The way they handle this in many European countries is by setting up public-private partnerships between governments and private hospitals. If the wait is longer than 90 days for elective and non-emergency treatment at a public hospital, the patient can choose to go to a private hospital if you wish at no expense to the patient. Emergency treatment is always dealt with immediately, of course.
Both states were in the same spot in the rankings when Trump was president and well before that. Change is not the issue. Long-term policy is the issue.
Also, I think people should ask him about the evidence that was found on Obama and his birth...
He'll probably endorse Elon Musky for president in 2028 very well knowing that he is not a natural born American. As long as it fits the agenda, Trump will bend whatever rule he needs to.
Residents in Springfield, Ohio, are trying to move on after Trump’s rhetoric about Haitian migrants. Some now worry he could make an example of them.
Bluesky is VC backed. They'll want to make money down the road, and they'll definitely train AI soon if not already.
I feel the same. I found a way to leave the country. Will be leaving in the new year. I have kids and I can't have them growing up here anymore. Time to try something new.
Young voters swung toward President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election, but according to AP VoteCast, they’re not the staunchly conservative base that he’s relied on in the past.
They'll never blame Trump for that. And Trump will blame the previous administration. That's how it works in this country. Moronic political system.
It will also keep interest rates from coming down. Markets are already expecting fewer cuts.
Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills.
Let me get this right. So, you know exactly who this man is and what he stands for. Yet, you elect him anyway. You know he's been "joking" about this before. Yet, you elect him anyway. He's a convicted felon. Yet, you elect him anyway.
I've lost every smidgen of respect I had for Americans. You went into this with eyes wide open. You deserve what's coming.
The EU is nothing like the US. The EU is made of individual, sovereign nations with each their own language and culture and political system and laws and regulations. Most of these countries have very little in common except the fact that they happen to be on the same continent. The only thing that keeps them from being at war with each other is trade. And that's where the EU comes in.
I'm sorry, but, as a group, Americans have got to be the dumbest bunch out there. You elected Trump and you get Matt Gaetz as the AG. Lol. I hope you learn from all this. Not holding my breath.
Really liked Antony Blinken. He did a lot of good. Not looking forward to this guy.
President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as his nominee for secretary of state.
Which is why any political talk or anything resembling politics is banned. I won't hesitate to block access if it happens.
In our family, we just don't talk about politics or any subject that could remotely be interpreted as political (yes, the subjects we actually talk about are very limited). The alternative is that we can't spend time together and they wouldn't see their grandkids. Not ideal, but it works for the time being.
President-elect Trump now has a clear path to enact his agenda and fill out his administration with both chambers of Congress in GOP hands come January.
Genuine question: To all the Democrats who chose not to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Palestinian issue, what's your thought process?
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday was his pick to serve as US ambassador to Israel, previously argued that there was “no such thing as a Palestinian.”
More importantly, they are dangerous.
> The media power brokers in the new Trump administration are different and more powerful than those during the first Trump presidency. They are younger, more visual, less established in Washington, and lean more toward MAGA conservative principles over traditional Republican ideals.
Yeah, he'll send the military if he has to. And he'll force compliance from blue states. The constitution is something that's only seems valid to him when it bends his way. And now he has SCOTUS to interpret it just the way he wants it.
They are Stephen Miller fans.
Trump doesn't seem to care much about technicalities. He'll do whatever he wants and the majority in Congress and SCOTUS will be right there with him. He's got everything right where he wants it now and everyone's compliant and submissive.
Trump is going to pardon and release those terrorists back into society anyway.
> The deeper they dig into federal and state election results, some Democrats are coming to a harsh, humbling conclusion: America rejected soft liberalism.
Donald Trump has ambitious Day 1 plans for when he moves back into the White House in January.
> Nearly four years ago, the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats made a $1.9 trillion bet in the form of the American Rescue Plan. They lost, as it contributed to a surge in inflation that fueled massive voter discontent and Donald Trump's return to the White House.
> Why it matters: In the next recession, politicians and policymakers may be more hesitant to unleash the type of programs that drove America's rapid recovery from the pandemic-induced crisis.
Donald Trump’s scrambling of long-held narratives over who certain Americans will support has Democrats scrambling for answers.
A federal judge has overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms.
President-elect Donald Trump has not said what he would do on student loan forgiveness, leaving millions of borrowers facing uncertainty over what will happen with their payments once President Joe Biden leaves office.
Analysis: Biden's age and inability to sell his record or convince that he was fighting inflation were problems. Longer-term Democratic weaknesses also came due.
The Supreme Court doesn't have any vacancies, but Republicans are keeping a close eye on Justices Alito and Thomas for potential retirements in Trump's second term.
Subsidies to buy insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplaces are set to expire at the end of 2025. If they're not extended, coverage could become unaffordable for many.
> Increased tariffs on China could "accelerate the diversification of supply chains, in particular away from China," S&P reported — but that won't necessarily mean more jobs for Americans.
> Rosenfeld said Steve Madden is exploring a move to "countries like Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil."
> He didn't mention the U.S. as a possible place of production.
Trump picked up a larger proportion of voters under 30 than any Republican presidential candidate since 2008, according to NBC News exit polling.
Trump’s strongest supporters among evangelical leaders can likely expect the kind of White House access they had in the first Trump term.
> After former President Donald Trump gave his victory speech early Wednesday, at the Palm Beach Convention Center, dozens of his supporters gathered in a lobby to sing “How Great Thou Art,” reciting from memory the words and harmonies of a classic hymn, popular among evangelical Christians.
> It was a fitting coda to an election in which Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters. That margin — among a group that represented about 20% of the total electorate — repeats similarly staggering margins of evangelical support that T rump received in 2020.