Perhaps you were deployed when the law was brought about and didn't read the news at the time, but no, there was no "shoving down our throats". There was massive amounts of compromise, all of it heading to the right. It started with a previously endorsed Republican plan, then had several rounds of major debate and compromise. All the "progressive" amendments, like the so-called Public Option, were defeated. The only parts of the bill that were not subject to extensive debate and were entered at the end were all offered by Republicans.
It's a hell of an accomplishment that they got anything related to healthcare reform passed, but they pulled in pretty much the bare minimum to do it. Thus is the nature of compromise. But, of course, many rounds of debate and compromise over the course of months were not sufficient for some segments and they challenged it in court (which is their legal right of course). The Supreme Court, as you know, declared that Congress did do their job and actually passed a bill legally and that the President signed which makes it, you know, a law. In most people's minds, that would be pretty much it. If you don't like a law, of course, you know what to do. Try and pass a new law to amend the existing law and make it better. Opponents of the law (who curiously include now a great many who were involved in the original compromises and passage) don't seem to have a good set of ideas on how to do that, so they have become monomaniacally focused on a more petty goal: pretend it isn't really the law and just not pay for it. To my mind, that is unworthy. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This bill was shoved down our throat. There is a large segment of the > population that never wanted it, but those in Capitol Hill don't really > care what we want. They only care what they want. The only time they really > care what we the people want is when it's re-election time, which is coming > up soon. And then they only make empty promises. Even that wretched whore > Pelosi said that we have to pass obamacare to see what's in obamacare. > Really? Since when do we pass a law on something that we really don't know > the contents of? I have not personally met one single person who was for > this, not one. I know of some people who are for it, but I have not met > them personally. Of course I have the luxury of complaining about this > because I will never have to sign up for Obamacare. But that does not mean > that I don't care about family members who might have to, but don't want to. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367504 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
