Any doubts about “free trans surgery” for the Gender Confused: https://thinkprogress.org/wisconsin-transgender-health-suit-7ba7bd9fbfd7
“Two transgender women who are both employed by the University of Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit against the school and various state agencies after being denied health insurance coverage for transition-related procedures. The ACLU-led suit follows months of politicking in which the state’s exclusion on trans benefits was almost lifted, but then reinstated.”
“Gov. Scott Walker (R) was instrumental in re-implementing the exclusion that prevents them from receiving care. Back in August, a month after ETF decided to lift it, he ordered the state Department of Justice to urge the agency to reconsider. The letter Walker had sent to ETF argued that protections on the basis of sex should not be interpreted to protect transgender people from discrimination — mirroring the logic of a lawsuit, spearheaded by Texas and later joined by Wisconsin, challenging an Obama administration rule prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity in health care.”

This is not “Health Care”! This is Elective surgery, could even be considered to be “Cosmetic Surgery” because all of it does nothing to change the DNA of the person. They may “appear” to be “female” afterwards but are still male DNA.

This is just another “Socialist Wealth Transfer” from the Tax-Payers to “Lib-Prog preferred constituents”. Another “Totalitarian political rip-off”.
“Gender Identity” is not a “Health Issue”, it is a Libtard Whackdoodle Psychobabble Issue. Either get over it or pay for it yourself!
Everyone is being scammed now. The more Gubbermint, especially Lib/Progs, fool with Healthcare (or anything else) the more expensive it gets. Govt intervention always means more bureaucracy, waste and delays, opportunity for fraud by criminal opportunists, and opportunities for Lawyers like in this case..

Even WaPo has to admit it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/07/13/doj-announces-charges-against-400-people-for-1-3-billion-in-health-care-fraud/?utm_term=.40fd11a47fef

“More than 400 people across the country have been charged with participating in health care fraud scams totaling about $1.3 billion in false billings, including for the prescription and distribution of opioids.
In what federal officials Thursday called the “largest ever health care fraud enforcement action” by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, 412 individuals, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, were arrested in a nationwide operation that involved more than 1,000 law enforcement agents in at least 30 states.”

This is just “a drop in the bucket” of fraud. This operation was focused on opioid abuse. If they really go after Medicare and Medicaid overbilling under Obama it will reach “Tens of Billions” per year.
And they haven’t even started on the fraud for medical care of Illegal Aliens (Criminal Invaders).

Illegal Aliens and the Repukes’ ObamaCare 2.0:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/07/obamacare-2-0-guts-enforcement-gives-illegal-aliens-healthcare-through-identity-fraud/
“The Obamacare 2.0 bill pushed by some Republicans strips out even Obamacare’s weak protections preventing illegal aliens from signing up for health care meant for citizens.”

Read it, too much to copy/paste.
When you let the ‘Commies’ say that HealthCare is a “Right”, this is what you get.
When you take something (or the money to buy it) from one person to give it to another that didn’t earn it, it is not a “Right”, but THEFT!

Until there is enforcement against Law Breakers of all types against Welfare. Heath care will become more and more expensive. The “Socialists” want it that way. The RINOs don’t care, they have their Cadillac System. The Insurance Companies don’t care because they just pass the additional costs on to their customers, and now the Govt. promises to underwrite their losses.
The productive people have to pay for their “Insurance”, even all the crap they don’t want, but still get their taxes robbed and diverted to pay for everyone else.
Until there is enforcement against Medical malpractice fraud and Tort Reform to take some of the huge profit out of those often fraudulent “suits”, medical cost go up because all those costs are simply passed down to the “Consumer”.

Obamunist Bureau-wienies weeping: https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2017-07-20/trumps-maganomics-slashes-regulations-by-the-hundreds
“President Donald Trump’s regulatory repeal efforts have slashed or delayed hundreds of government restrictions during his first few months in office, according to a report published Thursday by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The document indicates Trump has overseen a total of 860 regulatory actions since he took up a seat in the Oval Office in January – 469 of which were included as part of former President Barack Obama’s regulatory agenda in the second half of 2016.
And the number of effective “economically significant” regulations estimated to have an annual economic impact of $100 million or more has fallen to 58 – half of what it was in the fall of 2016.”
The Dems in Congress refuse to help President Trump “Make America Great Again”, so he is doing it alone. Saving America, repealing one Regulation at a time.

