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AT&T Exec Claims EFF"s Mocking NSA Logo Creates A "Chilling Effect"

Oh, the irony AT&T executives crying "intimidation" over a logo while helping the NSA to really intimidate folks.

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The Toxic Placebo Effect of Vaccines

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40,000 new laws take effect in 2014

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December 31, 2013

It may have been the least productive year for Congress in history, at least in terms of passing laws – fewer than 60 of which made it through the House and Senate and were signed by President Barack Obama.

Across the country, however, state lawmakers were busy getting more than 40,000 bills passed, ones that tackle everything from drones to food stamp benefits.

In Illinois for example, teenagers will no longer get to use tanning beds without a doctor’s note. If you live in Delaware, visit the shark fin buffet while you can, a new law will make it illegal to own, sale, or distribute the controversial delicacy. And in California, new laws take effect that will let students take part in school sports, or use bathrooms based on their gender identity, regardless of the gender noted in their birth certificates.

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Real Life Idiocracy in America - The Obama Effect

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Historic Consumer Protections Take Effect, On Time

Jeanne Lambrew
August 13, 2013
05:10 PM EDT

Landmark consumer protections, including limits on out-of pocket costs in health insurance plans, are taking effect next year, on time. Here are the facts:

Under the Affordable Care Act, for the first time, new historic consumer protections will stop the worst insurance company abuses, by making it illegal for companies to discriminate based on pre-existing health conditions, ending lifetime and annual dollar limits on what an insurance company will cover, and capping out-of pocket spending to protect Americans and their families.

For the first time, under the Affordable Care Act, consumers’ out-of-pocket costs will be limited to no more than $ 6,350 per individual, and $ 12,700 per family, to help protect people with serious illness from financial ruin.  Until now, consumers with insurance still faced unlimited out-of-pocket costs for medical care and prescription drugs – which could wreak financial havoc in the midst of a serious illness or health crisis .

In February, the Administration put out public guidance to implement this important consumer protection, on time. 

Here’s how it will work for you and your family: If you are buying a plan on the new Health Insurance Marketplace, your out-of-pocket limit in 2014 for medical and drug costs combined will not exceed $ 6,350.

If you already have insurance through your employer, your out-of-pocket limit for major medical costs will also not exceed $ 6,350.

But the February guidance recognized that some employer plans use separate benefit administrators for their insurance coverage (for instance one for major medical coverage and another for drug coverage). Tech systems cannot communicate with one another yet, so the guidance allowed these existing plans to separately limit out of pocket spending on major medical expenses, and drug plans that currently have out-of-pocket limits. By 2015, Americans in these plans will have one, single maximum out-of-pocket limit of $ 6,350 for combined medical and drug costs, just like in the Marketplaces.

Consumers will have historic new protections that improve your coverage and help provide peace of mind so that if you do get sick, you can start focusing on getting better, instead of worrying about going bankrupt.

Jeanne Lambrew, Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy.

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Montana AG: Public Records Requests Create "Chilling Effect"

In March, Associated Press reporters sent the Montana Department of Justice a public records request for a copy of the state’s database of concealed firearm permit holders. That’s not especially unusual; the AP has requested such information from the state regularly over the years. But there was a hitch: In 2013, Montana’s legislature passed a new law officially classifying concealed carry data as confidential. Tim Fox, the Republican attorney general, rejected the AP’s request in mid-July—and then proceeded to notify every sheriff and county attorney in the state of what he had done. The AP never wrote about the rejected request, but the word somehow got out anyway:

News of the AP request and Fox’s denial first broke July 24 on the website for Aaron Flint, a conservative Billings commentator and broadcaster with Northern Broadcasting System, who has a daily statewide radio show. Flint said he had received a copy of Fox’s memo from a source outside of the Attorney General’s Office and posted it on his website. A day later, Media Trackers, a conservative Montana website that covers Montana politics and the media, picked up the story.

The reporters who had requested the data found their personal information (including photos of their homes) posted on the Internet, along with thinly-veiled threats, prompting the wire service to file a complaint with the Helena Police Department. The fact that the AP never has and never planned to indiscriminately publish personal information about concealed carry holders in the first place was lost in the angry backlash.

So what is Fox’s response to the threats? Blame the media—for following up on the story.

“All of the media attention on this issue has come from the media,” he told Montana Public Radio’s Dan Boyce on Tuesday. ” I think that’s important to know. Because some reporters have blogged that I have initiated these things and my office has initiated it. But its been the media that’s run with this. That’s what the media does. The media asks for information. They did so on who it was that requested the concealed weapons permit information and then they wrote their stories.”

Although Fox was quick to call the online intimidation “darn-right wrong,” he ultimately warned journalists that reporters should keep such threats in mind when they request public information in the first place: “Whether or not there is a chilling effect I guess the media, the journalistic profession needs to contemplate when they ask for information whether or not they are creating a chilling effect in their own profession.”

Montana isn’t alone in relocating its concealed carry data to an undisclosed location; seven states passed laws to reclassify concealed carry databases as confidential information in the first half of 2013. And Montana’s isn’t even the most strict. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) signed into a law bill last spring that would criminalize the publication of private gun records by journalists.

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