Originally Posted by Robbie

I agree...IF we are going to continue to allow insurance companies, the federal govt., big pharma, and big corporations that own hospitals to all hold hands and keep jacking up prices ($50 for a dixie cup to drink water)...then we should just say "fuck it" and let the federal govt. tax us even more. Even though we are already so far in debt we are never getting out of it.

But what I don't understand is...in 2009 Obama had a Democrat Senate AND House majority.
Why didn't he do it then? Conservatives didn't "kill" it.

ANSWER: Because there's too much money to be made from the Insurance Company lobbyists! And the Federal Govt. under Bush had just bailed out THE main insurance company AEG with hundreds of billions of dollars.

Health insurance companies would be out of business with govt. healthcare (single pay). No way that ANY of these crooked politicians (including Obama) were going to do that.

He didn't even TRY to do single pay. Even though the Democrats COULD have passed it (though they did not want any part of that despite the bullshit they say).

They had the chance. And proved once again that ALL politicians are in it for the money.