The Dems caved to Republicans, forfeited what would have been better, and now everyone is slowly realizing the insurance companies pulled a fast one and that ultimately they benefit the most from the ACA. Personally, the ACA discussions make me sick as hardly anyone wants to acknowledge it as "Romneycare," which of itself is not originally Romney's idea, the Reps are obsessed, still, with completely repealing it and letting people who need insurance go without, while the Dems are rightfully kicking themselves in the *** for letting the ACA become so watered down.
It's a very good opportunity to take a few pages from Marx to point out this is how the Bourgeoisie gets the Proletariat to support them, by replacing a system with little support in a way that gives minimal benefits to the Proletariat while furthering the causes and deepening the rule of the Bourgeois. We get the new conditions that offer hardly any real benefit from the new system, while the ruling class enjoys even greater power.
Let's take a look at your assertions one at a time.
The Dems caved to Republicans, forfeited what would have been better, and now everyone is slowly realizing the insurance companies pulled a fast one and that ultimately they benefit the most from the ACA.
False. The Democrats passed the ACA with ZERO votes from Republicans. Therefore how can you say they "caved" to Republicans. The leftest majority within the Democratic Congress had to construct the bill in a manner that those within the majority party would accept. Thus in your thinking it would be that the far left of the Democratic party caved to the centrist coalition of the Democratic party. Sure the insurance companies were in favor of this law. The Democrats insured that these companies would increase their customer base and be supported by taxpayer money. Why wouldn't they be in favor of it, it was a win win situation for them; they couldn't lose money. Therefore wasn't the Democrats in bed with the insurance companies?
the Reps are obsessed, still, with completely repealing it and letting people who need insurance go without, while the Dems are rightfully kicking themselves in the *** for letting the ACA become so watered down.
I will admit that there are those within the Republican party that are obsessed with just repealing Obamacare without offering an alternative. Yet there are those within the Republican and Democratic party that see that the ACA, as written, is a drag on the economy and hurts the middle class the most. These members of Congress are willing to look at various sections of the ACA and offer up changes, such as the medical device tax. However, no major changes will be passed until the court cases wind their way through the court system Of which the biggest concerns the subsidies issue that will be heard by the Supreme Court.
It's a very good opportunity to take a few pages from Marx to point out this is how the Bourgeoisie gets the Proletariat to support them, by replacing a system with little support in a way that gives minimal benefits to the Proletariat while furthering the causes and deepening the rule of the Bourgeois. We get the new conditions that offer hardly any real benefit from the new system, while the ruling class enjoys even greater power.
Rhetoric without substance or fact does noting to address the problems facing the middle class in their desire to insure that they have adequate and affordable healthcare. Which according to data says that they are losing in the both areas. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/u...rdable-care-act-to-increase-in-2015.html?_r=0
What Senator Schumer was pointing out was that they, the Democrats, focused on helping the lower income individuals and ignored the middle class. What they should have been doing is looking how to increase the opportunity for job and income growth for the middle class which would indirectly help those in the lower income group.
The Democratic party is now becoming somewhat divided when it comes to the 2016 Presidential race. Those that support Hillary for president see that the Obama policies will hurt her chances if he, Obama, continues pandering to his base and forgoing all others. One only has to look at the 2014 races to see that politicians wanted nothing to do with Obama and saw him as an albatross around their neck. See:
Obama's Agenda Threatens to Divide the Democratic Party - NationalJournal.com