I can only pray that organizations can undo Obamacare. Here is a piece of legislation that passed by zealots that haden’t even read it. Then, they exempted themselves from it because they knew it would mean poor health care for themselves. It you want to see what Obamacare will look like, just look at any government run program; the best example would be the Vetran’s health care system. I do not want the government in my health care. Get away from me.

I am totally amazed that business people will follow the lead of a person like the Presidend of the chamber of commerce. How can they be so blind?

As for the Catholic church, I agree with en science 55. If they want to be in politics give up their tax exempt status. Pay taxes like the rest of us. You need to pay if you want the right to abuse and put down women.

I will use the rhetoric name, Obamacare, since he is the one who pushed so hard for it without the slightest knowledge of what was really in that bill other than it gives government control of healthcare. That bill is one bad piece of legislation and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t read it and certainly doesn’t understand its implications. For those who spout such drivel as, ‘the rest of the civilized world provides access to healthcare for everyone’, I invite you to go to one of those ‘civilized’ countries and try to use their government run system. This type of healthcare belongs in the land of the big rock candy mountain and nowhere else.

Isn’t it ridiculous that the United States spent $8,402 on health care per each and every man, woman, and child in the country in 2010 and there were still millions with no access to health care. Those detractors of civilized health care claim that it shall bankrupt the US even though absolutely no civilized nation with universal health care comes close to spending what the US spends per person and their life expectancy is longer than ours. The last figures I have seen is that the most expensive health care is in Switzerland (about 75 per cent of what the US pays per capita) and that is probably because their system is run by insurance companies. It is especially striking when you consider that the average per capita cost of health care in civilized industrialized countries is approximately half of what our extremely flawed system is costing the US citizen.

Mr. Ackermann, you denigrate government run health care such as VA but people who currently have VA health benefits are deathly afraid that they shall lose their superior care and those on Medicare are also fighting to retain that system. The really funny thing is that because they have drunk the TEA Party Kool-Aide many of those same people also state that they are adamantly against government run health care systems while completely ignoring the fact that their favored systems are definitely government run health care system.

In Canada, the radioactive implants that killed my prostate cancer cost me twenty-six senior’s subway tickets ($1.60 each). That’s 25 for my daily radiation, five days a week for five weeks, plus one on the day of the implants. Total cost: $41.60. In Arizona, it would have cost $43,000. I priced it out. So don’t tell me the Canadian single-payer health care system doesn’t work. I’m living proof that it does.

Those Republican Governors who turned their states around should be thanking President Obama for the billions he wasted saving their states from collapse. I especially liked Governor Daniels of Indiana spouting off in his answer to the State of the Union speech that Obama “borrowed and blew” all the money in the Obama Recovery Act while ignoring the fact that the $2 Billion he got from the Recovery Act was all that saved Indiana from going down the drain and also ignoring the fact that the reason Obama had to borrow the money was because Bush had thrown away Clinton’s surplus.

To jimackermann— if you do not want government in your health care i hope you are not on Medicare , a goverment program. i hope if you are on medicare you do not use a medicare advantage plan as your coverage is supplemented by other medicare participants,a goverment program that President Bush give away to the health care business with millions of the dollars.

Proud to be a Liberal, and proud of the work they do, Yah!!

Liberalism
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Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis)[1] is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights.[2] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and freedom of religion.[3][4][5][6][7]
Liberalism first became a powerful force in the Age of Enlightenment, rejecting several foundational assumptions that dominated most earlier theories of government, such as nobility, established religion, absolute monarchy, and the Divine Right of Kings. The early liberal thinker John Locke, who is often credited for the creation of liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition, employed the concept of natural rights and the social contract to argue that the rule of law should replace absolutism in government, that rulers were subject to the consent of the governed, and that private individuals had a fundamental right to life, liberty, and property.
The revolutionaries in the American Revolution and the French Revolution used liberal philosophy to justify the armed overthrow of tyrannical rule. The nineteenth century saw liberal governments established in nations across Europe, Latin America, and North America. Liberal ideas spread even further in the twentieth century, when liberal democracies triumphed in two world wars and survived major ideological challenges from fascism and communism. Today, liberalism in its many forms remains as a political force to varying degrees of power and influence on all major continents.
A twenty-first century development is an emerging new liberalism that is centred on the concept of timeless freedom (ensuring the freedom of future generations through proactive action taken today).

What Have American Liberals Done for The United States?
What did the Liberals do that was so offensive to the republican Party?
I’ll tell you what they did, Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got the African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act.
What did conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things, every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet ”Liberals” as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.
Written by Lawrence O’Donnell Jr.