The Movement Against Hillary Started Way Before FBI Broke News On Additional Emails

Trump Took Lead Before FBI Announcement
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHillaryDaily.com on October 30, 2016

History will undoubtedly say that the Comey announcement that the FBI is reopening its investigation into Hillary's emails that turned the 2016 race around and brought Hillary down.  But that's a false narrative.  And to grasp what is happening, we must put it aside and concentrate on the real reasons Trump began to overtook Hillary in the week leading up to Comey's announcement on Friday, October 28th.

Polling suggests that Trump's gains predate Comey's announcement.  Most dramatic was the heavily Democratic biased ABC poll that began the week giving Hillary a 12 point lead and ended the week with Mrs. Clinton clinging to a one point margin.  Most ABC interviews were conducted well before Comey spoke.

So what happened?

•  Trump's negative ads began to hit in swing states.  Until this week, Hillary's attacks on Donald had been dominating the airwaves for months.  But, during the past ten days or so, his negative ads -- devastatingly effective -- began to make their impact felt.

•  ObamaCare premiums increases began to hit.  While the full impact of the price hikes won't be felt until after November 1st -- in time for the election -- the early notices that they would go up by an average of 25% with many even higher, had a big impact on the race.  And Trump moved adroitly to exploit the increases in his speeches.

•  Before the Comey bombshell, the drip-drip-drip of WikiLeaks emails had been taking a daily toll on Hillary's vote share.  The coup de grace was the memo from Doug Band that was written in response to Chelsea's accusation that she had not done enough for her father. Stung by the first daughter's charges, Band ticks off the deals that led to a $60 million personal profit for Bill Clinton, a list that vindicates the direst of the pay-for-play accusations.

•  Hillary's illness prevented her from campaigning more vigorously and her campaign staff, obtuse as ever, failed to give her new issues and material to use on hitting Donald.  Once they ran out of abused women to complain about Trump, they had nothing to say.

The Sickness Of This Administration Just Keeps Getting Worse

New Obamacare Regulation Presses for Sex Change Surgery Coverage

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By Sandy Fitzgerald   |   Saturday, 14 May 2016 09:28 AM

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The Obama administration on Friday, the same day it ordered schools to allow students to use bathrooms or locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity, issued a directive that could pressure the nation's insurers, as well as federal programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, or providers through Obamacare marketplaces to cover sex change procedures.

"The final rule does not require covered entities to cover any particular procedure or treatment for transition-related care, including gender reassignment surgery," a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told The Washington Free Beacon. "However, it does bar a covered entity from categorically excluding from coverage or limiting coverage for all gender transition-related services."

The new HHS directive enforces the Affordable Care Act's section 1557, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs or activities.

In addition to  ruling that "categorical coverage exclusions or limitations for all health care services related to gender transition are discriminatory," including services such as breast implant surgery, hormone therapy and sex change surgery, the directive says:

• Women must be treated equally with men in the health care they receive and the insurance they obtain;
• Individuals must be treated consistent with their gender identity, including in access to facilities;
• Individuals cannot be denied healthcare or health coverage based on their sex, including their gender identity and sex stereotyping;
• Providers  may not deny or limit treatment for any health services that are ordinarily or exclusively available to individuals of one gender based on the fact that a person seeking such services identifies as belonging to another gender;
• Sex-specific health programs or activities are permissible only if the entity can demonstrate an exceedingly persuasive justification, that is, that the sex-specific health program or activity is substantially related to the achievement of an important health-related or scientific objective.

The final rule applies to "any health program or activity" that receives funding through the HHS, including hospitals or doctors accepting payments through taxpayer-subsidized programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, or Obamacare marketplaces.

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Medicare, meanwhile, was ordered to remove a ban on coverage of gender reassignment surgery back in 2014.

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The rule is a win for civil rights issues, HHS said in its press release, as it is the "first federal civil rights law to broadly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded health programs."

"A central goal of the Affordable Care Act is to help all Americans access quality, affordable health care," HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said through the release. "Today's announcement is a key step toward realizing equity within our healthcare system and reaffirms this administration's commitment to giving every American access to the health care they deserve."

Advocates for the LGBT communities also praised the new rules.

"LGBT people have too often faced healthcare systems that provide inequitable and hostile treatment. This new and important regulation will address many of these disparities and is critical to help end discrimination against transgender and gender nonconforming people in healthcare and insurance," Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said in a press release.
According to The Federalist, the new rule could open the way for lawsuits from transgender people on claims that being denied sex-change medical services is a violation of civil rights.

Meanwhile, many states already prohibit private insurers from excluding services for gender transition needs, reports The Free Beacon, including California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia.

Transgender people have faced barriers for years for health insurance and coverage of medical treatments, reports The Huffington Post, and in 2015, a Reuters survey showed more than 40 percent of people transitioning from women into men said they had faced discrimination while seeking healthcare.

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