" Now he's throwing down the gauntlet about health care and you still think he doesn't have a plan?"

No meetings, no hearings, no proposals?!?

Not even A CONCEPT OF A PLAN.

I know that having any proposals, takes a lot of legwork to begin with.

Not a single leg has begun work.

" My point was simple. The "starving American" narrative doesn't match the data."

Translation: Am i my brother's keeper?!?

" I get the impression Trump is at least trying to address some of these structural issues."

He's not.

Not a single committee has met, not a single public hearing has been held, not a single suggestion has been proffered.

Trump doesn't even have a concept of a plan. He was LYING TO YOU about that as well.

" Why is America's infant mortality rate 33 out of 38?"

In part because profits are put ahead of results.

EXACTLY what I've been posting about.

Why does every major developed country with UHC pay a lower percentage of their GDP for better longevity results?

You're advocating for a profits-based system, which values monetary growth over measurable health results.

"You can't "fix" something when one side treats it as untouchable and uses it as a campaign prop instead of a policy."

You literally believe you're talking about Dems, and in reality, you're talking about Republicans. When amongst themselves at the Heritage Institute, Republicans could never come up with a plan that didn't include a mandate. Once Obama copied the HF Plan, Republicans disowned it.

Then, whenever an error or weakness would be found, no Republican EVER voted to fix it, for fear they'd be primaried for "supporting" Obamacare. (Contrast that to the R's eff-up with the tax code and farmers, which the Dems voted to correct immediately.)

Ultimately, Republicans always failed to repeal Obamacare, especially as more voters realized that WAS the Affordable Care Act. And, of course, because they've never had even the concept of a plan.

But everyone who's ever been to a committee meeting about the numbers knows it doesn't work without a mandate. Republicans effectively repealed Obamacare when they eliminated the mandate. They own this new plan.

What sounds better: TrumpCare, or The Unaffordable Care Act...?

"Since then, every attempt to propose reforms has been blocked or they frame it as a plot to repeal ACA. "

Good God, man, there were OVER 70 attempts to repeal the ACA.

They'd put in on every bill like I'd add mustard to my bratwurst.

Nobody needed to "frame it" as a plot to repeal the ACA; it was in the literal language of the bill.

"If the extensions are continued as is, how many more years will it be before someone else tries to address it."

It'll peak with the baby boomers, and die off with them, too. The upcoming years will have the highest retired-to-worker ratios in our lifetimes.

You know...math. Which, if you want to address it...the answer is universal health insurance.

"So what is your opinion on the working and Middle Class issue with Obamacare we've been hearing about for years?"

What issue is that? Be specific.

"while getting 2 and 3 times more benefits than americans ."

Why does Republican Math demand so many lies from its users???

"There are struggling families, sure."

And Cain's answer is Not My Problem.

"But the narrative of widespread "starvation" in America is political theater, not reality."

Starvation isn't the barometer. Food insecurity is.

According to AI, In 2023, 17.9% of households with children were food insecure

Look up the definition.

And tell us; what % of the days in the year are YOU food insecure? None??? Consider yourself lucky.

Meanwhile, you're spitting on kids who go to bed hungry.

"If you were married and filing joint returns with Middle Class wages, you would most definitely know the answer to your own question."

You get small tax breaks, yes. But because "60% get a reduction in taxes" doesn't mean they get 60% of the money. Workers get 15-20%

Meanwhile, Billionaires get a million dollars a week in tax giveaways originally written to sunset.

"There was open racist rhetoric at her rallies."

Wait until you hear about Young Republican chat rooms!

" Every seat won yesterday was a Democrat before, correct?"

No. Virginia governor was a Republican.

" Show me any kind of evidence the whole thing was staged. I'll wait"

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Nice to see you're on the side of starving the hungry.

While I have your attention, what's your reaction to Trump claiming he'll be reducing some Rx prices by 1500%?

"I'm confused. Is it 50% or zero?"

Trump reduced it, 2,000%. Numbers not thought achievable.

"According to Jackson..."

"Snoofy thinks all this is fake "

Feel free to explain the half-dozen salient questions:

1. Why didn't the SS attend to the "guy on the roof" after being notified?
2. Why did the SS scurry photographers into one section right before the shooting?
3. Who lowered the American Flag on a crane AFTER the first shot rang out, and why?
4. Why did the SS violate its own protocol and allow Trump to get back into the line of fire?
5. Why did the attending doctors never have a press conference at the time?
6. Why has no attending doctor EVER made a statement confirming Trump was shot, either at the time, or since?

None of those things had ever happened in my life before that day.

" Democrats designed ------ legislation for healthcare"

Actually, it's not a bad design.

But any law, unattended other than attacks, will be undermined.

Republicans killed it when they eliminated the mandate. Every time Republicans have worked on this problem in good faith, they've concluded it can't work without the mandate.

So give credit where credit is due: if O'Care sucks, blame the folks who made it suck ... and have proffered NO ALTERNATIVES, despite having a decade and a half.

Not even a concept of a plan.

" How does this conform with Christian values?"

Easy: BillJohnson is Cain.

His Christian value is, Who am I, my brother's keeper?

" Where's JeffJ to claim the White House is censoring the media?"

Too busy avoiding the Weaponization of the DOJ, the abuse of Presidential Pardons, and the President's sons benefitting financially from their father's office.

It's hard werk.

SALT caps don't punish the middle class; they cap deductions used mostly in high-income, high-tax states. The "upper-upper middle class" you mentioned aren't waitresses " they're people with $20K property tax bills."

HUH?!? That proves ME right.

"..."no tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security" are separate policy proposals being phased in over time " not short-term gimmicks. The earliest expirations happen after 2028, not "before Trump leaves office.""

They expire 12/31/28. Trump leaves office in January 2029. That proves me right AGAIN.

"Finally, if you're going to accuse people of being "morons," at least get the math right. The TCJA and its extensions increased take-home pay for the middle 60% of earners"

That makes up less than 20% of the cost of the bill. Again, the waitress gets $20 a week, the billionaire gets $1 million a week.

Once again, I'm right.

Seems you're too stupid to even understand ARTIFICIAL intelligence.

"If you read my posts on global wealth by countries, you'd understand my answer."

I did.

It made me understand you don't understand the equation.