell, ill simply enable it on all my
routers too..."
SIDE NOTE: I'd be VERY interested in seeing the process for discovery of
this latest cisco hole. I havent been able to track down the logic used
in discovering the /xx/exec capability... Where is it and what led the
team in that direction? Heck, I think we should have an entirely new
mailing list for this type of discussion. The "how we found the hole"
list. I feel this is one of our industry's largest weaknesses. As we
train more and more folks to use these holes to their advantage, and add
them to their toolchest/checklists, we lack courses/sources for teaching
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My eyes burn…and burn….and burn. Every time I close them, the unseen fire, consuming my heart, burns them.
In the midst of all my joys and all my happy moments, it feels out of place and unwelcome….so unwelcome, here, in this place.
This is what I meant…..a flame too bright…. a fire too strong. It was meant to burn out. Still, I can't help but wonder….why?
I've been through enough.
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anyone have any idea what the ozona 's price range will be?
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2010 onza 3 camo,
800-850 ish is what i think ive been seeing. a little more than the firecat 400 anyway....
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Rumors I have been hearing are that the Onza will be in the 650-700 range. New Firecat around 750-800. That's just the rumors floating around this area.
The new prices would be nice to see. Hopefully the didn't change much like the bows didn't!!!!!!
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According to the Martin facebook page, the Onza 3 is going for $599. There was a comment about it going for 530 pounds in the UK.
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2010 rytera z apache carbon rest axt primal x5 sight
Here you go...these are not minimum advertised nor are they the highest...probably about average you will expect to pay. Obviously every dealer is going to be different. You may find some $25-50 cheaper or you may find them $50-75 more than this. This is just a good idea based on the dealer pricing and the MAP. These are all for the standard Next G1 camo with no cloak package. YOu can expect to pay roughly $50 more for the cloaking. Also, the other other finishes other than the standard G1 camo will run you probably another $40-50.
Firecat 360 - $500
Firecat 400 - $600-650
Shadowcat - $800
Crossfire - $525-550
Exile - $400+
Leopard - $350+
Onza 3 - $625+
Pantera - $525+
RidgeHunter - $450+
Saber - $350+
Silencer - $575+
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Delaware St. John: The Seacliff Tragedy Interview (PC)
Strategy Informer: Firstly, could you introduce yourself to our readers?
Bryan Wiegele: My name is Bryan Wiegele and I'm the president of Big Time Games, an independent games developer in Foster City, CA.
Strategy Informer: We've had a bit of information on the storyline for Delaware St. John: The Seacliff Tragedy, could you tell us more about it?
Bryan Wiegele: In The Seacliff Tragedy, Delaware finds himself in a decrepit amusement park that closed a few years earlier when the back part of the park collapsed, killing over a hundred people. Here Delaware finds a family in need, who suffered many losses before the final accident.
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Strategy Informer: Could you tell us some of the main features of Delaware St. John: The Seacliff Tragedy?
Bryan Wiegele: We've given the series a complete upgrade from "point and click" to
real-time 3D with a third person view. Moving from static images with movies
to real-time 3D is an exciting move, we now have the ability to really make
the environment alive and much more freedom to create more elaborate
puzzles. Also, playing as Kelly allows you to hunt the park for signs of
paranormal activity. Use gadgets like thermal goggles and EMF counters to
track and record evidence of paranormal activity. Also, both Delaware and
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able to take pictures with VIC and then view them in their own gallery
Shadow People are new to the series and must be kept at a distance. Shadow People cannot be destroyed, only scared away which makes them that much more sinister.
Strategy Informer: What can you tell us about the graphical and physics features?
Bryan Wiegele: Ironically, it seems graphically we're on par with our previous games! I say
ironic since we've taken this big leap forward with the new engine only to
appear from screen shots we're right where we were! The reality is our goal
was to re-create the level of detail of our previous games in real-time and
so far we've achieved this. The detail in the art really does show well and
things will get even better as we move forward.
The game also takes advantage of many additional features such as physics, which will play a role in navigating the park as well as solving some puzzles.
Strategy Informer: Are you planning to release a demo for Delaware St. John: The Seacliff Tragedy?
Bryan Wiegele: Absolutely. Although this time our demo will be a format where the customer can download the full game and play for a restricted amount of time. If they like what they play they can purchase the game right there and play it through with no additional downloads.
