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PennsylvaniaMatt

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16. I find it funny....

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 03:56 PM

Feb 2013

Whenever a right-winger talks about "Obamacare" as if it is a new government bureaucracy like "Medicare" and "Medicaid."

It gets tiring telling these people that "Obamacare" is not a separate government health care plan.....it is just a set of reforms for the PRIVATE insurance companies, which have been taking advantage of people, Democrat and Republican, for YEARS!

For all of the older, right-wingers...I pose one question: Where would you be right now had it not been for either Medicare, Social Security, or the VA? Programs that Democrats started, as Republicans screamed socialism, and now Republicans are hell bent on cutting.

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Help countering Right Wing article from parents [View all] abelenkpe Feb 2013 OP

Well I went to the link... SomethingFishy Feb 2013 #1

Checked it out on wikipedia abelenkpe Feb 2013 #14

That is cheap. PLARS1999 Feb 2013 #2

Right, and they pay a lot more than $65/week (nt) Recursion Feb 2013 #11

I don't know but I googled that headline and the resulting hits are all... CurtEastPoint Feb 2013 #3

Thank you! abelenkpe Feb 2013 #13

Those are round numbers to demonstrate how the calculation works cthulu2016 Feb 2013 #4

Thats for sure! abelenkpe Feb 2013 #7

It's true DoBotherMe Feb 2013 #5

perhaps they should have supported universal not for profit health care Fight2Win Feb 2013 #6

They should have abelenkpe Feb 2013 #9

Not sure what the problem is. $20,000 for a family for private health insurance is about sinkingfeeling Feb 2013 #8

That's pretty cheap Recursion Feb 2013 #10

Tell her it's about "personal responsibility". Or that they should have backed a public option, or JaneyVee Feb 2013 #12

I agree abelenkpe Feb 2013 #15

I find it funny.... PennsylvaniaMatt Feb 2013 #16