send us your thoughts on twitter, @ajinsidestoryam, or follow me and get in touch at raysuareznews.hat do you think works and doesn't work with the affordable care act. we'd love to read it. >> the introduction, the debate's debate's over, the mud wrestle. the implementation of the affordable care act has been full of surprises. for years people were telling me how much they hated their insurance companies. the prospect of regulating them, so they couldn't drop you when you were sick, suddenly jack up rates or deny you a procedure or drug recommended by your doctor i figured would be welcomed by anyone who heard or experienced horror stories about away insurance companies had treat their customers. i had totally missed the stampede, changes in an insurance system that people hated, were perceived as risky, heavy-handed, socialist or whatever. suddenly complaining about what you had was replaced by nervously sticking by what you had. but a big part of the blame goes to the obama administration. the tens of millions who got coverage from their jobs whose lives were barely going to be

send us your thoughts on twitter, @ajinsidestoryam, or get in touch @raysuareznews.our thoughts for 2016, we'll love to hear from you. >> those rosy scenarios about a dominant democratic future they are a little premature or at best too optimistic about demography. favors democrats is right. but the future giant latinos voted levels too low to be decisive in many areas and the vote is very heavily concentrated in places where democrats already do well. california, new york, illinois. to make a big difference black voters, asian voters, latino voters all have to show up in off-years, show up in mid terms. vote heavily not just in the marquee races but down-ballot where control of state legislatures livers. the same legislatures that dra w coongal districts that current magnify getting born and makes political analysts salivate and no political power stays from staying home. i'm ray suarez and that's the "inside story." the news continues right now. after a bloody civil war and 60 years of mistrust, the leaders of china and ty wan are now shaking hands for the first ti

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america less religious, stay with us, it's "inside story" and send us your thoughts on twitter @ajinsidestoryam follow me and get in touch @raysuareznews. tell us about your own lives and that of your family. do you think of america as a less religious place in the coming decades? we'd love to hear what you have to say. >> i don't know if it's a particularly american trait. but we sure do love to misremember our history. sometimes in order to understand today and the past. contrary to what's widely said, americans aren't always getting less religious, less observant, less filthed. in the first half of the 19th century, americans were much less church affiliated. i can't help but think that we aren't a great deal less religious than we were in recent decades. all we've done is remove the social sanction to not be religious. the pressure of sitting with your family in chump as if pose for a norman rockwell painting, isn't there anymore. nobody's taking attendance. not being filthed will not block your rise in business, your ability to make contacts, your participation in the social scene. i welco