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The United States health care industry is a gigantic money making scam where folks not only live in fear of illness but also medical debt. Obamacare may not be the perfect answer but I am not sure that the GOP are coming up with real solutions either. All it takes is one illness or accident leading to financial ruin even with Medical Insurance. I had to change jobs because of health considerations and got Obamacare. I am VERY concerned because I have a doctor's appointment next week for a possible hip replacement. Now I am not even sure I will be able to get it done. My former retail job will NOT hire me back because I can't move like I used to. My step daughter in law was booted out of her job from the same retail company because of kidney failure and dialysis. They really objected to her coming to work with a tube in her neck. This is a woman with a young child. If I could give her my kidney, I would but she doesn't qualify because she is a two time cancer survivor. She needs some kind of insurance even if it is Obamacare. Abracadabra 
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I personally don't indulge in soft drinks diet or otherwise. I do remember as a cashier - the butt crack brigade would come in the first week of every month with shopping carts loaded with Mountain Dew, potato chips, red meat, and candy. These purchases were paid for with tax payer supported EBT cards. They usually wore anti-Obama tee-shirts. Maybe Trump will make them buy health food and grow community gardens. Abracadabra
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1. Take the wheelbarrows of ACA regulations out to a shredder truck and declare that the govt is out of the medical business 2. Starve medical insurance companies, and the rest of the insurance companies while at it 3. Make medical care less formal, less liable 4. Change to more accessible and casual Why fund abortions and keep zombies alive? Simplistic and cold hearted perhaps. Left to themselves people will vote themselves devastated when other peoples money runs out. I think Home Schooling, maybe Charter Schools, are providing the best model for focusing on an objective. Starve the Monsters Inc of Big Medicine, Big Education, Fake Science grants, Slanted Media, Agenda driven Law Enforcement
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We have neighborhoods that are predominately black but the grocery stores are diverse. Ironically, most of the blacks in this community actually like to cook and do it well. I have a gentleman friend who is Jamaican. (migrated here legally & is now a USA citizen) We are always comparing our spice cabinets. We have a wild date this weekend to the Farmer's Market and planting a garden according to the moon phase. Full Moon in Scorpio on Tuesday. Excellent for planting. If we ever become a love connection, there would be some serious cooking competition. Abracadabra
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I started taking courses in Grant Writing and looking for Nonprofit to work for a year before Wal-Mart and I parted company. I have a friend who started a transitional living house for women dealing with addiction. She asked me for help so I went to work there and signed up for Obama Care. I probably could have contacted a private insurance company for the same thing. It cost about the same as what was being deducted from my paycheck. I remember telling some of the youngsters who told me to work faster that I was going to come back as a ghost and haunt them when they were my age. My hubby would join me and drive the riding cart while I knocked stuff off the shelve and mess with the registers. He would be invisible so it would look like the cart was driving itself. I would love to have my partner in mischief with his wild Irish humor back. I miss working retail and may consider it part time after I get a new hip, IF I get a new hip but I know that I can't go the pace that I used to. Abracadabra
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Prior to 2008, I thought Roe v Wade was the most defining issue of American politics. Everything seemed to based on those opposing idea. Since 2008 things have changed. Healthcare has become the defining issue, and new set of political rules and maneuvers. It defines our State of the Union. At least with Roe v Wade we could maintain our integrity. We could hold values, even if they opposed each other. Today, I read an article and viewed tape of what happened after the House approved the healthcare bill. It was kind of amazing.... there was only rejoicings. Rejoicing by the Republican of finally repealing Obamacare and the rejoicing by the Democrats of a new found weapon, they will call Trumpcare. As i have always feared.. what the Republicans did with Obamacare, the Democrats will do with Trumpcare. This is the new way of doing business in Washington. Sinking the opposition. As the Republicans view of Obamacare, was to NEVER agree to any positives it accomplished..(that is until that had to repeal it). the Democrats will NEVER agree to any positives from any replacement bill the Republicans put forth. A road once traveled to see the benefits to the American public of any legislation has now turned. In the minds of Washington politicians there is more to be gained by exposing the negatives. Even if there isn't enough negatives, they will create more. There is no longer a viable bi-partisan legislation. It can no longer exist. America was created and designed to accomplish the most by being bi-partisan. with the idea that America was the only partisanship necessary. Our forefather knew that one-sided control was doomed to failure. "We the People" is the victim.
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Maybe their short memories match other short parts of their anatomy? I disavow any responsibility for the above comment...... it few over my head, made a nest in my hair and popped out my mouth (fingers) before I could stop it!  Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Obamacare in actually was bi-partisan even if the Republican didn't want to take part. It was turned from the moment, Obama, said "you can keep your insurance and you can keep your doctor" His statement was turned to a lie, it was done on purpose, it was done to sink Obamacare. Obamacare, DIDN'T say you couldn't keep your insurance or you couldn't keep your doctor. But it also, DIDN'T say your insurance and your doctor had to keep YOU. And so, the bi-partisan idea from which Obamacare was actually designed with the purpose for YOU to keep your insurance and for YOU to keep your doctor, became a LIE. Does it seem ironic, that Republicans did not want to take part in Obamacare, yet once in power, have to try and IMPROVE IT. No matter what they say, the replacement of Obamacare, in reality, is only an idea of improvement. What happened, during the seven year of it usage...Where was the improvement then? when did destruction, take over and the idea of improvement became lost? And when was it found? Well the same is going to be said for Trumpcare. The focus will be on it's destruction. It will NEVER be thought to be improved by the Democrats, that is until they regain the power, and we go through it all again.
