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Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America?
PRO (yes)
Barack H. Obama, JD, 44th President of the United States, stated the following on the 7th anniversary of signing the Affordable Care Act, as quoted in a Mar. 23, 2017 article by Ryan Teague Beckwith titled "Read Barack Obama's Statement on the Anniversary of Obamacare," published at time.com:
"Thanks to this law, more than twenty million Americans have gained the security and peace of mind of health insurance. Thanks to this law, more than ninety percent of Americans are insured – the highest rate in our history. Thanks to this law, the days when women could be charged more than men and Americans with pre-existing conditions could be denied coverage altogether are relics of the past. Seniors have bigger discounts on their prescription drugs. Young people can stay on their parents' plans until they turn 26 years old. And Americans who already had insurance received an upgrade as well – from free preventive care, like mammograms and vaccines, to improvements in the quality of care in hospitals that has averted nearly 100,000 deaths so far.
All of that is thanks to the Affordable Care Act. And all the while, since the law passed, the pace of health care inflation has slowed dramatically. Prices are still rising, just as they have every year for decades – but under this law, they've been rising at the slowest rate in fifty years. Families who get coverage through their employer are paying, on average, thousands of dollars less per year than if costs kept rising as fast as they were before the law. And reality continues to discredit the false claim that this law is in a 'death spiral,' because while it's true that some premiums have risen, the vast majority of Marketplace enrollees have experienced no average premium hike at all. And so long as the law is properly administered, this market will remain stable. Likewise, this law is no 'job-killer,' because America's businesses went on a record-breaking streak of job growth in the seven years since I signed it.
So the reality is clear: America is stronger because of the Affordable Care Act."
Mar. 23, 2017 - Barack Obama, JD
Kamala Harris, JD, US Senator (D-CA), stated the following in a Mar. 23, 2017 speech to the US Senate, a transcript of which is available at harris.senate.gov:
"Thanks to the ACA and Medicaid expansion, 20 million more Americans have health insurance. 20 million. That's the population of the entire state of New York.
Thanks to the ACA, premiums are going up at the slowest rate in half a century...
Thanks to the ACA, insurers cannot set lifetime limits on your care—meaning your insurance company won't tell you in the middle of a cancer treatment that they've paid all that they ever will.
Thanks to the ACA, millions of under-served Americans—in rural towns, and in cities, and everywhere in between—have access to care for the first time...
And thanks to the ACA, you can't be discriminated against if you have a preexisting condition—including that preexisting condition called being a woman.
And of course, navigating the healthcare system is still daunting. But things are better. There are now some rules of the road to keep insurance companies from taking advantage of you during some of life's most vulnerable moments."
Mar. 23, 2017 - Kamala Harris, JD
The American Public Health Association, in a Sep. 18, 2017 letter by Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD, addressed the US Senate and available at apha.org, stated:
"The Affordable Care Act has made progress in addressing the biggest challenges facing our health system including reducing the number of uninsured, uneven quality of care, deaths due to medical errors, discriminatory practices by health insurance providers and the shrinking ranks of the nation's primary care providers. The ACA has also made important progress in shifting our health system from one that focuses on treating the sick to one that focuses on keeping people healthy.
[W]e urge you to continue the bipartisan efforts to improve and build upon the successes of the ACA."
Sep. 18, 2017 - American Public Health Association (APHA)
Paul Krugman, PhD, Nobel Prize-winning economist, stated in his Oct. 8, 2014 article for Rolling Stone titled "In Defense of Obama":
"Obamacare means a huge improvement in the quality of life for tens of millions of Americans – not just better care, but greater financial security. And even those who were already insured have gained both security and freedom, because they now have a guarantee of coverage if they lose or change jobs.
What about the costs? Here, too, the news is better than anyone expected. In 2014, premiums on the insurance policies offered through the Obamacare exchanges were well below those originally projected by the Congressional Budget Office, and the available data indicates a mix of modest increases and actual reductions for 2015 – which is very good in a sector where premiums normally increase five percent or more each year. More broadly, overall health spending has slowed substantially, with the cost-control features of the ACA probably deserving some of the credit.
In other words, health reform is looking like a major policy success story. It's a program that is coming in ahead of schedule – and below budget – costing less, and doing more to reduce overall health costs than even its supporters predicted…
And this big improvement in American society is almost surely here to stay… Health reform has made America a different, better place."
The American College of Physicians (ACP), a national organization of internists, stated in its Feb. 11, 2014 letter to Kathleen Sebelius, then-US Secretary of Health and Human Services, written by then-ACP President Molly Cooke, MD, and available at the ACP website:
"With millions of Americans now enrolled or preparing to enroll in marketplace-based qualified health plans and Medicaid, it is apparent that the Affordable Care Act is approaching its goal to reduce the number of uninsured, improve the quality of the health care delivery system, and drive down costs.
ACP remains committed to supporting the Affordable Care Act and enabling the nation's internists to provide their patients with the tools to enroll in affordable health insurance and steer the nation's health care system to deliver high-quality, high-value care...
The College believes that the Affordable Care Act represents an historic step forward to providing all Americans with access to affordable coverage without regard to their health status, their gender, where they work or live, or how much they earn."
Sylvia M. Burwell, US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), stated in her Feb. 19, 2015 op-ed for USA Today titled "HHS Secretary: Affordable Care Act Is Working":
"Over the past three months, millions of Americans sent a powerful message: The Affordable Care Act is working, and the quality health coverage offered on its Health Insurance Marketplace is a product that consumers need, want and like… We've achieved an historic reduction in the uninsured – the largest over any period since the early 1970s…
The Affordable Care Act is now an important part of the everyday lives of millions of Americans. They finally have the financial and health security that comes with affordable health coverage. They now can fill prescriptions and take their children to the doctor. Some no longer have to choose between paying for health care and paying their utility bill…
Expanding access to quality, affordable health coverage is about making progress for the hardworking families that rely upon the financial security and peace-of-mind that comes with it."
Michael Hiltzik, MSc, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Los Angeles Times, stated in his Oct. 2, 2014 article titled "Obamacare at One Year: A Birthday Assessment," available at latimes.com:
"How's it [Obamacare] doing? The inescapable answer is: very well, thank you. This will disappoint the legions of politicians and pundits, chiefly Republicans and conservatives, who became heavily invested in the act's failure--so heavily that where they couldn't point to tangible evidence of failure, which was most of the time, they resorted to distortion, outright fabrication and obstructionist legal strategies…
The signs are that America's old system of health coverage, which relied on employer-sponsored care and condemned those without it to enormous premiums, to uninsurability, and to unmet medical needs, is being supplanted by a new system in which coverage is available to everyone at a reasonable and affordable price, no one needs to feel trapped in a job merely for the insurance, and the prospect of medical bankruptcy will recede over time.
There remain holdouts who complain that the ACA is an infringement of 'freedom.' That's true only under a bizarro-world definition of 'freedom.' Before the ACA, Americans were 'free' to be locked into jobs they detested; to be abused, ripped off or rejected outright by insurance companies; and to suffer medical conditions without treatment.
The ACA hasn't changed every aspect of that in a single year, and its ability to meet all of its goals remains conjectural. But so far it has pointed the way to a better--yes, radically better--system of American healthcare."
Phil Schiliro, JD, former Director of White House Legislative Affairs and Special Adviser to President Barack Obama, stated in his Mar. 24, 2014 article for Politico titled "The Affordable Care Act Is Working":
"It is now four years since the Affordable Care Act was enacted. And in more than 30 years in government, I've never seen a law get so little recognition for doing so much good so quickly.
