Health Care Website

I'm posting today about the issues with the ACA....
It is remarkable to read history and see the pattern of change in this country: time and again, the initial nay-sayers and attackers, followed by ultimate victory. Fulton's Folly, Seward's Folly, Rockefeller Center ("They'll never fill it"), Social Security, etc. 
And here we go again. The media has to fill a 24-hour news cycle, and also has to grab the attention of readers with short attention spans, and so headlines including the word "Disaster" are much easier to write than anything considered. In addition, there is the tradition of going after a President in his second term, and further, the New York Times' reaction to their "soft on Obama" accusations. Meanwhile, the public has no perspective, our educational system doesn't teach us the real value of the past, which is that most things have already happened and we can avoid a lot of mistakes if we learn how things actually rockily progressed. There are an amazing number of phrases like "It almost didn't happen." Americans "want it now!" and after the first few weeks, of course the ACA was a fiasco, even though the great majority agreed that healthcare reform was necessary -- except it's increasingly clear that it isn't a fiasco. In fact, despite the terrible rollout, it's been rather a test of things to see it starting to succeed. The demand for it has been that great, and just maybe, just maybe -- it's going to succeed because it was the right thing to do, after all?

Abortion...

Replying to Ramses comment on my previous post

First of all a fetus does not have completely developed organs, feelings, or thoughts as a living BABY has. An embryo or a fetus is not a person, therefore, it is not murder. Plus there's no way a fetus can have more importance than women. Women can think, feel and have the right to make their own decisions.How would I feel if I were an aborted fetus? Answer: Nothing. I wouldn't feel anything. Why? I can't think. Do you have any memories of when you were in the womb? I think no.Do you really think that it is ONLY the women responsibility to think about the consequences before having sex when you said "before the women have sex, she has to take the responsibility" FYI it takes two to get it done!
And don't try to tell me that women are not responsible because they can take birth control because birth control is only 99% effective.
Finally, one of the main reasons women have abortions is because it can interfere with her education or career goals.Why? Because most men don't want to deal with the idea that if the woman gets pregnant it is the responsibility of BOTH to take care of the situation.Either way, the end result is poverty for both the woman and the child. Statistics show that those who live in poorer communities are more likely to commit crime than those in the middle and upper class. More specifically, this will also mean that the murder rate will be lower than it would have been without abortion. In that case, abortion will save more lives of innocent civilians.
In conclusion, saying that we need to end abortion for the sake of saving lives is not valid, as it is very clear that more lives will be saved with abortion.

The Texas Abortion

      If there is an entity literally inside of a woman's body; sentient or not, fully human or not; literally using her body to sustain itself without her permission, threatening her emotional or physical well-being, it is ABSOLUTELY her right to remove it. This type of argument would not hold up in ANY other legal area. If I was living in your house, you would have the right to remove me no matter what the consequences to me were. If I needed your organs or use of your body to survive, you would have the right to deny me even if it meant my death, and even if you had already passed and were no longer using your body. and by denying a pregnant woman her biological autonomy, not only are you granting a fetus more rights than ANY LIVING PERSON EVER, you are granting a woman LESS rights than a corpse.
     Does it ever cross your mind who is going to support those children who result from this law? ...NOT the state of Texas, I bet you! They condemn the children, their mothers, and all who labor to do their best for children to poverty, poor/nonexistent health care, and lives of hopelessness and despair. If these men were FORCED to give birth, I bet a lot of such laws would change overnight. What a mockery of justice! huh.

The Health Site's

On October 21, 2013 The New York Times published an editorial under the name The Health Site's Chaotic Debut Written by The Editorial Board.
The editor basically talks about the technical issues that are happening with the ACA application site. the website is freezing and cutting people off in the middle of  their application process. Congressional Republicans are blaming it the president Obama and very eager to use this issue as evidence that health care reform is doomed to failure and ought to be delayed.
The Editorial Board sees and explains that the ACA website problems are not president Obama responsibility. The editor argues that the problem is a responsibility of the administration office "Even so, carrying out the law and making the technology work is the responsibility of the administration — as are the swift repairs required to ensure that millions can actually sign up for the coverage they need".
I personally agree with The editors argument because the public can not blame everything goes wrong with government system on the president. Each governmental office in has its' own responsibility, and the technological issues with the health care are not necessarily the president responsibility, plus the president does not do everything by himself. however the president hired professionals to fix the website issues. and "increased staffing at call centers that will help people enroll by phone at all hours of day and night, counselors (called navigators) in each state who will help people enroll in person, and applications that can be downloaded and mailed in".
Also the president Obama promised to help the people who have already filled out the application and got stuck somewhere in the process, that the government will help them out in the next weeks to find the best way to finish submitting their applications.
After all the president can not solve everything right away but Obama is trying to find alternative ways to help people out until the ACA website is running properly.

What Is There To Negotiate?

On Tuesday October 1, 2013 The New York Times published an opinion under the name The G.O.P. Definition of ‘Negotiation’ written by David Firestone.

His opinion is basically a discussion of how the US government is negotiating over the ACA law.
But in my opinion what is there to negotiate? The last time I checked, the ACA is already LAW. It was already litigated and went to the nation's top court and still remained intact. Since when in history did one party or another insist on sitting down at the negotiation table “AFTER” the bill was passed?.

But the story behind this crisis is long ago when the radical Republicans stated that their goal is to destroy the Obama presidency and the Democrats. That statement, by itself, is breathtaking. Now, I wonder whether their genuine objective is to destroy this Nation as a whole and effectively mount a coup. Of course, not one of them would ever hint at such a thing...it would meet the legal definition of treason. Anyway, look at their actions, not at their words. Their actions increasingly point to the objective of destroying the government. What I see going on looks very much like a conspiracy by the radical Conservatives. I'm beginning to think that there are many subversives in Congress. And another HUGR and most obvious reason, Republicans are desperately trying to delay implementation of the ACA exactly one year because from now is because Oct. 1, 2014 is a month before the midterm election. Which is not enough time for most voters to sign up for new insurance, or to see the positive impact the ACA has on their lives. Though 13 months WILL be effective. This makes the Republicans deathly afraid that the ACA will be a big success, and then what will they run on in 2014? And the Democrats will have a big success story to run against them. After all this shutdown we see here, is the tip of a very disturbing disaster that should cause us all alarm.

However The Democrats will gain political capital from this mess. The rational voices in the Republican camp need to begin reigning in the extremists, before this ugliness spirals even further. The Republicans are surely better than this.

Turning Point Between The U.S. And Iran

On Tuesday September 24, 2013 CNN published an article under the title of Iran president brings 'charm offensive' to U.N., but will Obama buy it?. The article was written by Michael Martinez.
The article talks about the relationship between U.S. and Iran and the years long conflict over the Iranian use of nuclear weapons. The article analyzes the speech of the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani that was held last week at the capital of Iran, the speech had many hopeful comments reaching toward having a better relationship with Washington. Rouhani speech hasn't played as good in Israel. In fact the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not sure about Rouhanis' speech, and planning to warm the United Nations from Rouhanis' nuclear deal, and thinks it's a trap. But Rouhani insists that Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful energy only, but the U.S. and other countries suspect that the nuclear program is for atomic bombs!
I think this is a pretty big deal, because it will change a lot in the relationship between the United States and Iran and the perspective of the United Nation to the Iranian use of nuclear weapons, and if that changes, the relationship between the United States and the middle east will be affected as well and that would lead to many more conflicts in he area.