Healthcare Policy

1. Drug makers decide what price to charge based on how desperate people are to find a cure.
2. Insurance companies ration access. Coverage is limited to the population with the highest risk of complications.
3. Insurance companies can decide what is medically necessary.
4. Medicare and Medicaid also tend to decide what is medically necessary and only treat people who really need the treatment. It is very similar to the way insurance companies do it.
5. Countries like Britain negotiate with drugmakers to get better prices. Since a country is buying it for less, insurance companies can give it out for less.
6. The law will not let Medicare and Medicaid negotiate prices.
7. It's crazy and I don't know..Trump?

8. The taxes would replace many visible and invisible ways we now provide to support a health sector that consumer more than 17 percent of our economy.
9. This would cover every legal resident. The government would mail a Medicare card to everyone so everyone is covered.
10. If single payer was implemented, the biggest winners would be relatively disorganized low-income people in the greatest need of help.
11. The losers would include workers who now receive generous tax expenditures for good private coverage, and affluent people who would face large tax increases to finance a single-payer system.
12. Community hospitals, medical groups, pharmaceutical and medical device companies worked to prevent the public option from being added to ACA.
13. The Supreme Court would struggle with the propriety of an expansive federal government that seeks to regulate and humanize a national health care market.

Nevada and South Carolina

1. The voter turnout in 2008 was about 120,000, while in 2016 it was closer to 80,000.
2. Lower and middle-income voters.
3. Republican turnout records have been smashed on the Republican side so far, while the Democratic primaries in Iowa and Nevada were much lower than in 2008.
4. He will convert the enthusiasm voters have for his campaign into a durable, mobilized organizing force beyond the election.
5. Since he's a moderate, many of Jeb's voters will flock to the next most moderate candidate, who is Marco Rubio.
6. He's supposed to win the South, but he lost this first state to Trump by 10 points.
7. Possibly Nevada and definitely Rubio's home state of Florida.
8. He could possibly steal some of Jeb's supporters, and he can win some Northeastern Super Tuesday states, the Michigan primary, and his state of Ohio.
9. Trump hasn't considered Rubio a threat until now, so he will rip him apart.

The FIGHT over Scalia

1. Debate is now centered on the Republican stubbornness in approving any of Obama's nominees.
2. If a Democratic candidate comes into the presidency, then they have a serious risk of losing their Senate majority.
3. If they compromise with Obama the Republican voters will never forgive them. 
4. EVERYTHING
5. It has happened 5 times in the last century.
6. His claim is that no judge in the last 80 years has been appointed  in an election year, although Kennedy and Murphy were appointed in election years.
7. It is old information. 
8. Gridlock led to the previous 2 appointments to be denied.
9. The process takes longer and is more difficult because party polarization has grown.
10. The only solution is to wait until the next election cycle.

3.6 Will Republicans Block Obama?

1. That the nomination of the next Supreme Court Justice should be more of an issue of democracy.
2. Democrats in the Senate blocked his appointment because they felt his views were too conservative.
3. A Democratic Senator, Chuck Schumer, stated that all of President George Bush's nominees should be blocked.
4. Voting rights, abortion, birth control, and immigration.
5. The nomination of a liberal judge will do several things several things, for example the 2nd amendment of the Constitution modified or taken away.                                                                                                     6.  Democrats weakened the power of filibustering and used the filibuster against the Iran nuclear deal.               7. The checks and balances on the President prevent him from equipping the Supreme Court with a nominee who is extremely liberal or conservative.

Those Doors Just Keep On Revolving

1. Fewer Senators retire each year, so the numbers fluctuate more wildly.

2. A lot of former Congressmen do work similar to lobbying but don't register.

3. Committee and Party leaders.

4. Former members generally specialize in access that they then sell to multiple clients.

5. Lobbying organizations get more power to influence policy-making.

6. For every $1 spent by public interest groups, $34 is spent by corporations.

7. They offer things to former members to use their connections to represent general interest lobbying causes.

Iowa

Democratic Polls
1. There was a 3% difference in favor of Clinton.
2. O'Malley and Clinton both appeal more to moderate voters than Sanders does, so if Clinton dropped out, O'Malley's support would shoot up.
3. They are decidedly in favor of Sanders.
4. Clinton has a sizable lead over Sanders in both old people and women.
5. The margin of error is 4 points, so pollsters know that Clinton will win between 49% and 41% of the vote.