Strategy Informer: This time you're taking the game in a different direction by advancing from point and click to real-time 3D, when and why did you decide to make this change?
Bryan Wiegele: Early into the development of The Seacliff Tragedy I felt we weren't
reaching the potential I had originally set out for. Our "tried and true"
engine was limiting both in graphic ability as well as logic for puzzle
design. I knew in order for our series to grow we had to expand our ability
to design. From the beginning I had imagined the Delaware series as a
real-time exploration game with monsters lurking in the shadows. Back in
2004 we didn't have the time or resources to invest in a new engine so the
game was redesigned to fit into the tech we had. While I'm happy with the
first games for how they turned out, I'm much happier we will be able to
present the latest game as I originally imagined them: third person
perspective in real-time 3D.
Strategy Informer: What are you doing to insure this is a game Delaware St. John fans will want?
Bryan Wiegele: By moving forward I'm well aware there might be fans of the original who are reading about the updates and thinking "oh no, that's not the game I want to play!" but in reality it will be more of the game they want to play. There will be a difficulty setting that will turn down or off the "action" parts of the game to allow people who like to follow the story and explore the environment the ability to do so without feeling overwhelmed. One of the purposes of moving forward with new technology is to get more people interested in the series, not abandon the fans we already have.
Strategy Informer: Could you tell us about the characters that we'll see in the game?
Bryan Wiegele: Delaware will encounter several trapped souls in the park, each with an
interesting take on the events that happened in the park before the
collapse. He will also meet a mystery woman appears to have her own agenda
in the abandoned park. Kelly, meanwhile, will meet a woman who worked as a
fortune teller at the park years before. She can't let go of the day of the
collapse and returns looking for closure.
As for dark characters, The Hunter is back and stalking Delaware and Kelly as they try to navigate the park. Outrun this monster or it's lights out.
Strategy Informer: Could you tell us about the Shadow People that we've heard of?
Bryan Wiegele: Shadow People is a phenomenon reported by real-life ghost hunters as the appearance of a creature that appears to be a shadow but moves on its own. One theory is that while ghosts are the energy or memory left behind of a human being, Shadow People aren't human at all, but demons trying to enter our plane. In The Seacliff Tragedy the Shadow People are acting as guardians, to keep Delaware and Kelly from finding the truth.
Strategy Informer: As a gamer, what's your favorite part of Delaware St. John: The Seacliff Tragedy, what makes you proud to have helped create it and why is it a game adventure fans will want?
Bryan Wiegele: From a gameplay perspective it's great to finally have free roam of the
environment, freedom to really explore. I love the Shadow People, they're
very creepy in a more classic horror way, more "Night of the Living Dead"
than "Friday the 13th."
The goal of this game is to expand our audience and create a game that fans of not only adventure games will enjoy, but anyone who loves a good creepy game.
Strategy Informer: Do you think we'll see some changes to the current release date?
Bryan Wiegele: I am very confident we will hit our target release date. Of course, nothing is certain and who knows what could happen to work against that, but as is, I'm expecting we'll be on time in November.
Strategy Informer: What has been the hardest part of development so far?
Bryan Wiegele: It's been a huge undertaking to throw away the "safe" technology we used for the previous games to work with a new engine. It's like a roller coaster, the turns, twists and loops push your limits and you're really looking forward to it being over but once it's done you get off and think "That was awesome".
Strategy Informer: Well we've come to our last question, is there anything you'd like to say to the fans of Delaware St. John: The Seacliff Tragedy which are eagerly awaiting the release of this interesting title?
Bryan Wiegele: The support for our games has been great, I really appreciate every person who's bought our games and I encourage anyone who hasn't yet to give us a shot, we're an indie developer so every sale counts. We're working hard to create games that many people can enjoy and we really do take the feedback we've gotten from customers seriously. I really hope people are as excited as I am for our newest entry into the Delaware series and I can't wait to get it to a demo status for everyone to enjoy.


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On Wednesday, the new head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a bombshell report finding that U.S. health care spending since 2010 has increased by just 1.3 percent — the smallest cost growth over a three-year period in American history — while prices in the health care sector rose by 50-year lows, thanks in part to structural changes made by the Affordable Care Act.
