Post by azteccc on Jan 5, 2014 12:24:41 GMT -8
I think that it isn't a story...
Even assuming everything that win found in this email chain is true (which I highly doubt), the notion that the Democrats are again the Machiavellian geniuses passing dubious laws to increase political power for generations to come, to me, is laughable. I thought this law was going to "collapse under its own weight" in no time, right? If it is "designed to fail" so we (meaning the 'left') can push single payer down America's throathole, how is it also a long-term scam designed to get $4 baby votes for the next century?
If we stop with the (probably made-up) anecdotal evidence, and focus solely on the shortcomings of the actual law, then there are definitely arguments that the right can win with. I have been very consistent with my disdain for the ACA. It is a conservative plan, that the dems pushed to try to gain bipartisan compromise with people who never wanted to compromise. More nefariously, one could argue that almost every Congressman is to some degree in the pocket of the health insurance lobby - the same health insurance lobby who loves the ACA.
Either way, I think we need socialized medicine. I will refer to it as socialized medicine because it just sounds so much better than single-payer or public option, ya know? All the 'Pubs here love their government pensions, their medicare, their social security... But god forbid we try another grand social experiment to better the lives of everyone in the country.
When we try to create quasi-government, regulation-based solutions to inherent problems in a failing market, we get some quasi-troubling outcomes. If 99% of the ACA worked to perfection, people like Win would still latch on to these questionable anecdotal stories that confirm their suspicions. Had President John McCain introduced and passed the ACA, I am 100% certain that most Republicans would be in favor of it, and the debate right now would be "did it go far enough?".
