Not enough people were actually listening when Barry was campaigning. In general terms, he told us what he was going to do to us and how he was going to change us to fit his idea of what this country should be. This included $5/gallon gasoline which drives up the prices of everything else. I clearly heard him say that, but not enough other voters who thought that el presidente was going to give them lots of things for nothing were listening or even cared to listen as they were concentrating too hard on their own situation. Just sit back and think about all the bad things barry has done to each of us and this country. I do not think that it could be any worse if he were doing all these bad things intentionally.
I have a Democrat friend who signed up his family of 3 for Insurance on an Exchange. It was well north of ridiculous. I can't remember exactly, but I think his monthly costs are in the $700ish range.
Well meaning idiots.
While there is a lot that could have been done better (and I hate it when care is called "free"), we had reached a point where the existing system was brutal and inhumane for a substantial portion of our citizens. We had over 20 years to fix it, but there was no negotiation in good faith. This is the result.
Negotiation? Negotiation with who?
Were you asleep in 2009? Initially, the House D majority tried to include Rs in the discussion. (Never mind that most of the bill echoed previous R proposals.) It soon became obvious that Rs had no interest in discussing anything - they were simply trying to indefinitely delay the process. Despite what Faux News has brainwashed you with, there WAS interest in having bipartisan support. Had the Rs been willing to participate rather than obstruct, the outcome would have been different, and probably better.
The lack of specificity in this thread is telling.
The Republican alternative was and is even dumber.
I'm not defending Obamacare as good policy. I'm saying that going after "dumb liberals" on this is just partisan rambling.
The Republican alternatives that I have briefly read have been so unserious that it makes me question whether they even want their own bills to pass, instead taking refuge in monday morning QB'ing all the flaws in Obamacare just in time for primary season.
Both sides are equally complicit in my opinion. Even supporters of Obamacare have big problems with it. This issue hits just about everybody right in the pocket, directly. If the right had come up with a serious alternative the appetite for it would have been overwhelming. They didn't, and there isn't.
Apparently, you didn't bother to look up and understand what the republican alternatives actually were. I guess it's much easier to just regurgitate what your masters at MSNBC tell you than to actually think for yourself.