There is a claim by some Liberals that the ACA Law does not go far enough in securing the Americans, and reducing health care costs. The law, they say, has brought a lot of good things, but if we take into account the fact that 5300 members of Congress have registered 3300 lobbyists for health care, and more spent on preparing the law itself, than for some campaigns for presidential elections. Therefore, not a small part of this law appears to have been written by foreign private insurance industry or pharmaceutical industry.
For example, many health insurers, patients were bankrupt due to the high cost of health care, under the auspices of the ACA.
Bread lines were common during the Great Depression when the government at that time failed to properly tackle the problem of unemployment because of their commitment to balanced budgets, regardless of whether they operated in a free trade or protectionist context. Bread lines resolve the problem by offering free meals to the hungry.
They campaigned for suffrage and christian ideals, but they campaigned for laws to curb consumption of alcohol.