Graphic: This is What Republicans Want To Repeal

[OmahaBlueDog]

From "Re-Elect President Obama" on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/#!/reelectpresidentobama2012

Sorry if this reposted. I found it interesting that two of my FB friends who consider themselves politically independent reposted this.

[Stardust]

1. I wish they had included the pre-existing condition law. These changes are breathtaking, IMHO.

Not perfect, but a million times better than what we had before.

[Abra]

2. You forgot one...

300 MILLION Americans are now forced, by law, to purchase worthless insurance from the same corporations that are currently screwing them over.

There are no real price controls to stop these insurance giants from continuing to send their rates into the stratosphere, particularly now that you have no freaking choice but to buy their crap. There is nothing there to stop them from jacking co-pays clean to the moon if they want, and they will. Can't afford a worthless policy that covers nothing? No problem -- the government will borrow the money in your name, give it to the insurance companies, and leave our kids stuck with the bill.

And if you don't like it, too bad. The Supreme Court just ruled that it was a tax, and guess what happens when you don't pay your taxes. It may not happen today, but give it a few years and the government will send your ass to Prison for not paying.

The Insurance companies (and the Heritage Foundation) wrote the damn law. The only healthcare this corporatist bill provides for is the healthy bonus checks of billionare insurance company CEOs.

We could have had actual healthcare. Instead we got this. And worse, we now have to listen to democrats defending it.

[CTyankee]

3. And your alternative is.....????

Now, Abra, you have a choice come November. You can vote for Romney, since you don't like Obama's stab at providing SOME health care to the people, and Romney will get you to worse, not to better, and certainly not to single payer or public option.

Another option is to sit out the election and have NO say in the outcome. So it seems to me you are stuck. I'm not saying you shouldn't feel the way you do. I'm saying that you have your choices before you and they are not what you want (or what I want which is single payer or at least public option). Boo hoo. I didn't get what I wanted either....but at least I have a pretty good idea of what I'm gonna have to do...

[Dawgs]

4. What's your point?

You've offered nothing to the conversation, other than pointing out things most everyone already knows.

Do you at least have a solution on how to fix it?

[HopeHoops]

5. (cough, cough) BULLSHIT! (cough, cough)

[Arkana]

6. 30 million more people covered.

That's an excellent statistic, no matter what the ideological purity goblins tell you.

No one said the ACA was a perfect solution and no one has said that we should just lie down and die on health care. But those are impressive numbers, and if the ACA disappeared tomorrow a lot of people would be left twisting in the wind. Think about that before you revert to that mid-80s Democratic mindset that caused us to lose three Presidential cycles in a row.

[SoFlaJet]

7. Did someone order a pizza...

in this thread? Abra needs to add the word cadabra to the end of that name and POOF!!!! disappear

[ehrnst]

8. Worthless? Ask the people who will be covered that weren't before if it's worthless. (nt)

[SalviaBlue]

10. "We could have had actual healthcare."

In what alternate reality do you reside?

We have more of a chance getting there incrementally by this route than by getting NOTHING, which is what we would have gotten if we didn't do this.

[Sheepshank]

9. My lovely parents, visiting from Austr....

Romney and Obama all understand the idea of a large risk pool to help everyone one. The Mandate is necessary. Once this whole thing morphs into Medicare for all, we still all will pay, but it will more than likley be via tax deductions from our paychecks.

Permitting a large portion of the population to bilk the system, having the rest of us pick up their tab (in the form of highter fees and medical costs) because they assume they will never get sick or injured, does hurt everyone and they will no longer get that free ride. Many with financial difficulties will be exempt and I will gladly pay into the pool to help those that are unfortunate. Many others will be covered under mom and dad, or on their own...and it's time they put on their big boy undies/big girl panties and act like responsible members of society, instead of assuming they will get away with not paying their bills by simply visiting an emergency room.