{"id":46139,"date":"2014-10-29T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/29\/obamacare-the-comic-book.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:20:41","slug":"obamacare-the-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/29\/obamacare-the-comic-book.html","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare: The Comic Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it definitely has some opinions to express, this illustrated guide to the history, implementation, problems, and plusses of the ACA is very, very good.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Probably one of the best overviews of Obamacare I&#39;ve seen so far. It&#39;s far from perfect, but the Republicans have offered nothing substantive as an alternative. Ideally we&#39;d switch to a single payer system using the best parts of systems in other post-industrial democracies with the option to pay extra for supplemental insurance if you can afford it and want it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/10\/29\/obamacare-what-it-is-what-it.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/DIjOw-e5ArgPka81kXWCNxs2zaOSqioYBJeBr57IE4IfKeF3Ke29ap5in-6ZyaL5RMVMKNK8PQvjt_I92hItiFHifvWkKz6dzn_enJh-kGyHGtn7tIRg=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/10\/29\/obamacare-what-it-is-what-it.html'>Obamacare: what it is, what it&rsquo;s not<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s no surprise that we haven&rsquo;t seen a conservative alternative to Obamacare; Obamacare was the conservative alternative. Written by Michael Goodwin of Economix Comix. Illustrations by Dan E. Burr. Lettered by Debra Freiberg.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MbieAuQF3Bc'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it definitely has some opinions to express, this illustrated guide to the history, implementation, problems, and plusses of the ACA is very, very good. Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: Probably one of the best overviews of Obamacare I&#39;ve seen so far. It&#39;s far from perfect, but the Republicans have offered nothing substantive as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/29\/obamacare-the-comic-book.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obamacare: The Comic Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43281,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/if-obamacare-walked-on-water-theyd-say-it-couldnt-swim.html","url_meta":{"origin":46139,"position":0},"title":"If Obamacare walked on water, they&#39;d say it couldn&#39;t swim","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Jun-14 3:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If the numbers indicate health care spending is spiking under the ACA, Obamacare critics claim it will bankrupt the country.If the numbers indicate health care spending is actually down under the ACA, Obamacare critics say ... it is tanking the medical sector, and thus the economy.It's almost as if ...Reshared\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51416,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/john-thune-obamacare-and-blaming-the-victim.html","url_meta":{"origin":46139,"position":1},"title":"John Thune, Obamacare, and Blaming the Victim","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Jun-15 9:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"After the GOP and conservatives have done everything within their power short of armed revolt to destroy the Affordable Care Act, culminating in the ludicrous King v Burwell case before SCOTUS, Sen. 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