Obamacare Rocks! (aka Keep Flushing That Toilet!)
 

An interesting piece sent to me by our long lost pal, JustRalph:

All of that tax money you loaned to the Obamacare co-ops? That’s probably gone

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/1...probably-gone/

so can we all drop off emails to you and have you post them? Would save time logging in. Two posts in a row I've looked at, and they are both by you acting as proxy for Ralph. Why doesn't Ralph just suck it up and log in and post himself?

Awesome contribution bro

It would be nice to engage JustRalph in thread convo. Nothing against you, but that can't be done through proxy. Didn't mean to slam you, but when I came across two in a row, I was like, seriously?

Ralph didn't write either of those pieces.
What do you think you would get from him you are missing?

I think I know that. It would be nice to converse with the person and not the article.

I never knew that conversing with an article was even possible. You wouldn't mind sharing that trick with us, would you? :rolleyes:

don't you have a bible verse you need to misinterpret. It is interesting how many butthurt people there are over a fairly obvious point. Carry on. ;)

You should focus more on your writing skills than any supposed misinterpretations of mine. By the way, have you ever had an article talk back at you? :rolleyes:

From the article:

This was an experiment which has proven little more than the fact that Washington is barely able to manage the budget for mowing the lawn.

Perhaps the writer misses the fact that at least 15 million Americans were able to secure health insurance since 2009 who did not have it previously. Or maybe he just doesn't care. Either way, for the price of a week in Iraq, we made sure 15 million Americans were able to secure health insurance for at least the last 5 years. Sounds like a phenomenal deal to me - especially when you think about what we got for a buck in Iraq.

Check these Iraq War expenses out and then come back and cry some more about the "insanity" of Obamacare costs:

$1.7 trillion: Amount in war expenses spent by the U.S. Treasury Department as through Fiscal Year 2013.

$5,000: Amount spent per second.

$350,000: Cost to deploy one American military member.

$490 billion: Amount in war benefits owed to war veterans.

$7 trillion: Projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money).

$20 billion: Amount paid to KBR, contractor responsible for equipment and services.

$3 billion: Amount of KBR payments Pentagon auditors considered "questionable."

$60 billion: Amount paid for reconstruction, (which was ruled largely a waste due to corruption and shoddy work.)

$4 billion: Amount owed to the U.S. by Iraq before the invasion.

1.6 million: Gallons of oil used by U.S. forces each day in Iraq (at $127.68 a barrel).

$12 billion: Cost per month of the war by 2008.

$7 billion: Amount owed to Iraq by the U.S. after the war (mostly due to fraud).

$20 billion: Annual air conditioning cost.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-i...numbers-2014-6

I agree, where's Ralph. If he doesn't come back ill pass him in post count. :D

How is that a great deal when many got it for free. Why don't we make it the deal of the century and give everybody free health insurance that is currently uninsured. :bang:

As opposed to what? Watching them suffer and die? :confused:

How about we get rid of medicaid and make everyone pay for their health insurance. I know you would hate that idea since the freebies would go away but you can't tax the middle class into oblivion to pay for your utopia society.

Whoever wrote this article thinks the exchanges and the coops are the same thing. The exchanges are not failing. They have had some problems, but those are decreasing steadily. The exchanges don't have to pay back any loans because they were never given any loans. Expenses of the exchanges are paid through funds appropriated through the Affordable Care Act.

The COOPs are non profit health insurance companies created to provide competition-or in some cases to take the place of-for the established companies.

This obviously worked better in theory than in practice, but stop saying that the Exchanges are failing. They are not. Also, half the coops have not failed.