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Originally Posted by Mutt
Because Obama and every other politician no matter how liberal they are know that it will be a very long road to a single payer system in the United States - so he took what he could get and can go down in history as the president who pioneered universal health coverage for Americans.
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LOL! He had TOTAL power. There was no "long road". If the Democrats really wanted it they could have just done it. (just like they did anyway with "obamacare")
Come on man...what they did was throw a scare tactic at the Big Insurance Corporations. Because with "Single Pay" (which should mean I reach in my pocket and pay my own goddamn bill...but has become the term for Govt. healthcare) the insurance companies would have went out of business overnight.
Multi-billion dollar companies based on the health insurance gamble would have disappeared.
Can you imagine the frantic deal-making and money changing hands that went on to stop that from taking place?
I'm not trying to be anti-Obama, but wow...to think he couldn't have done whatever he wanted to (because he DID against all Republican opposition) is just crazy.