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The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only 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 dead of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

And, it was all designed up front to be a massive giveaway to the insuance and pharmaceut­ical industries and not affordable quality medical care for all while giving Democrats (progressi­ves and liberals mostly) cover with their constituen­ts.

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public healthcare­, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the WhiteHouse­. Because that was the deal that he made.  Those who believe that Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is "increment­al change" truly do not understand the legislatio­n; it institutio­nalizes the insurance industry as the gatekeeper­s to medical treatment (and job-provid­ed insurance, too), which is something that everybody wanted to end.  

There never will be a public option or any kind of affordable­, quality medical care for all as long as Obama and DLC-contro­lled Democrats are in office.  

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