So jhmd, are the disabled the responsibility of the government?
The mother is providing care, and being subsidized - in fact, paid in cash - by the government to do so. You support this transfer payment, apparently, but not other transfer payments also expressly designed to assist parents in caring for the needs of their children which they are similarly unable to independently afford.
Just wanted to get clear where the distinction lies, and you have placed it on the fact of disability, so thanks for making that clear.
I think that's a pretty bright line worthy of demarcation, no? If I make a responsible choice to have a child that all things being equal I can provide for, raise and education, the odds overwhelmingly being that the child is healthy, and through horrid misfortune my child has these disabilities, that person deserves a helping hand. They certainly don't deserve to be forced to warehouse their child in a group home by this poorly reasoned legislation. If anyone deserves an exemption from this legislative folly, it's this family (and not the families that a) forced it down our throats and b) upheld it as "taxation").
I don't think that a person who carelessly fathers a child he has no intention of raising deserves the same subsidy (ostensibly designed to "help" the child....slow clap), so I'm fairly comfortable drawing the line between disability and neglect.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/29/news/economy/employers-obamacare-benefits/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Tying our health insurance system to employers and employment was the original sin of the American health care system, and as this article illustrates, ACA just doubles-down on that original bad idea.
The main reason the right is freaking out is they know once ACA is more in place on October 1, millions of Americans will love it and the GOP won't have their issue for 2014.
Instead of the 40 votes to repeal Obamacare, why not vote to replace it with something better?
I think they would love that. Unfortunately the democrats aren't interested in a republican fix anymore than the pubs are interested in a democratic fix.
It would help their cause a lot more to present their own plan instead of just whining incessantly.