Think Progress: You Probably Didn't Hear About The Most Important Health Care News This Week
This is a big deal. Website problems are an embarrassment that will last a month and a half. But bending the cost curve is absolutely critical for the future of medicine in the country.
This is more a "Thanks, in part, Obamacare" than an unambiguous "Thanks Obamacare." There are a lot of different pressures contributing to this result—and some may not be permanent. However, people were pretty pessimistic about the Affordable Care Act's probability of lowering costs. It looks like it's happening.
The other goal—expanding coverage—is also happening. The website problems have complicated that. (Although … they've also brought a lot of publicity—so I'm not totally persuaded that fewer people will sing up than otherwise would have.)
I think I get the anti-exchange push
I wrote a few days back on the vaguely nauseating ads encouraging people not to sign up for health insurance exchanges. I didn't get the point of it until reading [this Politico article]((http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/obamacare-one-blow-after-another-97231.html?hp=t1_3)
Politico, as you know, is like a gossip rag about political bickering. You might think that it would explore the nuances and implications of the various policies under debate or how they will affect actually people, you would be wrong. That's not what Politico does. If the publication is Sanitation Workers Weekly, you shouldn't expect coverage of significant world events unless you those events events affect the business of being a sanitation worker. Even if there was an article about, say, an embassy bombing the article would predictably focus on the sanitiation workers affected and how the event affected the uninterrupted flow of human offal. In the same way, Politico would focus on political bickering surrounding the tragedy and how the event affected the uninterrupted flow of human offal.
You can trust Politico to focus on petty politics at the expense of the big picture—and once I sorted that out, Politico became a whole lot more tolerable. Obviously, anybody who approaches policy with the same lens as Politico is a morally-bankrupt schemer unfit for public office. But we've got some of those holding public office. And we've got a lot more directing shadowy and dubiously funded political pressure groups. So Politico's articles can sometimes answer the question of why in the world anybody might think something so gross was worth spending money on.
Here's the deal on the exchanges: they're a pretty good way to shop for health insurance. You should do it if you're uninsured. There are substantial subsidies up to a reasonably high income level and if you ignore them, you're leaving money on the table. Being uninsured is scary. Getting suck enough, even if you don't need to couple it with bankruptcy. Yes, there are going to be wrinkles in the implementation of any program. And yes, your entire health system is in massive flux due primarily to pressures outside of Obamacare. Nothing is perfect, but somethings are still awesome.
So what are the arguments against enrolling in the exchange? Apparently some libertarians want us to think that they're "creepy." Because … well … I'm not sure why. Maybe because a doctor-patient relationship is a super-private relationship and … I guess if the federal government pays money to a health insurance company that pays money to a medical practice that pays the doctor that by the Rules of Kevin Bacon that's EXACTLY THE SAME THING as the IRS giving you a prostate exam.
But the concern is that when people sign up for the exchanges and realize that they're actually a pretty decent thing that maybe more people will be more okay with Obamacare for a bit. And then they'll be more okay with Democrats and it will make it hard for the Republicans to keep trying to score cheap points by pointlessly trying to repeal the law.
Imaginary Medicare "Cuts"
sds quotes James Taranto:
People on both ideological sides may be vexed by Ryan's defense of Medicare. But those on the right should take comfort that it shows the limits of the entitlement state. In the political world the left dreams of, ObamaCare would have raised taxes on everyone with the assent of conservative deficit hawks. Instead, the Republican Party re-embraced small-government conservatism, and the Democrats had to cannibalize a popular existing entitlement to pay for an unpopular new one. It's hard to see how this ends well for the left, whether or not it ends this November.
I'm a bit perplexed by intelligent people echoing some really flimsy arguments. The "Medicare cut" in the Affordable Care Act was essentially a decrease in certain over-payments to providers and insurers. In other words, some of the high cost payments that are driving increases in healthcare spending are reduced. This is generally the sort of waste reduction Republicans like. No benefits are cut. This isn't the sort of thing that would be controversial …
… if the Republicans hadn't chosen a VP nominee who was clearly on the record as wanting the kind of radical changes to Medicare that would drastically shift costs to seniors. (Yes, I know, it wouldn't do it for the current seniors because they're all the greatest generation that votes all the time. But it would functionally eliminate Medicare as we know it for the rest of us. We'd essentially get a voucher to cover part of the cost of buying insurance and a "Good luck, grandpa.")
