You have to be completely brainwashed or completely stupid to believe that any politician gives a shit whether you (or the poor) have healthcare or not. This was not about getting everybody covered, it was about creating as many government dependents as they could. The more government dependents, the more likely Democrat voters.
As for minimum wage: those workers are only 3% of our workforce, hardly any percentage large enough to create any positive effect on the economy or poverty. Considering most of those workers are kids in school, stay at home moms working for extra money while their kids are in school, or senior citizens looking to get out of the house, raising minimum wage would only encourage employers to invest in automation to replace them as McDonald's and Wendy's are currently doing.
The politicians care about staying in office. I haven't suggested they are concerned about anything else. Threatening to fire them via the vote is the only leverage we have to get them to do what we want. Obviously that tactic worked... we still have Obamacare.
You seem to be completely delusional and selectively ignorant. Even when I put data right in front of you it is ignored and you ramble on.
I said:
"Across the phase-in period of the minimum-wage increase, GDP would increase by roughly $25 billion, resulting in the creation of approximately 100,000 net new jobs over that period."
You looked at that and wrote:
"As for minimum wage: those workers are only 3% of our workforce, hardly any percentage large enough to create any positive effect on the economy or poverty. "
I would love to, because I've been an insulin dependent diabetic for the last 30 years, and until Commie Care became the law of the land, I was covered with my preexisting condition my entire adult life.
You were one of the lucky ones. But the world does not revolve around YOU. Other folks had horrific experiences before Obamacare.
your last sentence is a blatant lie. NO one was denied medical care before ACA. NO ONE, even those in our country illegally.
Note the date:
July 2, 2008 8:22:53 AM PDT
Eyewitness News
KINGS COUNTY --
New York City hospital officials promised reforms at a Brooklyn psychiatric ward where surveillance footage captured a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers watched without helping for an hour.
Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room at the city-owned Kings County Hospital Center for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. on June 19, falling face down on the floor.
that could have happened whether the person was insured or not. Overcrowded ERs have nothing to do with socialized medicine, except that under socialized medicine all medical care will look like that ER.
You said no one was ever denied medical care before ACA. Well, the video shows you were wrong and that I wasn't lying. But to be accurate, the woman was refused treatment because she was likely percieved as not having medical care insurance. Insurance Triage was at work there and it cost that woman her life. No one should have to wait 24hrs in an ER before being seen.
Socialized medicine? Are you seriously thinking the ppaca is socialized medicine? If you do, you don't know the meaning of the term. The term
subsidized Insurance might be as close as you could get to a definition of something being socialized and has nothing to do with the delivery of medical treatment. Under the auspices of the ppaca, all of the health providers, a.k.a., insurance companies are privately owned. Most of the hospitals involved are private too, as are private practices.
The exceptions are medical facilities owned operated and staffed by state and local governments. However, profit is the driving force behind all of them.none are socialist institutions.