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03-22-2012, 01:25 PM
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Why do people question my Lord and Savior Barack Christ? Why? Bawwwwww!!
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03-22-2012, 01:29 PM
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 The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land, passed by the House and Senate, for two years. It's not going away. The current minority leader of the Senate knows it's fine, it works, and has public said he isn't going to try and repeal it. At this point, with thousands now insured and getting health care that were not, and thousands more - even the complainers here - now covered by protections that prevent them from being thrown off their insurance in multiple ways, it's simply manufactured red meat on the campaign trail for those stuck in the Palin "death panel!" meme from three years ago. Romney, Santorum - none of them can singularly, as the Executive Branch, repeal a law passed legally by the Congress, and they know that. Their audience apparently does not. The only thing haters of this signature domestic policy initiative (yes, a Republican one from the 1990's) can hope is that the Supremes turn over the individual mandate, but that doesn't look likely at all based upon lower court interpretations. But hey, this high court does what they like. And there's no real reason for them to dislike the law other than it was accomplished, finally, by a Democrat, and not by Bush, Clinton, Ford, Nixon, Reagan, Carter, Bush I, Johnson, etc. who all tried before to do the same: reform health care. Our health care is 17% of our GDP. It's only 9% in other countries, who provide better care. If we want to erase our deficit, and live within our means, and have a strong economy, we must reform our massively broken healthcare system. Every single congress and president has known that over the years. Why did Obama go forward with healthcare reform? It was more an economic issue. The healthcare reform contained within isn't any massive overhaul of the system, or a move to single payer (why the far left doesn't like it) it's mostly consumer protections. The funny thing is that this law isn't "massive health care reform" in a single payer model as was discussed three years ago, it's basically only insurance reforms intent upon trying to keep your insurance company from screwing you, and trying to make Americans a little healthier with preventive care and more access. If they have problems with parts of the law? They simply have to change it in the Congress. Not a hard thing to do.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts Last edited by Riot : 03-22-2012 at 01:57 PM.
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03-22-2012, 02:30 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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03-22-2012, 02:36 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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03-22-2012, 02:47 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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03-22-2012, 02:53 PM
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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