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If by great event you mean "necessary precursor to eliminate the concept of health insurance in the United States, and financially destroy all private health insurers" then yes, removing the preexisting condition element was indeed great.
I mean taking the financing of health care in this country out of the Greed Sector and out of the sweaty little hands of corporate greedheads, since peoples' lives are more important than money, Captain Insane.
It seems like only yesterday the right-wing shills were mocking the low number of signups. This is what happens when you celebrate victory after the first quarter:
I am just happy they have stopped screaming about his birth certificate. Their naked racism was predictable, yet indicative of deeper mental problems. I was also relieved to see his re-election and look forward to right-wing squeals being reduced to feeble squeaking yelps and overflowing drool cups come 2016.
It seems like only yesterday the right-wing shills were mocking the low number of signups. This is what happens when you celebrate victory after the first quarter:
Raymond, how many that signed up were already insured but lost their insurance because of Obamacare?
How many of these people actually paid a premium?
After you subtract those the more important question that seems to be getting sidelined is what is the ratio of sick people to healthy people for new enrolls?
The numbers are very positive. 14 million have insurance because of the ACA. More than 7 million have enrolled and the numbers continue to pour in. The website had 1.4 million viewers on Sat
By 2023 we will still have 31Million non-elderly uninsured Americans and total cost will be 2.5 Trillion Dollars over that time period at a cost of 2.5 Million jobs per the CBO.
Let's just assume Obama were honest (LOL, I know)...and didn't lie...remove all of the lies he used to sell this highly inefficient and ineffective law.
Obama lies to sell this law:
-Lied about the circumstances of his own mother's death to score political points and even repeated the lie with teary eyes after he had been caught in it.
-Pass the law in the most transparent way possible with all debates live on CSPAN.
-etc...
No way he could pass this law by stating the facts at the top.
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