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reaperlight · 4 years ago

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Venom - Ryuk / Eddie - Light?

I guess its the same as the previous ask, huh? *facepalm*

Well I wrote for it a few months ago but never got around to posting it but always meant to go back and edit but, ahhhh I'm sorry!

Here is the mostly unedited brain vomit from November 2020:

I'm sorry, I guess I don't understand the ask.

Were you asking me to compare the characters, compare the ships or shipping them all together?

I guess I'll just ramble for a bit about my two main hyperfixations...

I've long seen parallels between Light Yagami and Eddie Brock, especially comics!Eddie in terms of the flavor of their characters, their moral codes and character flaws (arrogance, conniving, opportunistic), power from monster partner, and (for comics!eddie) their relations to their narrative foils.

Also I see parallels between comics Eddie and Mello but I feel that's more terms of aesthetic/superficial. Blonde, catholic, like leather, motorcycles, chocolate and revenge. But I digress...

Comics Eddie and Venom initially during the original villain run I believe was meant to be a kind of narrative foil for Peter Parker, a kind of what if Peter went evil, Spiderman with murder.

And Light's character also reminds me a lot of Peter Parker, especially in the beginning of the series--both in character design and the lying, sneaking, hacking, and ha-ha I'm so clever... but instead of like leaping off buildings his secret is murder.

Light and comics!Eddie are both obsessed with their narrative foils/nemesis/equal and-opposite but for different reasons and with different outcomes.

L-Embarrassed Light and threatened to have him caught and killed him.

Develop a "friendship" to try and murder each other. Kills L and later regrets it, or at the very least seems sad he's no longer around.

Spiderman-embarrassed Eddie while he was already having the worst day of his life, getting him fired AND he hurt Venom. Tries to kill Spiderman but doesn't succeed but they think they did for a while and are happy about it. There's no angst because from their perspective they had rid the world of an evil, the man that hurt them both.

When they think they succeed at killing Spiderman, the man who hurt them, that everyone lauds as a hero is dead.. Eddie and Venom are just happily living on an island together, deciding to stay together even though the revenge that brought them together was over and just living, free of burden of hating Spiderman knowing he got his revenge... then spidey shows up alive and that's the end if that.

Later after Spiderman saves Anne, Eddie realizes he wasn't the evil he thought he was. So they move away, and tries to let it go of their obsession, even though Spiderman hurt them (and continues to do so), focusing on themselves instead and protecting a homeless community.

Of course its easier to try to seek redemption when you're bulletproof.

Venom's character has changed and grown since the initial villain days, (well depending on the writer) and the Venom symbiote has become a character with autonomy and not just a costume/plot device/metaphor for drug addiction--again Venom stories can be very different depending on the writer. Being a long-time fan my perceptions of Venom are shaped by comic canon but for the most part we'll focus here on Eddie and Venom as a loving couple.

In a way Movie!Venom feels like a fanfic version, a soft boy!Eddie, but in a good way--it's fun. Eddie gets to learn and grow from his mistakes and the movie ends with Eddie and Venom as a hero...

A hero who eats people--a situation that cannot be sustained. Much like wanting to solve all the world's problems with a murder notebook--barring some comic book miracle this can only end badly.

First impulse upon encountering a problem is kill it.

But this manifests in different ways.

If you've pissed off...

Light- he will find your name and your death will be carefully planned down to the minute.

Venom-Your death will be immediate, swift, and messy.

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Even though I use the venom movie as a basis for headcanons here. I feel we can pick and choose from the often contradictory comic canon (the way these characters are written varies wildly depending on the author) which canon parts we like.

Comic!Eddie is more like Light than movie!Eddie in their character flaws.

Conniving, opportunistic...

They have a similar moral code.

Black and white morality

In the comics they have another thing in common-a nemesis to obsess over.

In philosophy...

Kill the guilty, save the innocent.

Comic!Eddie develops a God/messiah complex at one point though it's a temporary thing.

Movie!eddie is just he starting on his venom journey but has notably less compunction than comic!eddie about eating people.

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Eddie and Light

I'm not shipping them romantically in my current found family au Stray. But I could see the potential there to ship--Venom has scores of different canons to pick and choose from, not just the movie. So you could have an au with College!Eddie meeting college!Light so they are closer in age.

