I will never understand why the rest of the civilized Western world seems to believe that humans should look after fellow humans, when in this country, if you're unlucky... sorry.  You're just screwed.

I pay more for everything now knowing that the 27 year old kid (a friend) in Asheville who was never able to get coverage (because of what she was born with) now can... and I'm perfectly okay with it.

I don't like the America where your birth fortune is your fate.  I like the kumbayah approach that we should all assume we could be the unlucky one and therefore we should all accept some responsibility toward one another.

I guess that makes me a loser lib. 

...why liberals (not you, necessarily, I don't know you) couch any sort of attempts at reform of government programs as heartless and cruel. The goal of such reform is not to f-ck over poor folks to get rich, it's to find a more efficient and sustainable way to accomplish the same goals.

The size of any given budget=/=the size of how much you care.