Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is calling on Republican Senate leaders to introduce several important changes to their plan to replace Obamacare, including one very unique reform idea that has the potential to dramatically change the U.S. health care system.

Paul is one of several conservative Republicans in the Senate who say they can’t vote in favor of the Senate leadership’s proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act — the Better Care Reconciliation Act — in its current form. According to Paul and other conservatives, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), the BCRA keeps too many of the problematic provisions in the Obama-era ACA in place.

On June 27, Paul sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urging him to adopt several important reform ideas. Among them was the expansion of “Association Health Plans” in the BCRA. The expansion of AHPs would allow organizations and individuals to form associations for the purpose of buying group health insurance. Existing associations could also buy health insurance in this way, significantly increasing the power of consumers in negotiating rates and helping to resolve problems related to the ACA’s pre-existing conditions clause.

In his letter to McConnel, Paul wrote that he wants “the language [in the BCRA to] be changed to allow any individual, including self-employed individuals, to form associations for the purpose of purchasing group health insurance.”

If passed into law, Paul’s proposal would have far-reaching implications for the U.S. health care market. Under the current system, most Americans are insured through either a family member, an employer or the government. Those who work for small businesses that don’t offer insurance and individuals who are uninsured for some other reason have been required to buy insurance as individuals. This has given them significantly less negotiating power than the power enjoyed by large employers when negotiating rates, and prior to the passage of Obamacare, it put people who did not have employer-provided health insurance but were suffering with a pre-existing health condition at a significant disadvantage.

Since Obamacare was implemented, individuals with pre-existing conditions have been able to purchase health insurance, but health insurance prices have skyrocketed as a result, exacerbated by the fact many health individuals have chosen to pay the Obamacare penalty for not having insurance rather than pay for increasingly expensive health insurance plans that have gigantic deductibles.

Many free-market health care experts believe Paul’s plan for association health plans would go a long way toward resolving these problems, because individuals could purchase health insurance together. The larger the group, the more powerful it would become in negotiating prices, and the less the pre-existing conditions of some of its members would matter. This is precisely why, along with tax advantages, large-employer health insurance plans are so attractive to many employees.

Imagine, for instance, the advantages of receiving your health insurance through your church, rather than an employer. Wealthier families in the church could help subsidize the cost of insurance for the lower-income families without the government getting involved, insurance rates would be cheaper than if an individual were to seek health insurance on his or her own, the church could ensure that the health insurance policies purchased are in line with the congregation’s religious beliefs and people who lose their jobs or switch their employers would no longer need to find a new insurance plan. The same could be true for almost any association of like-minded people, including groups like the National Rifle Association and retirement organizations.

News as we know it has changed extensively since Donald Trump decided to run for president and won. CNN has been leading the charge against the Commander-in-Chief ever since, in a desperate effort to take him down and America too. At one point, the network was comprised of respectable journalists who took their job seriously but now these despots have devolved into doing whatever it takes to destroy our president and anyone who supports him as they do Democrats’ dirty work. They’ve suffered a total loss of credibility for doing so and now triple amputee war veteran, Senior Airman Brian Kolfage Jr., has just issued the final blow to what was left of their reputation with a massive ‘F You’ they rightfully earned.

CNN has slipped into a new and dangerous realm of false news reporting over the last couple of years which is aimed at slandering the president and deepen the divide in the country. Donald Trump isn’t afraid to call them out for being fake news as he understands that they aren’t just working against him, but the progress of this country and his mission to make America great again. The fake news network has gotten away with masquerading as a reliable source of truth and authentic reporting for too long, but now the world is aware that they can’t be trusted and for that, they were just given a new web address for their website which is better suited for their new resolve of delivering fake news to the masses.

Brian Kolfage Jr. didn’t just fight and sacrifice for our country, he lost three limbs in war and now lives with the daily reminder of the price paid for our freedom. This includes defending the right of the First Amendment that each one of us enjoys, which those at CNN use and abuse to disrespect our president and divide our nation. Kolfage has good reason to take personal offence to this given his great sacrifice and since they won’t stop, he’s provided them with a new way of getting to their website, which sends a clear message of what’s really real.

On his Facebook page, Kolfage announced CNN’s new web address created to fight against the fake news they repeatedly report.

Rather than entering CNN.com to get to their site, citizens can enter in FakeAss.news to take them to it and get what they will really find there – news that the network can’t find on Trump to report, so they simply make it up.

“CNN would rather see Trump fail than America succeed,” Kolfage wrote in his online message. “They are the enemy of all Americans because they put their agenda first, instead of the American people. And for that, I’ve now given CNN a new web domain. You can visit their site by typing http://www.FakeAss.News in your web address bar”

“Please share this everywhere!”
The fitting new URL takes users straight to CNN’s actual site where you can find all the fake news they become known for, as President Trump routinely points out. The timing of this new domain couldn’t have been better since it’s now come out that CNN deceit goes deeper than we all thought.

InfoWars reports:

“CNN is refusing to respond to claims that it hired a correspondent who worked and sympathized with Al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria.”

“Left-wing website Alternet documents how ‘Star CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward worked with al-Qaeda ‘media man’ Bilal Abdul Kareem to gain access to her “heroes on the ground’.”

“While doing coverage for CNN’s Undercover in Syria show, Ward visited the Al-Nusra held areas of eastern Aleppo and Idlib and confirmed with the local sharia dress code by wearing a full black niqab.”

“Jabhat al-Nusra is an Al-Qaeda offshoot that is officially listed as a terrorist organization by the United States government.”

