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In reply to the discussion: Skinner on the ACA [View all]LAGC
(5,330 posts)40. I think this is what sparked things off...
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I totally agree. It's the first time anything begins to move in the general direction of health
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#4
+1,000. Also, work to turn their states into single payer like VT. It's in the ACA.
freshwest
Mar 2014
#83
You said it!!! I view the whiners as sitting home chewing on Twinkies and posting whines
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#146
I've noticed that some people seem to want to write their own rules for this site
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#50
Yeah, I find it esp. funny when people who just had a 3 week long meltdown over one swimsuit picture
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#60
Without getting specific as to any individuals, in a generic sense, I think we're seeing a lot
MADem
Mar 2014
#63
"FDR wasn't perfect in the eyes of the Left, either. That's conveniently ignored."
Number23
Mar 2014
#72
MAD, it doesn't even fly NOW. Let alone in 50 years when there will be documentaries
Number23
Mar 2014
#173
Very brave of you to point to a thread where you lost a debate and then lost your temper
A Simple Game
Mar 2014
#196
I chimed in because I followed your link, something I rarely do, but had a
A Simple Game
Mar 2014
#213
Color me shocked that a person who considers it "bashing" when someone asks how progressives
Number23
Mar 2014
#219
A less glamorous origin, as an acronym, anyway - about IBM's 70s marketing tactics
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2014
#148
thats where I learned it....by the time I joined , it became "no-one ever got fired for buying IBM"
pkdu
Mar 2014
#203
By the time I joined, 'FUD' was what Microsoft spread with Windows rumours
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2014
#204
Yeah, or like the "NASA Study Says Civilization Will Collapse Within A Decade!"
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#90
The difference is he states his opinion without juvenile use of the word 'fuck' in it.
randome
Mar 2014
#111
He SAID he was scared and pissed. So does Ted Nugent. I don't always believe everything I read.
randome
Mar 2014
#119
I don't doubt that his wife is ill. I don't doubt that she couldn't get her meds for a time.
Le Taz Hot
Mar 2014
#123
Well, he could have admitted that Obamacare had absolutely nothing to do with his situation.
randome
Mar 2014
#168
You are bilingual in "street" and "academia?"Sorry...that sounds as silly as this....
msanthrope
Mar 2014
#200
I can think of three pieces of major social legislation off the top of my head.
OmahaBlueDog
Mar 2014
#21
He is younger than I am, but I said, in another thread, that the ACA ties, in my mind,
MADem
Mar 2014
#39
I'm sure you've been told a billion times, it must be nice to live in Hawai'i
steve2470
Mar 2014
#19
If we get a Republican president, Senate and House anytime soon it sure as hell WILL be repealed.
Kablooie
Mar 2014
#42
Without question would require a level of prescience not demonstrated, the CBO doesn't agree.
TheKentuckian
Mar 2014
#106
Also less paperwork and lower costs. Single payer/nationalized insurance works.
grahamhgreen
Mar 2014
#222
Could not agree more. That we even got any kind of healthcare is an amazing feat. The republicans
lostincalifornia
Mar 2014
#88
Welcome, and thanks for pointing out the fact that people don't have to stay in a shit job
MADem
Mar 2014
#149
I don't think Skinner is a fifty year old man. If he is, I want directions from him to the Fountain
MADem
Mar 2014
#150
Yet somehow I do not think Skinner intended for his words to be used to bash people nt
iwillalwayswonderwhy
Mar 2014
#112
Who is using his words to "bash" people? Are only some opinions welcome to be cheered? nt
MADem
Mar 2014
#138
Wait a minute--I was in that thread and I offered you some tea and sympathy, IIRC.
MADem
Mar 2014
#145
What many are arguing in this thread is that it IS "Obama's fault" though, and because
MADem
Mar 2014
#156
Skinner's right. If the ACA goes down, it will be decades before single payer
cry baby
Mar 2014
#135
I was born in 1950 so it will take much more than the ACA to impress me.
A Simple Game
Mar 2014
#154
Thanks for the praise and I have to agree with Democrats not taking risks. n/t
A Simple Game
Mar 2014
#189
Thanks, the hat tip is appreciated as kind words seem to come sparingly on DU lately. n/t
A Simple Game
Mar 2014
#193
"Trying to tear it down over the last six years." It hasn't existed for six years.
Hissyspit
Mar 2014
#157
The midterms are coming up. Team FUD here on DU will try anything to piss off voters in the
Ikonoklast
Mar 2014
#158