Also, when it comes to health insurance, I'm a little dismayed how just pushing aside 10 mil people is brushed off. Yeah, some didn't want health insurance. Some did. I look at it this way. If you call 911, the cops will come help you. It doesn't matter if you're me, Stadler, Mark Cuban, Kate Upton, whoever. The cops protect everyone. We protect our people from domestic threats. Same with the military. We don't send our military off to wherever to protect rich Americans. If an American is killed and beheaded we don't ask what their income level was or how many taxes they paid. So we also protect our own equally from foreign threats. Yet, healthcare is treated as some kind of commodity that should abide by the capitalistic ideals - those that have money can afford it, if not, sucks for you. I ask - why? Why is a robber breaking into someone's house equally treated and police equally protect those of all income levels, but we don't grant the same equality to cancer, or lupus, or MS, or.... I don't get the disconnect here. I'm tired of seeing 10 mil people brushed aside in the name of economics (which don't make sense in themselves, healthy populations make more money and cost less, but that's a moot point I guess). We don't do that with so many other protections in our country, yet healthcare seems to be fair game. It makes no sense and falls apart under its own logic.

I think this is a good post. It reflects my thoughts way better than I could say myself.
Great post indeed... I am so glad that I live in a country where healthcare is provided by the state and does not depend upon me having an insurance that might or might not cover my injury or disease.
It's only a great post if you a) make the false connection that Portnoy311 did, that somehow it's a conscious and overt attempt to specifically exclude anyone (and I'd have to ask, by whom, since even Obama's vaunted program didn't reach that 10 million), or b) if you make ridiculous, self-serving, self-justifying comments like this one:
Great post indeed... I am so glad that I live in a country where healthcare is provided by the state and does not depend upon me having an insurance that might or might not cover my injury or disease.
It's just so frickin' weird how simple and awesome a solution this is--and yet so many people in this country are totally against it because of partisan politics alone.
What a surprise; you're miraculously RIGHT and everyone who disagrees with you is a partisan hack. Honestly, it's YOUR thinking that is the problem. It's that constant "I'm right, you're CLEARLY wrong, and too stupid to even know it" attitude that makes so many people dig in their heels.
No one said the "10 million were expendable", least of all not me. Look closer at what the argument is: we're not anywhere NEAR getting that 10 million covered, either under Obamacare, Ryancare, Trumpcare, Portnoycare, or Kardashiancare. But we're USING that metric, to justify any and all incremental change, at the expense of hundreds of other variables. There's no easy way to describe this, but it's a common thing in manufacturing: you have x defects. And you want to get to zero. One solution will get you to x-y defects, at a cost that is radically out of whack with achieving the x defects, and makes it practically, if not virtually, impossible to get to zero. And some of us - me included - think that that's where we're at with Healthcare. It's a complete misstatement of reality to just assume that we're "costing" these 10 million people out of coverage. If Obamacare ACTUALLY covered those 10 million people, you might be right. But every provision in the world was given to get these people covered and they are STILL not. What does that tell you?
It tells me that a) there's a shit load of people that don't think like party Democrats (and thank God for that!), and b) jsbru's partisan politics screed applies equally, if not moreso, to the people that keep INSISTING Obamacare was working when BY THEIR OWN SELF-APPOINTED METRIC (wrong though it is) it wasn't. It just WASN'T.