“The article also details how CNN deliberately tried to downplay Bilal Abdul Kareem’s role in providing full access to Ward, presumably to obfuscate the fact that he is a mouthpiece for terrorists.”
What’s worse is that in her reporting, Ward allegedly referred to the terrorists as “heroes on the ground” in Syria, despite acknowledging that they are also “carrying out atrocities” on the people there. These statements seem to show her public support for terrorists while working for an American news network who refuses to respond when questioned about it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that “Television Trump” is very different from the real President Trump.

“As I see it, Television Trump is very different from the real person,” Putin said Saturday at a press conference. “He is absolutely concrete, absolutely adequately perceives the interlocutor, quite quickly analyzes, answers questions or draws from the discussions some new elements.

“As regards personal relations, I think they are established,” the Russian president stated.

The two world leaders met for the first time at the three-day G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. Their meeting spread to two and a half hours instead of the planned half hour.

Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential election was not resolved in the meeting, but the presidents did agree upon a cease-fire in Syria.

Afterwards, the Russian foreign minister asserted that Trump had accepted Putin’s denial of election interference, a claim the White House pushed back on.

“There is no basis to believe that Russia interfered in the electoral process of the United States,” Putin said.

Another campaign promise on the verge of being kept by our new president!

While President Donald Trump has been having a stellar showing abroad at the G20 Summit. Attorney General Jeff Sessions along with his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats took the time to visit the Guantanamo Bay prison camp at the US naval base on the island of Cuba.
Between 2009 and 2017 the Guantanamo prison has been running basically on a kind of autopilot mode since the executive order from former President Barack Hussein Obama calling for the facility to be shut down is still technically the law of the land. But because President Trump is a true American who cares about our nation’s security and the well-being of out citizens over all else, he promised during the campaign to fill it to capacity again.
Sessions ended his visit by saying that the prison is a “very fine place” where there is no legal reason not to send new detainees there.

The Guardian Reports:
Obama signs order to close Guantánamo Bay
Thursday 22 January 2009 12.20 EST

Prison that symbolizes George Bush’s ‘war on terror’ will be shut down, accompanied by ban on torture and review of military trials

Barack Obama has signed an executive order to shut down the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay – the most potent symbol of excess in George Bush’s “war on terror”.

The new US president signed two other executive orders to review the use of military trials for terror suspects and ban the harshest interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding.

The three executive orders – on the second day of the new administration – showed that Obama was determined to move swiftly to implement some of his key campaign pledges. Administration staff applauded at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

“The message that we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly,” Obama said. “We are going to do so effectively and we are going to do so in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals.”

A draft copy of the order said: “In view of significant concerns raised by these detentions, both within the United States and internationally, prompt and appropriate disposition of the individuals currently detained at Guantánamo and closure of the facility would further the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice.”

An estimated 245 men are being held at Guantánamo, a US naval base in Cuba. Most have been locked up for years without being charged with a crime. Obama’s plans to review military trials of terror suspects and end harsh interrogations were being assembled even before he won the election in November.

The UN’s torture investigator, Manfred Nowak, welcomed the move and said freed inmates should be allowed to sue the US if they had been mistreated. “Justice also means to look into the past,” Nowak told the Associated Press. Nowak has previously said he has reliable accounts of torture at Guantánamo. Lawyers for two inmates, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Mohammed Jawad, have said their clients were tortured.

In Saudi Arabia, families of the country’s 13 remaining Guantánamo detainees rejoiced at the news.

“That was a humane decision. We’re very optimistic,” said Ali al-Sayari, whose son Abdullah, 28, has been there for eight years. The family has not heard from or about him for the past two years.

“Obama is correcting the mistakes of his predecessor,” said Ali al-Shamrani, whose nephew Mohammed al-Shamrani has been in Guantánamo for eight years.

Obama’s nominee to be the director of national intelligence is set to tell Congress there will be no torture, harsh interrogations or wiretaps without warrants under his command.

The left coast, land of green peace and home of hippies have once again decided that it wants to selectively get on board with states rights and overrule the constitution. The people who would be the first to say that the individual rights can’t be extended to individuals who want to decide whether to support homosexual weddings, want to say that they can individually decide when someone should have a second amendment right to firearms.

Different states have differing laws about when police can confiscate firearms when called to a scene of violence, but the one thing that most have in common is that it’s always done by an outside party who has the chance to see the alleged attacker and can assess the immediate risk. Also, they confiscate all of the available firearms that can be used to cause immediate danger.

Oregon has now decided that they’d like to give the courts and whoever wants to bring an accusation against an individual the rights to not only confiscate the weapons of someone who’s not an imminent threat, but they want to take their ability to concealed carry as well. If that idea is at all concerning to you, read on.

Via Breitbart News:
“Oregon lawmakers passed legislation co-sponsored by Sen. Brian Boquist (R-Dallas) that allows a judge to issue an ex parte ruling for the confiscation of an individual’s firearms.
The bill is SB 719, and it has now passed Oregon’s House and Senate. It creates an Extreme Risk Protection Order, which forces the subject of the order to hand over all firearms, as well as his concealed carry permit if he possesses one.”

I’m not sure where Boquist gets off calling himself a Republican, sponsoring a bill like that, but apparently, he’s a man with a plan, and for some reason that includes deciding the Founding Father’s second amendment is outdated.
On the 6th of this month NRA-ILA reported on the issue:

“Senate Bill 719A has been scheduled for a House floor vote today. SB 719A was passed out of committee on Monday without a public hearing and with only one hour notice of the work session. It’s imperative that you contact your state Representative immediately and urge them to oppose SB 719A!
Based on a California law enacted in 2014, SB 719A would create a so-called ‘Extreme Risk Protection Order’ (ERPO) that could be obtained by a law enforcement officer, family member, or household member in an ex parte hearing to deprive someone of their Second Amendment rights without due process of the law.