‘Trouble Don’t Last Always’

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/opinion/blow-trouble-dont-last-always.html?_r=1&hp&adxnnl=1&rref=opinion&adxnnlx=1385181776-GztNrCXxf93B412OOCrJlA&

‘Trouble Don’t Last Always’
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: November 22, 2013 36 Comments

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Republicans are going to harp on Obamacare and highlight hardship stories for as long as they feel the story has legs — and that may be a while. That happens in politics. You give your opponents a stick, and they’ll whack you with it every time.

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Fixing our health care system is not only right from a budget and policy perspective; it’s morally right. No one should be turned down for health coverage because of pre-existing conditions. No one should have to live in fear of going broke from getting sick. No one should have to use emergency rooms as his or her only option. As Martin Luther King Jr. once put it, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Every policy change — particularly large ones — will have winners and losers. For now, the Republicans will keep highlighting the losers. Democrats must keep highlighting the winners, while reminding people that data points are not the data set. In the end, this health care law will be judged by its overall effects on the population and the economy, which I wager will be a net positive.

Anger is exhausting. It eventually subsides, memories fade and the media turn away to chase another ambulance.

As my mother would say, “Trouble don’t last always.”

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1. The gopropaganda machine is in the business of

screwing up people's lives.. unless they're already wealthy enough to throw money at them.

they had Benghazi for so long and then I'm thinking lara logan screwed that up for them. More and more people getting set with their ACA will muck up their narrative of Obamacare bad/gop nocare good.

Thanks Charles Blow.. "As Martin Luther King Jr. once put it, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”