There are a great many cuts I would make. For instance, I would make fairly significant cuts to the military. I would cut oil subsidies.
Unlike the nihilists running the Tea Party GOP, I’d be for stimulating the economy, which would raise tax revenues. But when you have a religious mantra like, “Tax Cuts Increase Revenue” and you intone it at every problem, it acts as a substitute for intelligent decision making.
The folks of this board should keep their eyes open for ACA news this coming week. The SCOTUS is likely to issue its ruling on the contraception case tomorrow, and the DC Circuit will probably follow soon with its ruling in Halbig v. Sebelius.
Rear-guard actions at best. The battle is over.
These charts help show just how poor a job the vaunted Private Sector has done with US health care.
The contraception mandate isn’t even a rear guard action, it’s more like Tanzania in WWI. But that won’t stop liberals from howling if the court doesn’t rule their way.
If it were better guarded, we’d have no need for contraception.
If you’re guarding your rear, you have no need for contraception.
Now that literally every single sky-is-falling prediction about the ACA has been disproved with certifiably laugh-out-loud clarity, the GOP is at last showing their true colors in terms of ACA hatred.
Spoiler alert: It has absolutely nothing with legitimate gripes about the policy itself - because, again, the ACA is the GOP policy - as opposed to an institutional & philosophical opposition to expanded health care access in general. I’ve been saying the exact same thing in this thread for months; I’m honestly surprised that it has taken the media this long to catch onto this fact.
Every single sky is falling prediction disproved? Thats pretty disconnected from reality. It was predicted that people would lose their insurance, people lost their insurance. Oh wait, people are angry only because they really wanted single payer, I forgot. Carry on.
For strained, goal-oriented definitions of “losing one’s insurance” only.
Been over this.
The number of people who think they pay more is vastly overstated. Often, when fact checkers dig into their personal situation, they find that they actually are paying less. Are a few people going to pay more? Yes. Are some going to have to change their insurance? Yes, often because their insurer chose to drop out of the business or their old plan sucked monkey snot. Most people are pretty much untouched, a lot of people are much better off, and a few may be marginally worse off. Looks like a success to me.
How many people lost their insurance?
Also, how many of those typically would have lost their insurance anyway?
How many of them got replacement insurance that provided more coverage?
Can you please answer those questions, if you know the answers?
Okay, so the disaster DID happen, but it was good for the people it happened to. IF that was the case, why lie about it beforehand?
If Obama had said “IF you like your insurance and IF your insurance is ACA-compliant and IF your insurer doesn’t get out of the business you can keep your insurance. IF you like your doctor and IF your doctor accepts your new insurance IF you have to change or IF your doctor still accepts your old insurance IF you don’t have to change, you can keep your doctor”, would that have made you happy? Looks like you are picking an ever shrinking nit.
No disaster happened. Except for your party, in the political and especially electoral sense, but they earned it.
Unfortunately it was necessary to dumb the explanations way, *way *down to break through the wall of lies your guys told, and for that matter are continuing to tell. Some detail was lost in so doing, yes, but would have failed to get through anyway.
The administration of excuses continues to have its enablers.
What’s the point of posting these Hannity talking points?
You live in Florida, you say, adaher? Then this ought to be *good *newsfor you.
Of course, there *is *a point of view by which this constitutes a disaster. 
DEFLATION!! The US is bound for decades of the same sort of problems as Japan -
We all know that deflation is the opposite of growth, and “The Bams”, socialist that he is, couldn’t be happier
THat’s fantastic news. Did anyone predict that ACA would have no benefits, that nothing would go better than expected? I do know there are some who seem to insist that nothing is going worse than expected, or badly.
The word “disaster” appeared in this thread, not too long ago.