How Light and Eddie would interact depends entirely on how they meet. For instance in the comics Venom is ride or die with friends who are also "protectors of the innocent" like Morbius the living vampire. But has animosity with the Punisher who also has a very similar outlook on life. It all depends on how they meet whether they are allies or they might try to destroy each other.

Kira

In canon Kira sees himself as a God beyond reproach and anyone else doing what he does as a murderer deserving of death. He might be allies for a time with other killers like Misa and Mikami but ultimately sees them as scum and will kill them the moment they are no longer useful.

Of course this is fanfiction and canon has no power here.

Canon was dark enough, so if I want Light to grow as a person, make friends and be happy, he will--canon be damned, lol.

Eddie = writing nerd

Peter = science nerd

Light and L = total nerds

Ryuk likes soap operas, sitcoms

Venom likes medical dramas

Ryuk and Venom = soft goth monsterboys or NBs who love snacks, tv, and one (1) justice-driven human.

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Tropes VenomxEddie Symbrock/veddie and Ryght/Terraito/Deathgods have in common

Beauty and the beast-- "but I would never call you beast." You've got you're ruthless human and cinnamon roll monster that just wants snacks and cuddles

Living in close proximity

Secret boyfriend/partner

Vigilante justice

Deep voice

Sharp teeth

Long tongue

Alien biology

Optional body alteration

Optional--tension with rival/Narrative foil

Angst tropes-- the threat of being imprisoned, institutionalized, or subjected to unethical experiments

Daddy issues

Praise kink

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etherealbatwing · 8 years ago

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TAGGED

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

Tagged by: @promiscuous-jalapeno

1. Nickname: Katsudon,Pork cutlet,Nadine,starfish,and Rhonda >u<

2. Star sign: Virgo

3.Height: 5″2′

4.Time right now: 8:02pm

5. Favorite music artist: Oh man that's difficult because I love so many artists but Type O Negative, Rasputina,David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Daft Punk,Sisters of Mercy,Prince,The Four Seasons, etc. etc.

6. Song stuck in your head: Somnus from FFXV by Yoko Shimomura

7.Last Movie Watched:...Kingsglaive FFXV

8.Last tv show/anime watched: TV show- Peaky Blinders/ anime- Brotherhood FFXV (I’m laughing too hard over my FF thirst)

9. What are you wearing right now: Dark blue skinny jeans and a Great Gatsby shirt , pumpkin socks and a LOZ blanket around my shoulders

10.When did you create your blog: Late October? Early November?

11. What kind of stuff do you post: Basically my blog is a repetitive black hole for all my obsessions like Mystic Messenger, FFXV,Yuri on Ice,KS,art,artists,travel. New Orleans, writers, occasional stuff from my actual life etc. etc.

12.Do you have any other blogs: Just one other for writing

13. Do you get asks regularly: Pffft no

14.Why did you choose your url: I love bats and beautiful things

15.Gener: Yes

16.Hogwarts House: *Smiling slyly* SLYTHERIN

17.Pokemon Team: Mystic

18. Favortie Color: Black and royal purple

19. Average hours of sleep: 3-4 if I’m lucky

20.Lucky numbers: 3 and 7

21. Favorite characters: Jesus there’s so many bc I have soo many 2D significant others but mainly JUMIN HAN, IGNIS STUPEO SCIENTIA, Saeyoung Choi, Hyun Ryu, Jihyun Kim, Prompto Argentum, Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, Nakigitsune, Yuki Sohma,Tomoe Mikage, Oh Sangwoo, Viktor Nikiforov, Yuri Katsuki, Sailor Pluto, Sailor Mars, Blake Belladonna, Inuyasha the list goes on for ages

22: How many blankets do you sleep with: At least 4 minimum

23:Dream Job: Museum curator, Historical tour guide, archeologist

24:Following: Wooo boooy 550 (I really like art okay?)

Going to tag a few but prolly not 20, bc they seem really cool and I’d legit like to get to know more about them but please don't feel like you have to do the thing.