So now the Republicans are suddenly in favor of wasteful spending in Medicare because it helps them try to draw a false equivalency between Obama's waste elimination and Ryan's proposed gutting. We all know that's what's going on, right? Even if you don't like Obama, you've got to know that this whole Medicare thing is disingenuous. Why repeat it. If you like Ryan's Medicare plan—and a lot of people do—why not defend it rather than peddling this sort of distraction? Are we so angry with the Obama administration that we want to trick old people to get their votes?
Did Romney deliberately court the NAACP's scorn?
So Mitt Romney was booed at the NAACP. A lot of people on the left are arguing that he deliberately drew the scorn of the NAACP to shore up support from the more racist part of his base. Initially, I was inclined to disagree. Isn't speaking to a group you know is likely to oppose you the principled thing to do?
Except … when has Romney ever done the principled thing? Romney is the sort of guy who likes every kind of music—particularly the kind you like. It is a bit weird that the only people Romney seems inclined to voluntarily alienate are the NAACP. And the alienation was definitely voluntary.
If you're speaking to the NAACP—you've got to know that Obama is personally popular. You could make a pitch that says you think Obama just hasn't gotten the job done and it's time to give somebody else a chance. That makes sense. But Romney threw out the term "Obamacare" when he could have used any of a dozen alternatives that didn't directly and deliberately tie Obama to the thing he was trying to disparage. If he was trying to make friends, that was a pretty serious blunder.
Of course, maybe Romney just wanted to avoid the accusation that he had refused to speak to the NAACP. Maybe he knew he wouldn't win anybody over but wanted to make a gesture at trying.
Except, then there was this:
By the way, I had the privilege of speaking today at the NAACP convention in Houston and I gave them the same speech I am giving you. I don't give different speeches to different audiences alright. I gave them the same speech. When I mentioned I am going to get rid of Obamacare they weren't happy, I didn't get the same response. That's ok, I want people to know what I stand for and if I don't stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, that's just fine. But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy-more free stuff. But don't forget nothing is really free.
I really don't want to jump to the convenient conclusion that Romney's campaign is now doing open race-baiting. But … the only part of the Affordable Care Act that Romney has really criticized (recently) is the mandate. When that suddenly switches into "more free stuff from the government" when it's specificall in the context of the NAACP, I have trouble giving Romney the benefit of the doubt. This looks really bad to me.
If you disagree, please let me know. I'd be happy to post thoughts in either direction. We can call it an open thread or something.
Building a Healthy and Just Society
Barton Hinkle of Barticles (and the Richmond Times-Dispatch) has taken a stab at the question previously posed by Political Prof. How is opposition to a national health care system the right way to build a healthy and just society?
To avoid talking at cross-purposes, I would note that when referring to a "national system" for healthcare, I'm not referring to any specific implementation scheme. So long as we have functionally universal access to health services, we've agreed on the goal. The who pays, how, for what questions are, of course, important. But those are a lot easier to answer if we agree that we want everybody in the country to have access to medical care and that we're willing to do what it takes to make it happen.
Mr. Hinkle offers three points. First, he argues that looking at other basic necessities suggests that a national system for healthcare might not build a healthy and just society. He mentions education, housing, and food, asserting that we lack national systems for housing and food and that we're not happy with public education system. I think he is wrong on all three.
Housing and food are both largely private industries—but in both cases we have federal policies in place to cover the gaps in the private system. We have both project-based and Section 8 housing subsidies. Between VA, USDA, FHA, and now FNMA and FHLMC loans, the lending industry is dominated by public players as well. (For those who don't want to Wikipedia all those acronyms: the bulk of U.S. mortgages have some level of implicit or explicit government guarantee.) Food has less government involvement—though we subsidize it on both the production end with farm subsidies and the consumption end with SNAP and [WIC](http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/aboutwic/ "Women Infants and Children).
Education is an even more interesting example. We're not happy with our public education system. But … (virtually) nobody wants to eliminate it. There are a wide variety of proposals for reform—some of which include greater privatization through vouchers. But that's still a government payment system. (It's a bit like medicare, but for schools.) When we're unhappy with our education system, we're unhappy because we don't think it's good enough. We want to fix or improve it—not eliminate it. I don't think anybody is seriously proposing we just shut down every school in a struggling district and see what happens.
