ObamaCare was introduced by Newt Gingrich and the Republicans in 1993 and implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney in 2005-
Uploaded by oldfartrants on Apr 4, 2012
It's obvious to me after the last couple of videos I did about the Supreme Court deciding the constitutionality of Obamacare that a lot of people don't know anything. And even though they might not necessarily be stupid, they've been so brainwashed by the constant propaganda of Fox News, Republicans and Tea Partiers just about everything they know is wrong.
And the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it's now called even by Obama, was conceived within this vision and given birth to by Republicans. The idea goes all the way back to Richard Nixon in 1974, was promoted by the extremely conservative Heritage Foundation in 1989, introduced by Newt Gingrich and the Republicans in 1993 and implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney in 2005.
The individual mandate was conceived by Republicans because it lets people buy private policies from for-profit insurance companies operating in the free market, rather than a single payer system run by the government which would actually be a mild form of socialism like Medicare. Obamacare is a decades old idea, born, bred and even implemented by Republicans - so it's about as far away from socialism as you can get.
Until President Obama, a black Democrat, decided to go with it because he knew Republicans would never allow a single payer solution to America's broken and overpriced healthcare system, no one ever called it "socialized medicine" or a "government takeover" or sreamed about "death panels."
Arguing with people who don't know anything and act like bratty little children to get their way just proves what I always say - stupidity is a bigger threat to America than terrorism is. And that kinda makes stupid people the enemy, doesn't it? No wonder Republicans don't want college students to vote.
"Healthcare History Lesson" by Old Fart Rants
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