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Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Huffington Post provides everything you will need to debate that Right Wing relative who is just itching to pick a fight over Obamacare.

Here is my favorite one courtesy of HuffPo:

Hank (He represents the generic Right Wing relative in this scenario.)The website screwup means Obamacare is dead.

Talking point: The website’s frustrating and time-consuming glitches are deterring healthier young people who are not in dire need of health insurance from signing up, leaving the most desperate and sick as the majority of successful enrollees.

Talking point: Even Democrats are abandoning this sinking ship!

Emily (She represents you.): GOP Governors are largely responsible for the struggling health care rollout in the first place. And Democrats are wimps, so that's not a surprise to anybody.

First off: Remind Hank of the Republican governors who refused to implement state-run marketplaces and forced the Obama administration to set up a single federal marketplace, compounding the federal website’s tech burden with managing exchanges for 36 states.

Republicans then refused to appropriate funding for the additional website burdens on the federal government, which left the Obama administration scrambling to secure additional funding for Healthcare.Gov.

Talking point: Republicans even forced the guy hired to fix the website, Todd Park, who wasn't involved in the rollout, to take nearly a week off to testify before a House committee. The GOP is clearly trying to sabotage this.

State-run online health care marketplaces, notably the ones for California and Kentucky, have fared significantly better than the federal website.

Talking point: Red states have refused to participate in any education initiative to inform the public about the law, and have actively thwarted those who have tried to help -- requiring navigators to jump through government hoops and trying to scare people away with baseless allegations of fraud. All of a sudden, the GOP loves government oversight and regulation.

Lastly: Enrollment goes until March 31. During the first year of Romneycare, younger Americans waited until the last minute to sign up for insurance. That could happen this time, too.

This of course is only one example but the rest of the responses are very useful as well. I don't know about you but I am going to have this baby locked and loaded onto my I-Pad for the first idiot dumb enough to challenge me on the facts. (I usually do not require any back up, but this website thing has provided my opponents with a whole new arsenal to choose from. Could get ugly.)

By the way here is a look at the REAL victims of the Republican obstructionism.




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