Michael Moore is being crticized for racism, not policy commentary

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125. That 832 million averted a far worse financial crisis and arrested the 400,000 monthly job losses

we were facing when Obama took office.

And the ACA is universal and was intended to be. It, for the first time, guarantees that everyone will be able to qualify for health insurance, either through work or individually; and guarantees the Essential Benefits to everyone with either individual or employer or government based insurance.

It was also intended to be connected to a Medicaid expansion in every state, but SCOTUS stopped that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/what-the-stimulus-accomplished.html

Of all the myths and falsehoods that Republicans have spread about President Obama, the most pernicious and long-lasting is that the $832 billion stimulus package did not work. Since 2009, Republican lawmakers have inextricably linked the words “failed” and “stimulus,” and last week, five years after passage of the Recovery Act, they dusted off their old playbook again.

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The stimulus could have done more good had it been bigger and more carefully constructed. But put simply, it prevented a second recession that could have turned into a depression. It created or saved an average of 1.6 million jobs a year for four years. (There are the jobs, Mr. Boehner.) It raised the nation’s economic output by 2 to 3 percent from 2009 to 2011. It prevented a significant increase in poverty — without it, 5.3 million additional people would have become poor in 2010.

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Government spending worked, helping millions of people who never realized it. And it can work again, whenever lawmakers agree that putting people to work is more important than winning ideological fights.