I don't know how any honest person can imagine that the ACA, only accomplished after much compromise with this country's shameless fascists, is still Obama's idea. This is really a fine example of how the left must be satisfied with incremental progress in the face of perpetual right wing douchebaggery.
The idea that any service to the people should exist outside the greed paradigm that so many conservatives believe creates efficiency and incentive is the problem. No benefit to the citizens of this country can be created absent that corrosive, poisonous idea. Then, when greed and public service prove themselves to be incompatible, the right calls it the failure of SOCIALISM, of all things, rather than the failure of greed.
If there is truly an inherent failure in socialism, it is that it doesn't recognize the FACT that a certain percentage of the people will always be ready to piss in the lemonade rather than see it shared among everyone. All throughout human evolution, the intellectual dregs of humanity have fought, tooth and nail, to keep us stagnant and oppressed. Socialized medicine is just another battleground for the few elite and their hoard of progress-phobic knuckle-draggers, who grunt in celebration of their treachery.
Affordable healthcare will never be a reality as long as half the country piously and blindly worships unfettered wealth. Healthcare for all doesn't preserve the need/greed hierarchy, after all, and THAT, more than anything, defines the rift between right and left.
Grunt away, righties. Evolution goes on without you.
