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Originally Posted by Minte
You hit the nail squarely on the head. This is why so many nonliberals are very unhappy with obama and obamacare. None of the things you list were even discussed. All they wanted was to raise taxes on the wealthy. which in turn raises costs for all the classes. Who reading this doesn't think that the people paying the higher taxes simply won't raise their prices to the ultimate consumer.
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We discussed all this at length at the time over on JBM. There are just as many frustrated liberals as there are nonliberals. The 'error' recorded in history will not be that Obamacare went too far, it will be that it did not go far enough. Unless, they manage to patch and fix it while addressing the other items I listed. What bothers me most is that many people think the alternative to Obamacare is
what we had before... rather than what we should have.
What we had before was worse than Obamacare, arguing to go back to it is nonsensical. Yet, the GOP is so busy trying to do their dog and pony show for political points that they aren't even attempting to move us to what we should have, and the Democrats are so politically locked into calling Obamacare successful that they aren't going to move us toward what we should have either. Frustrating when, as much as we disagree about politics, even we could probably have hammered out the framework of a real working health system over the course of a holiday weekend or two.
