The system used to work; it's not my fault you're too young to remember that.  They used to work together for 3 years, then fight for one when the presidential election was happening.  I was young then (Reagan is the first President I have a memory of and honestly the first thing I remember was the assassination attempt).  That probably ended with the Clinton impeachment, though I didn't really notice it until later as I wasn't paying much attention to politics at the time. 

I think we need a third party...I've thought that for a while.  Just something to force more working together for ALL of the people instead of pandering to the extremes on both sides.  No healthcare overhaul is going to work until they address the escalating costs.  It's like a game right now.  Insurance companies negotiate costs down, so providers do things like requiring additional office visits or tests to make up the money they are losing.  Obamacare did nothing to address the actual problem; all it did was forcefeed feelgood things that aren't sustainable.  I'm 100% for true healthcare reform.  That doesn't mean single payer and that doesn't mean the gov't running everything.  That means addressing the cost of healthcare.  I don't know what the answer is.  I know limiting lawsuits on malpractice would help, but that alone won't solve it.  Drugs are ridiculously expensive.  Premiums are ridiculously expensive.  Deductibles are ridiculously high to the point that even work policies are little more than catastrophic care plans.  The insurance companies aren't the issue; the gov't regulates how much they can profit on premiums, and it's not a lot.  They make their money investing the premiums, so with the market doing so well, of course their profits are up.

I am fine with the tax cuts.  They help most people.  They will not make it as-is to expiration.  I am not a fan of all the panicking without knowing what is going to happen.  If you have to pass it to see what it is was good enough for our healthcare, it's fine for this.  If they follow this up by finding a way to limit people living off of the gov't, I am fine with that.  If they follow this with attacking social security and other programs that people have paid into, that's not going to fly.  Let's see what happens before flipping out for once.

I'm going to hopefully go see this again this weekend.  My thoughts haven't really changed since seeing it the first time.  I get why they did what they did (even the things I didn't like), but there was one thing they shouldn't have done that not only ruins this movie for me, but it ruins episode 9 for me before it begins. 

If you didn’t care about the debt when Obama was running it up, you don't get to complain about it now.  I know I posted this in one of these threads, but liberals love to cry about climate change and how we can't ruin things for future generations while having no issue with running up the debt for future generations.  You don't get to cry about the debt just because you liked where the money was going before and don't like where it's going now.

What entitlements are you guys worried about?  Social Security?  Medicare?  What exactly do you guys have your panties in a bunch over?  Why do you really think there's going to be enough support from the public to get rid of those things?  If they cut those things, they are all out of office in a heartbeat.  Use your heads for something other than a hat rack.  However...

Some sort of reform is needed.  It should happen.  No more free rides for the lazy.  The problem is going to be how to establish who is lazy and who genuinely needs the help.  I don't have an easy answer for that.  Full drug testing isn't cost effective, though some sort of random testing (just the threat of it) would be okay in my book.  There's a solution somewhere, but someone smarter than I am will have to figure it out.