Conservatives insist the rest of us live by their rules

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...that's like saying because you don't want or need social security, you shouldn't have to participate in it. The fact is, both the ACA and social security only work when everyone participates. After all, plenty of us want it need Obamacare, and it seems to me that your choice would deny it to us.

as long as its the freedoms they like. they trash other freedoms which they seem as wrong or not impromtant to them.
both sides only care about THEIR freedoms and not others. which side you choose depends on what freedoms you enjoy and don't want to lose. how sad is that. why can't all freedoms just be protected?

Private insurance had for decades been able to balance the costs and benefits of gender-specific medical care without forcing all policyholders to accept unnecessary coverage. So, now that Obamacare has taken over, it can't accommodate similarly? Are those who manage Obamacare so flummoxed by the idea that had worked for decades unable to accomplish what the private companies did without blinking? Apparently, yes.

Exactly what freedoms are the left trying to deny conservatives besides the freedom to illegally discriminate against other's freedoms???

Consider how well your idea of our system worked. We as a country, per capita, spent twice as much on medical care than any other industrialized country and our outcomes were at the bottom of those countries spending far less than we did. Is that the system you want to defend. You need to understand how insurance works (or should work).

also the right not paying for abortions is hardly the war on women they want to make women slaves and keep them in the kitchen. not paying for something isn't the same as banning it.

lets see right to bear arms, right to privacy, right to of religion, right of your property(laws that say what you can and can't do with your own house), right to not have police come in your home without a warrant,
freedom of your money, here they keep adding more and more taxes, they'll taxing us for saving the environment now, like really they the ones who pushed the whole hybrid/electric car to save the world now they upset that means no money so they going tax us for millage. but wait I drive a gas car so no I get gas tax and millage tax and they want to double the registration tax yay. liberals love taxing people.

also the right not paying for abortions is hardly the war on women they want to make women slaves and keep them in the kitchen. not paying for something isn't the same as banning it.

so tired of the left playing the victim while attacking others who think and do things differently then them.

you're blind to your sides attacks. I'm in the middle I see both sides for the evil they are.

And, now that Obamacare has double (and in some communities, tripled) insurance premium prices, I look fondly on the prices of private insurance from the last 100 years.

Private insurance had for decades been able to balance the costs and benefits of gender-specific medical care without forcing all policyholders to accept unnecessary coverage. So, now that Obamacare has taken over, it can't accommodate similarly? Are those who manage Obamacare so flummoxed by the idea that had worked for decades unable to accomplish what the private companies did without blinking? Apparently, yes.

Who is the "they" in this sentence?

And, now that Obamacare has double (and in some communities, tripled) insurance premium prices, I look fondly on the prices of private insurance from the last 100 years.

...As the statistics suggest the cost of medical care is growing much slower than before. And since the Republicans only obstructed, we have an imperfect law. Since they won't consider anything but repealing it in full, it's the best we have for now. Still, the costs are slowing...

..."It's pretty shortsighted because I think everybody knows that the way the exchange has rolled out … is going to lead to higher costs," said one senior insurance executive who requested anonymity.

The insurance official, who hails from a populous swing state, said his company expects to triple its rates next year on the ObamaCare exchange.

The hikes are expected to vary substantially by region, state and carrier.

Areas of the country with older, sicker or smaller populations are likely to be hit hardest, while others might not see substantial increases at all...."

TheHill.com: "O-Care premiums to skyrocket " (March 19, 2014)
http://www.thehill.com/policy/healthcar ... -skyrocket

"Liberals" literally just unconstitutionally legally forced their beliefs on same-sex marriages on the rest of America.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favour of same-sex marriage - but let's not pretend it's only conservatives who do this.

Genuine liberals could argue that they advocate freedom, and forcing freedom upon people isn't force at all. Liberals aren't going to stop heterosexual people living as they want, they're just going to enable homosexuals to have the same legal recognition that heterosexuals have enjoyed since governments started recognising marriages. That's a good thing, but the way it was achieved isn't how America is supposed to work.

American conservatives only seem particularly concerned about rights in two of the situations which distinguish them from American leftists. Those are guns and taxes.

The impression I get from the internet is that American conservatives are a dying breed and increasingly those who identify as such actually have pretty liberal views on many issues, including crime. That doesn't seem to be reflected in their political representatives - I've not seen a presidential candidate with libertarian views on drugs, equality, and immigration. Hopefully soon such a candidate will emerge and be electable.

(Some of these issues are by no means exclusive to America, I just added that qualifier because it seemed the OP was exclusively talking about American politics)

I neither need nor want abortion coverage in Obamacare, but I am forced to accept it. Isn't that insisting that I live by the rules (and morals) created by Democrats (remember, not one congressional Republican voted for Obamacare)?

"Liberals" literally just unconstitutionally legally forced their beliefs on same-sex marriages on the rest of America.

That doesn't seem to be reflected in their political representatives - I've not seen a presidential candidate with libertarian views on drugs, equality, and immigration. Hopefully soon such a candidate will emerge and be electable.