Mr. Hinkle's second point is that there is no guarantee that a national system will produce a healthier society. As he points out, we can cherrypick statistics all day long to support our preconceptions. Or we could delegate the question to a slew of healthcare professionals who can present us with a set of proposals that are likely to lead to a healthier society.
That's a deal I'm willing to make. (And I'll happily sell it to anybody left of center.) If we can agree on the goal of a healthy society, agree that we're willing to invest some resources to make it happen, agree that we care about everybody's health, and agree that we want to take a fact-based approach, I'm happy to set aside ideological preferences. And if the People Who Understand Public Health better than you or I come back and say a completely hands-off, free market approach is the best thing for the nation's health, I'll feel a bit embarassed, but I'll vote for it. With that said, I don't think Mr. Hinkle would be willing to shake on that deal. Because we pretty well know that things like increasing access to preventative care is an all-around-win for public health.
Mr. Hinkle's third point is that justice is a fuzzy concept. we haven't been able to definitively nail down exactly what a just society looks like in thousands of years of philosophical debate.1 He mentions the Aging Violinist hypothetical as an example of a sticky question of medical ethics.
Speaking of fuzzy things, my parents have a very, very fluffy cat. He's pictured below, in a box. Carolyn and I have long suspected the cat is obese. My parent insist that he just looks that way because of the insane quantity of very long hair. There is something to that. He is so fluffy it's hard to tell how big the actual cat is. He's the embodiment of a playful yet blurry line.
The cat is in Illinois. I'm in Massachusetts drinking my coffee. And while any spot within a foot of the gravitational center of the cat may be a liminal zone between Cat and Not Cat, I am very confident that my coffee cup is firmly in the Not Cat category. In this case, it's not a difficult question.
Similarly, while the line between justice and injustice can be difficult—particularly in carefully constructed hypotheticals—it's not always hard. Should I feed somebody who is starving (AAINH2)? Yes. Should we care for somebody who is sick? Yes. If a kid got hit by a car and we can set the bone in ten minutes so his arm isn't screwed up for the rest of his life, should we do it? Yes. These generally aren't close questions. Nor is the question of whether a just society will ensure that the basic needs of its members are met.
If you don't believe that a just society is a worthwhile goal, I disagree but understand that you've reached that conclusion. Similarly, I can understand if you believe that a just society is a worthwhile goal but don't think it is incumbent on you to advance it. Finally, I can understand if you think the consequences of things like caring for the sick would lead to a less just society. (I think it's a bit silly when people argue that, say, a 10% tax on artificial tans is a greater injustice than medical insecurity. But I respect bold stands.) But emphasizing that justice is a difficult concept and arguing that the philosophy is still out seems like a way of avoiding an inconvenient question.
Mr. Hinkle's fourth point is here. I'll leave it largely untouched—because I think he implicitly concedes an important point. An argument for federal preemption of state health consumer protection laws to advance accessibility and afforability both concedes the importance of accessibility and affordability and acknowledges a comfort with subrogating traditional state prerogatives to do so. So long as we're doing that, we shouldn't have any concerns about talking about the data on how that's likely to work. We're back in the same deal discussed above. If the goal is the best and most widely accessible healthcare system possible, we can put everything on the table. That includes Medicare, Medicaid, and every variety of deregulation. But once your onboard, you can't just grab your party's favorite goodie and bail.
Edit: Mr. Hinkle responded to this post here.
I would point out that most of this philosophical debate happened before the advent of bloggers and other People With Opinions On The Internet. I would guess that and some of the other PWOOTIs should be able to wrap this up for good sometime before HEY EVERYBODY DID YOU SEE THAT CAT PICTURE I POSTED UP THERE? ↩
I'm going to use the acronym "AAINH" to stand for "And Also Is Not Hitler" because one of you is going to object on that ground if I don't. You know who you are. Actually, maybe more than one. ↩
Notes on the Individual Mandate
Health Politics responded to my post on the individual mandate. It's a great post—but I want to add a bit of background.
The Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for a one person family is $10,830 per year. You get to add $3,740 for every person after that. Unfortunately, that number is a fairly stupid number. It was calculated as a multiple of the cost of food for a year. Since then, food has gotten cheaper and housing has gotten more expensive. But it's the number we have—and a number we can use until we agree on a better one.