1) @iinkpools

2) @1o8k

3) @chocobrodreamteam

4) @akatsuki-saya

5) @fangrl-esque

6) @mintykoi

7) @stars-shaped-clouds

8) @shimheeki707

9) @yuri-on-a-messenger

10) @mello-jellow

11) @guacameowle

12) @stephizzle94

13) @chocobrosb4hoes

14) @semi-poly

15) @sosokrobota

If I’ve tagged you and you absolutely hate these things I’m sorry...but Iegit read every single one of them I come across because I’m genuinely interested...please don’t hate me okay? Thank you for your time and attention.

#personal #tag game #getting to know people #curious #ebstuff #lemme find out

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oswald-hanciles-posts · 5 years ago

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THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN

Foday Sankoh Fooled Super-Educated Tejan Kabbah

The transition to the world hereafter of the First President of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone, Alhaji Tejan Kabbah, presents a wonderful opportunity for our nation to do some serious analysis of the president who governed our nation during its Darkest Hour. Engineer Andrew Keili writes in his column, PONDER MY THOUGHTS, a Christian-moving eulogy on the late president fondly called ‘Pa Kabba’; and stated that “this is not the time” for criticism of the late President – implying: it is the time for traditional soaring and tear-inducing sentiments. Hmmmm!! The local print media has this week been inundated with ‘Tributes’ to Pa Kabbah . A lot of the praise showered on the late president are true - indisputable. Pa Kabba did great things in institution building, and as Kalilu Totangi wrote, his ‘inclusive cabinet’ - embracing people from all nearly the tribes equitably - has been unparalleled in our history.

Kandeh Yumkella’s Outlandish Hyberbole

Some of the ‘Tributes’ could leave a critical reader bemused or, indignant, however. Kandeh Yumkella, who hails from the Northern Province district of Kambia, which was also Pa Kabba’s home district, raised doubt as to his grasp of World History in his use of outlandish hyperboles in his Tribute; excerpt here: “Through his leadership as President of the Republic, and supported by the clergy....civil society and the international community, his government asked us to forgive each other and even allowed the RUF to form a party, similar to Mandela forgiving the Afrikaners.... He would be remembered as our own Abraham Lincoln.....” If we are not too much traditionalists in Sierra Leone, African Patriots would voice their reprehension at Yumkella drawing a parallel between Pa Kabbah and Nelson Mandela – the same way the US Special Envoy to Africa, Rev. Jesse Jackson, had likened Foday Sankoh to Nelson Mandela after the carnage of Foday Sankoh in January 6, 1999, as reported in Pa Kabbah’s autobiography. Tejan Kabbah was never even close to Nelson Mandela in ideological stamina and moral stature!!

Mandela was the soul and symbol of a four hundred year struggle against informal and institutionalized racism by whites against blacks in South Africa; even while jailed for 27 years, Mandela resisted the pressure of the greatest powers in the world at that time – Great Britain, United States, etc. - for ‘Constructive Engagement’ with successive racist Afrikaner governments. Tejan Kabbah, even as a free man, a sitting president, caved in too easily to pressure from the international community, and, was so easily outwitted by the almost illiterate Foday Sankoh again and again; and, the Lome Peace Agreement that Kabbah signed with Sankoh in 1999 was more a ‘Capitulation Treaty’ than a ‘peace agreement’ – capitulation to one of the worst forms of evil ever perpetuated by a warring group in human history.

RUF Evil: Hands are cut, ears and noses amputated.....

Read Pa Kabbah’s own support of my above position in his autobiography, ‘Coming Back from the Brink in Sierra Leone’, on Page 106: “Following his visit to Sierra Leone in June 1998, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello who was the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that the situation to some extent reminded him of the mayhem committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. He added: ‘I have close to 29 years experience in these conflicts. I have not seen something like this before. There is a pattern of cruelty against civilians without discrimination, including children. The pattern is one of amputations, of lacerations, of maiming of civilians – men, women of any age, including children...Hands are cut, ears and noses amputated....’.” (More analysis on the Lome Peace Treaty later on).

