Personal reactions to the PPACA decision

[tmthforu94]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

[© tweed]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

if you're like that at 18 I shudder to think of you at 38!

[Kung Fu Kenny]

I spent all day smoking and listening to John Lee Hooker with friends...

[Lief 🗽]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

Do your parents know you're wasting their money on this sh**?

[Franzl]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

Ah, that's obviously money well spent.

[Free Palestine]

The health care thing?

I saw the news on AJE, and went "huh, that's interesting I guess."

[Hash]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

Mittens Romney would like to personally thank you for donating what he earns in 10 seconds.

Thanks again;
Mitt

[Yelnoc]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

What the fuck, man?

[Boris]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

Aren't you going to college in like two months? That's ~7 cubes of Keystone or Natty Ice you could have bought. Crazy, brah.

[You kip if you want to...]

Got more confident that the President will still be the President this time next year.

[Donerail]

Saw it, thought "Eh, we need a new Congress and a new President. Guess we need a new Court too." and went on with my day.

[Redalgo]

I was pretty jaded already. It was pleasant not to have the whole law struck down but I was mildly disappointed the punishment for not buying private insurance didn't go. I still want new reforms and this decision doesn't bode well for it, really. On the whole though it's alright for now. Aside from that, I don't particularly care about how the Constitution is being interpreted.

[LastVoter]

I just donated $100 to Romney for President.

Aren't you going to college in like two months? That's ~7 cubes of Keystone or Natty Ice you could have bought. Crazy, brah.

[fezzyfestoon]

I weep for the future

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I support the decision but it doesn't change the fact that the policy is awful and only a small step above the past health care system.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I support the decision but it doesn't change the fact that the policy is awful and only a small step above the past health care system.

This.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

First reaction: I don't know why I'm crying. Am I suspended in gaffa?
Second reaction: Wait, Roberts?!
Third reaction: See TheDeadFlagBlues and Antonio.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Positively surprised.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

First reaction: I don't know why I'm crying. Am I suspended in gaffa?
Second reaction: Wait, Roberts?!
Third reaction: See TheDeadFlagBlues and Antonio.

[argentarius]

Initially I was kinda bummed. Then I remembered that this piece of legislation isn't all that significant.

[© tweed]

noontime fist pump

[Lief 🗽]

Liberals/lefties who act like this bill is pointless because it's not left-wing enough for them really annoy me. The point of passing social policy like this is not to prove a point or something, it's to help people and make society better. This bill does that. It expands health insurance coverage to tens of millions of people who didn't have it before. Those are real people, real human beings who can now afford to go to the doctor and treat diseases and ailments that they couldn't before. This policy is only "awful" to idealistic middle-class left-wingers on the internet who are completely removed from the reality of the people whose lives will be materially better because of this legislation.

[© tweed]

Liberals/lefties who act like this bill is pointless because it's not left-wing enough for them really annoy me. The point of passing social policy like this is not to prove a point or something, it's to help people and make society better. This bill does that. It expands health insurance coverage to tens of millions of people who didn't have it before. Those are real people, real human beings who can now afford to go to the doctor and treat diseases and ailments that they couldn't before. This policy is only "awful" to idealistic middle-class left-wingers on the internet who are completely removed from the reality of the people whose lives will be materially better because of this legislation.

as an avowed left-totalitarian who will not be voting for Obama, I wholeheartedly concur, but: don't discount the symbolic value of PPACA.  Zizek speaks on this, I can't find it right now.  point is it strikes at the heart of the prevailing ideological headwinds of the past 31+ years: in a world of pain and privatization, one small step.

[Zioneer]

I support the decision but it doesn't change the fact that the policy is awful and only a small step above the past health care system.

This, but honestly when I heard about it I was all "alright, cool. Now the Supreme Court won't whine about single-payer when it finally happens."

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Liberals/lefties who act like this bill is pointless because it's not left-wing enough for them really annoy me. The point of passing social policy like this is not to prove a point or something, it's to help people and make society better. This bill does that. It expands health insurance coverage to tens of millions of people who didn't have it before. Those are real people, real human beings who can now afford to go to the doctor and treat diseases and ailments that they couldn't before. This policy is only "awful" to idealistic middle-class left-wingers on the internet who are completely removed from the reality of the people whose lives will be materially better because of this legislation.

I actually fully agree with this post. When I looked back on my initial thoughts, I was surprised that I said something so harsh against a piece of legislation that I still zealously defend because of the major impacts it will make in the lives of millions. It's one of the few reasons that I'm proud to consider myself a Democrat and an Obama supporter at this point.  At the same time though, do you honestly think that this bill was constructed well as far as long term policy goes? My concerns aren't that it doesn't introduce a single player system or a public option (it was moronic to expect that to happen), my concerns are that it doesn't properly address the skyrocketing costs of care that are strangling the system and that "Obamacare" is doomed to failure in the same way that the health care system would be without it.