For those that question MSM Polls:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-why-are-republicans-trouncing-democrats-in-fundraising/article/2629435
“The Republican president has a job approval rating around 40 percent. The GOP has an unfavorability rating around 56 percent. And Republicans trail Democrats by nine points in an average of “generic ballot” polls.
All of which makes it notable that the Republican National Committee is trouncing the Democratic National Committee when it comes to raising money, especially from small donors.
The numbers are striking. In June, the RNC raised $13.5 million to the DNC’s $5.5 million.
For 2017 so far, the RNC has raised $75.4 million to the DNC’s $38.2 million.
The RNC started the year with $25.3 million in cash on hand. Now it has $44.7 million. The DNC started the year with $10.5 in cash on hand. Now, that has fallen to $7.5 million.
As of June 30, the RNC reported $0 in debt. The DNC reported $3.3 million in debt.
A look inside the numbers is even worse for the DNC. Looking at collections from small donors — that is, those who contributed less than $200 — the RNC raised $10.5 million in the months of May and June. The DNC raised $5.3 million from small donors in the same time period.
The RNC’s money total is a record — more than was raised in any previous non-presidential election year. That is true for June, and for all of 2017 as well. The $75.4 million raised this year compares to $55.4 million for the same period in 2015; to $51.2 for the same period in 2014; to $41.1 million for the same period in 2013, and so on going back.
“It’s definitely a reflection of support for President Trump,” said RNC spokesman Ryan Mahoney. “Our small-dollar donors are giving at a record pace because they believe the RNC is supporting President Trump, and they like that.”
The obvious reason for the Democrats’ troubles is that they lost the White House, the House and the Senate last year. Now, the party appears to have a particularly bad hangover. One data point: In 2013, after Republicans lost their second presidential election in a row and many believed the party faced years in the electoral wilderness, the RNC still raised more money in the January-June period, $41.1 million, than the $38.2 million the Democrats have raised so far this year.
There is much discussion about the intensity of Democratic opposition to President Trump, and indeed Democrats showed a lot of fundraising enthusiasm in the losing race for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District that turned into a referendum on the president. But the fact is, the passions behind the Resistance have not, or have not yet, turned into support for the main vehicle of opposition to Trump, the Democratic Party.
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The polls are skewed terribly. Pollster question people in the cities.
The Lib/Progs control the “Media” but are increasingly ignored by the Voters and even seen as ”The Enemy’ on many issues. The Democrat “Strategy” of total resistance to Trump and everything may play well to their brainwashed “socialist Big Govt” constituents, but not so much to people in the “Real World”. Especially those that want reduced Federal Debt, a stable currency, combat effective military, jobs & growing economy for our citizens, less crime, and to stop all the Obamunist “CHANGE” in culture, spending, immigration and demographics,”CHANGING” us into a Third World Socialist hell-hole, like Venezuela or Chicago.
What do the Democrats offer other than “Impeach Trump”? Rapeugees, Criminal Invaders, Massive Debt for the Welfare State, Disarming Citizens, ‘Transgenders’ in the girls bathrooms & showers, and endless “Russia, Russia, Russia”! Total B.S. and National Suicide! Some of The Big Money Donors may support that, but We the People don’t anymore.
Some may have bought the “Pass it to see what is in it!”, but they have seen and they are sick of it.

For those following the “Transgenders in the Military” insanity, here is a voice of reason and experience:
https://www.allenbwest.com/former-transgender-drops-truth-bomb-trumps-ban/
Former transgender drops TRUTH BOMB on Trump’s ban

“Walt Heyer was born a man, but spent 8 years of his life as a transgender woman. After being fully sex “reassigned,” Heyer regretted his decision and has accepted the gender of his birth. Now through his website, SexChangeRegret.com, and his blog, WaltHeyer.com, Heyer raises public awareness about those who regret gender change and the tragic consequences suffered as a result.
The following commentary on Donald Trump’s announcement reversing Barack Obama’s decision to allow transgenders to enlist and serve in the military first appeared in The Daily Signal.

I think he made the right decision—and as someone who lived as trans-female for several years, I should know.

When I discovered Congress voted earlier this month to not block funding for transgender-related hormone therapies and sex change surgeries, I wondered if it considered how devastating this will be to the fitness, readiness, and morale of our combat-ready troops.

In July, the House of Representatives voted down Missouri Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have banned the military from funding such treatments.

Paying for transition-related surgeries for military service members and their families is beyond comprehensible.