The right measure of the ACA isn't whether it avoids political controversy; it's whether it makes America better by achieving its five most fundamental goals: expanding health-insurance coverage, lowering costs and promoting fiscal responsibility, increasing quality through innovation, protecting seniors and delivering peace of mind to American families by guaranteeing essential rights in dealing with insurance companies.
By that standard the law is already a success. Health insurance has expanded. More than 5 million Americans have signed up for coverage through federal and state marketplaces; millions have been determined eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program; and 3 million young adults gained insurance through their parents' coverage. Even more compelling than statistics are the letters hard-working Americans are sharing with the president. Their unscripted and private testimonials are building a lasting record of the life-changing—and often lifesaving—impacts the ACA is having."
The American Medical Association stated, in an unpublished July 6, 2012 Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal written by then-AMA President Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD, titled "AMA to Wall Street Journal: AMA Support of Affordable Care Act," available at ama-assn.org:
"While the [Affordable Care Act]... is not perfect, the AMA, the nation's largest physician organization, supported it because it makes necessary improvements to our health care system. We are pleased the law expands coverage to millions of uninsured who live sicker and die younger than those with insurance. It allows physicians to see patients earlier before care is more expensive, provides funding for research on drugs and treatments, increases Medicare and Medicaid payments for primary care physicians and includes Medicare bonus payments for general surgeons in underserved areas."
Steven Rattner, Wall Street financier, stated in his Feb. 21, 2015 op-ed for the New York Times titled "For Tens of Millions, Obamacare Is Working":
"Ever since President Obama unveiled his health care plan in 2009, critics have questioned its lofty promise to bring affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.
Now statistics for the second year are largely in hand and the verdict is indisputable: Its disastrous 2013 rollout notwithstanding, the Affordable Care Act has achieved nearly all of its ambitious goals.
Most important, just three key provisions — creation of exchanges with subsidies for those who qualify, expansion of Medicaid and minimum standards for insurance plans — have benefited at least 31 million Americans.
Millions more have taken advantage of other features, such as the inability of insurance companies to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions and the ability to include children up to age 26 in a parent's plan."
AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired People) stated in a June 28, 2012 press release titled "AARP Responds to Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act," available at aarp.org:
"This landmark legislation [the ACA] is already improving the health and financial security of our members and all Americans.
AARP supported this law because it helps many Medicare recipients avoid financially burdensome increases in prescription drug costs by closing the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap, or 'doughnut hole.' The ACA also expands the number of people eligible for free preventive and wellness benefits, and cracks down on Medicare fraud, waste and abuse. Finally, for those not yet eligible for Medicare, the ACA will be instrumental in eliminating discriminatory health insurance practices such as exclusions based on pre-existing conditions, and in limiting the use of age rating to charge exorbitant premiums for older Americans.
By starting to close the doughnut hole, 5.3 million people with Medicare Part D have saved $3.7 billion since the law was enacted. In the first five months of 2012, 745,000 people with Medicare saved a total of $485.3 million on prescription drugs in the doughnut hole coverage gap for an average of $651 in savings per person this year. Over 32.5 million Americans in Medicare used one or more free preventive services in 2011. And, over 2.2 million people with traditional Medicare benefited from the new Annual Wellness Visit in 2011."
USA Today stated in its Dec. 11, 2013 editorial titled "Obamacare Remains Worthy: Our View":
"Until now, the law's benefits have been mostly theoretical. But as more and more people select plans, the reasons Obamacare is necessary are becoming real:
• While people whose insurance is changing are inconvenienced, those who could never get insurance because of pre-existing conditions or the inability to pay are getting it, thanks to subsidies and an end to insurers' ability to turn people away.
• The insurance people are getting is substantial, not the flimsy policies that, for example, offered discounts on doctor visits but wouldn't cover a single minute in a hospital.
• Annual and lifetime insurance limits that bankrupted people with major illnesses or parents of chronically ill children are gone.
• Also gone is the ability of insurers to take away coverage when people really need it, on the pretext that they hadn't disclosed some minor condition from years earlier."
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) stated in its "Overview" of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, available at aafp.org (accessed Apr. 24, 2015):
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents a significant shift in health care in the United States. Support for the legislation, now public law, is consistent with advocacy principles adopted by the AAFP Congress of Delegates in October 2009.
Specifically, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
• Guarantees coverage and expands access to health care for 32 million Americans;
• Helps shift the United States toward a health care delivery system based on primary care by increasing payment for primary care services and other measures;
• Advances the principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home;
• Invests in training more family physicians;
• Eliminates many of the worst practices of the health insurance industry, such as dropping patients when they get sick or denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions."
Mike Kreidler, MPH, Insurance Commissioner for Washington state, wrote in a Mar. 1, 2015 op-ed for the Seattle Times titled "Fix but Don't Jettison Affordable Care Act":
"[E]ven opponents cannot deny that the law is providing long-overdue protections and affordable coverage to millions of people. Insurers can no longer refuse you coverage if you are sick. Insurers can no longer impose a lifetime limit on coverage just when you may need it most. Young people can stay on their parents' plans until age 26, a welcome support to many who are just entering adulthood.
In Washington state, we have seen a 50 percent increase in the number of insurers entering the health-insurance market since the law took effect. They currently offer 230 plans. The average premium increase of just 2.3 percent in 2014 is the lowest in almost a decade. And the uninsured rate has plunged by nearly 40 percent — meaning almost 400,000 more people have coverage, many for the first time in their lives."
Sally Kohn, JD, CNN political commentator, stated in her May 28, 2014 article for cnn.com titled "317 Million Reasons to Love Obamacare":
"[T]here are millions [of] reasons to celebrate Obamacare...
317 million
-- That's how many Americans — i.e., all of us — potentially benefit from the requirement that insurance companies provide flu shots, HIV screenings, prostate exams, mammograms and FDA-approved contraception for free, without a co-pay.
-- Plus, we all benefit from new requirements that insurance companies must spend at least 80% of our premium dollars on our health care as opposed to marketing or administration.
-- We all benefit from the new requirement that insurance companies publicly justify their actions if they want to raise premiums by 10% or more.
-- We all benefit from knowing that our insurance can now never be capped or canceled at the whim of insurance companies...
Every day, as we all see the benefits of health care reform in our lives, support for Obamacare will grow stronger. Before long, not even the most partisan Republicans will be able to attack it."
CON (no)
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, stated the following during the Oct. 9, 2016 presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, a transcript of which is available at nytimes.com:
"Obamacare is a disaster. You know it, we all know it. It's going up at numbers that nobody's ever seen, worldwide...
Obamacare will never work. It's very bad, very bad health insurance. Far too expensive. And not only expensive for the person that has it, unbelievably expensive for our country. It's going to be one of the biggest line items very shortly.
We have to repeal it and replace it with something absolutely much less expensive and something that works, where your plan can actually be tailored. We have to get rid of the lines around the state, artificial lines, where we stop insurance companies from coming in and competing, because they want -- and President Obama and whoever was working on it -- they want to leave those lines, because that gives the insurance companies essentially monopolies. We want competition...
President Obama said you keep your doctor, you keep your plan. The whole thing was a fraud, and it doesn't work."
Oct. 9, 2016 - Donald Trump
Tom Price, MD, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, stated the following in his May 3, 2017 op/ed article titled "Obamacare Is on the 'Verge of Collapse.' It's Time for Congress to Pass Health-Care Reform," published at cnbc.com:
"If a house is on fire, you do not wait for it to burn to the ground before trying to save the family trapped inside. The situation we face today with Obamacare is no different: It is on the verge of collapse, buckling under the weight of its own toxic mix of mandates and regulations, and many of our fellow Americans are trapped inside...
