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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Shakedown, my ass. Everybody uses the system, everybody who possibly can, should be paying in. My only gripe with ACA is that it's half assed. And the only reason it's half assed is because half the population would probably start shooting if we shoved Single-Payer down their throats. 
I agree that Obama shouldn't have "lied", if that's what you want to call it. He should have just told them, "You very well might lose your current coverage.....because it's part of a bullshit system that's slowly self-destructing, costing more every year to provide less coverage to less people. So, we're going to kill it now and move on. Don't like it? Tough shit, that's just how it is."
Dave |
It is half assed, if not worse. About the only positive attribute I can see is the mandate for covering pre existing conditions.
The Democrats were in the position to pass anything they wanted, and this is what they came up with. Passed without a single Gopper vote and no Gopper input.
And what's the Donks defense? Sure it's fucked up, but that's because of the Goppers. Face it, the Goppers had nothing to do with it, this pig is yours.
Now I've been an advocate of single payer every since the days when the nation could afford to do it. And while the Donks talk a good game, this is what they came up with...and it's not single payer by a long shot.
I don't know what that tells you, but it tells me that the Donks are just as bought and paid for as the Goppers ever thought about being.
Chas