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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle class people feeling squeezed: why is your beef with the poor?
Clinton would increase taxes for the rich, not for you.[/quote]
You are obviously a Hillary supporter and that's why you don't understand the problem. As reported so eloquently upthread, Obamacare has enabled medical care for the poor while disabling it for the middle class. I, for example, am skipping medical treatments and tests for the first time in my life, and now I am the one who feels poor! This despite taking six years to get through college because I worked half-time, a lifetime of hard work after that,  and religiously buying health insurance.

Let me simplify it for you. Let's say you have a job and eat three meals a day with the money you earn. But there's a poor person who is only getting enough food stamps paid for by you and other taxpayers to eat once a day. She's hungry, and you're not. So the government sets up a program that results in the costs of your meals going up so much that now you can only eat once a day, and gives extra aid to the poor so they can now eat three times a day. 
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Let me simplify it for you: Obamacare isn't perfect. It has problems. But the biggest problem with it is that Republicans spent years being obstinate about it. How the heck could anything get fixed when their entire "fix" is [i]ending[/i] it?[/quote]
They spent years trying to defeat legislation that would devastate millions of responsible, hard-working middle-class people. Unfortunately, the liberals locked the doors on them and passed it with all sorts of arm-twisting and deals to the Dems who were holding out.

There's no way to fix it, although I susoect what the "let's throw more money at it" liberals will suggsest. They'll say let's increase the caps, so people who esrn more can also become government dependent. Instead of making a woman earning $49000 pay $15000 for medical costs, let's give subsidies to people earning, say....$60k. The problem is that will drive the sky-high insurance policies on self-sufficient Americans even higher. Now the woman earning $65k, with a take-home of $50k, will have the costs on her go uo to $20k a year.

There's just no fixing this mess. Let's set up poor clinics, where those dependent on the government can get free care, and allow the premiums to drop to market rates for people paying their own way. What is wrong with that?[/quote]

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