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MadDAsHell

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4. "WHEN, do you think, will we rearrange at least our healthcare system around human need..."
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 12:13 PM
Aug 2016

The answer is never, because in 2010 a President who promised a public option not only didn't give us a public option, but he doubled down on a system he said was so terrible (employer-sponsored insurance).

I've seen plenty of excuses made on DU here for why the President didn't get a public option into the bill, but I've never seen one competent defense of why he ultimately used his political capital to not get rid of, but REINFORCE, a system that he said was broken.

Which is also what makes things like the Hobby Lobby case so ridiculous. Via the employer mandate portion of the ACA, the President doubled-down on the notion that health insurance should be controlled by your employer, but then fought tooth and nail every employer who took that to heart.

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