"What's hilarious is you all tried to murder it over and over but could not even shoot straight enough to hit it."

you poor thing.

you know I didn't try to murder anything. There are issues with ACA that I mentioned but I wasn't against it.

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that's it? You got nuttin?

You deflect with Martin Niemller?

It's either that or your favorite Sam Rayburn quote you toss out when you're caught defending democrats for acting like republicans.

You're pragmatic when it supports a party and then you stop when it doesn't.

You could try to be objective.

You can't make a distinction between crony capitalism and just plain capitalism. You can cut and paste the wiki definition of it....but you don't understand it.

-Your distrust in fellow human beings is unfortunate and the main reason you're a conservative.

Hold on...you don't trust half this country.

That's on you.

Now, its bad someone else lacks trust....but it's fine for you to struggle with it?

The lawsuit was about providing records.

Not the flights.

"Promoted the Individual Mandate"

At the top of the list of what I wanted.

The ironic part of it all is that ACA was based a lot upon Republican healthcare proposals.
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What's ironic is that you all fellated it because it wasn't supported by republicans.

Corky, that just means you know how to cut and paste on the Internet. That is no indication that you have any understanding of the difference between capitalism and crony capitalism.

Can you or can you not make the distinction?

Don't feel too bad. I'm not sure very many people here can make the distinction either. Those folks showed up to prove they are clueless.

Mostly it's an ignorance of how business works. It also an ignorance of how government works as well.

And what is the deal with bitching about people who you think "accept" it.

I accept cold weather.

Doesn't mean I cause it nor like it.

"For the simple reason that the healthcare companies have a legal obligation to return as much profit to shareholders as possible."

And ACA cemented those guys in place.

Go figure....we're still running dead last.

"But the truth is, some of these rightwing activists have only become interested/involved on the local level in the past few years themselves."

I don't know how old you are, but my guess is that your local school board has been arguing about "indoctrination" since before you were born.

Atheists
Communists
Jews
Nazis
Racists

I'm just messin around.......

whatsup, whatsleft?

crony capitalism is all capitalism?

The quote marginalizes and shames quiet people.

Do those people have a right to be silent or neutral?

Why demand someone take a side? Could it be because you expect them to take YOUR side?

They might not, you know??

-She wants us to suffer so she can feel morally superior to us poor folk.

That's pretty ------- up and sadistic on her part.

Personally, I can feel morally superior to anybody without actually trying to make you suffer.

Unless reading my posts constitutes "suffering".

so another person steps up and admits they have no earthly idea what "crony capitalism" means.

step right up and receive your sign..

What's "crony" about it?

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I considered all of it when I made my snarky comment.

It's still not a matter of "may". It's an absolute certainty and has been said so for decades and decades.

If an article said fossil fuels "may" be a factor in rising temperatures and other climate changes, the author would be accused of being a denier on the payroll of an oil company.

The US still has the worst and most expensive healthcare system in the world.

And why? for precisely the same reasons why the US ranked worst and most expensive prior to ACA.

Now, this isn't a criticism of ACA as I don't think ACA took us backwards and, as Danforth pointed out, it impacted medical inflation...which was out of control.

I believe the idea was that if we insure more people with private insurance, health outcomes would improve.

people would get screened and checked more often, and fewer would neglect needed care and those services would reduce the severity of expensive treatments because they'd be discovered more often and remedied cheaper and more effective.

I guess no kudos to ACA?

I believe we hoped our outcomes would improve once ACA took full effect.

The genius who wrote the article said our obesity rate "may" be a factor in our poor health outcomes.

LOL

I'm curious how many posters here have ever even attended a school board meeting in their community......in their life.

I'll bet the number is insanely low.

Now, that's not an attack on someone who hasn't attended, been involved/informed, hell..even ran for or sat on a school board.

Unless they come here and blog about how awful this is and how dangerous these people are.

If you really believed that then you'd rolled up your sleeves and gotten involved a long -------- time ago.

Thanks again for the info, Gal.

Thank goodness we have mediums like this which broadcast the existence of such groups and more people are aware of their existence and their larger goals.

-Stop behaving like JEFF.

Oh, what's the bigger problem here?

Me behaving like Jeff?

Or you behaving like Rsty?

-Well that 'if' doesn't apply to me.

Keep selling that, Rstyswallows.

If it's #8 then what was #8 before? Let's assume it slid into 9th place.

What's the 9th place killer?

And let's debate that like it's prior to March of 2020.

Let's have a robust debate over what WAS the 8th place killer of kids before COVID.

-You seriously want to discuss who was voted into the San Diego County Board of Education?

Nope, I want to acknowledge how out of touch you are if you live in San Diego and haven't a clue as to who is running for that board of education while pissing and moaning about the Federal department of education or what is being attempted by some group of bible thumpers in Michigan as to what's really going on.

If you can't be bothered to know what the hell is going on in your backyard, try to understand why nobody gives a crap what you think about your opinion that our society is going to ---- because a group of anti gay zealots in Michigan are trying something.