Posted on 09/24/2013 1:01:32 PM PDT by bestintxas
To understand the crisis in Washington, tune out the histrionics and look at the big picture: Republicans are threatening to shut down the federal government — and perhaps even refuse to let the Treasury pay its creditors — in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to keep millions of Americans from getting health insurance.
Seriously. That’s what all the yelling and screaming is about. As my grandmother used to say, it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
Eugene Robinson
Writes about politics and culture in twice-a-week columns and on the PostPartisan blog.
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Tom Toles on health care: A collection of cartoons on the debate.
The GOP has tried its best to make Obamacare a synonym for bogeyman and convince people that it’s coming in the night to snatch the children. In fact, and I know this comes as a shock to some, Obamacare is not a mythical creature. It is a law, incorporating what were originally Republican ideas, that will make it possible for up to 30 million people now lacking health insurance to obtain it.
Officially, the law in question is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Republicans intended the term “Obamacare” to be mocking, which is perhaps why President Obama started using it with pride.
It is, indeed, an achievement of which the nation can be proud. About 48 million individuals in this country lacked health insurance in 2012, according to the Census Bureau, representing about 15 percent of the population. Other industrialized nations provide universal health care — and wonder if this is what we mean when we talk about American exceptionalism.
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One should NEVER smoke crack. This is what happens to the brains of those that do!
E. Robinson, one of the most vile, racist, neo-Nazi pricks in DC.
Stuff it up your obama, peckerhead.
No the danger for the Democrats is that Obamacare will succeed; what would Hillary run on?
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