If he had fought this hard for Single-Payer...

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109. Nobody has ever said that "some" people will not be helped by the ACA.

There ARE some good, Liberal components, like the Expansion of Medicaid.
Premiums WILL come down as 40 Million to 70 Millions low risk Americans are forced to BUY Health Insurance from "private" sources.

The problem with the ACA is that its still NOT a good deal for the American People. It is far, FAR less than the rest of the civilized WORLD takes for granted.
We traded away THE MANDATE, which codifies the For Profit Health Insurance Corporations as the gateway to Health Care in the USA,
for a dream that might materialize later.

The dream of the individual states implementing their OWN Public Option
is still just a dream, one fraught with perils and death traps,
but The MANDATE is REAL and it is now THE LAW.

LARGE risk pools is the element that makes insurance work.
A provision of the ACA FORBIDS a National Public Option.
Diluting the Risk Pool to 50 individual, Public Options run by 50 separate states with 50 distinct Overhead & Operating Costs really won't be able to offer much in the way of Cost Savings to the individual American. In all likelihood, they will fail on their own forever sealing our fate.

Kind of like Jack.
He traded the Family Cow for a handful of beans,
but they might be MAGIC later.

The MANDATE is REAL. It is NOW.
Small Public Options? still just a dream.
Not a DEAL I would sign.

We will see.
40Million - 70 Million Americans who either can not afford Insurance,
or who think they don't NEED insurance will be forced onto The Exchanges in 2014, and most will be forced to pay their part our of near empty pockets.
That is a lot of unhappy campers.

There is ONE group that is jubilant about ACA:
The price of stock in the Health Insurance Corporations has DOUBLED since ACA was passed. The Smart Money says ACA is a GOLDMINE for the Investor Class.



Privatized, Market Based Solutions that enrich the Investor/Ownership Class are REPUBLICAN plans.
I don't vote for REPUBLICANS.
I vote for DEMOCRATS because I believe that access to Health CARE is a basic human RIGHT,
and NOT a commodity to be SOLD to Americans by For Profit Corporations.

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The ACA has postponed REAL Health Care reform in America for at least another generation, and has opened the door to our Public Treasury to a completely parasitic Industry.[/font]
A Step in the WRONG direction, unless your are a Republican,
or a member of the 1%.


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