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Originally Posted by icenine
You have to remember that Obama barely got the ACA through the Senate.
Lieberman of Connecticut was not going to go for public option or single payer.
He did not want another entitlement. And that was Lieberman.
Well he did not want the age of Medicare going down to 55 or so.
If Obama could not get Lieberman he was not goint to get the Republicans for a single player plan.
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I know...I know. It's just an emotional response to this thing on my part. But I'll tell ya what...when a lot of us started making noise about it back at the beginning, or even down the road when the ACA finally passed, and Gibbs got up in front of the cameras scolding us for our idiotic persistence in demanding universal medicare...had I been in the press conference room I would have pitched a shoe at his head.
So part of my support for the ACA is the hope that it will become so burdensome for the government and such a pain in the ass for the insurance industry that the country will be forced to go single payer. It would also probably require the government to come down on the insurance industry and medical providers who are the ones driving up the costs and forcing the plan changes so that they can continue raking in the shekels. Anyway...I'll probably never see it in my lifetime and I already have my medicare.
But I also lay this thing at the feet of the American people...the majority of whom have been happy as clams with their employer sponsored insurance and the majority of whom don't give a shit in their hat for how many of their fellow Americans are uninsured and how many of them needlessly die every year for it.