Kandeh Yumkella: Playing Politics with his ‘Kabbah-Tribute’

Of course, Kandeh Yumkella apparently has an underlying purpose in this sentence in his Tribute: “Some vilified him, and claimed that he was ineffective and had destroyed their party (forgetting that the only time the party showed a national character with a landslide victory was in 2002, mainly because of Pa Kabba’s Northern roots and national appeal...)”. Let me ‘translate’ that line for you, readers: Kandeh Yumkella is saying there: ‘SLPP, elect me, a Northerner from Kambia as your presidential candidate in 2018, and, like Pa Kabbah, I would win the elections for you’. Ha...ha...!! Clever...clever!!!

Momodu Koroma’s Spurious Security Boast!!

Alhaji Momodu Koroma, foreign minister in Pa Kabbah’s government, and running mate to Solomon Berewa in the 2007 elections, a former university professor, has a Tribute with professorial style extolling Pa Kabbah’s “SECURITY ENVIRONMENT”, which I excerpt as follows: “He (Tejan Kabbah) managed to assemble a disintegrated, ill-equipped, demoralized military outfit into a National Army capable of defending the national sovereignty ....For the first time in the history of Sierra Leone, he crafted a National Defence Strategy, he established a National Security Council....that produced the National Security Office (ONS) and the Central Intelligence and Security Unit (CISU) overarching security and intelligence gathering architecture that blanket the whole nation....”. What could have been deliberate obfuscation by Momodu Koroma was the absence of DATES in the ‘security and INTELIGENCE feat’ of Pa Kabbah’s government. I assume he ‘forgot’ to read Pa Kabbah’s autobiography. I now humbly quote relevant pages for him.

If “Security” was ‘Pa Kabbah’s No 3 Priority in March 1998, what would have happened on ‘J-6’?

Pa Kabbah was returned to power from exile in Guinea in March of 1998 after the people had resisted the AFRC/RUF junta and Nigeria-led ECOMOG troops had routed them from power. On Page 93 of Tejan Kabbah’s autobiography he wrote: “ I was terribly upset when I later visited parts of the city and saw first-hand, the damage that the AFRC/RUF junta had caused the past ten months. It appeared as if I was attending a wedding and a funeral concurrently”. Back in power in March, 1998, Pa Kabba wrote in his autobiography that “National Security” would be his “Number 1 priority”.

Tejan Kabbah was silent in his biography about what exactly he did to give vim to his security PRIORITY, apart from acknowledging on Page 98 that...” The security situation was still fluid. The pro-junta forces had been defeated, but, not eliminated. They continued to pose a major threat to the security and stability of the nation.....”.

On Page 107 of his autobiography, Pa Kabbah appeared like a so-called surgeon specialist who would not save the patient, but, would act like a pathologist, doing post mortem on a dead patient; he writes: “ Apparently, they had also used weapons they had hidden in several parts of the city during their joint AFRC/RUF illegal regime. As the coup leaders had done in 1997, the rebels opened Pademba Road Prisons and freed hardcore criminals to bolster their ranks.....I was again devastated. The first thought that went through my mind was ‘Oh no, not again. I felt worse than on 25 May, 1997....”. Where was the ‘security and intelligence apparatus’ which Momodu Koroma so glibly wrote about in his tribute?

Foday Sankoh and Tejan Kabbah: who was cleverer?

Between Tejan Kabbah and Foday Sankoh who could be described as cleverer in this ‘self-prosecution’ of Pa Kabbah on Page 108/109 of his autobiography when he met Sankoh, a PRISONER, on an ECOMOG warship on January 6, 1999: “ His (Foday Sankoh) initial behavior on seeing me was rather theatrical. As soon as our eyes met his… he began to ‘apologize’, shedding crocodile tears. ‘Oh my brother’, Foday Sankoh said, ‘I am sorry; I have let you down, please forgive me’. Then in the next breath,, he whispered to me: ‘Are my boys in town?’. A few weeks earlier Sankoh and I had spoken and he had assured me of his fullest cooperation....”. (Just like Pa Kabbah’s military senior brass had assured him on May 23, 1997, that ‘everything was alright’. No coup!! And the May 25, 1997 took place – with the support of Kabbah’s military chiefs who had given assurances.).

