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@ISIDEWITHQuestionsHealthcare13yrs ago

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

The Affordable Care Act is a federal statute signed into law in 2010 that introduces a sweeping overhaul of the nation's healthcare system. The act grants the federal government significant regulatory powers and price controls over U.S. medical service providers and insurance companies.

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 @5BMX4XTanswered…3yrs3Y

No.. Institute a National Health Insurance Model like Canada & South Korea.

 @8PBY8XC from Florida  answered…4yrs4Y

I support the idea, but I would also like for citizens to have the option to have their own private healthcare accounts.

  @8R7JPB5 from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

Healthcare is a necessity for a healthy life, we must begin looking at ways to remove the profit motive from healthcare.

 @38LNC72answered…4yrs4Y

No, either making a universal health care for all -or- open the markets so insurers can compete across state lines and reduce costs. Either would be better as the system we have is anti-competitive with big giveaways to Pharma/Insurance which is why Americans pay more than any other country for health care.

 @2HN4HSXanswered…4yrs4Y

No, I support the spirit of the plan, giving everyone helthcare. However, forcing a product on the population by government mandate with the consequences of fines or even jailtime is unconstitutional and immoral.

 @63ZXW6N from Arizona  answered…4yrs4Y

I dislike the requirement to have it. But aside from that, there should be a public healthcare option available.

 @63ZXW6N from Arizona  answered…3yrs3Y

No, I dislike the requirement to have it. But aside from that, there should be a public healthcare option available.

 @Biasterror92 from Alabama  answered…4yrs4Y

No, it should just be free.

 @7Y67TWY from Florida  answered…4yrs4Y

More Important to lower the price of healthcare procedures to make insurance more attainable for all.

 @8D5J4RR from Minnesota  answered…4yrs4Y

Too expensive, we already spend too much.

 @8R7N6V4 from Mississippi  answered…4yrs4Y

Primary Direct Care is superior.

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ICC Arrest Warrants Push Israel Into Unprecedented Global Backlash

Arrest warrants issued for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister over alleged war crimes threaten to deepen the global isolation of a country already under pressure around the world for its handling of the war in the Gaza Strip.Israeli officials are concerned the warrants and the still-secret details of the charges could imperil Israeli government and military officials who travel abroad and could be detained for alleged war crimes.The move by the International Criminal Court will complicate travel by Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who would risk arrest in any of the court’s 124 member countries, which technically are obliged to enforce the arrest warrants.The warrants will lead some governments to scale down contacts with Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, according to legal experts and officials familiar with the situation. They could also spur efforts to bring new war-crimes cases against lower-ranking Israeli and Hamas officials in national courts in Europe and elsewhere. More subtly, they could also encourage an ad-hoc pattern of shunning Israeli academics, defense companies and officials that has taken root in countries and institutions angry at the toll of the war in Gaza.The ICC warrants are likely to have the greatest effect on Israel’s relations with countries in Europe, which have been broadly supportive of Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and the resulting war. All 27 members of the European Union, along with the U.K., are parties to the Rome Statute, the international treaty that created the court.European countries have been split in their reactions to the decision. Some, such as the Netherlands, say plainly they would enforce the arrest warrants. Hungary, led by right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, invited Netanyahu to visit on Friday in defiance of the ICC’s decision. Germany, caught between its support for the court and its history of the Holocaust, said it would carefully examine any steps it takes should Netanyahu or Gallant decide to visit.“Almost all of them would arrest Netanyahu if he were to visit, which means it’s pretty guaranteed that he won’t,” said Anthony Dworkin, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “I’d be quite surprised even if he goes to Hungary.”

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