The statistics tell the story that we know all too well. Since Obamacare's central rules took effect, premiums for individual market plans have doubled. At the same time, insurance coverage rates have fallen far short of predictions. The Congressional Budget Office had projected that 23 million Americans would be enrolled in the law's healthcare exchanges this year; the reality is that the number of Americans currently enrolled is less than half that estimate.
Patients increasingly don't have a choice of insurers, either. In one-third of all counties in America, there is only one insurance company participating on the exchanges; in another 37 percent of counties, there are just two. The situation is especially acute in rural areas, where prices are high and access to care is already a struggle."
May 3, 2017 - Tom Price, MD
Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), stated the following in her Mar. 23, 2017 article titled "Obamacare Is Broken, and Republicans Can Fix It," available at usatoday.com:
"We were promised that Obamacare would bring down healthcare costs with increased competition between insurance providers. We were promised we could keep our healthcare plans. We were promised that Obamacare would not raise middle class taxes. Instead, the law brought the American people rising premiums, unaffordable deductibles, fewer insurance choices and higher taxes. We were let down.
This year alone, Obamacare premiums have gone up by an average of 25%, and in some places have risen by over 100%. Individuals have insurance that they cannot afford — high deductibles distort the meaning of coverage. Under the two most popular Obamacare health plans, thousands of families have been forced to shoulder burdensome deductibles equivalent to 10% and 6% of the median American household income. This is not affordable.
Obama's promise of 'choice' has turned out to be fiction for people living in more than 1,000 counties who are left with one insurance provider on their state exchanges. No one can deny Obamacare is in a 'death spiral' when the number of Americans with only one insurer from which to choose jumps from 2% to 17% in one year. This is not choice."
Mar. 23, 2017 - Ronna McDaniel
John P. Geyman, MD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, stated in his article titled "A Five-Year Assessment of the Affordable Care Act: Market Forces Still Trump the Common Good in U.S. Health Care," published in the Apr. 2015 issue of the International Journal of Health Services:
"The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 as the signature domestic achievement of the Obama presidency. It was intended to contain costs and achieve near-universal access to affordable health care of improved quality. Now, five years later, it is time to assess its track record… Based on the evidence, one has to conclude that containment of health care costs is nowhere in sight, that more than 37 million Americans will still be uninsured when the ACA is fully implemented in 2019, that many more millions will be underinsured, and that profiteering will still dominate the culture of U.S. health care…
The ACA built upon the flaws of our market-based system and, quite predictably, is failing to contain costs and provide broad access to affordable, quality health care. Corporate interests still trump the common good in U.S. health care. More fundamental reform is required based upon universal access to health care as a right… Until that happens, we can expect continued turmoil and increasing public backlash to a dysfunctional system that places profits over service. It is just a matter of time before the country will be forced to choose between discredited, deregulated markets and a more efficient single-payer system that ensures access to essential health care for all Americans."
Jeffrey A. Singer, MD, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, stated in his Oct. 15, 2014 op-ed for The Hill titled "Why Doctors Give Obamacare a Failing Grade":
"Count me among the discontented. Obamacare has harmed too many of my patients.
It has done so by disrupting the doctor-patient relationship and thereby worsening the quality of patients' care. This is the heart and soul of medicine, as I have learned in in my 33 years as a practicing physician...
Obamacare's assault on the doctor-patient relationship first manifested this time last year, when my patients began receiving cancellation letters indicating that their plans didn't meet the law's minimum requirements...
Nor does it appear that any thought was given to the regulatory burden that Obamacare has imposed on physicians. In their zeal to regulate and standardize health care, the law's authors empowered bureaucrats in Washington to drown doctors like me in a deluge of paperwork and reporting requirements.
This has only forced doctors like me to spend less time treating patients. Compared to when Obamacare was passed, I now spend roughly half my time on data entry and administrative work. I feel more like a data entry clerk than a doctor. Surely this time would be better spent in the treatment room or on the phone with patients conducting follow-ups."
Mitch McConnell, JD, US Senate Majority Leader (R-KY), stated during a Jan. 25, 2015 interview with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley, available at cbsnews.com:
"Obamacare is the single worst piece of legislation that's been passed in the last half-century. The biggest step in the direction of turning us into a European-type country…
The Congressional Budget Office, [which] doesn't work for Republicans or Democrats, run by a former Clinton staffer, said that the best case scenario, Obamacare reduces the number of uninsured from forty million to thirty million. A twenty-seven hundred page bill that wreaks havoc with the private health insurance market, and in the end, doesn't get everybody covered in the first place. Now that is not my view of how to improve the American health care delivery system. If we had the ability to do it, we ought to pull it out root and branch and start over."
John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, stated during a Jan. 25, 2015 interview with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley, available at cbsnews.com:
"Obamacare is costing jobs in America, it's raising costs for American families, and it's destroying the doctor-patient relationship. I think it's the wrong prescription...
When you look at Obamacare it's a perfect example of what Washington does. It's a one size fits all approach for the whole country. All driven by Washington bureaucrats... I bet they've hired tens of thousands of people, between the IRS and over at Health and Human Services, just to run this. All the decisions, all the rules, decided by Washington. We have a wide, diverse country, and I just think it's time for us to look at this differently. For those who don't have access to affordable health insurance, the helping those at the bottom, I think we're all for. But we don't need Washington to ruin the best health care delivery system the world has ever known."
Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker, stated in his Dec. 31, 2013 op-ed for the New York Times titled "The Obamacare We Deserve":
"Obamacare is awful.
I believe Obamacare's rocky start — clueless planning, a lousy website, insurance companies raising rates, and the president's telling people they could keep their coverage when, in fact, not all could — is a result of one fatal flaw: The Affordable Care Act is a pro-insurance-industry plan implemented by a president who knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. When right-wing critics 'expose' the fact that President Obama endorsed a single-payer system before 2004, they're actually telling the truth.
By 2017, we will be funneling over $100 billion annually to private insurance companies. You can be sure they'll use some of that to try to privatize Medicare.
For many people, the 'affordable' part of the Affordable Care Act risks being a cruel joke. The cheapest plan available to a 60-year-old couple making $65,000 a year in Hartford, Conn., will cost $11,800 in annual premiums. And their deductible will be $12,600. If both become seriously ill, they might have to pay almost $25,000 in a single year."
Paul Ryan, US House Representative and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, stated in his Jan. 6, 2015 op-ed for USA Today titled "Rep. Paul Ryan: Obamacare Is Beyond Repair":
"You can't fix a fundamentally broken law; you've got to replace it. That's why Congress can't save Obamacare with a few tweaks, despite what its defenders say. No quick fix can correct the main flaw: The law takes power away from patients and hands it to bureaucrats.
As millions of Americans have learned from their cancellation notices, Obamacare lets bureaucrats decide what insurance plans must cover. It buries doctors and hospitals in red tape. And it adds a whole host of new taxes and fees that drive up the cost of care. The law doesn't make people's health care decisions any easier; in many cases, it makes those decisions for them.
But the law's effects go far beyond the doctor's office, weighing down our economy and discouraging hiring. The law requires employers with more than 50 full-time employees to give them health insurance. But because the law defines 'full time' as 30 hours or more, employers are keeping employees below that threshold to avoid the mandate entirely."