Kandeh Yumkella brought in ‘fresh evidence’ to indict Pa Kabbah thus: “ My trip to Sierra Leone on January 4, 1999, with Special Envoy, Ambassador Okelo to warn Pa Kabba about the impending advance of five rebel squads on Freetown...”. So, like with the May 25, 1997 coup, Pa Kabbah knew, was warned, about RUF/AFRC advance to invade the crammed city of Freetown!!!

Posthumous ‘Criminal Negligence War Crimes Trial’ for Kabbah

In 1998, I used to report, and do columns for, Pios Foray’s THE DEMOCRAT newspaper. I did several front page stories as was told to me by a white-haired RUF defector – of the RUF burying alive 7 teenage males and 7 teenage females in Kailahun, etc. I did a front page story when the RUF attacked Kabala in the North, in which I also interviewed my paternal cousin, Melvin Caulker, then, District Officer of Koinadugu, who had been captured when the RUF took over Kabala town; with the banner headline, ‘FREETOWN NEXT’. By late November, as Secretary General of the All Political Parties Youth Association (APPYA) then, I had gotten the approval of the Nigerian-born Chief of Defence Staff, General Maxwell Khobe, to have Freetown youth given military training to defend Freetown. That led me to Alithur Freeman, and Arthur Harvey, as Coordinator and Chairman of the Civil Defence Unit (CDU) – from there, the drivers’ union, petty traders’ organization, National Union of Sierra Leone Students (NUSS)… formed the budding CIVIL SECURITY MOVEMENT (CSM). On January 5, 1999, at about 6p.m., at the Atlantic Hall of the National Stadium, forms were distributed to leaders of the diverse organizations to give to their membership willing to do MILITARY TRAINING with the army. January 6,, 1999...the AFRC/RUF struck! I lived a stone’s throw from State House. I could have been dismembered. I escaped – by God’s grace. Thousands were NOT so lucky – murdered; mutilated; raped; abducted. Invaluable over-a-hundred-year-old-‘Krio Houses’ – some 4,000 estimated historic houses – were burnt down by the rebels. After ‘peace met Tejan Kabbah, Tejan Kabbah sacrificed his most senior war commander, his deputy defence minister, HINGA Norman, to an international criminal court. Pa Kabbah is going to face a posthumous ‘People’s Trial’ for ‘Criminal Negligence’ during our war years. The ‘case’ against him I envisage would be easy – since Pa Kabbah has provided a plethora of indicting words in his own autobiography. Stay tuned.

(The article above was published in several newspapers in Sierra Leone a week or so after the death of former President Tejan Kabbah. The ‘whiff’ in the political air in the country makes this piece highly relevant today. It appears as if the ‘Book Mentality’ governing elite of Sierra Leone are at it again. “Those who do not remember the past, are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana).

‼🇸🇱Very Relevant for 2019 Sierra Leone ‼🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

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patriotnewsblogger-blog · 7 years ago

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Pro-Life Democrats Meet With Party Chair Tom Perez. He Tells Them, “Sorry, We’re Pro-Abortion

New Post has been published on http://www.therightnewsnetwork.com/pro-life-democrats-meet-with-party-chair-tom-perez-he-tells-them-sorry-were-pro-abortion/

Pro-Life Democrats Meet With Party Chair Tom Perez. He Tells Them, “Sorry, We’re Pro-Abortion

Democratic Party leaders met with pro-life Democrats this week to discuss how the party’s radical and out-of-touch stance on abortion is alienating voters.

Democrats for Life Executive Director Kristen Day said she and several other pro-life Democrats met with party chairman Tom Perez on Tuesday to urge the party to welcome pro-life candidates again. She said they also asked the party to back down on one of its most unpopular new platforms: support of taxpayer-funded abortions.

The Democratic Party has aligned itself closely with the abortion industry in the past few years. It once welcomed and supported pro-life candidates for office, but recently party leaders have made it clear that pro-life candidates are not welcome.

Earlier this year, amid pressure from abortion activists, Perez declared that abortion is a “fundamental value” in the Democratic Party and every Democrat should support it.

“Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable,” Perez said in a statement this spring.

Some described Perez’s statement as a “litmus test” for future Democratic candidates.

On Tuesday, Day and other pro-life Democrats urged the party to rethink its radical pro-abortion stance, the Catholic News Service reports. Day said she thought the meeting was a step in the right direction, but they have a lot of work to do.

