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US Senate to vote on new Obamacare repeal bill
Washington, Sep 21 (IANS) The US Senate is slated to vote on a new Obamacare repeal bill next week in an attempt to take advantage of a legislative exemption that expires on September 30 whereby the legislation could be approved with only a simple majority.
“It is the (Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s) intention to consider (the) Graham-Cassidy (bill) on the floor next week,” the leader’s spokesman David Popp told an interview on Wednesday, alluding to the bill sponsored by conservative lawmakers to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implemented by former President Barack Obama.
The bill, sponsored by Republican Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsay Graham, would eliminate key portions of Obamacare, including the system whereby citizens are fined if they do not obtain health insurance and government subsidies are provided to insurers to expand Medicaid.
After their failure to overturn the ACA earlier this year, when President Donald Trump insisted that Republican lawmakers approve some kind of reversal of the health care reform so that he could at least tacitly fulfil his campaign promise to trash Obamacare, Graham and Cassidy’s bill has reopened debate on the matter.
The initiative was gaining support given that conservatives realise that September 30 was their deadline for replacing Obamacare with a mere simple majority of 51 votes, potentially including Vice President Mike Pence as a tie-breaking vote, although it is not yet clear whether the Republicans has enough votes to pass it.
If three Republican senators vote against the bill, the dominant party in Congress would not be able to achieve the simple majority.
Trump expressed his opinion about the bill in a pair of Twitter posts on Wednesday, saying “I hope Republican Senators will vote for Graham-Cassidy and fulfil their promise to repeal and replace Obamacare…”
Trump also said that he thought the bill had a good chance of passing, given that the Republicans are deeply embarrassed that they have been unable to replace Obama’s signature 2010 legislation.
He said he was confident that Republican lawmakers would wind up supporting the new bill to adjust the “catastrophic situation” created, in his opinion, by Obamacare.
However, Democrats have warned about the consequences of the new bill and have called upon the Congressional Budget Office to evaluate its potential impact.
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International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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