Robert Zarr, MD, President of Physicians for a National Health Program, stated in his Mar. 4, 2015 article titled "The Obamacare Challenge We Need? Improved, Expanded Medicare for All," posted on the Common Dreams website:
"[T]he sad reality is that the ACA won't be able to achieve universal coverage. It won't make care affordable or protect people from medical bankruptcy. Nor will it be able to control costs.
The ACA is fundamentally flawed in these respects because, by design, it perpetuates the central role of the private insurance industry and other corporate and for-profit interests (e.g. Big Pharma) in U.S. health care."
Ted Cruz, JD, US Senator (R-TX), stated in his Dec. 11, 2013 op-ed for USA Today titled "Obamacare is a Disaster: Ted Cruz":
"Today, there can be no dispute that Obamacare is a disaster.
The reason Obamacare is failing is not its bungled website. It is because Americans are now seeing the fundamental trade-off behind the law — that in order to insure a relatively small number of the uninsured, many millions more Americans are likely to lose their private insurance, lose access to preferred doctors, or pay substantially more for their insurance.
President Obama promised that if this law was passed, you could keep your plan, you could keep your doctors, and your premiums would go down. Each of those promises has proved false.
Already, more than 4 million people have lost their insurance plans because of Obamacare. And millions more Americans' health insurance is at risk. Some experts predict anywhere from 80 million to 129 million private health plans will be canceled or forcibly changed over the next year...
The president promised that the average family's premiums would fall by $2,500; instead, they have risen by over $3,000 since 2008...
Moreover, Obamacare is a major jobs killer, especially for those struggling to climb the economic ladder. Workers are seeing their hours cut, and small businesses are unable to hire new employees."
Jim Sensenbrenner, JD, US Representative (R-WI), stated in his Nov. 25, 2014 column titled "Second Open Enrollment Period, Obamacare Still a Disaster," posted on his website:
"Under the Affordable Care Act our health care system is nothing short of a disaster and coverage is far from 'affordable.'...
Thousands of Americans are being told they must switch doctors and providers to comply with coverage regulations, while hundreds of employers are worried about restricting hiring practices and lowering employees' hours to comply with the pending employer mandate. As of September 2014, at least 10 employers with over 50 full-time employees in Wisconsin have already cut hours of part-time workers to avoid the 30-hour-per-week threshold that requires them to provide coverage under the employer mandate.
By reducing competition and limiting patient choice, insurance and health care providers have little incentive to lower costs or increase the quality of care under Obamacare. The American people end up paying more and getting less."
Thomas P. Miller, JD, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Grace-Marie Turner, President of the Galen Institute, and James C. Capretta, MA, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, stated in their Apr. 25, 2012 article titled "Why the (Un)Affordable Care Act Should Be Repealed and Replaced," published in the May 2012 issue of the American Journal of Medicine and available at aei.org:
"[W]e strongly recommend that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 should be repealed and replaced as soon as possible. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has become deservedly more unpopular since its enactment. It is too costly to finance, too difficult to administer, too burdensome on health care professionals, and too disruptive of existing health care arrangements that many Americans prefer. It will limit future economic growth, distort health care delivery, exacerbate already-unsustainable entitlement spending, and erase any meaningful constitutional limits on the enumerated powers of the federal government. By relying on illusory formulaic reductions in future payments to physicians, on burdensome new reporting requirements, and on top-down restrictions on medical innovation, it will further jeopardize access to quality care...
[A] clear plurality of Americans opposes the ACA and particularly its unprecedented individual mandate to purchase health insurance... [T]he overall structure of over-regulated, over-subsidized, and centrally-planned health care that the new health law aims to implement remains unaffordable, unworkable, and unsustainable. Its early results are designed to be inconclusive because the ACA's essential features will not be fully implemented for several more years. But they promise to be both disappointing and destabilizing across the entire health care system and our overall economy. We cannot afford to waste additional years heading in the wrong direction. The sooner that the ACA is repealed and replaced, the earlier we can get back to the urgent need to reform the US health care system more effectively and sustainably."
A group of 200 economists, including current and former officials at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), stated the following in a Jan. 18, 2011 letter to House Speaker Boehner, House Minority Leader Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid, and Senate Minority Leader McConnell, available at the American Action Forum website:
"To promote job growth and help to restore the federal government to fiscal balance, we, the undersigned, feel that it would be beneficial to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148). Too many Americans remain unemployed and the United States faces a daunting budgetary outlook. We believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a threat to U.S. businesses and will place a crushing debt burden on future generations of Americans...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains expensive mandates and penalties that create major barriers to stronger job growth... The law also levies roughly $500 billion in new taxes that will enter the supply chain for medical services, raising the cost of medical services... these medical costs will translate to higher insurance premiums, further increasing the cost of operating a business in the United States...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does not constitute real health care reform... Congress should start with a clean sheet of paper and adopt initiatives that would encourage providers to offer higher-quality care at lower costs; reduce the cost pressures that threaten to bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid; and give every American access to more options for quality insurance."
Janice Shaw Crouse, PhD, Senior Fellow at the Concerned Women for America (CWA), Beverly LaHaye Institute (BLI) and former speechwriter for US President George H. W. Bush, wrote in her Mar. 26, 2010 article "What You Get with Free Health Care," available at www.cwfa.org:
"Congressional Democrats, disregarding the will of the people and dressing their action in high-sounding rhetoric, rammed through Congress their unpopular and disastrous plan for 'transforming' America into a Cuban, British, Canadian or French image...
[I]n those countries where massive government intervention has replaced free market enterprise, the reality is far short of the utopian promises and the policies that have been spun out so recklessly and misleadingly. Price controls, inevitably, limit innovation. If that happens to medical research and technological advancement, the results will be disastrous.
Everybody wants affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care; there are proposals on the table for changes that would make significant improvements in those aspects of U.S. health care. Those proposals would unleash free market competition, improve quality, and lower costs for health care in the same way that it has done for other national industries and businesses...
But cost control is not the purpose of ObamaCare. ObamaCare is all about redistributing wealth and putting a vast segment of the economy under bureaucratic control...
Under ObamaCare, Uncle Sam becomes Santa Claus. But sooner or later, the bills come in and all those 'gifts' turn out to be pretty expensive after all."


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Porirua City
6,864 people in the Porirua City had a tertiary qualification in 2013.
Education Qualifications are one of the most important indicators of socio-economic status. With other data sources, such as Income statistics and Occupation data, Porirua City's Education Qualifications help to evaluate the economic opportunities and socio-economic status of an area and identify skill gaps in the labour market. Level of Educational Qualifications in a population relate to a number of factors including:
- The age of the population (e.g. older people tend to have more vocational qualifications, while people in their twenties and thirties are more likely to have a university degree);
- The professional or working ambitions of people (to seek education as youth or retraining as adults);
- The opportunities afforded to people to continue studying beyond compulsory schooling; and
- Immigration policy
Derived from the Census questions:
'What is your highest secondary school qualification?', 'Apart from secondary school qualifications do you have another completed qualification?', and 'Print your highest qualification level and the main subject.'
Persons aged 15 years and over
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings (opens a new window) 2006 and 2013. Compiled and presented in profile.id by .id (opens a new window) , the population experts.
Compiled and presented by .id, the population experts.
Compiled and presented by .id, the population experts.
Dominant groups
Analysis of the qualifications of the population in the Porirua City in 2013 compared to the Wellington Region shows that there was a lower proportion of people holding formal qualifications (Higher degrees, Bachelor degrees and Post School (excluding university) qualifications), and a higher proportion of people with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 69.3% of the population aged 15 and over held educational qualifications, and 18.3% had no qualifications, compared with 76.1% and 14.5% respectively for the Wellington Region.
