Thursday, December 5, 2013
More Establishment BS On Obamacare
The self-appointed insider "expert" huffs and fluffs for his dinner. Yes, a single-payer plan would have been politically impossible in 2008--would it have been worth it to give up on the clusterfuck we have in 2013 and push the single-payer concept into prominence during a vigorous political battle?--and Obama's primary goals were one, a political victory over Republicans and, two, to benefit the for-profit insurance industry. I'll say it again and again and again: there is no and never has been any support for a single-payer in the Democratic establishment. If the Democrats want to win on health care then make single-payer a plank in the platform. A generation was wasted after Clinton's failure, and it will be at least another generation until we get a chance to properly reform health care on a national level after Obama's failure. All these dickwads pretending that the ACA was a necessary compromise are letting you down by failing to acknowledge that the the ACA was exactly the sort of insurance industry welfare program which was the goal of Democratic health care reform from the beginning.
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