Medicare doesn't currently cover long-term care except in limited circumstances, and decent private coverage is almost impossible to find. That leaves Medicaid, which varies by state and requires people to impoverish themselves or transfer assets before they can qualify. Even then, it has limits on home care, often forcing people into nursing homes when they'd rather stay home.

Harris' solution is to make in-home care a regular Medicare benefit, available to all enrollees. Her campaign didn't provide a ton of detail - another reason, I suspect, the political world didn't pay a lot of attention. But the official release cited an independent study that sketched out what such a program could look like and estimated it would require about $40 billion a year in new federal spending.

Harris has suggested offsetting much of the cost with savings from another campaign proposal, one designed to reduce Medicare spending by extracting lower drug prices from manufacturers. Whether that would provide enough money and whether the fiscal tradeoffs are worthwhile are just some of the many questions Harris would have to answer if she were elected and able to pursue the proposal.

But whatever its very real pros and cons, the Harris plan represents one of the first serious, high-profile efforts to address a need that's likely to touch most families eventually, one way or another. That alone makes it worthy of more attention than it's gotten so far.

Extending Medicare services into this realm will unjokingly be a lifesaver for untold millions of caregivers and families all across America. Especially with all the aging Boomers, this policy should resonate with every generation following them. As much as it's a blessing to care for one's parents or grandparents, not everyone has the personal bandwidth to navigate the twists and turns of their own lives and take on the responsibility for a parent(s) no longer able to adequately take care of themselves on a daily basis.

Saying that two black Dem women can only fail upwards is race baiting.

It's actually racist misogyny. But look who're we're talking about, and it's to be expected. He's so deep into white male privilege that anything approaching meritorious equality looks like oppression to him.

So many bigoted or misogynous people may not vote for her, but Obama won, didn't he? You'd be saying the same things about him now if he were running for the first time.

I've never forgotten something that happened in the aftermath of the 2006 elections, when potential Democratic candidates were being discussed for the 2008 presidential nomination, the name of Barack Obama came up.

Mike Murphy, the Republican political consultant emphatically said out loud on MSNBC: "Americans are not going to elect someone named Barack HUSSEIN Obama to be President of the United States," putting the same audible sneering in his voice while saying "Hussein" as Trump continues to do on the stump every time the 44th President's name comes up.

Murphy has never lived that moment down that in hindsight made him look so foolish - and yes, ignorant - in the aftermath of Obama defeating Hillary in the primary and Murphy's employer, John McCain in the general, going on to win two terms in the Presidency.

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By that logic NEITHER the President or Vice President are elected by the people. Tell us how are the electors chosen Laura, do they just pull people off the street?

Your attempt to own me only exposes how sensitive your hide is. Does anyone ever say that voters DON'T determine the presidency within the dictates of the Constitution? Nope, only drama queens like you living on a technicality.

If the state's voters don't give the ticket 270 electoral votes then Congress gets to choose. But to say voters don't elect the President and Vice President is silly.

But then so are you.

All these morons do is argue against everything because they can always find the dark cloud inside every silver lining. If we were undergoing deflation, the global economy would spiral downward along with prices, employment, tax revenues, expenditures and everyone's life because most couldn't service their debt, which wouldn't be falling at all.

But KAMALA was never elected to any position that pertains to this election.

She was elected Vice President along with Joe Biden. And to top that, constitutionally Joe Biden cannot fire her BECAUSE she was elected into her position by the People, she wasn't appointed to serve at his leisure as every other officer or official inside the President's Cabinet or staff was.

Perhaps you should pick up a Constitution sometime and actually read it beyond the 2nd Amendment,

American citizens are not going back ever again. NEVER AGAIN will we accept incompetence, a fool and a political radical such as we got from this Trump's maladministration.

Absolutely correct. A million Americans died due to Trump's error coinciding with a global pandemic, and all he offered was for citizens to stick UV lights up their derrieres or ingest poisonous disinfectant.

I'm pretty sure she is going to win

From your lips to God's ears. But Harris has never been a placeholder in any job she's competed for and earned by in her own right.

