appreciate the thoughts folks...guess I can comment on healthcare since it's my thread
1 spent 20 years across for our HR office as they took calls through multiple administrations (dem and Rep PRIOR to Obama) from our insurance carrier saying our companies policy would increase from 20-45% depending on the year to continue with the same coverage for our employees as we had last year.....THAT was why Obamacare was needed- now the only things you need to know about things from then until now: 1. Dems should have included Republicans in creating the universal healthcare act, 2. Republicans should have used the last 8 years to help make the act better, NOT try to get rid of it, prove it's unconstittutional, prove Obama was Kenyan, etc, etc, 3. Obama care benifited many, and had more good than bad. 3. Neither Republicans NOR democrats did anything to fix those bad things in the past 8 years. 4. Republicans had 8 years to craft a sensible healthcare plan ready to roll out when they had the chance and obviously did not. 4. NOW republicans don't even include segments of their own party in crafting their version- with results one would suspect, 5. If you ALLOW health insurers to leave out coverage for the ER, maternity, PT, wellness visits, and on and on, for sure healthcare coverage WILL be cheaper- useless, but cheaper.....Now why do we need a universal healthcare act - cause only poop rolls downhill....Any savings and breaks you give coorporate folks will benifit the compainies bottom line and the coorporate bonuses and golden parachutes.. oh and just to keep this post on message- remember folks under the Republican plan if you get lyme disease and you switch jobs, under the republican act which will come into play at some time, you new insurance may very well not cover your on-going lyme treatment cause it's preexisting- and before we go off on the health insurance should only be for catastrophic events crap- that horse left the barn years ago- We live in the greatest country in the world- the only reason insurance companies don't want to cover the ER, PT, Maternity, etc is greed. Reasonable coverage that insurance comanies can survive on and Americans can afford should be the answer- and when you eliminate greed from both ends that certainly can be achieved.....not in our disfuntianal system we presently suffer through, but someday.