Obamacare 2013: Obama's Legacy Tied To Health Care Reform That Bears His Name

Yes, nations with universal healthcare have the longest lifespans, but ACA is NOT universal healthcare.

health insurance ≠ medical treatment

Obama's healthcare legislation doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone (not even those who think they're going to get it).  Insurance companies aren't required to cover anyone's preexisting condition gratis.    And between increased premium costs, deductibles and co-pays, ACA Unlikely to Stem Medical Bankruptcies

People who voted for Obama/Democrats voted to get affordable, quality medical treatment.  That was NOT a vote to protect and further enrich the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.  Voters didn't send Obama/Democrats into power to entrench the insurance industry as the gatekeepers to being able to get medical treatment.  Voters didn't send Obama and Democrats to Washington to continue tying insurance benefits to their employment.  Yet that's precisely what Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats did.

Meet The New 1%: - Healthcare CEOs replace bankers as America's best paid:

Pity WallStreet's bankers. Once the highest-paid bosses in the land, they are now also-rans. The real money's in healthcare and drugs, according to the latest survey of executive pay.  One example is JoelGemunder, CEO Omnicare, who had a total pay package in 2010 worth $98 million.

ACA's nothing more than a massive giveaway to the health insurance industry.  It's one of the most corrupt pieces of legislation ever enacted by our government.

The health insurance industry provides no real service.  All it does is take money out of the system.  It's nothing more than a blood-sucking middleman.

Dr. MarciaAngell, a proponent of single payer universal health care, testifying before Congress as to the reason the system is in such a shambles:  

"It's set up to generate profits NOT to provide care.  To pay for care, we rely on hundreds of investor-owned insurance companies that profit by refusing coverage to the sickest patients and limiting services to the others.  They cream roughly 20% off the top of the premium dollar for profits and overhead.  Our method of delivering care's no better than our method of paying for it.  We provide much of the care in investor-owned health facilities that profit by providing too many services for the well-insured and too few for those who cannot pay.  Most doctors are paid fee-for-service which gives them a similar incentive to focus on profitable services, particularly specialists, who receive very high fees for expensive tests and procedures.  In sum, healthcare's for maximizing income and not maximizing health..."

And ACA does nothing to change that.

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More crazy circular logic an Obama 'ardent fan'. 

When you wield power, you really don't care what your most reliable enemies call you.  You don't have to.  And Obama has shown us that he has no problem being authoritarian, dictatorial, fascistic, with his gun control executive actions, expanding wars without Congressional authorization (Libya), and other moves by his branch of government.  But Obama's 'most ardent fans' are no different than Bush's, and can never accept that they've been hoodwinked.  They will never believe that the Democratic Party is no different than the Republican Party because they don't want to, and will reject any information that would create doubt.  
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It's got 'White House' on it - That's as good as it gets for Obama-approved.  But more importantly, there is NOTHING that comes out as a reaction to the White House petition system that isn't directly linked to the Oval Office.  That's pure political policy.

The circular logic that ObamaZombies have to adopt in order to keep themselves from accepting the responsibility of their poor decision-making process is what's causing the 1%'s ability to enslave the 99%.  

Censorship has nothing to do with this; Limbaugh has no intrinsic right over anyone else to be on the DoD's air waves.  But "censorship" as you deem it has been going on at the AFN for years - Howard Stern, for example.  

A civilian-controlled military is supposed to be apolitical.  And when there's a systemic problem (sexual harassment, abuse and assault), you don't turn a blind-eye to it by providing an approved enabler to opine on the DoD's air waves.  That's crazy dysfunctional.
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Most Obama supporters voted for him because of the free stuff he was giving away at tax payer expense, they could care less about the deficit or anything else..

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By "free stuff", do you mean Social Security and Medicare benefits?  The "stuff" that we've already paid for?  How would you react if you'd paid into a Christmas Club at your bank (or for a life insurance policy, or car, or any annuity) and the company had siphoned off all of the money to give great big bonuses to the CEO and refused to honor their commitment to you?  That's what's happening now.  

Did you care about the deficit when George W. Bush was taking the nation into war based on lies and financing it on a credit card, all the while giving tax breaks to the rich?  Did you object over Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003?  Where were you in 2008, Six Years After Cheney Said ‘Deficits Don’t Matter,’ The National Debt Hits A 50-Year High.  Or was it only recently, when Dick Cheney chatted with Rush Limbaugh, and wouldn’t you know it, the disgraced former vice president has decided that deficits matter after all.  

