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brett_jv

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20. It was written by the Heritage Foundation and was teh GOP's answer to HilaryCare in 1992

Reply to TampaAnimusVortex (Reply #10)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 04:28 AM

Feb 2016

Regardless of the 'party line' vote, had the exact same program been presented by a Republican President, the vote would've gone the exact opposite way (assuming the GOP felt some real pressure to actually do some kind of health care reform).

It's absolutely a 'free-market' solution to the particular problem at hand, through and through.

To argue the Supreme's 'lean liberal' on the basis of a 5-4 vote upholding Obamacare ... is highly tenuous. Because it's NOT a particularly 'liberal' program.

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