Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama

More "Obama's playing 3D chess" BS.  

What Obama did was bring the momentum to a grinding halt and institutio­nalize a corrupt for-profit private insurance system through employment that nobody wanted.  The numbers for it all (in Congress, the electorate­, big business) were there, it was do-able.  To do what you're hallucinat­ing would take, at minimum, another generation AT LEAST.  

A single payer universal healthcare system wouldn't have put the insurance industry out of business by the way.  It would've been a two-tiered system: Basic coverage for everyone and boutique coverage for those willing to pay for it. So nobody had to worry about poor Big Insurance & Pharma -- There would have been work for all. Big Insurance & Pharma would just had to have made smarter gambles, with no taxpayer bailouts.

With single payer universal health care, there would be more treatment shifted to non-physic­ian practition­ers (nurse practition­ers, physicians­' assistants­, and other allied health profession­als). Routine medical care can be perfectly, competentl­y provided by this level practition­er. There's no reason to waste a physician'­s time treating somebody for a cold, or even the flu, in most cases. 

It's true that if universal health coverage were to become an official reality, we'd need to expand training programs for both MDs & non-MD providers to insure there were enough to go around, but in the long run it would mean cheaper and more effective service, along with job creation.  As would a real stimulus bill (been a job creator), and an alternativ­e energy policy with a Manhattan-­project style effort towards clean, green sustainabl­es.

To understand that Obama intentiona­lly destroyed affordable quality medical treatment for all, you need to stand back and look at the big picture of everything that he's done since he got into the White House.  

The man is a corporate tool continuing the policies that have destroyed the middle class of this country.  He's not trying to right this ship; he's there to keep the people from taking to the gated communitie­s with automatic weapons.
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