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ProSense

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Wed Jan 22, 2014, 01:30 PM

Jan 2014

"ACA is basically silent on the right to health care...It did not establish that there was a universal "right" to health insurance. "

...can say anything you want to dismiss the facts in the previous comment, but all you're doing is protesting by saying "it did not."

The Affordable Care Act & The Patient’s Bill of Rights

On the six-month anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama leads a backyard discussion on the Patient’s Bill of Rights and hears from real Americans who are already benefitting from health reform.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2010/09/22/affordable-care-act-patient-s-bill-rights

"ACA did alot of small and nice things, but establishing a right to health care isn't among them. "

Nonsense.

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How Obama and the Democrats failed to defend the universal right to healthcare [View all] marmar Jan 2014 OP

du rec. xchrom Jan 2014 #1

Obama is Satan, for sure!!! nt msanthrope Jan 2014 #2

"excluding single-payer healthcare from consideration" solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #3

So says some guy who has provided increased geek tragedy Jan 2014 #4

This particular 'some guy' is a Chicago labor leader who thinks PBO owes him. He gets little msanthrope Jan 2014 #7

The ''reinforced conservative mantras'' parts really bug me. Octafish Jan 2014 #5

Hot Coffee MinM Jan 2014 #13

Wesley Clark was on NPR 'The Takeaway' this morning and talked about ''Bob Gates''... Octafish Jan 2014 #15

Yes, but I don't think Dems conceded to "Tea Party fearmongering" - but... polichick Jan 2014 #6

You can't defend something you don't have, Progressive dog Jan 2014 #8

^^ Spin control is terribly uncreative these days. marmar Jan 2014 #9

You're on a roll today, marmar! Thank you for representing the democratic arm of the loudsue Jan 2014 #10

New numbers for the ACA roll out must have come out. JoePhilly Jan 2014 #11

The Greens and Libertarians don't like the ACA numbers any more than the Repubs do. nt msanthrope Jan 2014 #14

"That principle now is here to stay." ProSense Jan 2014 #12

It's done no such thing zipplewrath Jan 2014 #22

You ProSense Jan 2014 #24

Read the law zipplewrath Jan 2014 #25

Good grief ProSense Jan 2014 #27

What is a reasonable cost for your free speach rights? zipplewrath Jan 2014 #33

That comment makes no sense, and still has nothing to do with the point. n/t ProSense Jan 2014 #34

The point is that the is no established universal right to health care zipplewrath Jan 2014 #35

And ProSense Jan 2014 #36

You mean law zipplewrath Jan 2014 #37

OK ProSense Jan 2014 #38

You "principal" has no effect zipplewrath Jan 2014 #39

It's "principle" ProSense Jan 2014 #40

The law opposes the principal zipplewrath Jan 2014 #41

There's a very large problem with this article. jeff47 Jan 2014 #16

Canada's private health insurance companies were never as well entrenched as in the USA Fumesucker Jan 2014 #17

The similarity is the states/provinces go first, then the national system follows. jeff47 Jan 2014 #18

The insurance companies are becoming more entrenched by the day Fumesucker Jan 2014 #19

If that were true, the insurance industry wouldn't be giving their political contributions jeff47 Jan 2014 #20

Under the American form of government you can't really buy a politician Fumesucker Jan 2014 #28

Again, how exactly would the insurance industry stop it in all blue states? (nt) jeff47 Jan 2014 #30

The same way they got a Democratic president to kill the public option we were promised Fumesucker Jan 2014 #31

So you think they'll turn blue states red. jeff47 Jan 2014 #32

^^^This!^^^ BlueCaliDem Jan 2014 #29

Next OP will be How the purist left blames Obama for the purist lefts inaction of not voting in 2010 uponit7771 Jan 2014 #21

Repetez en anglais, s'il vous plait? marmar Jan 2014 #23

Usual myth zipplewrath Jan 2014 #26