The Democratic Party leaders issued a statement after the meeting, saying they remain committed to abortion but they do want to listen to different people’s opinions.

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“Our party has always welcomed different opinions on several issues and Tom (Perez) is committed to listening to all Democrats as we work to rebuild our party,” said Xochitl Hinojosa, DNC communications director, in a statement. “Our party platform makes clear that Democrats trust women to make their own choices about their body and their health, and Tom [Perez] stands by this.”

Day told the Atlantic that they gave the DNC leaders a list of requests, including a public statement “explaining that the party does not support an abortion litmus test and pressuring people to change their position on life.” They also asked the party to reverse its new platform opposing the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funding of abortion.

Struggling after heavy election losses in November, many in the party are debating whether to support pro-life Democratic candidates, especially in rural areas where voters tend to be more pro-life.

The debate erupted in the spring after abortion activists with NARAL criticized DNC Chair Perez, Sen. Bernie Sanders and others for supporting Heath Mello, a Nebraska Democratic mayoral candidate who has a pro-life voting record.

Here’s more from CNS:

“When a pro-life Democrat decides to run, the Democratic consultants come in and they tell you, ‘Well, you can’t run as a pro-life Democrat,’ and they urge you to change your position on life, like they did with Heath Mello,” Day said.

In early May, Mello lost the Omaha mayoral election when the DNC received criticism from NARAL Pro-Choice America for the DNC chairman’s support of pro-life Democrat Mello. This led to Mello making a statement that while he was pro-life, he would not vote as such, according to Day.

“That was such a mistake at the end of the campaign,” Day said. “To have a pro-life Democrat, and for him to go in right at the end of the campaign and say, ‘I’m pro-life, but I’m not going to vote that way. That was a huge tactical error.”

Day said Democrats for Life will continue to pursue discussions with party leaders about including pro-lifers in the party.

On Wednesday, Democrats for Life board member Charles Camosy wrote at Crux that the Democratic Party needs to stop aligning itself with radical pro-abortion ideologies if it wants to win elections again.

“[T]he Democratic Party needs to fundamentally rethink its relationship with NARAL-style abortion orthodoxy,” Camosy wrote. “It has killed the party in the past, it is killing the party today, and spells doom for the party’s future with young people as well.”

Democrats for Life estimates more than 23 million Democrats in the U.S. are pro-life.

Last year, Pew Research found that 28 percent of Democrats say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases. Marist/KofC polling also found that 23 percent of Democrats consider themselves pro-life. In opposition to most Americans’ beliefs about abortion, the Democratic Party platform supports abortion for any reason up to birth and taxpayer funding for all abortions.

http://www.therightnewsnetwork.com/pro-life-democrats-meet-with-party-chair-tom-perez-he-tells-them-sorry-were-pro-abortion/ %cats%

#abortion #conservative #life #right to life

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tryingtofindthegray · 8 years ago

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Timely, considering some of the idiots who have surfaced...

Well, now that the topic of the ACA has become hot again, we are hearing stories of people who did not realize that the ACA and Obamacare was one and the same. So I feel that it is relevant to post this information here, because it is always good to be informed. These are not alternative facts.From an October 2013 FB blog post of mine:

Because I am tired of seeing and hearing uninformed and misinformed people talking, posting, etc. about Obamacare, and it has been almost constant, consider this a PSA. (Yes, I realize some people do not realize Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are one and the same.)

I don't care what side you are on, just actually be informed. Know SOMETHING. Have an alternative plan in mind. Understand what is attempting to be done with regard to actual policy, besides "trample my rights by making everyone pay to have insurance and pay higher premiums."

This is the reading list from the 8 week online course Healthcare Policy and the Affordable Care Act through the University of Pennsylvania.

Growth in US Health Care Costs

* Kaiser Foundation. Health Care Costs: A Primer (May 2012), available at http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7670-03.pdf * CBO. Technological Change and the Growth of Health Care Spending (January 2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/89xx/doc8947/01-31-techhealth.pdf

* D. Cutler and M. McClellan. Is Technological Change In Medicine Worth It?, 20 Health Affairs 5 (September 2001), available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/20/5/11.full. Read the abstract and the policy implications. * John Holahan & Stacey McMorrow. Medicare and Medicaid Spending Trends and the Deficit Debate, New England Journal of Medicine (August 2, 2012). available at http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1204899.

