Highmark CEO David Holmberg, the Six Million Dollar Man

Highmark CEO David Holmberg, the Six Million Dollar Man

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Highmark Health President and CEO David Holmberg received $3.8 million in total compensation in 2015. He took down $2.15 in total compensation in 2014. Check my math, but that's a 76% growth rate. So, if that rate is stable he is making $11 million this year. What if, during these troubled times, his compensation leveled off a bit? He is still bringing in at least $6 million a year. Now Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro is holding a series of public comment sessions on whether or not Highmark’s requested health insurance rate increase are justified. Let's hope the CEO compensation comes up in those meetings. How much more money does David Holmberg need? How much more do Delawareans have to pay so to keep David Holmberg in the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed?
The Heroes of Trumpcare’s Defeat

The Heroes of Trumpcare’s Defeat

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McCain surely deserves credit for his surprise vote. There was an audible gasp when he voted "no" and flashed the bird at McConnell. Murkowski deserves more credit. She stuck to her guns in spite of Trump's bullying. Collins deserves even more credit. She was a "no" the whole time and that allowed Murkowshi and McCain to come along. But as Josh Marshall, the most insightful and intelligent commenter on all of this points out, the activists and non-activists who showed up at townhalls and made endless noise are the real heroes.
Transgender Activist McBride Calls Out Trump’s 5 Vietnam Deferments

Transgender Activist McBride Calls Out Trump’s 5 Vietnam Deferments

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Watch the video.
SARAH MCBRIDE: Well, what's clear is that for the roughly either 6,000 to 15,000 transgender people who are actively serving in our military right now, this policy change would have sweeping impacts on their lives,
 their careers, their families. This is really a mean-spirited, unpatriotic, and dangerous attack on people who are bravely serving their country right now. And while it's still early in terms of what the policy will actually shape up to be, what it threatens to be is an attack on as many as 15,000 active duty transgender service members, people who are bravely serving this country, something that I will remind President Trump he failed to do after five deferments to Vietnam.

MSNBC Overtakes Fox

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I'm not crazy about the specious conventional wisdom that MSNBC is some "Fox News for Liberals" as it utterly ignores that fact that, unlike FOX, MSNBC confines its reporting to things that happen in reality. That said - suck it Fox News. MSNBC #1:
MSNBC finished as the most-watched network in all of basic cable in primetime on Monday, for the first time in its 21-year history, according to Nielsen Research.

Grifters Gotta Grift

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The group that owns the theme park Ark Encounters have sold the park to their nonprofit affiliates for 10 dollars to avoid paying taxes, according to a report Monday by…

Are Americans really ready to take this on?

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As wisdom drops innocently from the mouths of babes, so too we get the game plan to discredit Robert Mueller and defend the Kremlin installed puppet, from the keyboards of wingnut idiots that visit here. In summary form:
"Mr Mueller was a contributor to Hillary Clinton’s campaign..." "...he has loaded up his staff with other Clinton contributors..." "If Mueller is fired, someone less biased will be appointed to the position..." "...the ‘investigation’ are politically motivated"
This puerile defense of Trump's obvious crimes has been the in works for a while in the wing nut media. It has been building since before the inauguration if you count Trump's endless attacks in a free press and the idea of legitimate constitutional checks and balances. The bottom line is that the racists, a-holes and dumbfucks who consider themselves "conservatives" first and Americans last, are ready to fight for their racist dumbfuck President and his vision of a racist, dumbfuck American Oligarchy. Their rationalizations are bottomless. Their illusions constantly reinforced by hitting the Fox News crack pipe. Are ordinary Americans ready to take this on? Are we ready to fight for the free America we grew up in? Has our mettle been bread out of us by 240 years of relative domestic peace and prosperity? Are we too tired or distracted by our boutique issues, and petty rivalries to link up in the streets? I admit that I didn't see this coming in year one of Trump's Kleptocracy, but now I'm convinced that these are questions that will be answered in the coming months.