I was unaware of this, but not terribly surprised. So we ended up with a large guaranteed market for the insurance companies and mandatory fines for personal non-compliance. Quite a bait and switch. My personal theory is that someone pulled Obama aside after all of the rousing rhetoric during the campaign, and said, listen bub, if you want to be more than a one term president, play ball. And he has.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > <snip> > > I hope Obama pushed it as far as he could, but I agree that > > it's a far cry from what we should have (single payer). > > You are aware that Obama made a private agreement with the > health care industry not to allow single payer, or even a > public option (remember that?), are you not? > > And after making this agreement, he continued in public to > refer to the public option as if it were still on the > table, knowing it was not. >
