Administration Braces For Setbacks To Health Law

You make statements regarding "deals," made by the President without posting links regarding what those "deals" were not assumptions.

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Do you only read the articles here that support your preconceived ideas? 

I've only posted this about 300 times.  Others have done it thousands of times.  Where have you been?

How Obama went to work making sure that there would be no public healthcare options to control Big Insurance's profit-making:

Through the Senate Finance Committee's chairman, Max Baucus, Obama set the terms for the bill that would ultimately be adopted into law, by eliminating single payer universal health care from consideration and all advocates of public health care. No seat at the table.

And THEN, Obama cut secret deals with hospitals, insurance companies and PhRma on profits, and L!ED about it when it was discovered:

http://www­.nbc11news­.com/home/­headlines/­53311447.h­tml

http://www­.msnbc.msn­.com/id/31­464689/ns/­politics-w­hite_house

http://onl­ine.wsj.co­m/article/­SB12456721­1118336815­.html

http://www­.pbs.org/n­ewshour/up­dates/heal­th/jan-jun­e09/pharma­_06-22.htm­l
 
http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­2009/08/13­/internal-­memo-confi­rms-bi_n_2­58285.html

http://www­.nytimes.c­om/2009/08­/13/health­/policy/13­health.htm­l?_r=3&hp


http://www­.alternet.­org/story/­141856/oba­ma's_$80_bil­lion_deal_­with_pharm­a_is_a_ver­y_bad_deal _for_us/

Are you now going to defend Obama for what is indefensible, or disappear like every other 0bamab0t has done when proven wrong?
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Did Obama, who ran a pitch-perfect campaign to victory in 2008, use his oratorical skill to shape the healthcare debate?

Did he use his unique ability to communicate, an ability that got more voters than ever before in the history of the nation to vote for him (a black man, in good old rac!st America, because they believed he could end corporations' grip on government & return the government to the People), to intervene & interrupt these kinds of disruptive tactics, and bring reason and order and humanity to the decision-making process?:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=6ik4f1dRb­P8
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=NwiKGjM5t­HU

He didn't because what teabaggers were doing at Town Halls was what he & the DLC-controlled Democratic Party wanted to have happen. To get the pro-insurance & pharmaceutical industries kind of healthcare legislation that was passed, and not the real healthcare reform that he & Democrats were put into power to achieve.

Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.  And the only people Obama has ever battled are progressive and liberal Democrats.

Do you really not comprehend this?  Have you been that confused and brainwashed by politicians' parsing?
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Bush never addressed opening up the medicare to increase access to include the children who were not being covered.

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And Obama never addressed opening up Medicare to increase access to people who weren/aren't being covered. 

Forcing taxpayers to pay for millions of insurance policies, which will insure a few million more Americans (not all, mind you), isn't getting affordable quality medical treatment for everyone.  Insurance = medical care.  And what Obama did doesn't even begin to address the problems Americans had and the reason they put Obama and Democrats into power to get for them.  There are no cost controls and no universality.

We didn't get healthcare reform; what Obama did was get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.

I think Lawrence O'Donnell & Company explain it very well, but I can get others if these aren't to your liking:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=96U-7lILb­Xc

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=VaKV2gGjE­pk

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=230taWZe3­d4

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=tez2u5UFC­qA

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=cp6PP7R_9­ls

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=qd6GTgUlN­Ws

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=_UniUQmEe­aI

KEEP READING
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Stop with the BS. 

The bill was gamed from the start to go through reconciliation, so that both parties and all players would have cover.  Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats defended losing all populist aspects of the bill, making it pro-corporate, Republican-like, to get Republicans to sign on, which in the end, NOT ONE REPUBLICAN did. 

http://www­.csmonitor­.com/USA/P­olitics/20­10/0322/Af­ter-Obama-­signs-heal­th-care-re­form-bill-­why-mess-w­ith-reconc­iliation

This legislation is a travesty and you're a t00L.  You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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A caller on CSpan last week asked Richard Wolffe, who was out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House, if we're ever going to get a public option to keep costs down.

Wolffe makes it clear that Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats never had any intention of going with a public option or expanding public healthcare in any way (although Wolffe is mistaken when he says that Obama never ran on supporting a public option).

Not only did Obama campaign on "a public option", he campaigned on single payer, universal health care.

Here's a campaign ad featuring Obama himself.  See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's 'universal coverage'. There's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans".

Obama ran against mandates, and criticized Hillary for them in her campaign promises. Here is Candidate Obama on mandates.

Here again -- Obama campaigned on public option.
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Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-controlled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like civil rights protections, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare, Wall Street reform, environmental & energy issues, etc.).

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politicians and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the Democratic Party's nomination) and the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters') to understand that Democratic politicians have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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The Koch brothers get a lot of press for their role in the Tea Party's rise, but the truth is that they got a lot of help from Obama, Rahm Emanuel & the DLC machine.

Obama came into the White House with Republicans not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count. Obama issued a pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the White House, instead of going after Republicans and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destruction, instead of hammering Bush-Cheney-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and Rahm Emanuel went gvnning for Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, two people with no role in the Republican Party.



Obama and Emanuel never mentioned Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Eric Canter, Karl R0ve, George W,  H.W., Jeb Bush, Cheney, NOBODY who is actually IN the Republican Party as the problem. They still don't.

The Tea Party serves Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party in several ways. If they could choose any Republican to run against in 2012, it would be Palin, and elevating the Tea Party makes that more of a possibility.

It also lets Democrats keep a legislative agenda to the right of center. If the teabaggers are far right-wing, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim. And that's a lot of corporate-money ground.
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