YES! He knows our economy succeeds with a strong middle class.
22%
NO! Great speech, but nothing will come from it.
78%
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No Corporation or Millionaire left behind. My confidence in the Affordable Care Act is waining. It seems that it will end up being a boom for the greedy insurance corporations. The Koch brothers and their miserable ilk run the country and there isn't much BAM can do about it as Congress and the Judiciary, with too few exceptions, is whored off to the 1%. Dumbya's war and spying policies continue in Post Constitutional America.
The President could do this if the people will get out there and "vote" in this and every mid-term elections!! Plus everone should keep telling their Senators and Reps to get with the action to move our USA forward ---Not backward.
He will try, but the obstructionists in Congress will do nothing to benefit their middle-class-and-sliding-down constituents.
I said yes, because I believe he wants to do just that but I have my doubts that the intransigent GOP will cooperate. One thing I am sure of, he cannot do us without all of us getting on the stick and calling, writing, visiting our Congressmen and Senators and putting their feet to the fire to cooperate with the President to do things like increase the minimum wage, rebuild infrastructure, and rebuild our public school system. I also have hope that the full implementation of ObamaCare will take that off the table for the GOP and they will then have to spend their time on other things. While I, like most progressives, wanted Single Payer Healthcare, I have no doubt in my mind ObamaCare will be far better than what we had. Since my 40 year old son is on ObamaCare Pre-Existing Insurance Plan now, I have had some opportunity to see how it works and I can attest it has been great. As far as I can see it operates much like Medicare, which I love. The two states (CA & NY) that have come out with their figures on its cost and the fact that it will drop cost by 32% for CA and 50% for NY to individuals and businesses in their states have proven to me that this will continue to bring the cost of healthcare down for all of us and stimulate the economy by putting more money into the economy and less into insurance company profits. I think once people get on it, they will see a lot of benefit to it, both economically and physically, and if nothing else, it will enable people stuck in jobs they hate to be more entreprenurial or move somewhere else to find better jobs and not have to stay where they are because of fear of losing healthcare coverage for themselves and their families. It will increase our "freedom" by making us free to better ourselves and will, I believe, put real savings in our pocket which will flow into the economy. True, insurance companies will still be in the mix, just as they are on Medicare, but their profits will be controlled by the 80/20 rule, and we are already seeing that happen with rate increases slowing and dropping and people & companies getting rebate checks.