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give me some specifics about this "conceding before negotiations ever begin."

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After running on a public option (yes, he did - http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/yes-obama-campaigned-on-a-public-option/), and negotiating for lower drug costs and reimportation, and transparency in the legislative process (""Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public, no more secrecy.....No more secrecy....." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQbQTrm_pSA and, "Clintons did health care the wrong way, behind closed doors" -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvyharXBI0Q ), Obama stated that it's Congress's job to come up with a bill, he was staying out of it.



Obama provided the different congressional committees working on healthcare bills with specifics that he wanted to see in the legislation ("doesn't add to the deficit", for example), but how Congress achieved it was up to Congress. The People noticed that Obama was waffling on his pledges (public option, no mandates) at which point Obama threw his "transparency"-pledge under the bus, and went to work undercutting all of the congressional committees working on healthcare reform legislation except one: The Senate Finance Committee.



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