And let me leave you with what continually goes almost ignored.

A Black American woman of Jamaican and Indian ethnicity - largely unknown to those who don't follow politics - is her major party's emergency replacement at the head of the ticket and moved the electoral dynamics from a sure loss to a possible EC win (I think a popular vote win should be a lock based on the last 32 years). And she's done so NOT by playing up her gender or race but by showing an intelligence, toughness, strength, warmth and compassion that her opponent is incapable of based on an unshakable belief in continuing America's democratic experiment towards becoming a more perfect union for all citizens, not just those who like and vote for her.

Will it be enough? I'm just like you, we'll find out soon.

Your problem is that you credit the actions of the DNC to Harris.

Again, you show that you don't begin to understand how all this works. The convention is run by and for the campaign based on what they want, not what the DNC wants. The convention Harris had was NOT the one Biden was going to have. Many of the speakers wouldn't have been there, and certainly not Harris' extended family and Walz' family being spotlighted and beloved by America. Her message was completely different from Biden's because he wasn't able to bring women's autonomy to the forefront like Harris/Walz has been able to from first hand perspectives.

If you looked at her objectively, you'd probably see that she's not that great a candidate.

If you don't want to believe me, then listen to Karl Rove, who tried to kill Kamala's ascension before it started.

So I don't know his talking points.

You certainly repeat them though:

That doesn't mean she knows jack s*** about ANYTHING else related to the presidency, and you can see it in her eyes every time she has to speak about anything related to THAT job.

You continue to wallow in ignorance the way a pig does in slop. Just because you don't know anything about her past doesn't mean that I don't. Why not educate yourself instead of spouting Trump's insipid talking points verbatim? And as with most people, there's good and not so good reports from her long career, but one that shows she indeed grew into her role as chief of her Vice Presidential staff.

The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and utter nonsense racking up millions of views across the internet. The posts would be laughable if they weren't taken by many people as gospel. Among them: Infowars' Alex Jones, who claimed that Hurricanes Milton and Helene were "weather weapons" unleashed on the East Coast by the U.S. government, and "truth seeker" accounts on X that posted photos of condensation trails in the sky to baselessly allege that the government was "spraying Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton" in order to ensure maximum rainfall, "just like they did over Asheville!"

As Milton made landfall, causing a series of tornados, a verified account on X reposted a TikTok video of a massive funnel cloud with the caption "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO FLORIDA?!" The clip, which was eventually removed but had been viewed 662,000 times as of yesterday evening, turned out to be from a video of a CGI tornado that was originally published months ago. Scrolling through these platforms, watching them fill with false information, harebrained theories, and doctored images - all while panicked residents boarded up their houses, struggled to evacuate, and prayed that their worldly possessions wouldn't be obliterated overnight - offered a portrait of American discourse almost too bleak to reckon with head-on.

Michael Caulfield, an information researcher at the University of Washington, has argued, "The primary use of misinformation' is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary." This distinction is important, in part because it assigns agency to those who consume and share obviously fake information.

"The primary use of misinformation' is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

It doesn't matter how many times the posters known for disinformation, lies and gaslighting are corrected, they'll come right back to another post with the same bogus talking points and discredited lies as though the factual truth means nothing to them because they realize it's not those fact-checking who they're talking to, it's to reinforce the alternate "truth" of believers like themselves living in a separate reality with its own subjective truths based on "knowing" or "feeling" that their version is the correct one.

Make Americans Get Ate!

So Trump is actually the Soylent Green Party candidate? Explains quite a bit, doesn't it. He doesn't plan on deporting immigrants, he plans on really processing them.

She can't answer any simple question that isn't scripted. There's more to experience than being in the room.

Do you realize how many cases she's tried in courtrooms where her entire job was to both speak and respond to what others have said immediately because she was prepared?

Just because you're both dismissive and ignorant doesn't mean that Harris somehow has made it all the way through 7 elections over 20 years - never losing a single one - into the vice presidency, yet she can't talk extemporaneously?