If we're doing poverty-connected math, we should generally divide all the annual numbers by twelve to look at monthly expenses. After all, bills tend to arrive monthly. That way we can compare the same sized numbers. So 133% of poverty for a single person is around $1,200.
Oh. One more thing. For those who are concerned about things that discincentive marriage, do you see how this creates a mess? There are a whole lot of people who aren't getting married because one or both of them would lose health coverage if they became a family of two instead of two families of one.
I should also give everybody a fair warning that we're about to do some math.
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I recently asked Squashed why he was so optimistic about coverage expansion in the absence of a mandate. It's a disagreement we've had before.
What he said made a lot of sense, as it often does, so I went and checked the most recent figures on the uninsured.
Here's the thing. The uninsured is a demographically diverse group in a lot of ways. Many are poor, and the vast majority are at least near-poor. About 10 million have lost employer-sponsored insurance in the last three years due to the economic crisis, either because they moved down to part-time work and it isn't offered, they got laid off, or insurance is offered but they can't afford the employee share of the premium.
The ACA expands coverage by about 40 million over several years. It does this in part by expanding Medicaid. Medicaid right now covers poor individuals who fall into certain categories — children, pregnant women, some parents (depending on the state). Some states cover these categories for near-poor individuals above the poverty line. Some states have expanded the categories, giving more comprehensive coverage to parents. Childless adults are pretty SOL at the moment. The ACA effectively eliminates the category requirements and mandates that all Medicaid programs cover nearly all nonelderly individuals up to 138% FPL. That's not bad. CBO estimates it's about 16 million people by 2019.
However, the bulk of the coverage expansion isn't through Medicaid. It's through the Exchanges, and that's where the mandate is critical. 9 in 10 uninsured right now are people under 400% FPL — near-poor, mostly in working families, ineligible for or unable to afford employer-sponsored plans. These are the people who are eligible for subsidies under the ACA, which lowers the cost of premiums for them on a sliding scale as a percentage of income. The mandate forces those with access to affordable care (premiums less than 8% of income) to buy it, or face yearly penalties. Between the subsidies and the mandate, CBO estimates we get 24 million newly-covered people through the Exchanges.
Without the mandate, many more of the working poor or ESI ineligible may choose not to buy insurance in the Exchanges. And with good reason — 8% of your income is still damn expensive, especially if you're already poor by definition. But we need them to buy insurance. And more importantly, they need themselves to buy insurance. Nearly 30% of uninsured individuals spent down their entire savings on medical costs in 2010. A premium, even a subsidized one, can seem prohibitively expensive, but these individuals can't afford not to be covered. It's easy to think the idea of someone strategizing and deciding not to buy insurance is laughable, but if you instead think of a childless manual laborer at 250% FPL deciding not to buy insurance so he can save up for something else, it seems a bit more realistic.
I hope Squashed is right. I fear that he isn't.
I think the single manual laborer at 250% of the FPL is a good example. He's bringing in $2,256.25 per month. If his premiums are over $180.50, he has to pay the penalty of 2.5% of income (once it's fully phased in in 2016) or $56.40 per month. Since that comes out to $676.87 per year, he's awfully close to the $695 individual limit. So the mandate is as strong an incentive to him as it is to anybody. Of course, there is an exemption for financial hardship, so some struggling people may be able to get out of this cost. (But not this guy. Because if he doesn't have to pay the penalty the whole hypothetical is pointless.) He's also in the spot where the subsidy won't cap his premium unless it goes above 8.4% of his income. Of course, he also gets a 72% premium subsidy, so unless this guy is beastly expensive to insure, he'll have an option available for much less than $180.50. But since we're designing this guy to be maximally screwed, let's make him the sort of elderly smoker and cage fighter with a family history of spontaneous combustion that nobody wants to ensure. So his options are to pay a $180.50 per month premium or to pay a $56.40 per month penalty. So he can have health insurance with a net cost of $123.10 if you pull out the mandate. Without the mandate, it will have a cost of $180.50. I have three thoughts.
- This case is custom-designed to be a worst-case scenario. I don't know whether anybody would actually fall into this category. We'd be talking about somebody with an individual monthly premium of nearly $650. For pretty much anybody else, coverage would be either more affordable or the mandate would be less burdensome. If we're going to feel sympathy for anybody, we should feel sympathy for him.
