MB Civic

By Steven Rosenfeld | 3/22/2012

“… The Obamacare battle (…) is a proxy fight between the seemingly irreconcilable differences in American politics. On one side are centrist Democrats, who, like Obama, believe that the social safety net needs mending and that the private sector and all citizens have obligations to support that effort. On the other side are Republican opponents who do not want to see federal government do much beyond waging wars, and who do not even want their states to pay for current obligations—whether as health programs, pensions or education—and amazingly, do not even offer an alternative but instead posture behind their survival-of-the-fittest, let-the-market-fix-it ideology….”

http://www.alternet.org/news/154662/the_court_battle_over_health_care_is_a_struggle_for_a_future_vision_for_america%3A_6_things_you_need_to_know