Reply to As a Democrat, it all feels hopeless.

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "As a Democrat, it all feels hopeless."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like Democrats to focus more on a platform that is beneficial to all. So many little fixes do not address issues for all Americans. For instance the ACA: expanding subsidies is wonderful, but people who do not qualify face exorbitant costs. Insurance companies have zero incentive to ever lower the cost since the Government picks up the bill for so many. In fact, they have every incentive to increase costs. And then the non-subsidized folks are forced to pay more and more. Not to even mention the out of pocket max for all plans, rising and rising since inception.[/quote]

There is no platform that is beneficial to all.  This is why governing is hard.  In order to maximize benefit for the most people, you must compromise.  You need lots of different people representing the myriad of different needs and views to come together and hammer out the compromises that will benefit the most.  We will never have a place where everyone is perfectly happy.

And as long as the GOP platform is "compromise is weakness" and the "Dems are the enemy", we won't have good faith work in Congress to try and find these best possible compromise solutions.

You need to vote out the congresspeople who won't play ball.  All of them.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics