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In reply to the discussion: Companies' cancellation of existing health insurance policies continues [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)24. What a shock to see an anti-ACA troll like you posting rightwing screeds against the ACA
Here's some other of that author's work:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2013/10/17/the-tea-party-victory/
I see it quite differently from the vantage point of the forest: The Tea Party has denied President Obama his long term goal of creating a positive-rights European-style entitlement state. The Tea Party changed the conversation from fundamental change, massive second stimuli, investment banks, national value added, fuel, and carbon taxes to sequestration and haggling over nickels and dimes of federal spending, and forced the Obama administration to gamble its second term (and legacy) on the unlikely success of Obama Care, which every Democratic member of Congress now personally owns.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2013/09/23/the-problem-is-obesity-not-hunger-thoughts-on-the-food-stamps-debate/
The current hysteria over the House bill to cut food stamps by $40 billion over a decade (see Krugman, Free to Be Hungry) will be framed against Americas hunger crisis fabricated by the powerful hunger lobby. Democrats will use the hunger crisis as a cudgel to beat those who favor cuts in food stamps into bloody submission. How can any decent person favor cutting aid to hungry families, who, according to the crisis mongers, constitute one out of six of our neighbors? Few politicians have the fortitude to withstand the onslaught and the crisisists will likely win. A non-crisis will be solved, as real facts and real crises are ignored.
Facts are the enemy of the crisisists. Therefore, we hear few of them, and the facts we hear are distorted beyond recognition. In this case, the facts speak for themselves: The United States, and increasingly the affluent world, has a crisis not of hunger but of obesity. The hunger crisis is a clever fabrication to serve political and commercial interests. If the hunger lobbys facts are true, our hunger rates equal those of the poorest African and Asian countries.
Facts are the enemy of the crisisists. Therefore, we hear few of them, and the facts we hear are distorted beyond recognition. In this case, the facts speak for themselves: The United States, and increasingly the affluent world, has a crisis not of hunger but of obesity. The hunger crisis is a clever fabrication to serve political and commercial interests. If the hunger lobbys facts are true, our hunger rates equal those of the poorest African and Asian countries.
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Companies' cancellation of existing health insurance policies continues [View all]
hooverville29
Oct 2013
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Looks like the counry will be moving to single payer faster than anyone ever thought.
shraby
Oct 2013
#3
And that's what the WH must clear up and get the Prez off the exposed, general position
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#8
Disapproval is going up (back to 50+% levels)and so is approval (42%) as undecideds decide
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#26
Is it rolled out? No! Not one person has started on insurance through exchanges
Pretzel_Warrior
Oct 2013
#31
It's that kind of elitist contempt for ordinary people that can cause real problems down the road
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#39
Because the existing policies didn't cover what is required by ACA. Most of
sinkingfeeling
Oct 2013
#9
Policies weren't 'junk' to people who first bought them. Now rug's pulled out from under them
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#14
No, as a matter of fact you are. You expect ordinary people to accept what looks like disadvantage
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#46
Thank you for your concern. The only thing clumsy in this picture is your attempt
kestrel91316
Oct 2013
#96
in fact there are multiple changes, obamacare being sometime the cause, but more often the excuse.
unblock
Oct 2013
#10
theyre cancelling the policies that allowed you to be kicked off if you get sick
leftyohiolib
Oct 2013
#11
Yeah. but people had them and in fact had a form of health insurance, faulty or not.
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#17
Those policies are the equivalent of the "accidental death" policies that masquerade
SoCalDem
Oct 2013
#12
You mean spoke the truth? The ones being cancelled are not "health care"
Pretzel_Warrior
Oct 2013
#21
What a shock to see an anti-ACA troll like you posting rightwing screeds against the ACA
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#24
The fact that you push rightwing talking points and policy goals. You were here pimping the House
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#28
Due to the tolerance of rightwing talking points around here, you're free to do so
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#63
We'll see how far you're willing to carry Teapublican water re: the ACA nt
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#66
No, I'm thinking of the person who came here to support the House GOP's demand
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#69
Interesting to see a series of Obama quotes referred to as a "rightwing screed".
hughee99
Oct 2013
#33
Helpfully compiled by a Tea Party author. More to the point, people will be getting better plans
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#42
Yes. He was talking about plans that were around in 2009 and grandfathered in.
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#64
How about having them cancelled and having nothing but a chance to pay more. Don't expect people
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#19
And that's exactly the 'screw the people' attitude that will be deadly at the polls
hooverville29
Oct 2013
#49
People forced to stop spending money on junk insurance, get subsidy to buy something much better nt
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#22
Thank you for the libertarian/Tea Party spin on this. Your objection to improving people's
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#44
Yes, you pushed the Tea Party/libertarian line is that we don't need consumer protection
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#62
This is per se trolling. You complain about plans being discontinued because
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#78
Think Progress debunked NBC's report on insurance cancellations, and there is more
ProSense
Oct 2013
#92
Thanks for debunking the NBC propoganda. Here's a much better article from PBS.
Sarah 979
Nov 2013
#98