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Originally Posted by BeamOn

I totally agree with you. When ACA was first proposed my thought was that Obama lost a golden opportunity to address and impact the cost, eliminate the health insurance companies. They have been regulating the health industry and as long as they are in the picture, the ACA will get lobbied to it's death. And it has. This is why I would always think of Obama as wimp who could not stand up to the Insurance industry and in fact ACA is a short term windfall to the insurance companies. Secondly, he should have taken employers from the business of providing health care. As it stands now, large corporations have the clout with the insurance companies and they can negotiate better rates and leaving the rest of the insured population subsidizing up the tab.

Though I'm not exactly a fan of Obamacare for many of the same reasons as you, Obama was only able to sign a bill passed by both houses of Congress. The entire healthcare industry has such a stranglehold on Congress that the only possible reform was one that tweaked the existing phucked-up system.