Republican Polls
1. Trump has a 5% lead over Cruz and a 13% lead over Rubio.
2. The people who don't support Trump are not going to any time soon. 
3. The poll in early January showed a 3% lead for Cruz over Trump.
4. Trump's supporters makes up a greater percentage of first time caucus goers, meaning that Cruz's veteran caucus voters will give him an advantage.
5. Like the democratic poll, the margin of error is 4%. So Cruz might actually not be that far behind Trump and Rubio could actually be closer than the numbers let on.

Actual Results
1. Martin O'Malley and Trump had slightly less support than reported, but Sanders, Clinton, Rubio, and Cruz had more voters. Sanders and Clinton were much closer (practically tied) and Cruz jumped from #2 to #1.
2. Rubio, and his voter turnout was about 8% more than projected.
3. Rubio, Cruz, and Sanders all had numbers slightly higher than predicted.
4. Rubio, who showed his legitimacy by the stark increase in his support, and Sanders, who, after people figured the race between he and Clinton would not be that close, received nearly the exact amount of votes and delegates as Clinton.
5. Each vote cost him $2,844.60 which, coincidentally, is more than his total amount of votes.

THE STATE OF THE UNION

1. The longest written State of The Union Address was Jimmy Carter's last one in 1981, and the longest spoken was Bill Clinton's.
2. 1912
3. Those guys are known for being long-winded, or just have long speeches. 
4. Jimmy Carter added a very long written message to Congress that accompanied his Stat of The Union Address.

1. It is defined as the President's authority to have himself be heard, as well as directly address Americans.
2. Nothing in the Constitution gives the other two branches the right to stop the President form exercising the bully pulpit.
3. The bully pulpit is seemingly strong, but to be honest it really isn't that successful in actually influencing anything, especially Congress. 
4. The media is able to filter what the President says and ultimately have more power than the bully pulpit.
5. Americans generally are not impacted much by what the President says on television.

Gun Control

1. The principal legal officer who represents a country or a state in legal proceedings and gives legal advice to the government. 

2. In the event that a Republican can become President, they can repeal all executive orders passed on their first day. This could lead to loss of funding on behalf of the Justice Department.

3. A major problem is the Gun Show Loophole, which allows people to buy guns at shows without background checks.

4. It allows the Gun Show Loophole.

5. It will decrease the number of guns bought without background check,

6. Pesky Iron Triangles ruin everything and the NRA align with a lot of the ideology of Conservative Republicans. 

7. Depending on the state, gun laws are discussed more heavily, and as a result, some states have very loose gun laws while others have strict ones.

8. Decades, or A VERY LONG TIME.....

9. They could find a way to quickly decrease the number of guns in circulation. 

Congress!!

1. The federal statutes for the federal disability insurance was changed, K-12 was changed, as highway funding was resolved, Medicare payment disputes were taken care of, taxes changed, and microbeads were banned in bath products.

2. Office was taken by the Democrats in the Presidency, and Obama was good at coordinating with Democrats in Congress about what Democrats wanted to happen in government. 

3. Presidential politics is not a top priority to them, so now they can use Obama's lame-duck period as a way to make him look bad.

4. Politicians and parties may lose elections, but still get what they want policy wise.

5. Republicans had business tax victories at the same time as Democrats getting gains for tax cuts for the working poor.

6. Congress is sometimes secretive in their legislation, and keep public attention focused on highly polarized and disagreed upon issues.

7. No one really knows what issues Congress is actually dealing with, and shed a lot of light on big things like gun rights and EPA.