Obama's second term: A productive six months.

[ProSense]

10. "Real change? Yes."

"Dismissive? You bet."

This is the point you dismissed, which was the other poster's comment:

In America, Health Care isn't a privilege, it's your right.


NOW!!!


Thanks to Pres. Obama and the Democrats!

You objected to pointing out that health care is a right.

"Change that will make care more affordable and accessible? For some. Not for many. "

More than 17 million medicaid participants and millions more will likely disagree with the claim "not for many."

The Spite Club

By PAUL KRUGMAN

House Republicans have voted 37 times to repeal ObamaRomneyCare — the Affordable Care Act, which creates a national health insurance system similar to the one Massachusetts has had since 2006. Nonetheless, almost all of the act will go fully into effect at the beginning of next year.

There is, however, one form of obstruction still available to the G.O.P. Last year’s Supreme Court decision upholding the law’s constitutionality also gave states the right to opt out of one piece of the plan, a federally financed expansion of Medicaid. Sure enough, a number of Republican-dominated states seem set to reject Medicaid expansion, at least at first.

And why would they do this? They won’t save money. On the contrary, they will hurt their own budgets and damage their own economies. Nor will Medicaid rejectionism serve any clear political purpose. As I’ll explain later, it will probably hurt Republicans for years to come.

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And as I said, it doesn’t even make sense as cynical politics. If Obamacare works (which it will), millions of middle-income voters — the kind of people who might support either party in future elections — will see major benefits, even in rejectionist states. So rejectionism won’t discredit health reform. What it might do, however, is drive home to lower-income voters — many of them nonwhite — just how little the G.O.P. cares about their well-being, and reinforce the already strong Democratic advantage among Latinos, in particular.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/krugman-the-spite-club.html