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[quote=Anonymous]20:32, I will take the bait.  I think there are some essential services a country should provide: public education, public safety, and health care.  When I visit most European nations, I see all three.  I visit some countries in other parts of the world which struggle to provide similar services.  Now, if you don't think all U.S. citizens should have access to health care (preventative not just ER), then we dont' agree and probably can't discuss it.  But if you do think that the forty million U.S. citizens without insurance should still have access to health care, then what do you propose should have been done?  The Republicans, from 1992-2006, accomplished few things in the health care arena:  killed Clinton's plan, endorsed Romneycare and proposed it as a federal alternative, and created a "donut hole" prescription plan for seniors.  From 2008-10, the Democrats adopted Romneycare and, in so doing, closed the donut hole.

President Obama attended the Republican retreat in Baltimore and invited them to a WH roundtable with Democratic congressional leaders and asked them for alternatives.  Alas, they did not have any alternatives because to legislate - to do their jobs - would have gone against the McConnell decree that the GOP position was to make President Obama a one-term president.  (FWIW, I think NCLB - No Child Left Behind - sucks, but Rep. George Miller did his job as ranking member and worked with then committee chair John Boehner to craft a bill, pass it out of committee, and work to get it passed into law.  The late Sen. Ted Kennedy did the same as ranking member on the Senate side.)

You may find Obamacare ill or misconceived, but you can't say the president has not accomplished anything.  Even Governor Romney tried to split the difference on the Sunday talk shows this weekend.  Republicans have yet to offer a competing vision for health care because the President passed the only one they basically had.  [/quote]

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