An "ObamaCare" opportunity missed ?

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Monday November 11, 2013 · 9:06 AM PST

2013/11/11 · 09:06

I haven't been following the "debate" carefully because I've been busy with other things and already have insurance that I'm keeping. However, one thing that stood out to me in my limited research is that right wingers are claiming that people with so-called catastrophic plans are being notified that they are losing their policies. However, I have seen such plans and read (here at DK) about new plans with payments as low as $53 a month, so I'm guessing that these plans are difficult to find only in some areas of the country (probably "red" states with uncooperative Repub governors), right?

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Wednesday October 24, 2012 · 6:13 PM PDT

2012/10/24 · 18:13

Some have pointed out that one can believe that something is "God's will" but it's quite another thing to impose that view on others. In the recent case of Richard Mourdock's statement about pregnancies due to rape, there seems to be little doubt that this person could envision sending a SWAT team into a doctor's office to arrest a woman who is trying to have a rapist's fetus aborted. I wish Democratic candidates running against such individuals would point this out, preferably during debates with them, but there is another sinister aspect to this way of thinking.

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Friday October 12, 2012 · 9:49 PM PDT

2012/10/12 · 21:49

This is what I wanted to hear Obama or Biden point out. For me, it encapsulates the other issues, and the statistics are clear. However, probably the most important thing (in terms of winning an election if nothing else) is how much emotional resonance it would have with a strong majority of voting Americans.

There is no need to mention Operation Wall Street or anything else that Democrats think might scare off the independent/swing voters. It's a slogan that reflects but simplifies today's reality, with Romney being one of the major beneficiaries of the trickle up effect. It might have Frank Luntz wearing diapers because what he might feel like he needs to do every time he hears it, which is reason enough for me (joking, obviously).

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Tuesday August 14, 2012 · 7:09 PM PDT

2012/08/14 · 19:09

Why isn't Romney saying this? I just don't understand how he expects to get elected, especially after his choice of Ryan as running mate. Instead, we've heard Obama say (on multiple occasions) that well-to-do people like himself don't need a massive tax cut. I'll "cut to the chase:" if you want to "reform" medicare and social security without losing the election badly, why not say that rich people do not need these programs, so the way to reform them is to have wealthy people continue to pay into them yet not receive any benefits unless they become destitute in a documentable way (in other words, not a scam)? I can understand a rich person saying that social security should be just that, and that those who can clearly afford to obtain private medical coverage and pay their bills don't need it, or social security. The way things stand, he seems to hope that he can treat the entire nation the way he did many of the employees of some of companies Bain took over (remember what he said about letting foreclosures continue so that rich people can buy the houses and rent them out; nobody in the media, to my knowledge, ever asked him who was going to be able to afford the kind of rent people like Romney would want to charge them!).

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Friday April 27, 2012 · 4:29 PM PDT

2012/04/27 · 16:29

After hearing some of the usual right wing nonsense, I'd love to see Obama call a press conference and say something like:

"I want to make it clear that I have no ill feelings towards the Mormon faith, and in fact I hold it in very high regard. Mormons have been loyal and upstanding citizens of our great nation for generations. One of the few things about Mr. Romney I have respect for is his Mormon faith. And he holds a high position in that church's hierarachy, which is something I would proudly proclaim if I were him. Anyone who thinks that Mr. Romney's Mormonism is a reason to vote against him might want to read the U.S. Constitution and ask themselves if they can do better than our Founding Fathers, some of whom were Deists. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, even though they didn't all share my Christian faith. We all should show the same respect for Mr. Romney's Mormonism."

In this way, Obama will make it clear that he will keep saying this kind of thing whenever right wingers bring up a religious issue, and I have no doubt this is the last thing they want Obama to say in this context.

The idiocy of the broccoli argument ?

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Thursday March 29, 2012 · 7:46 PM PDT

2012/03/29 · 19:46

I'd like someone to correct me if I am wrong here, and explain to me exactly what the correct interpretation is. In order to compare "ObamaCare" to compelling people to eat broccoli, logically, one would have to use such an example as compelling a gay man (let's say who is married to another man) to buy insurance that is solely for the purpose of paying for expenses incurred due to a pregnancy. Otherwise, all those of sound mind know that they need to eat some kind of food, but not necessarily broccoli.

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Monday December 19, 2011 · 3:17 PM PST

2011/12/19 · 15:17

I was watching Book TV over the weekend and came across the sight of a man (in a nice suit) saying something pejorative about OWS. I would have kept listening, at least for a short while (to see if he was going to put forth something resembling a reasonable argument) when he said something about the "hygiene" of the protesters. At that point, I just turned him off, literally (and in every other way).

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Tuesday November 22, 2011 · 3:23 PM PST

2011/11/22 · 15:23

And when I say pepper sprayed, I mean getting full blast of the strongest used by police in the USA. I'm asking because I don't know the answer to this question. I'm guessing that one is usually waterboarded for a short period of time, whereas the pepper spray is painful for a considerably longer period of time. I personally have a medical condition that might result in my death in either case (and doesn't that limit my ability to participate in protests under what appear to be the current police standards?).

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Saturday October 15, 2011 · 5:29 PM PDT

2011/10/15 · 17:29

The original Tea Party was about taxation without representation. Obama didn't raise taxes, and there had just been a Presidential election with a clear winner. Do any of you remember the "mainstream media" asking, over and over again, what the Tea Party's basic principles are? I still don't understand what the Tea Party represents, other than an attempt to mask the failures of the Republican Party. The "libertarians" I've heard talk as Tea Party representatives appear to be completely out of touch with socio-economic realities, but we saw that in the debate, with claims about how charitable organizations would take over the health care needs of Americans who had no health insurance. Thus, I am still waiting for a reasonable Tea Party vision of the future of the USA (I'm not going to hold my breath).

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Friday June 17, 2011 · 3:36 PM PDT

2011/06/17 · 15:36

Let's put aside the promises Obama made but didn't come through on, as of this date. I was watching MSNBC Live just now, and Cenk Uygur asked a Congressman who is a member of the Progressive Caucus about possible cuts to Social Security. This guy, who is supposed to represent "progressive" causes, kept talking about how the retirement age may need to be raised in the near future because the elderly may be living longer in the distant future. Uygur pointed out that the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy should be done away with before there is any talk of changing Social Security, which certainly makes sense, unless you believe in some sort of social Darwinistic vision of society, presumably.

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 7:57 PM PDT

2011/04/04 · 19:57

Didn't Tom DeLay say that "no American is denied health care in America?" And yet so many right wingers like to say that health care is not a "right." The obvious question is, do you want to see people literally dying in the streets, in front of a hospital, because they cannot afford to pay for an appendectomy? Perhaps, if you happen to be the governor of the state of Arizona, the answer may be a resounding "of course!"

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Saturday March 05, 2011 · 12:10 AM PST

2011/03/05 · 00:10

I saw an interview with Matt Damon on CNN the other day. He said he had a recent conversation with a conservative strategist and tried to get this person to explain to him why he opposed the health care law. Damon was told that health care is not a right, and that this is why many if not most Republicans oppose the law. First of all, what was passed was actually a Republican idea, apparently meant to help their buddies in the private health insurance industry, but I'll leave that aside here. Secondly, the law does several things, including making health care less costly to the government, meaning the tax payers. Thus, notions about "rights" need not be present in this "debate" at all, even if they should be theoretically. However, hasn't "reality" left this "debate" behind long ago?

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