Perhaps they have forgotten that our military was forged to be the world’s strongest fighting force, not a government-funded, politically correct, medical sex change clinic for people with gender dysphoria.

Gender dysphoria, the common diagnosis for one who feels at odds with his or her birth gender, develops from prolonged anxiety and depression. People are not born that way.

The “proof” for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria is having strongly held feelings—but feelings can and often do change over time.

I myself was fully sex-reassigned from male to female, and eventually came to accept my birth gender.

I have over 70 years of firsthand life experience, eight years of living as a woman, 20 years of researching the topic, and 12 years of helping others who, like me, found that transitioning and reassignment surgery failed to be proper treatment and want to restore their lives to their birth gender.

Transitioning can be expensive—up to $130,000 per person for numerous body-mutilating and cosmetic procedures over many months (or years) to fashion the body to appear as the opposite sex.

Yet, no matter how skilled the surgeon, or how much money is spent, it is biologically impossible to change a man into a woman or a woman into a man. The change is only cosmetic.

The medical community continues to recommend this radical “treatment” in the absence of scientific evidence that people are better off in the long run. This population attempts suicide at a rate of 40 percent.

Even after the full surgical change, they attempt to end their lives, or tragically succeed.

Over 60 percent of this diverse population suffer from co-existing mental disorders. Consider Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning), a former Army soldier who was so psychologically and emotionally unbalanced that he stole confidential documents from the military and forwarded them to WikiLeaks.

The military Is a fighting force, not a gender clinic and should not provide sex change surgery.

Through my website, sexchangeregret.com, I hear from people who experienced firsthand how damaging and unnecessary reassignment surgeries were. For them, the sex change failed to resolve the emotional and psychological disorders that drove the desire to change gender.

Many write after living the transgender life for years. They write to ask for advice on how to reverse the original surgical change and restore their lives to the original birth gender like I did, a process called detransition.

Some service members will come to regret having undergone the surgery and will want to detransition. Where will the military be then? Will the military pay for the sex change reversal procedure, too?

Failed “sex change surgeries” are not uncommon and will drive up the cost to care for the military transgender population above the projected $3-4 billion 10-year cost.

Beyond the financial cost, there’s the question of the service member’s military readiness during their transition or detransition, as the process often comes with a great deal of anxiety and emotional instability.

I know of many who have struggled to adapt to the new gender role for years after reassignment surgery.
In my view, as a former trans-female who works every day with regretters, allowing the military to pay for sex change surgeries will make a mockery of the U.S. military.

Advocates are relentless in their pursuit of making others, via the government and insurance companies, cover the cost of sex change procedures.

If the military had been forced to pay, the advocates would have used this as leverage to press every other entity—both government and commercial—to pay for sex change surgeries as well.

As a person who lived the transgender life for eight years, I can attest that assisting, affirming, or paying for hormone therapies and genital mutilation surgeries would not have strengthened our military. They would only have brought adverse long-term consequences, both for individuals and for our armed forces as a whole.”
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Conclusion drawn from many sources:
Basic truths.
1. Gender-benders are ‘nuts’ to begin with. Unhappy, insecure, & depressed to the point of self-mutilation. Even suicide.
2. Transition and especially the surgeries are expensive, debilitating, and time consuming.
3. After “Transition & Surgery” they are often still ‘Nuts’. (I think their expectations of the Transition will solve “all their problems”, but the problems are still there no matter what they might look like. They are still ‘Nuts’ and unable to deal with their mental disease and unreasonable expectations, often even worse, so they are still suicidal.

AWFUL TRUTHS:
4. Liberals love perverts because “Liberalism” is a mental disease of unreasonable expectations to begin with. All Liberals want “something for nothing” or some “perfection without effort or sacrifice”. Ain’t happening, Snowflakes!
5. Libs mostly hate the military and that is why they have chosen it for this “Great Social Experiment”.. If it fails and ruins the military, that still is a “win!” for them. If it swallows much of the Military Budget, decreases military effectiveness, ruins morale, and makes the military more unpopular with normal young people, all those are also “Wins” to the Liberal mindset.
6. For the Alinskyite “Community Organizers”, it is even better: Creates more division, stress, jealousy among the troops, distrust of their leadership and govt, so more possibility of mutiny, riot, and revolution in the military. At least destroys its effectiveness in resisting or fighting the “Great Socialist Revolution”. A “Big Win” for them & their Agenda.

