It's justified because he works for a health insurance company?

Haha, this is great. I love the guy playing Funkhauser at the end.

belated but wow. jersey fats wrecked rubitard

More what I'm arguing is that everyone who has earthquake insurance but doesn't experience an earthquake subsidizes those who do experience earthquakes. The difference is that basically no one in any given location has any better or worse idea whether they'll have an earthquake related claims. So earthquake insurance truly is -EV for everyone.

In health insurance it's obviously much more complicated. People have a good idea whether they'll have claims, so they can know ahead of time whether insurance is +EV or -EV for them. Additionally, people's behavior impacts their health insurance claims (e.g. deciding to go to the doctor, going to an ER when urgent care will do, getting fat, smoking), so adverse selection is a huge problem in health insurance the way it isn't for some other types of insurance.


I've never heard of a program where someone fails and gets kicked off their insurance. That's brutal. Of course (thanks obama) that would be less of a thing now since at least the person would definitely be able to get coverage on the exchange.

There's no such thing as "uninsurable" when it comes to health insurance now. One of the pillars of the ACA was guaranteed issue - no one can be denied coverage, and rating restrictions (premiums can only vary based on age, location, smoking status, and how many people are covered). The other pillar is the individual mandate.

Michigan GOP-controlled State Senate passed a bill today making consensual anal sex punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

Small government!

You sure Buzzfed the **** out of that headline.

Still working on clean water - but no buttsecks!

Trump just dropped "he's a pussy" onstage at his rally. What a time to be alive.

I wondered what he'd do for some fresh heat.

That's pretty good.

No, it didn't. This got posted in the LC thread in politics too, and the text passed does not match this conclusion.

Spending their time on the important issues, clearly

Lol Michigan. Killing our kids with lead? No biggie. But no buttsecks!

Seems pretty idiotic that they are going to give someone fifteen years of non consensual ass sex for partaking in the consensual variety.

Who the **** actually writes up a bill making consensual anal sex illegal? It doesn't affect anyone else. Do something worthwhile. I'm continually amazed how these people get elected and what their intentions are once they do.

The bill dealt with bestially afaict, it just kept in the old sodomy language. That's been on the books for years, but it's obviously something that is never enforced. Much ado about nothing.

edit: Okay, looked at it closer. The new bill just changed up the language of the sodomy statute. The focus of bill has to do with animal abuse. No clue why they decided to edit the sodomy statute, but it doesn't appear to have changed anything. It's one of those old things that's been on the books forever and is never enforced. If it was, it'd be struck down as unconstitutional immediately. I don't know why they don't just get rid of the "mankind" part, but acting like they actually changed something is wrong.

I'd tell you where to stick your facts IF IT WASN'T A CRIME THAT WAS PASSED YESTERDAY.

Also, why do you hate sodomites?

Ikes posted this in Politics, too, and he's just as wrong here.

You could keep the mankind stuff to prohibit necro-whatever ****, but the language doesn't actually talk about sodomy or oral sex. If you tried to enforce it that way it'd be clearly unconstitutional. I am confused as to why there wasn't already a law to stop bestiality, but whatever.

be sure to straighten out OOTV and POG as well Barrister Ikes

Oh cool, more lame politards beef spilling into this thread.

Link to the text of the law passed?

via this link: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement...my_is_a_felony

The jury instruction references anal, but not oral sex.

nice work mjw

I mean there is clean sodomy and dirty sodomy. You know what I'm talking about.

I don't really get why taking the mankind part out would have tanked the bill, but that's probably just typical lolpolitics stuff. I'd be much more offended if they actually created this law. It's just one of many arcane laws that states need to purge completely. It is also illegal in Michigan to "seduce and debauch" an unmarried woman. 5 year felony.

Christ, no wonder everybody is moving out.