- This is still a pretty good deal for the guy. He's getting a very expensive insurance policy for $180.50 per month. If he's able to do it, he probably should. After all, he's in a high-cost bracket and there's a decent chance he'll need at least that much medical care.
- If the guy isn't going to buy insurance at $180.50 per month, he's not likely to buy it at $123.10 per month. He'd probably just pay the penalty.
- In the unlikely event that the presence of the mandate would influence him one way or the other, he's the guy who it is most likely to influence. A less-rigged example is going to be even less likely to be influenced by the individual mandate. If he decides to stay uninsured until he gets sick, he's just one guy. The system can easily absorb one free-rider who decides not to get coverage until he gets sick. It can easily absorb 100,000 free-riders. In fact, it already absorbs a lot more than that. Or rather, it already absorbs a huge number of uninsured folk who run up massive emergency care bills they'll never be able to afford to pay.
Of course, there are two additions I should mention. First, this guy isn't going to actually run the math. Most people don't think like that. If he thinks about it at all, he'll probably either decide that he wants health insurance or that he'd rather have an extra hundred bucks in his pocket at the end of the month. It's unlikely that he'll think as far ahead as tax day. If we can find a way to get this guy insured unless he opts out, we're in a much better spot. He can still opt-out if he wants—but the sensible decision is also the default.
Second, this guy isn't actually going to run the math. The penalty would be $56.40 per month. That's not a whole lot compared to the cost of insurance—or the probable cost of not having insurance. But few people are even going to break that down into a monthly cost. They'll probably just get to the spot where "the government is forcing us to buy insurance" and buy the darned insurance. The mandate will have little, if any, effect on rational actors. But rational actors are in short supply. People may catch on eventually—but at first the threat of the mandate and the implicit government disapproval might do more to spur action than the actual details. For once, misinformation could work to our national advantage.
In the context of all that, I don't think stripping out the individual mandate would do much damage to the Affordable Care Act's overall scheme. It certainly wouldn't break it.
(Updated) Pros and Cons of the Healthcare Reform Bill
My previous list of pros and cons of healthcare reform has gotten a bit dated. I've updated it. Once again, I've attempted to keep it as simple and non-partisan as I can manage. Let me know if you think I have misrepresented anything or left out anything crucial.
- A lot of people who don't have health insurance will now have health insurance.
- 95% coverage of legal U.S. residents under 65 will be covered. Compare this with 83% and dropping now. This is an increase of 32,000,000 people. (Those over 65 are already covered by Medicare either way.)
- Insurers will not be able to stop paying for people who are sick, even if they lose their jobs.
- People who cannot afford health insurance won't have to pay as much money for it. If you are particularly poor, insurance will be very cheap or even free.
- People who are already sick will be eligible for healthcare.
- Medicaid availability will expand significantly
- Children will be able to stay on their parents' insurance plan until they are 26.
- Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on actual medical care.
- There will be a federally regulated insurance marketplace that should make health insurance more portable.
- The bill will reduce the deficit.
- Medicare fraud will be cracked down on.
- The prescription drug "donut hole" will be closed. (If you don't know what that is, you will now never have to worry about it.)


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Welcome to the official website of the Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston. SLAGH is a voluntary professional association of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender attorneys, judges, paralegals, law students and allies who provide a LGBT presence within the greater Houston legal community.
We welcome new members who share in our desire to encourage the recognition of civil and human rights, promote sensitivity to legal issues faced by LGBT community and those living with HIV, assure the fair and just treatment of members of the LGBT community, provide opportunities for LGBT attorneys, judges, law students and their allies to interact in a professional setting, build alliances with other minority bar associations and legal organizations, and enhance the practice and professional expertise of lawyers who serve or are members of the LGBT community.
SLAGH's Next CLE will be on November 7th
Please save the date! SLAGH's next CLE will be on Friday, November 7, 2014 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at South Texas College of Law. We are still working out the details, but we are planning several speakers for an in-depth analysis of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance ("HERO") and non-discrimination policies that will be an expansion of the CLE we presented last month.
Please mark your calendars. We'll provide more details in the coming weeks. Hope to see you there!