Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats in Congress did NOT put through healthcare reform.
What they did was a massive corporate giveaway, that does NOT provide affordable, quality medical treatment for all.
Calling it "healthcare reform" doesn't make it that.
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He may not be if he does.
Democratic voters didn't put Obama and Democrats into power to have to constantly sit on them and convince them to do the correct thing 24/7, and not water down legislation & cave to Republicans.
I've had enough of Obama's and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party's lies.
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And in addition to Howard Dean working on the DLC's behalf to move the Democratic Party to the right, and to change the Democratic Party's pro-woman's health policies and protect a woman's right to choose, Dean is not for single payer. He never has been.
Howard Dean isn't any prize. He talks a good populist game, but he's as much a corporate Democrat when push comes to shove as any DLCer. Dean wants desperately to be in with the DLC insiders, to play with the Big Boys so badly, but they don't want him. He has repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of history every time the left begins to get any traction on an issue (the public option in healthcare reform was just the latest example). As soon as the DLCers get what they want, they cast Dean aside and leave him to the scrap heap of obscurity (again). They get him to do heavy lifting for them (keeping us liberals on the hook), but in the end they slam the door in his face and break his heart every time.
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Look at what Obama's "building" upon - He's decided that no woman in the new high-risk insurance pools will be allowed to obtain abortion coverage beyond limited cases (rape, incest, endangering the life of the woman). The high-risk insurance pools are for some of the most medically vulnerable women in the country — those with pre-existing conditions (breast & ovarian cancer, AIDS, diabetes, & other conditions) that may make pregnancy extraordinarily dangerous. They'll be locked out from abortion coverage, even if they pay for it out of their own pockets.
He's re-inserting the draconian Stupak-type anti-abortion rules to deny abortions to the most vulnerable women. This man said he was pro-choice, pro-woman:
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2/9/05 Writer Alexander Sanger said that on many levels, he's been pleased that politicians have begun to rethink the approach to abortion rights. "There is no question in my mind that we, the pro-choice movement, ought to be leading the way to reframing how we talk about abortion," he said. "So if various leaders of the DemocraticParty are beginning to have this discussion that's all to the good." But he warned, "We have to differentiate between the pro-choice movement & Democratic
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The public option plan(s) were floated out, but again, the votes weren't there.
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Not true. Demonstrably false.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics.
What Obama, Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe, David Axelrod, & all DLCers, have to do in addition is insist that the policies and legislation they're pushing is really populist and not the stuff of Republicans' dreams.
The Senate Finance Committee's bill (Max Baucus's bill) was the bill the White House intended to prevail over the 3 other committees working on healthcare reform bills. It prevailed because Obama undermined the other committees.
The Baucus bill was written by Liz Fowler, former executive at WellPoint (Baucus hired her as senior counsel to him as the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee). So much for Candidate Obama's pledge on restricting lobbyists from writing our laws (Obama just hired Liz Fowler to implement the legislation -
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In the end, the votes for a public option were there, both in the Senate and the House.
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In the end, Obama blocked it.
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The reality is that the single-payer plan was NEVER gonna pass, period.
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No amount of your repeating that makes it true.
Obama came into office with the wind at his back, with more people having voting for him, a black man in good old rac!$t America, than ever in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatocracy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, and not a corporate t00I.
Obama, Mr. Personality, came into office with more good will, more wind at his back, more political capital than ANY previous president.
And what did he do with that political capital?
He sat on it.
Obama has been absent on every issue. He went AWOL on healthcare reform, saying, "Oh, that's Congress's job", all the while he was undercutting the congressional committees writing legislation, cutting secret deals with phRma, the AMA and hospitals. At the end, he emerged and kamikaze-style, rahmed through a massive corporate giveaway with no cost controls, a bill guaranteed to end all public healthcare sooner rather than later.
Obama could have delivered on his promises, but Obama didn't & doesn't want to.
And there will be no "improvements", no public option much less single payer, as long as Obama is in the White House; that was the deal he made.
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