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Dr. Ben Carson brilliant surgeon, absolutely embarrassingly ignorant on politics/public policy.
I mean people will remember the insanity of that comment. He will forever be associated with saying a piece of legislation that pools people in various states for the purpose of buying health insurance from privately owned companies is as a bad as the enslavement of Africans.
This is what I mean when I say conservatives are drifting further and further away from reality, because he said it in a room full of conservatives, they didn't react negatively to that insanity some of them cheered.
The conservative party is beholden to a lot of insane people filled with strange fantasy beliefs that have no relation to reality.
That isn't the purpose of the ACA, and you probably already know that. The entire purpose of the ACA is wealth redistribution - upward wealth redistribution at that. It takes money from those who already don't have much of it and gives it to those at the top of the economic scale. On top of this, it pulls the money from discretionary spending (which is what our economy thrives on) and requires people to spend it on something that they neither want nor need.
Do I agree that the ACA is worse than slavery? Not really, but as far as the likely economic impact goes it has the potential to be absolutely devastating.
The wealth redistribution, in fact, goes from the rich and, mostly middle class simply because there are more of them, to the poor. That's the idea behind wealth redistribution, and why it ultimately results in the disappearance of the middle class, which moves down, not up.
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That isn't the purpose of the ACA, and you probably already know that. The entire purpose of the ACA is wealth redistribution - upward wealth redistribution at that. It takes money from those who already don't have much of it and gives it to those at the top of the economic scale. On top of this, it pulls the money from discretionary spending (which is what our economy thrives on) and requires people to spend it on something that they neither want nor need.
Do I agree that the ACA is worse than slavery? Not really, but as far as the likely economic impact goes it has the potential to be absolutely devastating.
I write that conservatives are drifting further and further away from reality and you go and prove it.
First off the ACA is redistributionist, but so is just about every law. So this is saying something but not really saying nothing.
Also, the ACA is redistributionist from wealthy individuals because their taxes go up quite a bit and to low income Americans.
Sure insurance companies make out like bandits, but that was inevitable since conservatives want "private insurance" companies to exist, so they have to be subsidized by the government for them to exist in a world where they can't deny people insurance.
In terms of discretionary spending, this is a huge joke right. People want insurance. The reasons people don't get insurance are mainly for two reasons, their employer doesn't offer it and they can't afford it.
So this idea that this pulls money from discretionary spending is your made up fantasy.
The rest of your post is pure fantasy nonsense, but I don't expect anything else from conservatives.
I write that conservatives are drifting further and further away from reality and you go and prove it.
First off the ACA is redistributionist, but so is just about every law. So this is saying something but not really saying nothing.
Also, the ACA is redistributionist from wealthy individuals because their taxes go up quite a bit and to low income Americans.
Sure insurance companies make out like bandits, but that was inevitable since conservatives want "private insurance" companies to exist, so they have to be subsidized by the government for them to exist in a world where they can't deny people insurance.
In terms of discretionary spending, this is a huge joke right. People want insurance. The reasons people don't get insurance are mainly for two reasons, their employer doesn't offer it and they can't afford it.
So this idea that this pulls money from discretionary spending is your made up fantasy.
The rest of your post is pure fantasy nonsense, but I don't expect anything else from conservatives.
Sigh, for the millionth time, I'm not a conservative.
As for the rest of your post, you claim that people want insurance. No, they don't. They want affordable health care. The ACA does nothing to provide affordable health care. Technically, it doesn't even provide affordable health insurance, as the actual premiums will still be expensive and merely offset in some cases by subsidies. Sure, it will be more affordable for some, but only because the ACA is siphoning money out of the middle class in order to make it that way.
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Also, the ACA is redistributionist from wealthy individuals because their taxes go up quite a bit and to low income Americans.
Approach the question with a bit of logic. Where does the money end up? It doesn't end up with the poor, nor with the majority of the middle class. It ends up with the shareholders and executives of hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals. These are people who are already at or near the top of the economic ladder. It is, in fact, wealth redistribution from the bottom to the top, and you've fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.
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So this idea that this pulls money from discretionary spending is your made up fantasy.
Discretionary Income:
Money spent by consumers on non-essential purchases such as vacations or luxury items. Discretionary income represents the amount of income remaining after a person pays for personal necessities and taxes.
Health insurance has now become a necessity thanks to the ACA. Or a tax, depending on who you listen to.
Considering that health insurance premiums are, on average, increasing by 41%, this means that middle class wage earners will have less money for discretionary spending.
3. People who hate a black guy like Ben Carson for telling the truth.
Reading garbage like this is not funny...it's pathetic! Are you not aware of the brutality that slaves suffered at the hands of their masters? To negate the horrors of slavery by using it as a comparison to providig affordable healthcare is more than ignorant...it's sociopathic. Yes, sociopathic, when one cannot empathize with the pain and suffering of fellow humans...
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Perhaps the most striking theme in the diaries, at least for the modern reader, is Thistlewood's sheer brutality. On numerous occasions he recorded punishments meted out to slaves, never expressing remorse or second thoughts. At times these punishments were exotic in their cruelty. One practice, which he nicknamed "Derby's dose," involved forcing one slave to defecate into the mouth of another. On another occasion, he placed a bondsman in stocks, rubbed molasses on him, and allowed insects to swarm over him during the night. There is no reason to believe that Thistlewood was uniquely violent or sadistic by Jamaican standards. In fact, Thistlewood and his neighbors actually judged some white newcomers to be too violent. For Burnard, violence and brutality were far from incidental to Jamaican slavery--they were its very heart. In a colony with such a large enslaved majority, whites quickly learned that instilling terror, or what Burnard refers to as "tyranny," was the surest way to maintain dominance. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13425
Yeah, that excerpt is the one that Martin Bashir read before he told off idiot Paliin who also had the audacity and lack of empathy to compare slavery to The ACA.
Considering employers, doctors, patients don't know the repercussions of Obamacare yet, your question is premature. Ocare will not be up and running for individual patient care for at least another month. We don't even know if enough people will sign up for the economics to work per Obama's plan. The impact of the law on employer provided health insurance won't be felt for another year. How the ACA impacts employment, patient care, the economy, is still up in the air.
<bold> You forgot to add most of those in government.
Dr. Ben Carson brilliant surgeon, absolutely embarrassingly ignorant on politics/public policy.
I mean people will remember the insanity of that comment. He will forever be associated with saying a piece of legislation that pools people in various states for the purpose of buying health insurance from privately owned companies is as a bad as the enslavement of Africans.
This is what I mean when I say conservatives are drifting further and further away from reality, because he said it in a room full of conservatives, they didn't react negatively to that insanity some of them cheered.
The conservative party is beholden to a lot of insane people filled with strange fantasy beliefs that have no relation to reality.
He's not been proven right or wrong yet, let's not jump to conclusions. At least wait until the "ACA" is actually up and working when and if that ever happens.
That isn't the purpose of the ACA, and you probably already know that. The entire purpose of the ACA is wealth redistribution - upward wealth redistribution at that. It takes money from those who already don't have much of it and gives it to those at the top of the economic scale. On top of this, it pulls the money from discretionary spending (which is what our economy thrives on) and requires people to spend it on something that they neither want nor need.
Do I agree that the ACA is worse than slavery? Not really, but as far as the likely economic impact goes it has the potential to be absolutely devastating.
Well, if you consider that slavery was taking people and forcing them to do things against their free will under threat of punishment then it's quite comparable. Or am I missing something with respect to the ACA?
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