I am now totally confused. Does DU support the ACA or not?

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Well, since you're new around here, let me explain a couple things.

The first is that, within certain broad limits defined in the TOS, thre is no "company line." We tend to imagine ourselves to be free thinkers, and to argue things out a lot. People change sides in the debates as new facts come in, or at least develop more nuanced positions.

Second, in this environment there is rarely unanimity on any particular topic. For example, at the moment there is a war raging between the "conspiracy theorists" and the Warren Report theorists on th underlying reality of the JFK assassination.

Some see Obama as an apologist for certain corporatist policies, while others think him more liberal.

Some support Hillary for President, others ee her too as part of the corporatist establishment.

With respect to "Obamacare" probably the majority see it as a complex and imperfect creation that resulted from too many compromises with the insurance industry and with conservative politicians, but still somewhat better than what went before. As more details become clear about the plan, more problems--and more benefit--become apparent, and naturally people's views of the program shift and grow more complex in accordance with the increasingly complex information that becomes available about the reality of the plan.

If you're looking for the kind of place that endorses and enforces some sort of epistemological orthodoxy I'm sorry, but this ain't it. You might want to try one of those sites where everyone wears a three-cornered hat.