07-30-2014, 03:16 PM
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Persona non grata
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 12,654
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Originally Posted by finnbow
Probably true. He created OSHA and the EPA, after all. Beyond that, he cozied up to the Chinese commies.
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And how about this:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/29/nixo...e_act_partner/
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In February 1974, Republican President Richard Nixon proposed, in essence, today’s Affordable Care Act. Under Nixon’s plan all but the smallest employers would provide insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, an expanded Medicaid-type program would insure the poor, and subsidies would be provided to low-income individuals and small employers. Sound familiar?
Private insurers were delighted with the Nixon plan but Democrats preferred a system based on Social Security and Medicare, and the two sides failed to agree.
Thirty years later a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, made Nixon’s plan the law in Massachusetts. Private insurers couldn’t have been happier although many Democrats in the state had hoped for a public system.
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