The major differences between qualifications held by the population of the Porirua City and the Wellington Region were:
- A larger percentage of persons with No qualifications (18.3% compared to 14.5%)
- A smaller percentage of persons with Bachelor degrees (11.9% compared to 16.0%)
- A smaller percentage of persons with Higher degrees (5.7% compared to 9.4%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications of the population in the Porirua City between 2006 and 2013 were in those with:
- School qualifications (+1,515 persons)
- Bachelor degrees (+1,386 persons)
- No qualifications (-1,020 persons)
- Higher degrees (+858 persons)

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When I felt better I went into the bathroom washed my face, removing any trace of the sadness I had in my face few minutes back. It was after getting fresh I realized that I had been crying for a pretty long time. I started walking back to the compartment where my friends were; shivering with the thoughts that what was it which motivated me to take this step? Was there any need for me to do this? What will happen if incase I would have to return back? How would my parents react?
On my way back I noticed that most of the compartments I was passing through wore a deserted look, this made me realised that many stations had passed, during this period. We were almost nearing the destination of the train. But we did'nt expected this. I had thought that this would be an over night journey.
With these thoughts I walked towards my friends. I saw one of them sitting at the door, gazing at the dark sky above, the second one was not around. So I asked him where the other was, he said he had no clue. I got worried. We both started searching for him; we knew he was the weaker link in all three of us.
But luckily he had gone to the loo seeing him I felt relaxed. I guess it was around 9:30 at night. We all were hungry but we had two problems in front of us. We had little amount of money and secondly there was no one around selling anything.
Then we saw a lady carrying two steel pots, we knew she was carrying buttermilk, but were not sure whether she had anything in those pots, and even if she had was she willing to sell it ? At that very moment, mind was flooded with questions. We went near her and asked that did she have anything in the pots? She said she has some last few glasses; it was two rupees per glass. We didn't bother much on the money part, we asked her to give whatever she had in them, some how we all got two glasses each, but it was better to drink two glass of water than that buttermilk, hardly there was any taste.
Well we still were hungry and were in no position to buy anything else, as we had to save money for the days to come, and as such we were left with 17 rupees. So we went into the loo and drank the tap water, till our stomachs were full we knew this was not a long lasting solution, hence we all decided to dose off, so as to avoid ourselves from feeling hungry. But that too was not easy. It was night time; the train was at its full speed. The winds were gushing in from the broken windows and the window cracks, the compartment was quite cold, it was impossible to sleep without a blanket, but still we tried, some how we did manage to find a place where we could find some warmth. It was under the seats. I was of course not comfortable over there. Everything from banana peel, to cigarette and bidi buds, rotten, food particles to even used condoms were lying there. But we had no option; I cleaned some part with my hanky and went in, finally something good was happening at least found a warm place to sleep. I don't know when I went to sleep, but I guess it was almost after two hours, I felt something in my hands. I thought I was dreaming so went to back to sleep, after a while, I woke up because of severe mosquito bites, all over my hands and legs, and face. I was still feeling something on my hand when I saw I really got sacred there were almost two to three cockroaches having some sort of deep discussion on my palms. None of them was moving, and in hurry to get away from them I forgot that I was underneath the seat and raised my head with full force. "BANG" I hit my head, with the metal frame of the seat, hearing the sound, my friends came to see me they too were scratching their hands and legs, asked me if I was ok or not, I didn't know what to say. I just nodded my head in affirmation and came out.
Well now that there was no question of sleeping we all went near the door and sat there facing the wind and gazing the sky. I now know that what made those cockroaches come to my palm, for them it was warm there. It was way past midnight that we reached the destination of the train, that means the last station where the train was suppose to take the halt. Everyone got down the train, and moved towards the exit. We three still were sitting inside the train, thinking what we should do next. I knew there was no point in sitting in the train as in some time it will go into the shed, for cleaning and repairing, and if we are found there we would straight away be handed over to the police creating a big drama at home.
So we got down, the station was totally deserted, except for some beggar, and down-and-out people sleeping here and there. The clock at the railway platform declared boldly, it was 1:30 in the night. We were totally confused. We saw a passenger train parked on the opposite platform. Ravi suggested that we should check out if any door of that train was open, it was a Valsad passenger, which meant that if it goes to that place means we had another full day in train with nothing to worry about. We crossed the platform, bending and crawling as if we were on some army mission in some enemy nation, and getting caught means: death. Well we reached near that train and started opening each and every door of every compartment we got success, one of the compartment door was not locked. We slowly opened the door and entered the compartment. It was totally dark inside, we closed the door and tried to put on some lights, but all in vain the main switch was off.
We got on to the upper berth of the train, and started talking about our experiences till now, we all were quite tired hence very soon we dosed off. It was early morning when one of us woke up due to some noise. When we opened the door we found that the train was moving at a slow speed, to us it meant a beginning of a long day. As I had carried a toothpaste tube, we all went into the loo to brush our teeth with our fingers. There was no point in attending the natures call as we hadn't eaten anything last night that would have been eager to see the outside world, by rolling down the train's commode.
Well it was time for the morning tea and breakfast; this meant that another stream of tap water, filling our empty stomach. Well after our so called English breakfast, we started roaming in the train exploring compartments to compartments, not much passenger were present; may be because it was quite early for the locals to get crowded. After our exploration we sat down, near the door enjoying the early scenic beauty of the green farm fields, and the flowing rivers. By 7:30 AM we arrived at the station from where we had began our journey. We again played the spy game, hiding from some unknown force, only this time we knew who these forces were and we also saw them, in the form of our classmates, schoolmates, and Teachers, crossing the station and walking by our train. I am sure as I had these thoughts rising in my mind, my friends too must have thought that, let's get down and go home and say sorry to our folks. But I don't know why we didn't do that. Well anyways after 5 minutes of halt at this station, the train started moving, though the trains halt was for five minutes, but to us it seemed like an hour, after all hiding in a stinking loo for one minute is also not easy, and we were there for five minutes.
The train took the speed and so did my thoughts about my parents, and their condition. It was 11:00 and we had reached some station, after Baroda. The train was now moving at a snail's pace often stopping for 15 to 20 minutes. It was lunch time for us and we knew this time the water will not help us. We decided to have something light to eat, something that can come within 10 rupees but luck was not on our side, our worst fears were coming true, we saw some Ticket Checkers (T.C) approaching our boogie, and we were as usual, sitting near the door. The plastic bag in which I had the tooth paste, towel, and the money was hanging on the handle of the door, seeing the TC we got sacred, and these people were throwing even the beggars out of the train. We were sure if he catches us we would not be thrown but handed over to the cops, and again the fear of the BIG drama at home sacred us.
We got down the train thinking that once those T.C's clear off our compartment, we will climb back, hence I did not carry the plastic bag with me. But the T.C. didn't move from our compartment, for almost 5 minutes, there was some sort of fight happening, with the passengers. I saw the signal turning from red to green and then our train with a small jerk started moving. We were standing a bit far from our train, so as to avoid any unwanted attention from those TC, between us and the our train there was a railway track, and as if it would happen in most of the movies, as we were thinking of running and catching the train, a goods train appeared from no where, and with a slow speed started passing in front of us, some how in our excitement, and tension of catching our train and hiding from the TC we did not pay attention to the goods train approaching. But now it was too late by the time the goods trains last bogie had passed by, our train had moved quite far from us there was no way we could run and catch it.
