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kpete

(71,981 posts) Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:49 PM Mar 2014

LARGEST HEALTH EXPANSION IN HALF CENTURY

Obamacare has led to health coverage for millions more people
At least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started, surveys and reports show.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obamacare-uninsured-national-20140331,0,5472960.story#ixzz2xYlwnf8U

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LARGEST HEALTH EXPANSION IN HALF CENTURY (Original Post) kpete Mar 2014 OP

Much more accurate than a previous OP AgingAmerican Mar 2014 #1

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tzu Tarheel_Dem Mar 2014 #2

Why didn't insurers just lower their fucking rates? leftstreet Mar 2014 #3

^^ this ^^ nt TBF Mar 2014 #4

Lady Bird Johnson was a great First Lady mc51tc Mar 2014 #5

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)

1. Much more accurate than a previous OP

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:57 PM

Mar 2014

Thanks!

Tarheel_Dem

(31,228 posts)

2. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tzu

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 01:01 PM

Mar 2014

leftstreet

(36,103 posts)

3. Why didn't insurers just lower their fucking rates?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 01:03 PM

Mar 2014

Then see if they couldn't lure a few million people into buying their product?

How lame is your 'free market capitalist competition' !! ethic if you need mandated premiums and tax payer subsidies?

Socialism for the rich
Crapitalism for the rest of us

TBF

(32,039 posts)

4. ^^ this ^^ nt

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 01:16 PM

Mar 2014

mc51tc

(219 posts)

5. Lady Bird Johnson was a great First Lady

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 01:41 PM

Mar 2014

Her legacy still blooms every spring in D.C., Texas and many other places!

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