No, President Obama Is Not A Hall-of-Fame-Worthy BS Artist, aka Why I Defend The ACA

[stopbush]

77. The problem with your "I've got mine argument"

is that everyone who currently has health insurance through their employer also "has theirs."

Employer-based health insurance is just as much a part of the corporate system as is the ACA. They use the same health providers as does the ACA. The only difference is in the individual market, where the ACA has lowered costs to people in that market and has done away with pre-existing conditions that allowed insurers to deny insurance to people in the individual market.

What you seem to be advocating is that everybody lucky enough to have a job with good health benefits provided through their employer should be allowed to hold hostage the health care of those less unfortunate until and unless President Obama/Dems toe the line and kill liberal betes noir like Keystone, etc. The people who already have insurance are allowed to naval gaze on whatever theories they believe pure, while those less fortunate get tossed to the wolves because the solution (the ACA) isn't pure enough.

You act as if getting the ACA passed in its present form was akin to getting a politician's name put on a post office. The ACA was a major accomplishment that has set in motion change in the way this country does health care. To imagine otherwise is to be blinded by one's ideology.