We were stranded in the middle of nowhere, with nothing in our hands, not even a single penny. And now that we were damn hungry we didn't even had the option of the tap water. I thought this was the end for all of us. "BYE DAD BYE MOM" was the words that kept on repeating in my mind.
We thought of walking in the opposite direction so as to reach the nearest station. To catch another train having no clue how long were we suppose to walk back. I guess we were some where near a small village called Vadod, a bit far away form Vadodara/Baroda, it's near the banks of river Tapi or Mahi I am not sure. So thinking the station was near we started walking back, it didn't took us too long to realize that we were not a bit; but very far away from the nearest station, and maybe even from the nearest human habitation. We were in the middle of a jungle. We couldn't find a single human being in sight for miles ahead of us or behind us. Leave alone human being, we didn't see any single living creature near us, except for some kites or vultures above us. It seemed that they were ready to have a feast on us. We were loosing hopes though no one spoke anything with or against anyone, we were not in a state to speak, temperatures were soaring and we were in middle of jungle which didn't had even a single green leaf, it was all dry grayish and lifeless. We were walking by the side of the railway track, trying to see if you could get anything to eat or drink, some left outs or anything that we could consider edible.
After walking for almost 15 to 20 kilometers we stopped for a while to take some rest and saw here and there to see if someone was near us or we could find someone or something, that could make us happy, When we saw on the direction we had come from, suddenly out of the blue we saw a human figure, walking towards us. Initially we couldn't believe our eyes we thought this was just our imagination or may be a hallucination. But slowly this human figure came closer and closer and finally we saw this young man, full of energy and enthusiasm, carrying a back-pack and water bag around his neck. We got excited; I thought looking at our face he will surely share his food and water with us which could give us the strength to walk to the nearest station and may be he could guide us the way too. The moment he came close to us we asked him for some water to drink and told him that we had got down the train by mistake, and had nothing with us either to drink or to eat. He looked at us for maybe a second or so, and to our utter surprise he started walking without saying anything. We were shocked at his behavior we walked with him and pleaded to at least give us one ounce of water. He kept walking and said that he was on a trip to Dakor, (A Religious place in Gujarat) and he was suppose to walk all that distance hence if he shared anything with us, then it wouldn't be sufficient for him to last his entire trip, saying this he kept on walking.
We were so upset, pissed off and irritated by his words that we felt like kicking him on his back and throwing stone on him, injure him and run away with his food and water. But we just saw him walking away from us, and slowly he vanished. We had resumed our walk, but were in no condition to walk any more. I till date have no answer that even in that state what kept was moving. After walking for another 15 kilometers or so we approached the railway bridge that was built on this big river Tapi/Mahi we started walking over that bridge, it was some relief to walk on that bridge because of the cool breeze. A place to escape from the extreme heat of the blazing sun we sat on the bridge for some time, in the meanwhile two or three trains had passed by, we rested on the bridge thinking that incase if some train slows down on the bridge we would get onto it.
But to our bad luck or shall I say good luck none of the train slowed down. Hence we kept walking, after crossing the bridge we had hardly walked a mile, when Atif sat down on the track saying that he is not going to move an inch from there unless he get something to eat or at least a glass of water to drink. It had been nearly 3 to 4 hours that we had started walking and had crossed nearly 30 kilometers or more not sure about that. We hadn't had a single drop of water in the mean while, We understood what he was going through we were also feeling the same so we thought of taking some rest and maybe after that we would start walking, anyways other than that he had no other options and neither did we. We had to keep walking so as to reach the nearest station, to get at least a glass of water. So we all sat down to rest, it had been almost half and hour, that we had taken rest, and in the mean while none of us spoke anything. After half an hour, I and Ravi stood up and got ready to walk again and asked Atif to get up but he was still firm on what he had said. We tried to explain him that there is no use sitting here it was not going to help us in any manner, and if night falls this place will not be safe for us.
No amount of reasoning and explaining made him change his mind. He was now acting stubborn and it was really irritating for us, we also threatened him that we will leave him there and start walking. We even pretended by walking some steps, but he didn't showed sign of moving. We came back to him and tried to explain him again, but all in vain then Ravi came up with an idea he said that lets pray for a while and keep walking and if we see anyone we will ask them for help, and even then if they don't help us we will injure them and take whatever they have, not money but food and water well yes we were planning to loot some one, I really got scared with this idea in case we did that I was sure we would be caught and then it would be trouble for al of us from which even our parents would not be able to brings out. But at that point I agreed with his idea because we had to keep moving. Some how Atif agreed to this and we all knelt down on the tracks and started praying to our respective gods. Some how the heated railway track and the pointed metal stones of the track even though were hurting us but we didn't bother much about that may be because the pain that we were facing inside our bodies, was much higher than this external pains. It was the pain of a hungry stomach and a dehydrated body which was unbearable.
After praying for almost half an hour we stood up saw each other, saw our knees there were some blood stains on them hardly bothering about it we resumed our walk. Something inside me had changed there was this new optimism in me, and may be in others. Or was it just my feeling we all where sure that something good will surely happen to us, after all never in our life had we prayed for so long with a empty stomach, and a clear heart.
After walking for some 5 kilometers, we saw an elderly couple walking towards us from the opposite side of the track. The surprising part was that even after being on the look out for some one in all direction; we hadn't seen them, till they were quite close, so close that we could see their faces. I showed my friends, the couple, and without wasting a second went near them, and asked them that did they had some water, as I and my friends were damn thirsty, and repeated the story of missing the train that we had told the young man we had met.
The couple saw me, and shared a laugh amongst them, I couldn't understand the meaning of their laugh well anyways I was least concerned for the reasons of their laugh. They asked me to call my friends I did so. They made us sit under the shade of a parched tree and sat near us; they opened their bag, and brought out a long steel Tiffin box with multiple containers opened the Tiffin and asked us to eat the food we didn't thought for a single minute and started eating. In no time we had completely emptied their tiffin box. In the mean while they asked us all sorts of questions, ranging from our name, to how we had landed up there. We tried to convince them with our lies; some how they had come know that we were lying. After eating their food we also drank up all the water they had in their water bottle. It was after that we realized that we had left nothing for them we felt sorry for them and started being all apologetic for our deed. They said it was ok as they were going to the river bed to perform last rites of some relative who had passed away recently, they could buy something from the bank, and we still went on with our sorry. Its then that the lady suddenly said that don't worry "yeh tumhare liye hi to laye they" (We had got this food just for you) I asked what!!! She said nothing I was just teasing you people, we also took it lightly, We asked them how far was the nearest station they told that it was not that far, and maybe in two hours we would be there , they asked us to take the train back to Ahmedabad, which was suppose to come by 6:00 PM. They said that by then they too would be at that station.
They told us that we know that you have been lying to us, but you need to go back home you are parents are worried, we assure you they will not scold you or even hurt you a bit. Though we didn't take their words seriously we thanked them a lot for their benevolence. And with a new lease of energy and enthusiasm started walking, Hardly had we crossed 200 meters when Ravi told that we have done a great mistake, they were God in human form, we should have touched their feet, I said its not that late we can still turn back and run towards them, and do that.
We all agreed to this, we turned back, and got astonished to see that there was no one there. We ran back to the spot where we had the food, started searching for them, There was no way they could have gone from any other way, as on both sides of the track it was a steep slop full of thorny bushes. The only way to get down was near the bridge from where it was possible to get down to the river banks. We were really shocked to see this. I said no use of searching them, they must have found some shortcut, which we don't know and they must be on their way to the river bank. And as such they will be back at the station to catch the train to Ahmadabad we will search for them then and will take their blessings. They too agreed and we started walking finally after walking for more than 30 kilometers we arrived at the station. We had started feeling hungry again, and were really tired; we searched for the tap and drank water to our fill.
