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Originally Posted by _Richard_
ok, robbie, where did the public option go.
it started as being apart of the affordable health care act
what happened to it.
i didn't say they were, but you don't miss anything.
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Why don't you ask Sen. Harry Reid the leader of the Democrat controlled Senate:
"President Barack Obama promoted the idea of the public option while running for election in 2008. Following his election, Obama downplayed the need for a public health insurance option, including calling it a "sliver" of health care reform, but still campaigned for the option up until the health care reform was passed.
Ultimately, the public option was removed from the final bill. While the United States House of Representatives passed a public option in their version of the bill, the public option was voted down in the Senate Finance Committee and the public option was never included in the final Senate bill, instead opting for state-directed health insurance exchanges."
And no...Sen. Reid is NOT a Republican. He is a Democrat, the LEADER of the Democrats. He is the Senator from Nevada where I live. Of course he lives in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C. in the penthouse suite.
Now to further address your comment:
NO Republicans voted for Obamacare in the House. Total partyline vote. So IF your theory about why there was no public option was to appease Republicans...guess what? That's BULLSHIT. None of them voted for ObamaCare.
NO Republicans voted for ObamaCare in the Senate. It was a complete partyline vote as well. So again...this myth that ObamaCare was "watered down" to make Republicans happy is BULLSHIT.
No Republicans voted for it. And nobody read it before it was passed.
So that means that IF there were anything to appease the Republicans...they never saw it and didn't vote for it.
Face it....this baby not only is named after Pres. Obama...it TOTALLY belongs to him and the small group of people he HANDPICKED to write it behind closed doors (after telling the nation that the writing of healthcare law would be transparent and televised on CSPAN)
Maybe Joe Biden was right when he said that in a few years everyone will look back and be so happy with ObamaCare.
I hope so.
Right now...the numbers aren't adding up. It was supposed to save people money AND save the govt. money.
I don't know how that is going to happen.
EDIT: The quoted passage is from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...surance_option