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   Lynne B said, 6 months ago

   I would have to disagree with that assessment. It’s definitely malignant.
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   wolfhoundblues1 said, 6 months ago

   The communist policies that caused the growth are malignant.
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   motivemagus said, 6 months ago

   @wolfhoundblues1

   Let me know when you find AND CAN DOCUMENT those “communist policies.” Because you are using that word inaccurately. Obama is appointing bankers to top positions, not radicals. He himself is a business-friendly moderate at best.
   Go ahead, list a couple. Just try.
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   wmconelly said, 6 months ago

   So far, Mr. Cruz is a proponent of will and will power, those extremes of “positive” thinking that laud bootstraps, and flog the underclasses who aren’t lifting strongly or successfully enough. I’d like to think his next stage of political development will acknowledge that democracy is neither all thesis nor all antithesis. It is synthesis arrived at through informed debate, a fair vote, and the acceptance of majority decisions. I should like to think Mr. Cruz will come round to Lincoln and Jefferson’s point of view, even Mr. McCain’s. But then I think the United States need no new Triumph of the Will.
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   Lynne B said, 6 months ago

   When the Republicans are capable of telling the truth about the issue, then I would be delighted. So far what we have from them are lies and mischaracterization; inaccurate statements about the plan itself, simple-minded lack of any acknowledgement that there is and was a need for reform because the system is already the most expensive in the world for the 37th-best service (and no provision at all for millions), and a complete lack of awareness of the true monetary cost of the broken system that they want to perpetuate.
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   Sharuniboy said, 6 months ago

   @onguard,
   In agreement with poster, “Lynne B”, I would really enjoy hearing a Republican speak a word of truth at least once in a while. However . . . ! First of course, they would have to go back to 1st grade, and learn how to read, so they could find the word in a Dictionary, and perhaps, learn what it means.
   

   
   Even out hyar in Injun’ fightin’ country, today’s newspaper had a letter from one of our intelligent citizens, wondering why the Republicans were screaming, ranting, raving, and blathering about “health CARE”, when it was “health INSURANCE” that was the focus of the bill. But, of course, for those Right-wingnuts today, there’s really no difference. The only time they “CARE” about anything is when it might “hurt” in the pocketbook – or the off-shore bank account. The whole of Republican “Health-Care” can be summed up in a few words: “If you can’t afford it, hurry up and die, and get out of the way.”
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   Adrian Snare said, 6 months ago

   @motivemagus

   There is a lot of truth in these words……

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   Communist policies….my middle foot !
   Something from the previous century, where they were born and died…
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   Adrian Snare said, 6 months ago

   @wmconelly

   Interesting, Mr Conelly, worthy of a read.
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   Adrian Snare said, 6 months ago

   @Debt Free

   MS, Its true ..If a man yells something loud enough, long enuff, some fool will believe it……Such may be the fate of our ACA
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    Stipple said, 6 months ago

    The American people may be poorly educated and ignorant of science, but they are NOT stupid as a whole.
    The need for health care is obvious and it takes a lot of doublethink to pretend it is not.
    I am for a better life for my children than my parents had, health care is part of that hope.
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    lichtentunes said, 6 months ago

    @onguard

    So if it’s garbage, why aren’t they trying to fix it?
    If they wanted it to work they’d fix it. They are afraid it might work and people will like it.
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    Ruff, release Dr. C and Ahab. said, 6 months ago

    Zaphod Beeblebrox !!
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    Sharuniboy said, 6 months ago

    @lichtentunes, et.al.,
    They are not trying to “fix it”, because they have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with which to offer a “fix”. Bawling Baby Boehner has, REPEATEDLY, offered to provide a Republican version of a “health INSURANCE” plan, and program – right up to the time he was faced down and had a clear and distinct request for him so to do, that is! When his 41st attempt to repeal something failed, he threw one of his signature temper-tantrums; and told everybody that HE would not offer a “substitute” for Obamacare UNTIL THE WHOLE OBAMACARE BILL WAS REPEALED AND OFF THE BOOKS.
    

    
    Now, it would appear that IF someone really believed in the principles of achieving the “common good and general welfare” by way of politics HAD alternatives, those alternatives would be right up front, and offered – in the intelligent spirit of political compromise, which the Republicans obviously don’t even understand, much less have as a potential – by way of amendment, alternative bill, or some CONCRETE show of the existence of such alternatives.
    

    
    The distinguishing hallmark of the entire Republican Party efforts IS AND HAS BEEN, merely OBSTRUCTION. And that is significant evidence of the TOTAL ABSENCE of any and all alternatives, in and of itself. The Republican Party HAS NOTHING TO OFFER, aside from being, steadfastly, nothing but the Party of “not only NO! but HELL NO!”
    

    
    In passing, I have heard it remarked, and read elsewhere, that the Republican Party “does have a healthcare plan”; to wit, “If you cannot afford the high cost of illness or injury, then get busy and die off quickly and get out of the way.” And, so far anyway, I am very much inclined to believe that IS IT!
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    mdavis4183 said, 6 months ago

    Obama’s the malignant growth.
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    ansonia said, 6 months ago

    @Lynne B

    When Obama is capable of telling the truth about the issue, then I would be delighted. So far what we have from him is lies and mischaracterization; inaccurate statements about the plan itself…
    .
    There, that makes more sense.
    …..
    You are confused about the “37th-best service.” That rating wasn’t based on “service.”
    …
    And millions will STILL be uninsured.
    …
    But if you want to compare monetary costs between the old health care plans and obamacare, obamacare will lose.
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