The Hoopla about the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the same thing as “Obama-care” but a lot
of people still don’t know that. Polls show that people may like the ACA but
don’t like Obamacare. Go figure.
Systems speaking, there are always glitches and problems with new systems
whether in the private sector or in government. As with most new systems, for
the most part we have a parallel [health care] system running until the bugs are
taken out of the new system.
I was not for the ACA, but I also recognize
all the finger-pointing at the new system is yet another political avenue for
those against it to rally together to create unnecessary attacks in the hope to
somehow eliminate "Obamacare" but it will not happen that way.
The ACA is
a major law that must now be continued and fixed along the way, until it is
proven to be a bad law that does not help or work for the majority of people.
When that happens it will be and should be removed from law by the very people
it was supposed to help --- the voters.
Republicans and Democrats need to
stop the in-house fighting for every issue under the sun. People need government
to work for them and not for the benefits to elected and appointed officials and
their special interests. That said, government needs to get out of regulating
our daily lives. At the Federal, State and Local levels, government is dictating
how we should live much more than it has in the past. It needs to
stop.
Extremism at either end of the political and economic spectrums is
what is destroying the America we once knew and loved. Once upon a time in
America we used to work together, but that was then and this is now. There
doesn't seem to be much hope that it will change soon.