* McKinsey Global Institute. Accounting for the cost of US health care: A New Look at Why Americans Spend More (2008). Download and read the Executive Summary at http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi/research/americas /accountingforthecostofushealth_care. * Mark Pauly, The Truth about Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection (2007), available at http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/cpr/publications/pb36.pdf. Read pages 1-16. This explains some of the economic rationale behind the parts of our health insurance system that make it so costly.

Structure of the US Health Care System

* Nauman, T. Medicare 101. KaiserEDU. http://www.kaiseredu.org/Tutorials-and-Presentations/Medicare-the-Basics.aspx

* Rudowitz, R. Medicaid 101. KaiserEDU. http://www.kaiseredu.org/Tutorials-and-Presentations/Medicaid-101.aspx * Pollitz, K. Private Health Insurance. KaiserEDU. http://www.kaiseredu.org/Tutorials-and-Presentations/Private-Health-Insurance.aspx

Access to and Quality of Health Care Access

* Kaiser Foundation. The Uninsured: A Primer (December 2010), available at http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/7451-06.pdf. Read pages 1-13.

* Kaiser Foundation. Medicare: A Primer (April 2010) available at http://www.kff.org/medicare/upload/7615-03.pdf. Read pages 1-7; 13-14.

* Kaiser Foundation. Medicaid: A Primer (June 2010), available at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7334-04.pdf. Read pages 1-4, 7-12.

Quality

* Elizabeth Docteur & Robert Berenson, How Does the Quality of US Health Care Compare Internationally?, The Urban Institute (August 2009), available at http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/411947ushealthcarequality.pdf

* GapMinder World (2012). Find the US on the following graphs by hovering over the circles and compare its performance to other OECD countries (in light green): infant mortality (www.bit.ly/Kpa1h3), life expectancy (www.bit.ly/MSsLuR). Play with the indicators that interest you.

* Frederic Blavin et al. Uninsurance is Not Just a Minority Issue: White Americans are a Large Share of the Growth from 2000 to 2010, The Urban Institute, (November 2010), available at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412698-Uninsurance-Is-Not-Just-a-Minority.pdf.

* Kyle J. Caswell et al. The Financial Burden of Medical Spending Among the Non-Elderly, 2010, The Urban Institute (November 2012), available at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412696-The-Financial-Burden-of-Medical-Spending-Among-the-Non-Elder...

* Bryon Auguste et al. How Health Care Costs Contribute to Income Disparity in the United States, McKinsey Global Institute (March 2009), available at http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/EconomicStudies/CountryReports/HowhealthcarecostscontributetoincomedisparityintheUnitedStates2328?gp=1#. Register for free access, then click download PDF.

* Linda Kohn et al., To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Institute of Medicine (2000), available at http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9728&page=1. Read the executive summary, pages 1-15.

Health Care Malpractice

* Michelle Mello, Understanding medical malpractice insurance: A primer, RWJ Foundation (January 2006), available at http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/reports/2006/rwjf17974. Read pages 1-7.

* Letter from CBO to Senator Orrin Hatch regarding CGO’s Analysis of the Effects of Proposals to Limit Costs Related to Medical Malpractice (October 9, 2009), available at http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10641/10-09-tort_reform.pdf

* Michelle Mello & A. Chandra. The Cap Doesn’t Fit, New York Times (July 9, 2009), http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12mello.html?_r=1

* Kevin Sack, Doctors Say ‘I’m Sorry’ Before ‘See You in Court’, New York Times (May 18, 2008), available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/18apology.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

* University of Michigan Health System, The Michigan Model: Medical Malpractice and Patient Safety at UMHS, available at http://www.uofmhealth.org/michigan-model-medical-malpractice-and-patient-safety-umhshttp://www.uofmh Review the summary and any articles you find interesting.

