[dadfly]

bookmark.

[Blennos]

Is this another case of “race trumps all?” Just like Colin Powell.

[NormsRevenge]

Screwing 90% of the people out of their healthcare plans they are perfectly happy with to cover the 10% that “have none”.

and then have BigGub.Knowsbest.com run it?

Sounds like a risky schema to me.. any way ya cut it.

[Nifster]

one of the idiot elite....wants ACA and government control instead of REAL health care and health insurance REFORM

[JPG]

[PGR88]

We are government by Progressives. They are just divided into factions - some seeking more radical change, some more “Fabian” in their outlook - but they all are Progressives.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Tax credits to offset private insurance premiums is a far cry from mandated coverage, special cut-outs, IRS policing, etc.

Follow the providers (doctors and hospitals) to determine if a obamacrre is a train wreck. So far they have decided they don’t want to work for government.

[kabar]

It's a tribal thing ala Colin Powell.

[FAA]

And that’s all you need to know. We have one party “of the government” and the other which is just “sorta of the government” and those are your choices today.

Screw them all.

[mulligan]

Another idiot.

[Temujinshordes]

“...the Affordable Care Act will benefit millions of uninsured, low-income Americans.” - That is not the issue, the issue is “At what cost to whom?”

[noinfringers2]

This all goes with Bush’s vision of a ‘new world order’. He,Bush, as a member of USA aristocracy sees nothing wrong in making the monetary pain for some lesser persons to pay for all the needs of all lesser persons, whether or not deserved. In all the debates on health insurance I don’t hear anything about personal responsibilities for bad situations. Some people deserve what they have to live with.

[DannyTN]

They've done many things wrong:

• They passed Obamacare in the most undemocratic fashion.
• They passed it without even reading it, which is an affront to all democracy.
• The mandate, exchanges, Medicare expansion should all have been separate bills.
• The mandate should have been stated as a tax credit. To the extent that it encourages all people to have health insurance, it will reduce the amount of care that providers have to provide to indigents without reimbursement. That's an unconstitutional taking. So if the mandate was structured right a conservative case could have been made for it.
• The exchanges are probably a good idea. That's simply creating an efficient marketplace. But instead of forcing by law by a deadline, which has turned into a debacle. They should have built the exchange and provided incentives to participate.
• The medicare expansion has been rejected by a majority of the states, so it was apparently too expensive and not well thought out. They would be better to focus on restoring the American economy to reduce welfare, instead of expanding welfare.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

As Pat Buchanan once famously said, the Republicans and Democrats are the right and left wings of the same bird of prey.

[Sacajaweau]

We already have Medicaid and every emergency room has a sign...."no one is turned away".

This was a ploy to get healthy WORKING folks to buy health insurance. It's just another Medicare program except you get what they say you get and that lookback that applies to Medicare will no longer apply AND they have access to all your assets.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Communists always see the necessity for Communism.

[stockpirate]

The old guard republicans and current republican leadership wanted this HC bill, they did what they could to help it get passed, this includes McConnel and Boehner.

Yes folks, the republicans could have VERY easily stopped this at the start. But the Romney wing wanted it as well as the Bushbots.

[MUDDOG]

noting that aspects of the ACA, including the insurance exchange, were part of a health reform plan [H.W.] Bush supported 20 years ago.

It's Bush's fault.

[DanZ]

Yes, just another of the RINO Bushs’ (BOTH, Senior - Read my lips, and Junior - Who was that idiot he nominated for the Supreme court? - Answer there were two, one in currently sitting there) bad BIG G’MENT made bigger initiatives.

[RginTN]

What a dope. Tax credits is totally different from forcing people to buy a product, telling insurers what they must cover then making premiums skyrocket due to regulations.

The Bushies are idiots.