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I had a friend that served in Viet Nam and worked his whole life too, had health issues and was unable to get help until it was to late , He pretty much was at zero plus debt and died.
Really pissed me off a man like that was unable to get some help while other able bodied folks and non citizens get plenty.
What is this work thing you speak of? Is it a new concept?
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http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/barbara-shelly/arti…
Kansas' unemployment rate has gone down at the same rate as the national rate and if you compare them to other states who didn't institute the same work clause you'd find no causal effect from instituting those work requirements.
I don't disagree with having to work to get benefits, but lets not fall all over ourselves congratulating a program that had no measurable affect on the unemployment rate compared to surrounding states or the national average.
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https://youtu.be/bP_izYhdehY
Every single thing I saw on that page was twisted and/or sensationalized.
They do have a sense of humor, though; While I was checking out their other BS, a pop-up appeared that said "DEMAND THE TRUTH! Subscribe Today!"
Now, I'm not very smart. But even I can see that if we can increase GDP by 73% with food stamps alone then clearly the Government should be giving unlimited food stamps to every citizen. And undocumented citizens also. Of course.
Context means a lot.
The bit you posted originally wasn't verbatim.
It was a paraphrased combination of snippets from separate paragraphs.
Here are the two separate pieces:
1)" if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care."
2)"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job loss because of a child with asthma or someone in the family is bipolar—you name it, any condition—is job locking."
The point of the complete statement was to say that if people weren't forced to work full-time at a job that's not satisfying, just to have health care, they would now have a chance to work at something more important to them.
Putting those together to basically say, "Don't bother working for a living" is a little bit disingenuous.
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No I get it. I am familiar with her reckless rhetoric. She is also one of the people that tried to also tell us that every dollar of food stamps adds $1.75 or whatever to the economy. Or that we needed to pass the affordable care act to find out what was in it.
I know that she was trying to make the point that if the law is changed so that there are no pre-existing conditions people wont be stuck at that job just to keep there health care. But she cant help herself and she tried to sell people a lot more than that. And that is absolutely disingenuous. And the idea that Obamacare will allow people to work less ? or now allow them pursue dreams or businesses that they would not have had the opportunity to before is absurd.
People have to work just like they did to pay for health care in the past. And in many cases they now have to work more to pay for it.
I agree that Obama Care is a piece of shit.
It was designed to benefit the health care, pharmaceutical and insurance industries, not the people.
I'm very happy that we were able to do something about it.
CA has always led the way in environmental matters.
Funny thing is, I can still buy leaded 110 octane gas for my bike, right at the pump.
I ran it in my '68 Porsche, too.
As far as the train, I don't know that it "shouldn't" happen.
A shit load of people commute between L.A. and S.F. every day by air.
I used to be one of them.
The lobbyists trying to stop the bullet train are probably from the airlines.
Lobbying works as does throwing huge money at people.
The cost of health care needs to be addressed not who pays for it. Face it, in America we have expensive health care that's not as good as it should be but they have it spun that we have the best. Question that and they scream over regulation and taxes as does every business.
Couldn't agree more. Neither is it cool to edit Planned Parenthood video to give people a false impression. Azzhat "no more baby parts" killer in Colorado was motivated by their lies.
Unfortunately the truth is less important than influencing others with outright lies to many.
I think what she was trying to say was that people should not have to work for a corporation and be on a group plan in order to live and be healthy.
I was happy to see health care reform because I was crippled before Obamacare. I couldn't walk without severe pain, and doing my job was a huge challenge. I had no choice except suck up the debilitating pain and keep going.
My broken hip was a "pre-existing condition" before Obamacare. After Obamacare, I was allowed the privilege of paying a reasonable amount for a new hip. This allowed me to work, become a productive member of society, raise my kid etc. instead of going on disability as people were telling me to do.
I've heard a few others as well.
If we could get the ridiculous pricing of treatment and pharmaceuticals under control, there would be a lot more.
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