I think the very rich like Obama because he'll relentlessly try to make the Government bigger, and keep adding ways for government to stick it's enormous nose in the business of every American. For the rich, this means they are the only ones with the resources to seriously influence government action and policy. People of lesser means cannot overcome regulatory hurdles to successfully start new businesses, nor can they successfully lobby government for redress. No one will ever be successful or elevate their financial condition to the next class by getting a welfare check from Obama, but the rich will get richer with his politically-motivated grants and contract awards. Oh yeah, the rich Democrats love that all the way to the bank.

Insurance, at least today's insurance is the problem, no matter who pays. Here's my simple cheap prescription to dramatically decrease the cost and increase access to medical care: (1) permit pharmacists to prescribe legal medications and labs to prescribe tests. Less Doctor/Gatekeeper. (2) forbid direct payments from insurance companies (including medicare/medicaid) to medical service suppliers. (3) make medical malpractice a crime like assault with a similar burden of proof, but forbid civil actions entirely - no law suits with monetary damages. (4) make individuals the sole legal custodians for their own medical records. Care providers may not maintain records for anyone they have not treated in 6 months.

I don't see how having Obamacare tossed by the courts helps the president in his reelection bid. His radical left base will insist on making healthcare an issue, and the only avenue left is to pursue Obama's final solution - single payer. Nobody smart wants that, but that's what Obama will have to run on.

I really don't see how having the supreme court invalidate obamacare helps Obama's reelection. Supposing that it happens, and that energizes liberals, what happens then? Obama must argue that to have "real" healthcare reform, he must now advocate single payer universal care in order to salve the base - but that plan is more of a political loser than obamacare. He would be toast.

Are there credible Americans saying it is was American soldiers who did this, or Afghanis? I look at this story and instantly suspect a propaganda trick. This sounds so unlike our dedicated professional military, and so typical of the ruthless immoral enemy. What would we possibly gain? What would THEY gain? Whose side would it delight Reuters more to broadcast evil about? No question in my mind that history and sense favors a setup and smear job. I warned you.

Obama, like every good elite liberal, wants Americans to go to college exclusively so they can be indebted to the government, enslaved by debt service on student loans, and broken to acquiescence to liberal theology. Liberals love the idea of brainwashed masses dependably locked in perpetual servitude. Elite liberals don't like the idea of young people empowered, ambitious, and threatening to seize power by the force of uncontrolled innovation. That's why they like mainstream public education, unionization, student loans, single-payer healthcare, ubiquitous bureaucratic regulation, and diplomacy. Anything to cement the current class strata with themselves securely near the top.

Four simple, low cost changes would dramatically fix health care problems: (1) make it illegal for insurance companies to directly pay providers for any service or product. Patients pay doctors, and insurers would reimburse patients. (2) Allow pharmicists to prescribe legal medicines, and labs to prescribe tests. (3) Medical history data belongs to the patient, it's sole legal custodian. Make it illegal for doctors to maintain medical records for a patient they haven't treated for six months. (4) Make medical malpractice a criminal offense, like assault, with no civil penalty - with a criminal standard of proof.

Ann is so right on with this. Insurance is the most expensive way to pay for something you're certain to need, and plans to make first-dollar coverage insurance universal will produce an explosion in prices and expenses that can barely be imagined. Insurance charges everyone all-or-nothing once per year, for the medical services that an average person is going to need, plus more for the unlikely but expensive medical services that a few will need, plus some more for profit and operating expenses. How could that ever cost less for the average person than just buying medical services when needed. Nobody smart would buy grocery insurance.

Popularity is so beside the point. Congress needs to stop buying voters and start statesmen-like responsibility to govern (and spend) in the interest of the country for now and in the future. Stop wasting the future prosperity of the country on stupid programs that advance no national interest and stifle private sector innovation.

Oh please. I think the main problem with this joke is that it dragged on so long that most everyone commenting has forgotten the first paragraph - that part that explains in what way that this is a sarcastic joke. Seriously, how would you persuade a RINO to pick one of the current republican candidates to vote for? I wanted to roll with it, and think it was funny or clever - it just wasn't. Sorry