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How to ruin Christmas: A holiday guide to arguing with conservative relatives

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StephenMeansMe12/25/2013 9:44:31 pm PST

re: #4 Jim D

So you’re against folks having decent affordable healthcare? We had relatives over today that haven’t had health insurance in decades, but were now so excited that they were going to be covered next year? You’d prefer they remain uninsured?

That’s pretty uncharitable. While the coverage (and protections!) extended by Obamacare are better than nothing, they might be weaker than any number of plausible alternatives. Heck, many liberals would agree (cf. single payer).

Maybe rule #0 should be “don’t commit yourself to a war before the belligerents have even declared themselves.”