Re Comment 23
I had an opportunity to speak with the lady mentioned, and it is now much worse. Her worthless ObamaCare “Insurance” now costs her a $23/mo bribe to keep the IRS of her back and the Fe(de)ral Gubbermint pays her Insurance Co $631/mo for keeping her on the “Insured” list. She still has to pay for any and all HealthCare out of pocket because she can’t afford to ever reach the $6000 deductable. So the Insurance Company gets a bribe from ObamaCare for $7848/yr to go along with the ObamaCare Fraud as long as they don’t tell how crooked it is. And $7572 is robbed from the taxpayers, while $276 is extorted from the “Insured”. The $276 is probably equal to or more than the lady actually pays for medical care in a year.
She joked that if she got sick in the fall or early winter, she would have to “tough it out” until after the first of the year to see a doctor so all her $6000 deductible would be applied in one year.
That is “how good” ObamaCare really is. And the Libtards can’t understand why poor working people don’t like it?
If they own anything of value they have to pay the Deductible. If they have nothing, only then will the Gubbermint “help” them.

Comment #16 refers back to Comment #14. The numbers all got changed.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/28/week-russia-conspiracy-theory-fell-apart/
The Week the Russia Conspiracy Theory Fell Apart

The Russia conspiracy theory so beloved by the media and the Democratic Party fell apart this week — though it was easy to miss, amidst the chaos at the White House and the collapse of Congress’s effort to repeal Obamacare.

Investor William Browder testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Fusion GPS, the firm that had been responsible for creating and pushing the so-called “Russia dossier” against Donald Trump, had been paid by the Russian government to push for the repeal of the human rights sanctions in the Magnitsky Act of 2012. In other words, the Russian government may have been paying to smear Trump with false and salacious accusations.

Until now, the media and the Democrats have proceeded under the assumption that Russia intervened in the 2016 election by hacking the email server of the Democratic National Committee, as well as the private email of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, and releasing their emails via Wikileaks. They have further claimed — with no evidence — that the Trump campaign may have colluded with the Russians in obtaining or releasing the emails.

The entire theory rests on the ridiculous claim that Trump had invited Russia to hack Clinton and the Democrats when he joked last July about the Russians releasing the emails Clinton had deleted from her illicit private server. (The left-wing HuffPost observed Thursday as the anniversary that Trump “asked for Russian help in the election.”) That joke prompted then-CIA director John Brennan to convene an investigation of alleged Russian interference.
In fact, it turns out that Russia may have been trying to undermine Trump. And it may have done so in collusion with the Democrats. The Wall Street Journal‘s Kimberly Strassel noted Thursday that Fusion GPS has ties to the Democrats — and will not reveal who paid it for the dossier. Strassel asked: “What if it was the Democratic National Committee or Hillary Clinton’s campaign?” The money could have passed through intermediaries, she added.

That means the real story of collusion in the 2016 election could be that Democrats were working with Russia. And that would make sense, given their long history of appeasing the Russians, under both Clinton and Barack Obama.

Or the truth could be that Russia was trying to embarrass both parties, to weaken the eventual winner. Browder told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it is common for Russia to back both sides in elections, simply to create chaos.

Regardless, the Russia conspiracy theory has now collapsed. There is no evidence that Russia was colluding with the Trump campaign. But there is evidence Russia was working against it. And the truth is only beginning to emerge.”
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Do you think for a minute this will stop The Big Lie from the Dems & their Media? Yeah, me neither. They have had too much luck with it, and the Hard Core Dem/Socs NEVER give up the BIG LIE! They are still trying to blame G W Bush for Obama’s failures.

In the past I’ve tried to bring attention to the dangers of Voting Machines, as well as not having proof of citizenship to register & Photo ID.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/351245-hackers-were-able-to-breach-dozens-of-u-s-voting-machines-within-minutes-at-cybersecurity-conference/
Hackers Were Able To Breach Dozens Of U.S. Voting Machines Within Minutes At Cybersecurity Conference…
“One of the nation’s largest cybersecurity conferences is inviting attendees to get hands-on experience hacking a slew of voting machines, demonstrating to researchers how easy the process can be.”
“The conference acquired 30 machines for hackers to toy with. Every voting machine in the village was hacked.”
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And they did it in minutes. These might not be “Top of the Line” but are still being used in some States.
If we want honest election, we must have honest registration, honest ID, and paper ballots. Why are Dems so against it?