Health Law Costs, Benefits Can Add Up To A Win For Young And Old

Of course he made deals.

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Obama made deals with Big Insurance, PhRma, Hospitals, AMA, all the while he was stating publicly that, 1.) it was not his job, it was Congress's job and that he was leaving it to the Congressional committees to write the legislation, and 2.) he wouldn't sign any legislation that didn't include "a robust public option".  

Obama was undercutting Congress and lying to both Congress and the people.  

What Obama actually did was sabotage real health care reform, and in an ingenious way -- Had single payer universal health care remained on the table during the process, likely a robust public option, one which would have worked to lower costs, would have been the compromise end position.  

But by taking single payer off the table before negotiations ever began and then disappearing from the public debate on health care (and reneging on the promise to open Congress's work to public scrutiny), what got 'compromised' was the public option, leaving our health care problems virtually the same but with Big Insurance and PhRma reaping BILLIONS more (by the mandate and not having to negotiate lower drug prices) for a few million more people getting insurance policies (not healthcare, but policies).  
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