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Originally Posted by Guest
Brainwashed.
Yes, ACA was anti-American, but that is my opinion. It's the left's attempt to socialize medicine, European style. We'll see if they succeed.
Wealth discrimination is anti-American. It discriminates, therefore anti-American.
The "great recession" turned out to be great, because Obama ineptly mishandled recovery and the economy recovered on it's own at a slower pace. Much slower. And don't forget that it was the Dem congress that was instrumental in the mortgage crisis. Bush was blocked every time he requested an audit of Fanny and Freddy. So if you weren't so lazy, you could do some research to see that just because Obie said it was Bush's fault doesn't necessarily mean it was.
The gov being shut down is not a new thing. It's happened before. How many years did the Democrat majority run administration NOT have a budget? Record length of time.
Voter ID does NOT target the minorities, unless they are guilty of voter fraud. It may target the illegals that might try to vote, and they are a minority. Voter ID is constitutional. You are required by law to be a U.S. citizen. Therefore, to prove you are a citizen, you should be required to provide proof. The honor system is hardly credible. And I would love to see you provide me proof that there are still folks out there that vote that don't have a form of ID. That is just liberal's speaking in fear of losing some votes.
Obama anti-American? Yes, please tell when you have ever seen another president that has sued a state when they were upholding the immigration laws. Show me another president that immediately took the side of criminals because they were black, when a police officer was required to use force when doing his duty. Show me another president that disobeyed a supreme court decision that told him that his ban on gulf drilling was illegal? Do I really need to go on. You have heard it all before. I can google for you if you really are interested in an answer. But, something tells me that you are not interested in an answer.
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This is this history of the Affordable Care Act. The left attempt to socialize medicine. All the main parts are Republican ideas. This is from Wikipedia.
Background
Main articles: Health care reform in the United States and Health care reform debate in the United States
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act consists of a combination of measures to control healthcare costs, and an expansion of coverage through public and private insurance: broader Medicaid eligibility and Medicare coverage, and subsidized, regulated private insurance. An individual mandate coupled with subsidies for private insurance as a means for universal healthcare was considered the best way to win the support of the Senate because it had been included in prior bipartisan reform proposals. The concept goes back to at least 1989, when the conservative Heritage Foundation proposed an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer health care.[57] It was championed for a time by conservative economists and Republican senators as a market-based approach to healthcare reform on the basis of individual responsibility and avoidance of free rider problems. Specifically, because the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital participating in Medicare (which nearly all do) to provide emergency care to anyone who needs it, the government often indirectly bore the cost of those without the ability to pay.[58][59][60]
When President Bill Clinton proposed a healthcare reform bill in 1993 that included a mandate for employers to provide health insurance to all employees through a regulated marketplace of health maintenance organizations, Republican Senators proposed an alternative that would have required individuals, but not employers, to buy insurance.[59] Ultimately the Clinton plan failed amid an unprecedented barrage of negative advertising funded by politically conservative groups and the health insurance industry and due to concerns that it was overly complex.[61] After failing to obtain a comprehensive reform of the healthcare system, Clinton negotiated a compromise with the 105th Congress to instead enact the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997.[62]
John Chafee
The 1993 Republican alternative, introduced by Senator John Chafee as the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act, contained a "universal coverage" requirement with a penalty for noncompliance—an individual mandate—as well as subsidies to be used in state-based 'purchasing groups'.[63] Advocates for the 1993 bill included prominent Republicans who today oppose a mandate, such as Senators Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Bob Bennett, and Kit Bond.[64][65] Of the 43 Republicans Senators from 1993, 20 supported the HEART Act.[57][66] Another Republican proposal, introduced in 1994 by Senator Don Nickles (R-OK), the Consumer Choice Health Security Act, contained an individual mandate with a penalty provision;[67] however, Nickles subsequently removed the mandate from the bill, stating he had decided "that government should not compel people to buy health insurance".[68] At the time of these proposals, Republicans did not raise constitutional issues with the mandate; Mark Pauly, who helped develop a proposal that included an individual mandate for George H.W. Bush, remarked, "I don’t remember that being raised at all. The way it was viewed by the Congressional Budget Office in 1994 was, effectively, as a tax."[57]
Mitt Romney's Massachusetts went from 90% of its residents insured to 98%, the highest rate in the nation.[69]
In 2006, an insurance expansion bill was enacted at the state level in Massachusetts. The bill contained both an individual health insurance mandate and an insurance exchange. Republican Governor Mitt Romney vetoed the mandate, but after Democrats overrode his veto, he signed it into law.[70] Romney's implementation of the 'Health Connector' exchange and individual mandate in Massachusetts was at first lauded by Republicans. During Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, Senator Jim DeMint praised Romney's ability to "take some good conservative ideas, like private health insurance, and apply them to the need to have everyone insured." Romney said of the individual mandate: "I'm proud of what we've done. If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be the model for the nation."[71]
In 2007, a year after the Massachusetts reform, Republican Senator Bob Bennett and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden introduced the Healthy Americans Act, which also featured an individual mandate and state-based regulated insurance markets called "State Health Help Agencies".[60][71] The bill initially attracted bipartisan support but died in committee. Many of the sponsors and co-sponsors remained in Congress during the 2008 healthcare debate.[72]
By 2008 many Democrats were considering using this approach as the basis for healthcare reform. Experts have said that the legislation that eventually emerged from Congress in 2009 and 2010 bears many similarities to the 2007 bill[63] and that it was deliberately patterned after Romney's state healthcare plan.[73] Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at MIT and an architect of Massachusetts' health care reform who advised the Clinton and Obama presidential campaigns on healthcare issues, served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration, and helped draft the ACA