Even I don't have the necessary word count to explain the pros and cons of a deficit and why we need to be worried about creating jobs now and not the deficit.  I'll include links to others who have tackled it - Paul Krugman: Clueless Washington Doesn't Know The Deficit Is 'Mostly Solved' 
Paul Krugman: Deficit Hawks 'Love Living In An Atmosphere Of Fiscal Crisis'
Joseph Stiglitz: 'This Deficit Fetishism Is Killing Our Economy'
Brad Delong: Over the Cliff We Go
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Then there's the University of Maryland's findings:  Regular Viewers of Fox News More Likely To Be Misinformed

I'm a liberal and I get my information from a variety of sources, both domestically and internationally, print and electronic, including but not limited to CSpan, Democracy Now!, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegle, Christian Science Monitor, Wall St. Journal's news section (not opinion), Financial Times, Economist, IBJ, Naked Capitalism, NPR, ProPublica,The Nation, Scientific American, the Oil Drum, wired services, the NYT/WashingtonPost/LAT/Atlanta Constitution, and more.  I never watch Fox (I watched it once and thought it was like WWF, ridiculous propaganda), and rarely watch MSNBC these days for similar reasons (they're in the tank for Obama, who is NOT a liberal - He's a neoliberal, which bears no resemblance to liberalism).  The media isn't liberal - It's corporate. 
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You're obviously entitled to your opinion, which is all that you've offered here, with nothing to support it.  

Facts are stubborn things.  NPR’s listeners best-informed, Fox viewers worst-informed:

People who watch no news at all can answer more questions about international current events than people who watch Fox News, PublicMind finds.

NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative news outlets, while exposure to partisan sources, such as Fox News and MSNBC, has a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge.

People who watch MSNBC and CNN exclusively can answer more questions about domestic events than people who watch no news at all. People who only watch Fox did much worse. NPR listeners answered more questions correctly than people in any other category.

SURVEY QUESTIONS:
• To the best of your knowledge, have the opposition groups protesting in Egypt been successful in removing Hosni Mubarak?
• How about the opposition groups in Syria? Have they been successful in removing Bashar al-Assad?
• Some countries in Europe are deeply in debt, and have had to be bailed out by other countries. To the best of your knowledge, which country has had to spend the most money to bail out European countries?
• There have been increasing talks about economic sanctions against Iran. What are these sanctions supposed to do?
• Which party has the most seats in the House of Representatives right now?
• In December, House Republicans agreed to a short-term extension of a payroll tax cut, but only if President Obama agreed to do what?
• It took a long time to get the final results of the Iowa caucuses for Republican candidates. In the end, who was declared the winner?
• How about the New Hampshire Primary? Which Republican won that race?
• According to official figures, about what percentage of Americans are currently unemployed?

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Whether the troops are (arguably) his biggest fans, I'd offer to you that that is more about their being a captive audience.  "They know they will be told the truth without the leftwing media propaganda" is a silly claim to make, considering that left-leaning radio personalities Thom Hartman, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Mike Malloy, are also on the AFN.  What would that say about their fans?

IMHO none of these political talk shows should be on AFN.  

As studies have shown, the worst informed citizens are those who watch Fox.  I'd guess that that's true for Limbaugh's fans, too.  In my own family, "the" Limbaugh fan is badly informed and falls into all of the other categories one expects in a Limbaugh fan - White, registered Republican, high school education, no college, enlisted in the military right out of high school under parental pressure (non-war time) because he had no direction and no interest in school (nor the grades).  The military would "train" him for a trade.  All that he learned in the military was routine, drinking and camaraderie with other males over sports.  He's a fanatic football fan and square dancer, works for his father-in-law in an appliance sales store, voted for Romney, hates labor unions (all he knows about them is what Limbaugh tells him), and can't understand how he got in to this family.  

He thinks everyone else in the family (all professionals, college-educated, most with graduate degrees) is a brainwashed id-jit.  I've told him, "Don't tell your parents I told you, but you were adopted".  He wasn't, but he actually prefers to believe it, and badgers his parents to tell him the truth so that he can find his "real family", who must be conservative Republican.  His father now tells him that he wasn't adopted, but that he was dropped on his head as an infant.  It's as good a reason for conservatism as any.
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