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bvar22

(39,909 posts)
5. More Americans will have "insurance".
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 02:37 PM
Nov 2013

So the ACA WILL help a lot of people.
It is not bad...for a Republican "Market Based Solution" that subsidizes another useless Indusrty with Billions of taxpayer dollars that do NOT go toward Health Care.
I can understand why moderate Republicans and Reagan Democrats are very happy with this "Uniquely American Solution".


I agree with Bill Moyer's analysis of the ACA.

"Republicans have now lost three successive elections to control the Senate and they’ve lost the last two presidential elections. Nonetheless, they fought tooth and nail to kill President Obama’s health care initiative. They lost that fight, but with the corporate wing of Democrats, they managed to bend it toward private interests.

So we should be clear on this, Obamacare, as it’s known, is deeply flawed. Big subsidies to the health insurance industry. A bonanza for lobbyists. No public option. And as The New York Times reported this week, “Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law.” Largely because states controlled by Republicans refuse to expand Medicaid.

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-moyers-essay-shutdown-showdown/



The worst consequence of this "Uniquely American Solution" is that it has postponed the opportunity for REAL reform for another generation.

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