nwtk2007 wrote:
I will address only your first paragraph.
The repugs, the ultra-conservs, etc, have turned against this president and even announced their wish to do anything and everything to remove him, no matter the cost to US citizens. And they have done it for the most part. Even turned from things that they themselves first espoused, like the insurance mandate. LOL! A repug idea from the get go. And for it to within a week of Obama announcing it to be a part of Obamcare. Within the week!
To be so fervently against one person to such an nth degree can mean not much other than racism, for I've never witnessed it like this before. Add to that the continual references to his color and name (I can understand the name issue), then what do you think a rational, church bred, objective kid is going to think? Der.
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Why only one paragraph, to address? I'm not racist, nor of my nearly two years on this forum have I uttered so much as a whisper, or hint convitable of such. Yet KHH1 calls me one, and has told me to "PHUCK off" for simply disagreeing. I find his posting, selected with intent to incite.
As for the affordable care act, I too am against it and at first could not understand why medicare and Medicaid where not expanded, especially since the poor that where claimed to not have insurance, already qualify for medicaid.
Time and space does not allow for the reasons the ACA just does not make sense when such a lower cost existing two systems already exists. My greatest concern is the insanity of the % of cost of our GDP, the highest in the world, with less care than countries at half and less that percentage. This high percentage when combined with existing medicare/ medicaid % of GDP push us way past the tipping point of economic suicide which is 75% of programs to GDP, pre-ACA we where at 54% to GDP. Pro-ACA Economists are projecting the next decade, employment vs subsidized enrollment the individuals paying would need to triple, or the government participation in order to maintain status-quo, which includes the reduction of services rolling out this year thru 2017 via procedures being turned down, medications turned down by insurance companies. Which brings us back to no alternative than our government transitioning into 100% state run, take out the middle man (insurance companies) which is actually the goal. Peoples from around the world came to America for medical care, with the advancements of a free competitive market and the hundreds of billions spent on R&D which today is running at 80% post ACA and projected half that in less than a decade.
I still believe the best choice for Americans would have been open the competition of insurance companies by removing the law of not being able to purchase health insurance across state lines, put limits on liability law suits, and remove the barriers of the FDA and the millions of dollars and years to put proven medications on market which has removed the little guys from R&D and the ability to enter the market. Currently we have a monopoly of the biggest pharmaceutical companies raping the system, and under the current system reducing their R&D.
I agree the conservatives did nothing to bring about change, but during the deepest recession since 1929 all energy was use to "force" push this plan through, voted on behind closed doors not one conservative even given the chance for an up or down vote. Bottom line both parties have failed us, and the corruption of the parties and their unchallenged power growth, sadly I believe is beyond repair, not because of anything other than our elected officials have become lawless and all powerful. When we see the Dems putting a GOP before congress or GOP to a Dem, it's all political and the ones (most of congress and the Senate) are left alone so long as their votes are able to be bought when needed. I will close my comments with regardless of your or my party affiliation, in today's world, we all have failed, corruption in the extreme of our elected officials, from mayor's, governors, congress, and Senate as well as everything in between.