When we felt better we asked a railway authority about that next train to Ahmadabad, He said it was at 6:00 PM and we still had three hours to go. We stole bhajiya from a vendor, and waited for the couple as well as the train to come.
Well the train did come at around 7:30 PM, but our eyes were still searching for the elderly couple. For long we kept staring towards the station till it was out of our site, and our eyes kept searching form tem. But we couldn't find them, that is when we realized that may be we had encountered a divine experience. And I kept saying to my self "I MET GOT——I MET GOD——-I MET GOD"


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Reinstall w7 and updates
I have just reinstalled W7 after a hard drive failure. Do I now have to download all prior windows updates or can I restrict them to just Security or important ones. The last time I reinstalled W7 it took most of the day to download them all and was a real pain, so I would like to avoid this if poss. Once again I shall rely on your advice.
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You could use this
Or the older way
Reinstalled twice, but Windows still won't update
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Thank you for the rep very much appreciated
You can review this thread and see how some of our mad scientist are getting along with the process if that is the route you have taken
Simplifying updates for Windows 7 and 8.1
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Many thanks Thrashzone. I can always rely on you to find the solution but I have hit a snag. I reached the MS website per your first link but when I tried to download the MS Update Catalog, I kept getting "An add-on for this website failed to run" and am therefore, unable to download the Catalog. I have looked in "Manage Add-ons" in IE but can't see anything in there which might be relevant, so I am sorry to trouble you again but can you tell me what Add-on they are referring to and what I need to do to activate it.
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Yea I had the same issue
I'd look on the top right of the url address and make sure a blue circle with a slash through it does not exist
That would mean Active x filtering kicked on and is blocking
If you see it click it or right click it and select disable.
You can also go to Gear symbol on the top right and Safety and uncheck Active x filtering
Here are the instructions that finally showed and for me they were already as it stated
Then finally this browser add-on showed up as installed
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Many thanks Thrashzone but I followed everything you suggested and I still cannot download the Add-on. However, reading the Microsoft website and earlier ones more closely, it would appear this Update Catalog is designed for IT Pros and the like and MS infer that ordinary home users should visit the standard Windows Update site and download the past updates from there. Much as this is going to be a real pain in the b-m, it will be less hassle in the long run, provided I don't nod off in the middle of it. Anyway, thank you once again.
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Creating 3-dimensional text is generally done with images. This is not a good method since you would have to repaint your image for every change you want to make.
Enter textDepth.js, a way to make text 3-dimensional using nothing but CSS. With this plugin you simply select a container and run the plugin and the text gets depth.
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PSD to HTML slicing and coding services. Also Javascript coding is included
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Creating 3-dimensional text is generally done with images. This is not a good method since you would have to repaint your image for every change you want to make.
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This worked great actually. I needed 3D for an internal project (by request) and this did the trick. It works in quite big scale as it's just a css trick, but the fact that you can write in 3D in real-time makes it VERY usefull!
Let me start by apologizing, as I am fairly new to jQuery and plugins. For some reason, I have not been able to get this working on my site. I have tried several times, and have reviewed the source code on the developer's site that has the demo. Could someone please give me an idea of what I could be doing wrong or post a link to another site that properly implements this? Thanks.
Below is the code I used. I even went so far as to give my example the same class as he did. Also, I uploaded the javascript file he gave to my website, in the same directory as the page I was using for testing.
wrapper: 'body',
shade_color: 'rgb(200,200,200)',
depth: 10,
direction: 'down'
This is some sample text
The text box removed the html aspect, despite my putting it in a pre-tag, but it was just a paragraph with class="foo". Also i used src="textDepth-1.0.js".
Sorry, scratch my last. When I went over the plugin source again I noticed that the text had to be in a relatively or absolutely positioned element.


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Windows XP PCs infected by WCry can be decrypted without paying ransom
Decryption tool is of limited value, because XP was unaffected by last week's worm.
Dan Goodin - May 18, 2017 5:32 pm UTC
Owners of some Windows XP computers infected by the WCry ransomware may be able to decrypt their data without making the $300 to $600 payment demand, a researcher said Thursday. Adrien Guinet, a researcher with France-based Quarkslab, has released software that he said allowed him to recover the secret decryption key required to restore an infected XP computer in his lab. The software has not yet been tested to see if it works reliably on a large variety of XP computers, and even when it does work, there are limitations. The recovery technique is also of limited value because Windows XP computers weren't affected by last week's major outbreak of WCry. Still, it may be helpful to XP users hit in other campaigns.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Dec 28, 2004
|Filing date
|Oct 9, 2001
|Priority date
|Oct 9, 2001
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|Edward J. Mancuso
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|Edward J. Mancuso
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (24), Referenced by (7), Classifications (14), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of Invention
This invention is in the general field of casino gaming and, more particularly, is an apparatus that reduces a probability of cheating and increases rolls of dice per unit time in a crap game.
2. Description of the Prior Art
During a crap game in a casino, a die typically rolls off a dice table and onto a floor about ten times per hour. Prior to putting the die back into play, it is examined by a casino employee to verify that a highly visible identification number is on one face and a barely visible security marking is on another face.
It takes approximately thirty seconds to recover the die, check the identification number, check the security marking and put the die back in play. Therefore, during a single day approximately two hours of playing time is lost. The loss of the playing time results in a loss of revenue for the casino. Therefore, it is desirable to reduce the loss of the playing time as much as possible.
An undesirable aspect of the identification number and the security marking is that they are noticeable to anyone who handles the die. Therefore, the identification number and the security number can be used by a person to produce dice that could be surreptitiously introduced into the crap game. When the surreptitiously introduced dice have a weight imbalance, a user has a decisive advantage. In other words, the identification number and the security marking do not adequately prevent cheating in the crap game.
For reasons given hereinbefore, there is a need for providing a rapid means for putting the die back into play when it rolls of the table and for preventing cheating.
An object of the invention is to rapidly verify that a die used in a dice game has not been surreptitiously replaced.
According to one aspect of the present invention, a bar code strip with a printed coded representation of a verification character is connected to a face of a die. A scanner is operable to scan the face to verify the presence of the printed coded representation.
According to another aspect of the present invention, prior to shipment to a casino, the die is wrapped within a wrapper that has an inside surface with a numeric representation of the bar code thereon. When the wrapped die is received by the casino, a designated casino employee unwraps the die and enters the numeric representation into the scanner thereby enabling the use of the scanner to verify the presence of the bar code.
The invention increases time that a die is in play and reduces the probability of cheating in a dice game.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention should be apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiment as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of bar code strip embedded within a translucent die;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of a dice wrapper;
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the front of a scanner;
FIG. 4 is a plan view of the top of the scanner of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a side elevation of the scanner of FIG. 3; and
FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the scanner of FIG. 3.
As shown in FIG. 1, a bar code strip 14 has a coded representation of a verification number, 875, printed thereon. The strip 14 is embedded in a face 12 of a translucent die 10. As explained hereinafter, when the face 12 is scanned by a suitably programmed bar code scanner, an indication is provided by the scanned by a suitably programmed bar code scanner, an indication is provided by the scanner that the coded representation of the verification number is printed on the strip 14.
