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BlueEye

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12. Excellent points!

Reply to freshwest (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 07:57 AM

Jan 2015

To those of us who complain that the ACA "isn't progressive enough..."

The transition to true universal health care will not happen overnight. It is an evolution, one that starts with the ACA, so we must protect the progress we have made to date. Since the most substantial challenge to the law today appears to be judicial in nature, progressives should continue to wage the public opinion war and highlight statements like Walker's above. SCOTUS does take such things into account, as was apparent in their last ACA ruling.

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VIDEO: Republican Governor Caught On Tape Demolishing The Legal Case Against Obamacare [View all] riversedge Jan 2015 OP

No one Kicked this!? Good Grief.. don't tell me we have scott walker to the rescue on Obamacare! Cha Jan 2015 #1

It's always nice to have Republican support! Elmer S. E. Dump Jan 2015 #6

Yes, like when Ted Cruz and his drooling hate for the President's Immigration Reform made it Cha Jan 2015 #9

Walker prob. does not realize he may have helped #aca.... riversedge Jan 2015 #7

Of course not.. he wouldn't want to. Cha Jan 2015 #10

Kickety kick kick. Scuba Jan 2015 #2

Kick vanlassie Jan 2015 #3

and a kick! n/t wildbilln864 Jan 2015 #4

Hmmmm.... interesting. groundloop Jan 2015 #5

Shirking turbinetree Jan 2015 #8

Was there Medicaid expansion in WI or not? freshwest Jan 2015 #11

Excellent points! BlueEye Jan 2015 #12

Here are some more details, I'd stopped posting the defense of the ACA some time back: freshwest Jan 2015 #14

No, Gov Walker did NOT expand Medicaid--and riversedge Jan 2015 #13

He's proven himself a Koch lackey. Do they still have an office across the street from the capitol? freshwest Jan 2015 #15

Walker gives me the creeps. mwb970 Jan 2015 #16

I take away the same thing you take away… midnight Jan 2015 #17