It's so moronic to hear this complaint over and over again when the simple truth is this: The same people complaining about her measuring her words and thoughts are also the ones endlessly complaining if she misspeaks, or heaven forbid changes her position on an issue because circumstances have changed, or her constituencies preferences have changed.

With this dichotomy it's impossible for her to win because she has to do one or the other and you're ready to criticize no manner which one she chooses.

And lastly, because critics want to pounce on any deviations from prior years, an intelligent person would try not to give critics more ammunition to use against them for the sake of answering in a too detailed manner. Believe it or not, an intelligent leader always wants to leave themselves room to maneuver on both policy and issues unless they have unilateral power to implement them without consideration by others inside government. Being too precise with detail can constrain one in ways they'll later regret and turn potential allies into foes when it comes time to compromise before the finished policy takes shape.

In an instance of uncanny timing, Chen published his piece only a couple weeks before Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign and began his semi-hostile takeover of the Republican Party. Trump and that Russian troll farm would be permanently linked. The original piece didn't intersect with partisan politics. At one point, the trolls were spreading panic about an entirely fictitious chemical spill in Louisiana. In the fall of 2014, they were hyping the eventually-contained U.S. Ebola outbreak. The accounts seemed simply intent on sowing panic or distrust in official institutions, perhaps a proof of concept for something more ambitious in the future. Only a few months later, Chen noticed that the list of troll farm accounts he'd followed for the original piece had suddenly rebranded as Trump superfans.

The rest, as they say, is history. Things turned out much better for Donald Trump than Yevgeny Prigozhin. But I was reminded of this in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and in advance of Hurricane Milton. There is abundant evidence that Trump, his campaign and his followers are going to town inventing and amplifying a range of conspiracy theories about the hurricane aftermath. But it seems almost certain that they're sharing the arena with latter-day versions of the IRA, whether they're housed in Russia or China or Iran or various other countries. This was the original aim of these efforts, quite possibly the deeper aim than assisting Donald Trump, which was more a means to an end: creating confusion and panic, sowing division within the United States and weakening trust in civic institutions. But weak social trust and division isn't something foreigners can do themselves on Twitter any more than they can create a social and political flesh eating bacteria like Donald Trump. These are social weaknesses at the heart of American society. They may be more or less unique to the contemporary U.S., or something more general in global early 21st century life. But they are strategic weaknesses for the U.S. on a global stage and are recognized as such by unfriendly foreign powers.

DJT declared the winner by 11 EST.

You continue to post this nonsensical, totally ignorant comment in almost all of your posts. It's actually impossible for Trump to be announced the winner on election night because Republicans have made sure that the returns in Pennsylvania can't be tabulated by then, and in no scenario can Trump win the EC without Pennsylvania.

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If it wasn't for projection and gaslighting Trump Republicans would have no unified agenda whatsoever.

They take credit for the success of others (Obama set the economy's course for Trump's term, Trump didn't do a single thing other than cut taxes skewed toward the wealthy), take zero responsibility for their own failures (Afghanistan withdrawal agreement, tying the hands of Biden and allowing thousands of ISIS/Taliban prisoners freedom, including the bomber who killed our troops during the withdrawal) and then complain when the Democrats don't fix all the problems quickly enough that they created or failed to positively address.

On top of most metrics heading in the positive direction, Barack Obama kindly reminded America of just why Trump's economy was so good to begin with.

Former President Barack Obama addressed voters who next month may be tempted to vote for his successor, former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump, based on the state of the economy during Trump's first administration.

Obama acknowledged Thursday at a Pittsburgh rally for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that "some people think, Well, I don't know. I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good.'"

Then he added, "Yeah, it was pretty good because it was my economy."

"We had had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him," remembered Obama, under who the economy grew solidly before Trump took over and continued to develop it until the coronavirus pandemic.

"It wasn't something he did," Obama added. "I had spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time. So, just in case everybody has a hazy memory, he didn't do nothing, except those big tax cuts."

Harris is a gamble.

I don't believe America has gotten that far beyond racism yet.

