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In reply to the discussion: I can't believe some Libs/Progressives here would rather see the ACA struck down [View all]crunch60
(1,412 posts)Single payer is real reform, a solution to the health care crisis in America. I reject the ACA for many of the following reasons stated in this article by Chris Hedges.
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The debate surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act illustrates the impoverishment of our political life. Here is a law that had its origin in the right-wing Heritage Foundation, was first put into practice in 2006 in Massachusetts by then-Gov. Mitt Romney and was solidified into federal law after corporate lobbyists wrote legislation with more than 2,000 pages. It is a law that forces American citizens to buy a deeply defective product from private insurance companies. It is a law that is the equivalent of the bank bailout billsome $447 billion in subsidies for insurance interests alonefor the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. It is a law that is unconstitutional. And it is a law by which President Barack Obama, and his corporate backers, extinguished the possibilities of both the public option and Medicare for all Americans
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_real_health_care_debate_20120409/