Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Happy Birthday
Date:	7/30/2015 10:20:08 PM

"Fifty years ago, on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicaid, along with Medicare, into law as part of his vision to build a “great society,” a society that used the country’s material success “to enrich and elevate our national life and to advance the quality of our American civilization.”

I bet all you old folks on the Right just love your single payer government run Medicare that covers all your preexisting conditions. Yet, the same old folks on the Right criticize Obamacare. Kinda like I have my Medicare and screw everyone else.

Name:	copperline -	Reply
Subject:	Happy Birthday
Date:	7/31/2015 11:14:12 PM

I agree.... we have short memories around these parts.   Medicare was supposed to be the beginning of a certain slide into the horrors of socialism..... and strongly opposed.   Now its a part of the fabric of life, and everybody agrees with its importance to society.  It will be the same with the ACA.   You can't grow a country without healthcare for its workforce, any more than you can have a successful country if seniors weren't secured by the Medicare/Medicaid safety nets.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	Happy Birthday
Date:	8/1/2015 11:16:00 AM (updated 8/1/2015 11:17:05 AM)

Also on the radar today, you can't grow or run a successful country or compete in a world economy unless you are willing to pay for, maintain, improve and expand the nation's infrastructure.  Something that the T-party faction, now blocking or attempting to block almost all common sense and reasonable measures in Congress, fails to understand.