You are always asking people questions. But if someone asks you a question back, you find it "annoying?"
I never said health care premiums weren't going up before Obamacare. Of course they were. That is what we were led to believe would be alleviated by Obamacare. But in my friend's particular case, he was paying less insuring himself privately (he is a self-employed professional) than he was after the "affordable" care act.
Let me tell you what I find annoying. The way you ask me a question that you know I can't possibly answer, i.e., "How is it BEFORE ACA my Ins with BlueCross/BlueShild was going up and up and up with no end in sight?" How the heck should I know, without being an insider in the industry, why and how decisions are made to raise premiums? And then the following: "Why put all the blame on ACA/Obamacare?" There is no correlation. I am not blaming Obamacare for previous price increases in the cost of healthcare. All I'm saying is that in many instances Obamacare did not solve the problems it was created for, infact for some it made the problem worse. Can you not accept that truth without trying to make it into something else just to prove some unrelated point? You suggest I'm naive enough to believe that healthcare would not have had further increases. I never said any such thing. I never blamed Obamacare for any of those things. Don't put words in my mouth.
No government is going to like us better or give us brownie points for being weak. Better believe it.
Re: your remarks on who should fight in Iran? I have yet to hear anyone seriously call to invade Iran.