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JDDavis

(725 posts)
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:36 AM Feb 2015

President Obama Meets with Affordable Care Act Letter Writers

Published on Feb 3, 2015
On February 3, 2015, President Obama met with letter writers from across the country who wrote him to share how the Affordable Care Act improved their lives.





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President Obama Meets with Affordable Care Act Letter Writers (Original Post) JDDavis Feb 2015 OP
But what did Gingrich and Palin and the Clown car occupants say today? Who is this guy? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #1
Better than the single payer people were treated zipplewrath Feb 2015 #2
The single pay people, just like everyone else, were treated to affordable insurance. great white snark Feb 2015 #5
Right ater they were hauled off to jail zipplewrath Feb 2015 #6
Talking past one another Plucketeer Feb 2015 #3
I am a proud ACA recipient SmittynMo Feb 2015 #4

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. But what did Gingrich and Palin and the Clown car occupants say today? Who is this guy?
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:42 AM
Feb 2015

We are NOT entertained!

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
2. Better than the single payer people were treated
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 01:20 PM
Feb 2015

One wonders how things might have turned out if he and Baucus were this nice with the single payer folks.

great white snark

(2,646 posts)
5. The single pay people, just like everyone else, were treated to affordable insurance.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 07:47 PM
Feb 2015

Thankfully the ungrateful lamenters are are few.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
6. Right ater they were hauled off to jail
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 08:57 PM
Feb 2015

But hey, at least they weren't ignored, or told they had nothing useful to contribute. Oh, wait.....

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
3. Talking past one another
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 02:57 PM
Feb 2015

That's what we see with the three branches of government. This video gives warm fuzzies. Next tho, we'll hear Boehner or Turtle or Cruz go on about how the ACA is destroying jobs and blah-blah-blah... and blah-blah-blah

HERE is what we need... We need Obama, a number of ACA recipients such as these that are at this conference, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and a few other GOP luminaries - ALL around this table at the same time! Lights on, microphones tactically placed and cameras able to see the faces of everyone in attendance.
Then, with all assembled and cameras rolling, Obama makes his case as he has here. Then we turn to the GOP reps and demand that they look straight at the recipients while they explain why these folks should not have the care they're getting from the ACA. They don't get off the hook with the BS sound byte that Obamacare is a "job killer" - they have to DETAIL what they mean by that whilst looking those cancer survivors eye-to-eye.

This shit where the president makes a statement and then the GOPers release counter-statements over and over and over.... it's just WASTED taxpayer money. The superfluous pomp and "civility" is drowning the very bodies we hope to save us! Hell, I'd rather see a donnybrook break out on the capitol - like we've seen in some of the old eastern bloc or African nation's parliaments - than the tripe we're fed everyday as it currently is.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
4. I am a proud ACA recipient
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 05:16 PM
Feb 2015

Considering my circumstances, I don't know what I'd do without it.

I guess die quick. Damn republicans!!! They have no soul at all.

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