* Jonathan Welch, As She Lay Dying, 31 Health Affairs 12 (January 2013), available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/12/2817.full.pdf

History of health care reform; The ACA: An Overview

* Kaiser Foundation. National Health Insurance—A Brief History of Reform Efforts in the US (March 2009), available at http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7871.pdf

* CBO, Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals (2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9924/12-18-keyissues.pdf. Read the sections on insurance premiums and choice of plans, pages 59-99.

* Elisabeth Goodridge & Sarah Arnquist. A History of Overhauling Health Care, New York Times (March 21, 2010), available at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/19/us/politics/20090717HEALTHLINE.html. Browse for interest

* C. Mery et al., The modern history of US health care reform, American College of Surgeons (2010), available at http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/bulletin/2010/mery0710.pdf. Read for specific policy interests.

The ACA: Access to Health Care

* Kaiser Foundation, Summary of New Health Reform Law (April 15, 2011), available at http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8061.pdf

* Department of Health and Human Services, What’s Changing and When (2012), available at http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/. Browse.

* Kaiser Foundation (2010). “Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions About Health Insurance Subsidies.” http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7962-02.pdf

* Use the Massachusetts Health Connector to “buy” insurance. https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector/ . (Use zip code 02138 and choose the plan you think would be best for you. When you get to the message that “Enrollment is closed”, click “Browse Now” under the heading “Just window shopping?” Note the monthly cost and what is covered, deductible, copay amount, etc.)

* Genevieve M. Kenney et al., Opting Out of the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: How Many Uninsured Adults would Not be Eligible for Medicaid? Urban Institute (July 5, 2012), available at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412607-Opting-Out-of-the-Medicaid-Expansion-Under-the-ACA.pdf

* Genevieve M. Kenney et al., Opting In to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who are the Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Health Insurance Coverage?, Urban Institute (August 2012), available at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412630-opting-in-medicaid.pdf

The ACA: Cost Control

* Peter Orszag and Ezekiel Emanuel, Health Care Reform and Cost Control, 363 New England Journal of Medicine 7 (2010), available at http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1006571

* Jonathan Gruber, The House Proposal Lowers Non-Group Premiums, (Nov. 2, 2009), available at http://www.healthpolicyproject.org/Publications_files/Business/2010/GruberHousenongroup11-2-1.pdf

* J. Gruber, The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?, NBER Working Paper #17168 (2011), available at http://economics.mit.edu/files/6829. Read pages 13-20, focusing on content rather than technical details.

* Stephen Zuckerman & John Holahan, Despite Criticisms, The Affordable Care Act Does Much to Contain Health Care Costs (October 2012) available at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412665-Despite-Criticism-The-Affordable-Care-Act-Does-Much-to-Conta...

* Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Affordable Care Act: Lowering Medicare Costs by Improving Care (2012), available at http://www.cms.gov/apps/files/ACA-savings-report-2012.pdf.

* Scott Harrington, The Health Insurance Reform Debate (November 24, 2009), available at https://hcmg.wharton.upenn.edu/files/?whdmsaction=public:main.file&fileID=1594. Read for a dissenting view on the cost impacts of the ACA

* Letter to Senator Bayh from the CBO regarding An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (November 30, 2009). Download the full text in PDF format at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10781/11-30-Premiums.pdf

The ACA: Health Care Delivery and Quality

* H. Komisar et al., ‘Bundling’ Payment for Episodes of Hospital Care, Center for American Progress (July 2011), available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/60255022/%E2%80%9CBundling%E2%80%9D-Payment-for-Episodes-of-Hospital-Care. Read pages 1-10.

* Stuckhardt, Leigh, IOM Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care. “ACA Provisions With Implications For A Learning Healthcare System.” Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. http://iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Quality/VSRT/summary%20of%20ACA%20impact%20on%20the%20...

* J. Gruber, The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?, New England Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #17168 (2011), http://economics.mit.edu/files/6829. Read section II.B on pages 4-7.

* McKinsey & Company. Cross-currents in the health economy. http://healthreform.mckinsey.com/insights/latestthinking/crosscurrentsinthehealtheconomy. Download the full report on the bottom of the page and read pages 1-9.

* Jerry Cacciotti & Mark Mozeson, How ACA Could Transform the US Pharmaceutical Marketplace, Oliver Wyman, available at http://www.oliverwyman.com/media/ACAandthePharmaMarketplace.pdf.

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