The bestest US healthcare of all times

[The Mad Monk]

The point is, it went to the general revenue fund, not to Social Security, which is how it was sold to the Congress (where there was bipartisan support) and the public. It should also be pointed out that the 1983 payroll tax increase (which largely negated Reagan's prior tax cuts) was most likely the brainchild of Alan Greenspan, who was later rewarded with the post of Federal Reserve chair. Not sure if I can find the exact website I quoted, but there are numerous articles on this topic. Here are a few:

Washington Post, 1991

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.880e8a2a983a

Here are some others:

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/...ecurity-heist/

https://www.sott.net/article/232087-...ion-Surplus-Go

https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrill.../#1318fcec4947

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/09/ro...ecurity-heist/

https://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2...ity-trust-fund

Didn't the bipartisan congress read the bill before passing it?

[Proteus_MST]

Must all be the fault of the Democrats ... and fake news media

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/po...art/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/po...est/index.html

[Ben Kenobi]

Was that abortion or contraceptives? Please post a link. It's not like you've haven't played loose with the facts before.

Our specific concern was over required abortion coverage in our healthcare plan.

But then anyone willing to risk going bankrupt due to an illness isn't very bright anyway. Not being able to afford it is one thing, but choosing it is different. I guess they deserve what they get.

Wasn't ideal, but we made do. There are other forms of health care coverage, rah.

[Ben Kenobi]

What Ben is not telling you, probably because he is too stupid to know, is why this problem magically popped up right after Trump took office. The reason is Trump has been withhold the cost sharing payments which legally the Feds are obligated to pay. I.E. he is refusing to pay the subsidies to insurance companies as legally required. This is what is causing insurance companies to decide to withdraw from the market as there were cmvery few problems prior to Jan 20th of this year. Gee, what happened on Jan 20th?

And nothing to do with Obamacare being an utter ****show?

[rah]

Wasn't ideal, but we made do.

Is usually the comment made after a bad decision. But then I refuse to argue healthcare with a person that doesn't have a family that he is responsible for. If you want to be stupid about your own situation fine, but when a family is involved it's almost criminal.