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Ok, now I will be serious. I don't know why folks don't just wait to see what the final package is. This is only a draft..... the Senate will pick it apart, then the House will get another shot at it, and when they both agree, they will pass it. Then we can read it to see what it is in it, the same time they do........ just like the ACA. As for the lack of doctors, we are seeing that in our area. One of our most prominent doctors went to the concierge form of doctoring. If you want to continue being his patient, it costs $83 a month, per person. He accepts NO Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance of any kind. That gets you unlimited doctor visits each month. He said he is doing it because of all the growing paperwork that is now required due to the new regulations of the ACA that affects insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid and so he can cut his practice size and semi-retire. Ok, so that ONE doctor in our area...... but the rub comes because most other doctors are NOT accepting new patients! My daughters used to go to that doctor. One of them has a husband and two small children. They have decided to not look for another family doctor and rely on walk in clinics and the ER for emergencies. Good thing they are all healthy and not on any routine prescriptions. Another one of my daughters also went to that doctor. She is on insulin and other prescriptions, so she has to have a regular doc..... and had a hard time finding one. Our primary care doc usually would take on any family member of his existing patients, but he had to stop taking ANY new patients. She finally found one who would take her. He is foreign, has a name nobody can pronounce so they just call him, "Dr. Ho". Thankfully, she said he speaks very clear English, and other patients of him give him good references. That's just in our area, I imagine it is repeated all over our country. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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You just don't think right, Obamacare is a Democrat program, but it's not all Liberal. Just because they created it doesn't make it all Liberal. why didn't Obama ram down your throat a single payer. why didn't Obama created a national insurance Co, run by the government and financed by the government. why didn't Obama scrap our medical system all together and create an ALL government run medical care? why did Obama consider both the viability of insurance Companies , viability of Hospital and doctors, and individual choices. Obamacare was designed to be bi-partisan, Obama gave Conservatives the opportunity to come around to it... they never did. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TRUE SOCIALISM IS. Your so ignorant it's unbelievable. the revolution against liberalism, against our country turning socialist, is only exposing yourself to it becoming that way. there is a backlash, to your revolution, that creating a revolution of it's own. So go ahead, don't appreciate what you have, take what you want, and lose what you have. I not against you, because I'm for socialism, I'm against socialism too. You don't get it, I appreciate what I have. I don't appreciate what your doing when it's taking it away from me You never read me right... I have a voice against Liberalism. I'm just as much against Liberals taking over this country as I am fascists. You just drown it out.
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I wish you could understand how the system works without a heath care policy. I wish you could understand how our system works. and in the case of government intervention, how it doesn't work. You're right about one thing, our government, in trying to do right thing, usually comes up with something wrong. Healthcare, is the most used and abused government intervention, in our history. Insurance companies are the most regulated. "Not everyone needs health care. People need the "just in case" insurance". What an idea! One that permeates our society. You hit on the crux of the matter. Well, because of government invention and government health programs over the last 70 years. People already have that. It's the mentality of most of the country. health insurance is important to the sick, but if you're not sick, and happen to get sick, there are ways around it. So you think. That's what that government has done. WE have created an "Emergency Room" mentality. "Just in case" People in this country want to roll the dice, That is unless, you're sick, then you figure the "die" game already fixed against you. In our "sick" system, we set the sick against the non-sick, In our foolishness we protect the non-sick, just as much as the sick. The sick get the shaft, and the non-sick get to ride the plush elevator. What we don't understand is it's a freight elevator, everybody is on board, and the non-sick have to pay the freight. That's the mentality, "just in case" you didn't know it.
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The government has become a "safety net", that which we would do to normally to protect ourselves is now "limited". The government provides our "safety net" In a capitalist system, the government has no business in being a "safety net" It changes the whole system. WE speak of laws, and breaking laws as punishable. But the fact is this, only failure and the punishment for failure leads to success. Our government from a society stand point takes the full punishment away. Gives participation awards. We don't learn from our mistakes, just find ways to better ourselves from them. Again one need to have and open mind, and the ability to connect the dots. to understand that although healthcare is this subject.. This goes to just about everything we do. The government is now designed not to service the people, but to protect the people. Everything now, is about who the government services and who gets left unprotected. Donald Trump, may be a realist, but America does not believe in realism, it believes in ideals. what kind of country do we have being realistic, without ideals? Donald Trump has told US, there has to be winners and losers, they always balance out. Well, that maybe true, but it's Un-American.
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Do you think Donald Trump's idea about America First in regards to Foreign Policy. All of a sudden, transforms when it come to America First and America. There are winners and losers in dealing with the world and winner and losers dealing with Americans. That's his measuring Stick. If the truth be known.....It is that Trump, does not really believe in winning, He believes in making the "other guy" a loser. He wins if you lose, that's the way he sees it. That's all the measurement he needs. My God, people, see it for what it is. Every single thing Trump does, first defines who's the loser and then transforms that to he's the winner. He doesn't really have enemies, he has people and things to create as being "losers". It's okay, if you too, measure yourself by the "losers" you create. That's find, just admit it. But along the way, look up the definition of racism. It's promotion based on the concept of creating a "loser"
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