The ACA was a gift to Big Pharma and Big Medicine. Don't think for a second it was anything else or Obama was somehow tragically dying on the hill of socialized medicine (which I advocate, btw) and then compromised the ACA.
OK I just have to drop in here and talk about history for a second...
Precisely why we have the 14th amendment. They were at the very least god like IMO. Such foresight, such vision! Think about all the failed attempts at civilization before hand. Even the paradise of 15th century annarcho communist France couldn't compare. Still can't say we will last just yet but I know myself and people like me will try to make it last as long as possible while building on our principles to better ourselves in reasonable way.
Droppers, never discuss history again. There is so much historical wrongness in this post I don't know where to begin. Your politically on the right track but know where your limitations lie. You embarrass yourself here.
Yes the greatest document ever made that advocates and protects slavery and treats certain people as 3/5 as a person.
Another history failure. The Constitution nowhere advocates slavery and the 3/5 compromise actually gives advantage to the non-slave holding states (and thus was one of many partial antecedents to the Civil War.)
If I were a history professor I would be handing out a lot of D's around here.
I am not, by the way, a strict constructionist "Constitutional conservative," treating the Constitution as if it were holy writ. That is a lot of nonsense and would have appeared so to the Founding Fathers. It has more to do with the advent of very literal Biblical exegesis among evangelical Protestants around the time of the "Second Great Awakening," combined with the practical apotheosis of the "Founding Fathers" about two or three generations after people who actually knew them died out. Constitutional strict constructionism is hyper-Protestantism applied to law.
These days the actual content of the Constitution has more or less been rendered dead letter by way of practically Talmudic interpretation by the federal government and by the Supreme Court. Thankfully we still pay attention to a few of the amendments, although decreasingly so (the first is actually overextended to include things like pornography; the second depends on geography; the fourth is dying an agonizing "death by a thousand cuts" as originally intended and has had frankly bizarre additional content tacked on, cf.
Roe, the 9th and 10th, arguably the most important, are dead.)
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
