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In reply to the discussion: For once, focus your bloodlust on Republicans --instead of the DLC/Firebaggers/ANYONE WITHOUT AN (R) [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)You said:
[font color=red]"Saving 45,000 Americans from death each year"[/font].
From which bodily orifice DID you pull that number?
On WHAT do you base your claim that the ACA will save that many Americans every year?
Most estimates agree that around 45,000 Americans DO die every year due to lack of Health CARE,
NOT due to a lack of Insurance.
Health Insurance does NOT equal Health Care,
especially "Bronze" Insurance.
Even after ALL the provisions of the ACA are enacted,
most estimates project form 15 million to 30 Million Americans WILL remain without Health Insurance. The ACA is NOT Universal health care.
It is not even Universal Insurance.
I don't deny that the ACA will save some lives.
IMO, the "historic regulations" in the ACA will be as effective as the "historic regulations" for the Wall Street Banks, so we will have to wait and see how many "lives" are saved,
but we won't have to wait to know what we have given away.
"They" got THAT in concrete legislation.
I have been very clear about that in several posts above^
which you seem not to have read or comprehended.
I though I explained it in terms you could understand with the Snidely Whiplash analogy,
but apparently not.
The 1% WILL gladly agree to save some lives,
IF we give them "the keys to the ranch".
THAT is exactly what the MANDATE is.