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Fox News: "Obamacare is worse than Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War!"

Fox News anchor and blonde woman #47 on the channel - Martha MacCallum - recently said the following about Obamacare:

"What I keep coming back to in all of this is unlike other issues - Katrina or the Iraq war-this is something that touches so many people's lives across the country and you don't know whether the president is going to be able to successfully dodge it."

Really? A healthcare plan touches many people's lives across this country, but war and natural disasters don't? How many soldiers died in Iraq? How long were some of them overseas? How were they when the came back home? How were their families? How many lives were impacted by Hurricane Katrina? How many were killed? How many lost their homes? How long will it take for New Orleans to fully rebound? Will it ever fully recover? What were the damage costs in both Iraq and Louisiana?

What Fox News talking heads and other conservative commentators are failing to realize with their asinine comparisons between Obamacare and Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War is the fact that, whether they want to believe it or not, the intent of the Affordable Care Act is a positive one. The intent is to provide more people with health coverage, require a higher standard of coverage, and lower costs. Will there be unfortunate scenarios when surgeries aren't successful and people die as a result? Yes, but that's the way it's always been. The Affordable Care Act's intent is to help save lives and money. It will undoubtedly touch people's lives, but the intent and likely end result is and will be a positive one. That's not the case with sending soldiers off to war under false pretenses or reacting slowly to a natural disaster. The intent of the former was awful and the intent of the latter was seemingly one of indifference. Putting soldiers in harm's way based on a lie and taking a great deal of time to provide proper aid to New Orleans after a devastating hurricane is drastically different than trying to improve this nation's health, and with that, our lives, through healthcare reform.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/fox-news-obamacare-katrina-iraq-war-martha-maccallum_n_4339143.html

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