Need help trying to sway someone. He writes:

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12. Health Care

Please inform this writer that the Congressional Budget Office has stated that the Affordable Healthcare Act will reduce the budget deficit. Second, before the healthcare Act, insurance companies could refuse to cover people due to pre-existing conditions. They can no longer do that. Children now have to be covered on their parents' policies until they are 27 years old.
I have been hearing about "lazy" people who are unwilling to work all of my life. The fact is that most people who are unemployed want to work. They just can't find jobs. Another fact that economists like Paul Krugman have informed me is that the stimulus bill should have been larger. That is almost universal among economists. Now, there is an Investment Act that would have created 1,000,000 jobs and did needed repairs to our infrastructure that was blocked by the Republicans in Congress. Actually, those Republicans in Congress are "lazy ass " people because they have done nothing to solve problems.
The tax cuts to the upper 1% and the mismanaged wars have "cost a lot of money." Raising the highest marginal tax rate from 35% to 39.6% on those with taxable incomes over $275,000 would help with the deficit and pay a lot of this cost.
There are some people who don't want to help themselves, like your friend says. There always will be some. But there is not as many as your friend says. The vast majorityof people who are currently unemployed want to work and help themselves.