As shown in FIG. 2, a wrapper 16 has an interior surface 18 with the verification number printed thereon. A manufacturer of the die 10 (FIG. 1) seals it in the wrapper 16 with only an outer surface (not shown) of the wrapper 16 exposed to view. The die 10, sealed in the wrapper 16, is shipped to a casino. Because only the outer surface is exposed to view, the verification number remains unknown at the casino until the die 10 is unwrapped. Preferably, a pit boss of the casino unwraps the die 10.
As shown in FIG. 3, a scanner 20 has a front surface 22 with a pushbutton 24 extending therefrom. An imprint of the letters, PWR, is carried on the pushbutton 24. When the scanner 20 is to be programmed, the pushbutton 24 is depressed to cause an application of electrical power to circuit elements within the scanner 20.
An imprint of the letters, SET, is carried on a pushbutton 26 that extends from the surface 22. When the power is applied, the set button 26 is depressed to enable programming of the scanner 20.
Numeric pushbuttons 28-37 that extend from the surface 22 carry imprints of the numbers zero through nine, respectively. Additionally, a pushbutton 39 that carries an imprint of the word, ENTER, extends from the surface 22.
When the scanner 20 is to be programmed to verify that the strip 14 has the coded representation of the number, 875, the pushbuttons 36, 35, 33, 39 are depressed in succession with the pushbutton 36 being depressed first.
A pushbutton 44 that extends from the surface 22 carries an imprint of the word, CANCEL. When an incorrect one of the pushbuttons 29-37, 39 is inadvertently depressed, the pushbutton 44 is depressed and programming of the scanner 20 is repeated as described hereinbefore.
As shown in FIG. 4, the scanner 20 has a top panel 46 with an optical input window 48. An arm 49 is integrally connected to the panel 46. When the scanner 20 verifies the die 10, the face 12 is placed proximal to the window 48 whereby the face 12 is scanned.
Holes 50, 51, 52 through the panel 46 are evenly spaced between panel edges 54, 56. The holes 50, 51, 52 provide a view of indicator lamps 58, 59, 60, respectively. The lamp 58 is illuminated when electrical power is applied to the scanner 20. The lamp 51 is illuminated during verification of the die 10. The lamp 60 is illuminated when the coded representation of the verification number is on the strip 14 during verification of the die 10.
As shown in FIG. 5, a rubber pad 62 is fixedly connected atop a side rail 64 of a dice table. The arm 49 rests upon the pad 62.
The arm 49 is integrally connected to a right angle extension 66 that is in contact with a side 72 of the rail 64. The scanner 20 is slidable along the rail 64 in directions indicated by arrows 73, 74 (FIG. 4) whereby the scanner 20 is slidably mounted. The slidable mounting of the scanner 20 is maintained because the extension 66 and surface 70 are in contact with the sides 68, 72, respectively.
As shown in FIG. 6, a power receptacle 76 extends through a bottom panel 78 of the scanner 20. The receptacle 78 is adapted for connection to a 115 volt, 60 cycle AC power source. Additionally, a direct current receptacle 80 is connected through wires 82 to a fixture 84 that extends through the panel 84. The receptacle 80 is adapted for connection to a direct current power source.
A power selection switch 86 extends through the panel 78. The panel 78 carries a printing of the letters, DC, proximal to a side 88 of the switch 86. Correspondingly, the panel 78 carries a printing of the letters, AC, proximal to a side 90 of the switch 86.
The switch 86 has a plastic lever 92 that is thrown towards the side 90 when the receptacle 76 is connected to the AC power source and a decision is made to use the AC power source to provide electrical power to the scanner 20. Correspondingly, the lever 92 is thrown towards the side 88 when the receptacle 80 is connected to the direct current power source and a decision is to use the direct current power source to provide electrical power to the scanner 20.
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Mar 8, 2005
Owner name: GAMING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL USA, INC., NEVADA
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:MANCUSO, EDWARD J.;REEL/FRAME:015748/0653
Effective date: 20050224
|Jan 7, 2008
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Year of fee payment: 4
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|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Dec 28, 2012
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
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Effective date: 20121228
|Jun 26, 2015
Owner name: NEVADA STATE BANK, NEVADA
Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:GAMING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION;GAMING PARTNERS INTERNATIONALUSA, INC.;REEL/FRAME:035993/0429
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July 14th, 2004, 09:26 AM #1
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I just received this email from "Invalid" with the subject, "Account Questions." I do not use any kind of email marketing at all and use no adware on my site. This email is very disturbing with its thinly veiled threats and ambiguous nature. The fact that the email is so generic with no specific information about what I'm allegedly doing wrong is also disturbing. If anyone else has received such an email and understands its meaning, please explain it to me. Here it is:
Dear Affiliate,
You are currently registered as the contact person for an affiliate
account with LinkShare.
It has come to our attention that your account has been generating an
unusually high volume of clicks, especially when compared with the
number of actual conversions/orders generated by that volume.
We are writing to alert you to this because we know from past experience
that such activity can be caused by incorrect programming (such as a
script that is recycling incorrectly), and would ask you to look into
it. At the same time, we also know that such statistics may be an
indication of aggressive online promotional tactics, such as use of
adware or email campaigns, which, depending on how such tactics are
employed, may or may not be condoned by the merchant partners with which
you work and/or LinkShare.
We trust that there is a satisfactory explanation for the activity which
we have observed. Please provide us with an explanation of the click
activity promptly. We would like to hear back from you by end of the
day Friday. It is important that we know what methods you are using to
distribute your merchant partners' links in order to answer their
inquiries and, as appropriate, be able to work with you on improving
your conversion rates. If we do not hear from you, please understand
that we will be forced to refer your account to LinkShare's Compliance
Team for consideration.
Thank you in advance for your attention and cooperation.
LinkShare Corporation
A hope someone will be able to explain this to me. Thanks in advance.
July 14th, 2004, 09:51 AM #2
first check the reporting for your account in LS. any unusual amount of clicks showing?
July 14th, 2004, 10:11 AM #3
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Here is my report total for this month:
63,193 1,448 2.29% 4 6 (0) 0.28% $119.88 $30.19
Here is my report total for June:
141,209 3,586 2.54% 16 30 (0) 0.45% $680.86 $108.87
Do these reports seem unusual enough to warrant a threatening letter from Linkshare? If so, please explain this to me so I will understand what exactly could be wrong, except for their merchants not converting well.
July 14th, 2004, 10:37 AM #4
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Just pick up the phone and inquire 1-888-742-7389 ext 222 or 1-800-875-5465 ext 267 Ronda from my rolodex.Webmaster's... Mike and Charlie
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July 14th, 2004, 12:23 PM #5
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Mike & Charlie,
Thanks for the numbers to call. I had already sent a detailed email response quoting reports and asking for details of what transgressions they think I committed. Their reply to that detailed email was simply, "Thanks for taking the time to respond." At first, I thought it was an autoresponder but the message came two hours after I sent my email and there was no indication in that message that they would be responding to me further. It seemed conclusive.
So, I called the first number you provided and spoke to a relatively rude person who just kept telling me that the message didn't come from her department, it was an automated response and that I would eventually get a real response within 24 hours or so, and there was no way she could connect me with the people responsible for the original email.
If that was an automated message, instead of just saying, "Thanks for taking the time to respond," it should have mentioned that a real response would be forthcoming and when that could be expected. Anyway, we'll see what happens. Thanks again.
July 15th, 2004, 11:14 PM #6
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Could be that stupid little MSN bot.
Does Linkshare report duplicate clicks? If so, then your reports might be filtering out the strange activity.
July 18th, 2004, 01:38 AM #7
What was the reply address on the email please? Let me know and I'll find out for you who it came from at LinkShare (if at all) and who you can contact
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