As for your friend paying $100 more a month. How is it BEFORE ACA my Ins with BlueCross/BlueShild was going up and up and up with no end in sight? Why put all the blame on ACA/Obamacare? How do you explain my Ins going up constantly BEFORE ACA? And my Medicare and supps were also going up BEFORE ACA. If ACA never existed it's naive to think health Ins would have stayed the same or had tiny increases every year.
Do other countries see us as weaker or as being led by a Dove for a change? A peacemaker instead of a Hawk? A Hawk who loves war because he and his billionaire friends become obscenely richer with each war, each invasion, each conflict. There is no financial profit for them if there is no war, no weapons of war being manufactured in huge amounts and sold for obscene profits to the Gov.
Those other Gov leaders are not idiots. Give them some credit for seeing what is.
I feel anyone who thinks we should invade Iran because the leader refused to kiss Obama's backside pack a bag and go fight there themselves. Let them send their own children and grandchildren into battle also. They should be willing to suffer the same fate as those they would willing send there.