On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: > "If you like your plan you can keep your plan." -POTUS Obama > > Comrade Conrad, Apparatchik of University City, tell your lies; tell them > big; tell them often.
Question: "Why would Obama say 'you could keep your plan' knowing most plans wouldn't have the minimum standards required in the Affordable Care Act?" Possible answer: "Because the law doesn't force anyone to change their plan, it only requires the insurance companies to improve their plans. If the FDA said Taco Bell can't sell tacos with rat feces, the FDA isn't forcing you to change your lunch from tacos to burgers, it's just saying the restaurant can't sell you dirty food anymore.” Obama’s proposal for a Federally organized alternative is still a dream - hopefully to be further implemented. “TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ― Howard Zinn
