Health Care Reform: Undoing Obama's Health Law Could Have Messy Ripple Effects

Obama could have gotten single payer passed (or a public option at the very least) through reconciliation, 50 + 1, which is what he ended up doing anyway to get his gift to the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries through.  His gift, Democrats' pay-off to PhRma and Big Insurance, after the 2003 Medicare Reform Act gift.  That was Republicans paid homage to Big Insurance and PhRma (and had Democrats joining them) with the Medicare Reform Act, an $800 billion corporate pork-laden giveaway.

Normal people would have thought, "Well, that'll set them up for a generation, they've gotten their pay-offs along with the defense contractors and energy firms".

But we're not in normal times.

Obama and Democrats had to pay off Big Insurance and PhRma on their own after the 2008 election, and went Republicans even bigger. Obama was the biggest recipient of insurance/hospital/PhRma money of all of the candidates. Hillary was the second biggest recipient. 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H03 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H02 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H04 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H01 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=F09

KEEP READING
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost