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In reply to the discussion: why don't the anti-aca folks just form and join the church of i-don't-believe-in-health-insurance? [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)42. Heritage Foundation policy has now become Democratic orthodoxy...
Really all you have to do is follow the damn money, the Niagara of money flowing from the insurance industry to DC is now going to become an Amazon of money, a river so wide you can't see across it..
Cubic megabucks per second..
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why don't the anti-aca folks just form and join the church of i-don't-believe-in-health-insurance? [View all]
unblock
Jun 2012
OP
I think he was naive and thought most people would participate in the system if premiums were
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#74
I like her ideology, but frankly, I'll take a partisan over a bipartisan any day.
joshcryer
Jul 2012
#47
Is Obama now going around telling us how not closing Gitmo is the greatest thing ever?
Fumesucker
Jun 2012
#24
had it been called a tax all along would there even be such objections? stabbed in the back, really?
unblock
Jun 2012
#4
did i have a crystal ball, no. but i knew the way sausage is made in washington, so i knew
unblock
Jun 2012
#25
OMB, liberal economists, Paul Krugman all saw a no-mandate approach was more expensive.
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#10
yeah, well, sigh, unfortunately, we didn't get president kucinich and the 75th congress....
unblock
Jun 2012
#41
knowing the way they think, if the idea originated on du, they'll never go near it!
unblock
Jun 2012
#11
well, you're certainly right that the right-wing will always find some cause to get riled up about
unblock
Jun 2012
#37
is it any different than the way the banking industry is enshrined in our housing system?
unblock
Jun 2012
#39
Is the banking industry really the best counter-example you could come up with?
Fumesucker
Jun 2012
#45
i'm not a cheerleader here. i'm just pointing out that there's nothing different about this
unblock
Jul 2012
#50
The mandate is highly divisive, that's made perfectly clear just by this thread.
Fumesucker
Jul 2012
#63