Racism and hate are literally what's fueling the Trump campaign.

I don't disagree with that assessment. But the reality of the situation was that Harris was the only Democrat in position to do what she's done. There is a reason none of the other Democrats on the Deep Bench threw their hats in the ring. None of them could have assumed all the campaign cash that Biden had other than his running mate.

And after Biden threw his support to Harris, any convention fight would have doomed Democratic chances up and down the ballot because in order to differentiate from each other, there would have been open criticism and policy differences that Trump would have jumped on himself.

The one thing you've actually ignored is that Harris isn't running as a women or on her ethnicity. She's wisely made her campaign about SERVICE - her lifelong service to her constituencies and her 4 years of service as VP. Yet she's still able to run as a change agent because everyone knows that Biden made the final decisions, not Harris, and she faithfully supported him up until he dropped out.

So many bigoted or misogynous people may not vote for her, but Obama won, didn't he? You'd be saying the same things about him now if he were running for the first time. And there have never been the number of prominent Republicans backing any Democrat that are now backing Harris. There are sane Republicans who understand Trump for the threat he is as a threat to end democracy as we know it.

So Harris' otherness is not quite as determinative as it might have been otherwise. We'll know who's right in the next 3 1/2 weeks.

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Sometimes Laura, your ignorance knows no bounds.

*49th Vice President of the United States - Incumbent - Assumed office January 20, 2021

*United States Senator from California - In office January 3, 2017 - January 18, 2021

*32nd Attorney General of California - In office - January 3, 2011 - January 3, 2017

*27th District Attorney of San Francisco - In office - January 8, 2004 - January 3, 2011

Kamala Harris has won every single general election she's been on the ballot for over the last 20 years and garnered over 96 Million total votes in California and nationally as Vice President.

Anthony: My father-in-law lives just outside of Asheville, North Carolina, and he was badly damaged by Hurricane Helene. And he has refused all FEMA help because he's a hardcore Trumper. He literally believes that if he accepts anything from FEMA, they're going to take his house.

Dan Abrams: Wow.

Anthony: And my wife, my wife is - I mean, we're literally, I mean, we're at the point where, like, screw them. I mean, if they're going to listen to Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity over us who have his best interest at heart, or my wife, my poor wife is like, the hell with them. Screw them. And it sucks. It really sucks in and I don't understand how so many people are under the spell of this freaking con man. I don't understand it.

Dan, it's hard. It's hard to even imagine it. I mean, he lost almost everything, and he's refusing all help from the federal government and complaining to us that he doesn't have food, that he doesn't have the stuff he needs, and yet he won't accept the help. What the hell are we supposed to do? We're not in a position to be able to fly across the country and help him. There's people begging us to get him to accept help and he won't do it. And I guarantee you, I'm not the only one. I guarantee you I'm not the only one.

Abrams: I wish there was something I could say as to, you know, I don't know. Is there - does he have access to any electronics where you could send him some information debunking this and that?

Anthony: We've done all of that. We've done all of that. We've sent him, we've sent him all the FEMA bulletins. We've sent him all the stuff from the fact checkers. He doesn't believe it. He thinks it's all - he just believes Trump, literally, Dan. He just - it's a cult! He's a cult member. I'm sorry to say it. He's a cult member. And he's my father-in-law and it sucks.

100%. She'd be getting demolished by any other candidate not named Trump.

*49th Vice President of the United States - Incumbent - Assumed office January 20, 2021

*United States Senator from California - In office January 3, 2017 - January 18, 2021

*32nd Attorney General of California - In office - January 3, 2011 - January 3, 2017

*27th District Attorney of San Francisco - In office - January 8, 2004 - January 3, 2011

Trump has never won a majority of votes in the 2 national elections he's been on the ballot.

Your prognostication ability is only seconded by your gaslighting ability and your inclination of building strawmen to break down.

Coomondolt doesn't understand word usage either. Ivanka never denied the account in the book. "Without merit" is not a denial, it's a qualification. If she said that the events "never happened," that's a denial.