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MILLIONS of people signed petitions and flooded electors with letters and phone calls and emails urging them to not vote for Trump. That includes up to a dozen electors, themselves. Thousands of protests are taking place every day all across the country.

The fact that it has a snowball's chance in hell of working is A) irrelevant to its newsworthiness, and B) mentioned in every single article I've read on the subject.

 

What they "urge" could not be more meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

 

I've known Vinnie Vila for 25 years. He started working on the trading floor only a couple of years before me.

He's now worth $2.2B. Holy crap.

 

YF, with regard to your daughter, I know this sounds like a stupid question but are you sure that someone on the short list of doctors who understand her illness takes Medicaid? I've known it to be difficult to find physicians who accept it, or who are taking on new Medicare patients. This may be less of an issue for a specialist in a narrow field, or the doctor may choose to take her on due to her specific issues, but that is by no means a sure thing. "We're not taking on any new Medicaid patients" can be a depressingly common answer.

 

100% sure. Her current doctors and hospital are contracted with Medicaid.

A large percentage of the kids there are on it.

 

Serving Children Insured by Medicaid

We are the State of Illinois’ principal partner in providing exceptional pediatric specialty care to Illinois’ most fragile children. These sick and injured children and their families rely upon the Medicaid program because they lack the financial resources to pay for medical treatment. Many of them have complex medical problems that have caused them to exhaust their commercial insurance, so Medicaid is their safety net.

Medicaid is the single largest insurer of children in our country, and one in three children in Chicago rely upon the service. Lurie Children's treats more children insured by Medicaid than any other hospital in Illinois. Because more than 50 percent of our inpatients are insured by Medicaid, Lurie Children's is one of 19 hospitals in Illinois deemed a "safety net hospital" by the state in 2012.

Serving Children Insured by Medicaid, Community, Children's Hospital - Lurie Children's

 

Access journalism:

 

That's what spurred the comment from the Media Matters guy that I posted.

 

Can you imagine if the Pats beat reporters posed for a photo like that with Belichick, or the Cavs writers with LeBron?

 

RE Obamacare, my mother-in-law makes too little to qualify for subsidies, she's too young for Medicare, and we live in a state that didn't expand Medicaid.

So she's fucked. Her monthly premiums would total about $100 more than her monthly income.

 

So, which electors have lost faith so far?

 

That's basically a smaller version of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which is a sham, too.

I would agree to off-the-record gatherings in certain situations, even ones that are more social in nature, but there's no chance in hell I'd pose for a photo like that.