ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

(CNSNews.com) - Not a single Republican v**ed for the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act, but one
liberal Democrat is nevertheless blaming Republicans for the system that's debuted to so much
criticism.
"While Republicans plot new ways to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, it's easy to forget that for years
they've been arguing that any comprehensive health insurance system be designed exactly like the one
that officially began October 1st, glitches and all," said Robert Reich, who served as President Bill
Clinton's Labor Secretary.
Reich says Democrats should have insisted on a single-payer system because it would have been
"cheaper, simpler, and more popular."
In a blog at The Huffington Post website, Reich wrote that Republicans have long argued for a health
care system based on private insurance and paid for with subsidies and a requirement that the young and healthy people sign up. Democrats,
he says, wanted to model health care reform on Social Security and Medicare, and fund it through the payroll tax.
Reich says President Richard Nixon in 1974, "proposed, in essence, today's Affordable Care Act." Thirty years later, then-Massachusetts Gov.
Mitt Romney, another Republican, "made Nixon's plan the law in Massachusetts."
Reich adds: "When today's Republicans rage against the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, it's useful to recall this was their idea
as well," as proposed in 1989 by Stuart M. Butler of the Heritage Foundation.
"Now that the essential Republican plan for healthcare is being implemented nationally, health insurance companies are jubilant," Reich said, because they see opportunities for higher profits and expanded growth. "So why are today's Republicans so upset with an Act they designed and their patrons adore? Because it's the signature achievement of the
Obama administration," he says. Reich's blog is entitled, "The Democrat's Version of Health Insurance Would Have Been Cheaper, Simpler, and More Popular (So Why Did We Enact the Republican Version and Why Are They So Upset?)" Reich, now a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, advocates a single-payer health insurance system, such as
"Medicare for all."

by Susan Jones

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Republicans would naturally want to derail a democratic president and to set the stage for 2106, but a black president? What did they think would happen? I told my wife in 2008 that he was going to be fought every step of the way.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

The Bastard is half a Black - can you get that into your mind? By the way - where did he come from; what did he do? Who really knows him? Where was he really born? How did he travel around the world in 1981 and it wasn't on an American Passport! Make him open up his records! Who really is this Guy? Do some research!

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

what difference does that make? Can you not get THAT through your head? He was elected by the people and that's it! You don't have to like him, you don't have to support him, but constantly screwing with him, to the detriment of the country, is unpatriotic.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Ipnmajor: Get this into your head! The American people do not elect a President! We are a Republic . We assign e*****rs to do just that! It officially happens a month after the popular v**e! Some of them according to State law can change their v**e!

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

why didn't they then? My state e*******l reps v**ed for Romney. So do we secede from the union? Or do we pull up our big boy pants and move on? The president is still the president until jan 2017

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Not unless we run his ass off! - that can be done!

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

do it don't post sour grapes about it.

katz Loc: washington

screwing with him is patriotic.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Looks like your the kettle calling the pot black!