Paul Krugman: Obama Has 'Largely Accepted Conservative View Of The World'

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only (and last) time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconciliation anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.

So there's plenty of evidence to support the idea prove that Obama never intended to pass real healthcare reform, only pass a massive corporate giveaway program that doesn't deliver on what he and Democrats were put into power to do (get affordable quality medical care for all), but that he spins healthcare reform.
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