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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's certainly what they kept saying on the news at the time. "Health Care" "costs" "our country" etc., etc.
But common sense told me that it's the MEDICAL and Pharmaceutical COSTS that are the problem. We suddenly are a country that says everybody NEEDS insurance. When I was growing up that wasn't the case. Only well off people or union workers up north had health insurance. The rest of us just went to the doctor.
But I don't want to go into how fucked up that whole "health care" debacle is. To me (and many people) it amounts to forcing the American people to pay big insurance companies.
I felt he should have forced Congress to out itself and show that it allows the medical and pharmaceutical companies to price gouge us. But as history showed...it didn't work out that way.
Anyway...I don't think anyone in this country other than pundits and media were saying that health care was a priority at all.
Most companies were pointing out that it was costing them money to provide it for employees. And now that ObamaCare is passed...they are screaming that it's going to cost them a fortune.
Perhaps I'm wrong. But it LOOKS like Obama fucked that one up to me. He should have really took the lead like he appeared he would in the campaign and dragged half of Congress up on charges for the criminal enterprise that IS medicine and insurance companies gouging Americans OR he should have went all the way with universal health care paid for by our taxes.
He had the popularity and both houses of Congress.
Call me crazy...but that half-ass "health care" / insurance company bailout that passed is very indicative of the perception that he is weak and not a great leader.
And the fact I can even entertain that thought shows that he has a big problem.
If he had any balls...(and none of them ever do)...he would stop with the politics as usual and just DO what he feels is right in his heart and announce that he does not intend to run again anyway.
That's what ALL these career politicians should do. One and done.
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Medical, Pharm, etc is part of our healthcare costs.
Other Countries force the price, here in America that's Communism. If Obama tried that, oh god.... oh lord.
Look at the polls when Obama was being elected about Healthcare, before all the fake death panel shit and lies about it came out. An extreme majority of the people wanted it, supported it, and even wanted it done, first!
The only choice they left him would require him to use congressional power or side step them, which is what he did.
The bill the came out with is a duplicate of the Republican bill. If his plan is weak, then so is the Republican plan.
I believe it shows how much the right will do to destroy the left, anything, at all costs, even ours.