Poor Michelle.

       I just learned from the Drudge Report that Michelle Bachmann is claiming she has lost her healthcare insurance. As though the Affordable Care Act has singled her out. Actually the deal is that Congress, that means every Congressman and Senator, will no longer have their special "Cadillac" policy from the government. They'll have to buy their own insurance like everybody else. So now she's complaining that her insurance will go up when she finally decides to sign up. Well, let's hope so. Members of Congress have enjoyed a low cost, high quality policy for decades and the government has been subsidizing it. Which means taxpayers have been subsidizing it.
       It's interesting how a certain portion of Congress continues to claim the ACA is unfixable and must be repealed. Over and over they claim the law has no redeeming qualities. That is until you start ticking off the parts everyone likes. No pre-existing exceptions, children up to 26 can be insured under parents policy, 20 million or more uninsured get to have insurance now, thus relieving hospitals and taxpayers from the costs of unpaid emergency room expenses, just to name a few.
       Actually that last one isn't counted as a plus by these folks who are against the ACA. Presumably they prefer a sicker uninsured lower class. I don't know what these folks have against the poor. Why is it that they hate the poor so much? I don't think they hate them individually, but as a collection of folks living in poverty, these good souls dislike them for.... what? It must be slothfulness. I'll bet that's it. These folks are working several jobs trying to support their families and that is just un-American in the minds of our ACA haters.
       If you're not extremely successful, you aren't one of them and that seems to be unforgivable. Now to be fair, the poor are liked at times. If only the poor would vote for these extreme candidates with their extreme ideology, then they'd be loved until right after election day. Ya see, when some folks take their marching orders from corporate America, then what you get is lower wages, no benefits and a life of struggle. Ain't it great?