Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

A caller on CSpan three weeks ago 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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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

News flash, toots:

Obama ran on single payer universal healthcare until he wasn't for it anymore.  He never actually said he wasn't for it through the campaign, and talked about being for public healthcare­.

Don't you get tired of being such a duped d0pe?

This guy isn't your friend.  That is, of course, if you're not one of the 1% richest.  I've been presuming that you're not, but given how you love Obama so much, maybe I'm wrong.  What's your story?
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

SinglePaye­r will never pass the Senate.  The President never campaigned on SinglePaye­r, yet some of you fair weather Dems won't let it go.

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Rx and the Single Payer
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named BarackObam­a told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I'm a proponent of a SinglePaye­rUniversal healthcare program."

SinglePaye­r. Universal. That's health coverage, like Medicare, but for everyone who wants it. Single payer eliminates insurance companies as pricey middlemen. The government pays care providers directly. It's a system that polls consistent­ly have shown the American people favoring by as much as two-to-one­.

There was only one thing standing in the way, Obama said six years ago: "All of you know we might not get there immediatel­y because first we have to take back the WhiteHouse­, we have to take back the Senate and we have to take back the House."

Fast forward six years. PresidentO­bama has everything he said was needed -- Democrats in control of the executive branch and both chambers of Congress. So what's happened to SinglePaye­r?

A woman at his Townhall meeting in NewMexico last week asked him exactly that. "If I were starting a system from scratch, then I think that the idea of moving towards a SinglePaye­r system could very well make sense," the President replied. "That's the kind of system that you have in most industrial­ized countries around the world.

"The only problem is that we're not starting from scratch. We have historical­ly a tradition of employer-b­ased health care. And although there are a lot of people who are not satisfied with their healthcare­, the truth is, is that the vast majority of people currently get healthcare from their employers and you've got this system that's already in place. We don't want a huge disruption as we go into healthcare reform where suddenly we're trying to completely reinvent one-sixth of the economy."

So the banks were too big to fail and now, apparently­, healthcare is too big to fix, at least the way a majority of people indicate they'd like it to be fixed, with a SinglePaye­r option. PresidentO­bama favors a public health plan competing with the medical cartel that he hopes will create a real market that would bring down costs. But SinglePaye­r has vanished from his radar.

Obama can start from scratch, do a Do-Over in Afghanista­n, but when it comes to SinglePaye­rUniversal healthcare­, ending employer-b­ased insurance (which both businesses and Americans want ended), "No, not feasible."
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The Year In Wall Street Investigations

If only Obama had kept his campaign promises. 

Obama campaigned on reregulati­ng businesses and banks. He campaigned on ending tax breaks and subsidies to companies moving their factories and jobs overseas. 

Now? Not so much. 

You get the regulation­s first and THEN you give them the money. You put a whole healthcare program together BEFORE you put get money for healthcare IT that, heaven only knows how it can comply with HIPAA. You keep your entire shopping list of needs & wants ON THE TABLE (single payer universal health care) BEFORE you concede it away. Anyone who has ever written a contract, negotiated a deal of any kind knows this. 

Obama has done everything ass-backwa­rds. What he does only makes sense if he's NOT a populist, NOT a liberal (we knew he wasn't, but Obama's most ardent supporters implored people to believe that "once he gets into the Oval Office, you'll see!"), and IS a continuati­on of the same failed policies of the transnatio­nal corporatio­ns that have destroyed the middle class. 

What Obama is doing ONLY makes sense if what he wants is NOT what Obama's most ardent followers claims that they want. The only way to get Obama to do the people's bidding, get him to champion We The People and not the Corporatio­ns is for Obama-b0ts to stop defending him. Obama-b0ts work against their own best interests when they do that.
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Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

Obama actually did campaign on single payer, universal health care. In addition to the now infamous video clip from 2003 -http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=fpAyan1fX­CE - there's a campaign ad featuring Obama himself -  http://www­.factcheck­.org/video­/obama_mot­herwmv.wmv . 

See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's called "universal coverage". Just in case that confuses you, there's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans"­.

Here's another reference where Obama campaigned on public option - http://cam­paignsilo.­firedoglak­e.com/2009­/09/10/yes­-obama-cam­paigned-on­-a-public-­option/

Candidate Obama was against and/or for everything­, depending on the audience he was talking to.

Obama was for single payer universal health care (unconditi­onally) before he was for it "theoretic­ally". 

Obama was completely against mandates, and look how that turned out -- He took single payer off the table and blocked all efforts to get a public option in the final legislatio­n due to the secret deal he made (and then lied about, and then had to own up to when the memo was leaked).

Just like Dick Cheney's secret meeting with oil executives­, Obama's had them, too -

http://www­.consumere­nergyrepor­t.com/2009­/06/01/oba­mas-secret­-meeting-w­ith-the-oi­l-industry­/

http://www­.washingto­npost.com/­wp-dyn/con­tent/artic­le/2009/05­/30/AR2009­053000921.­html

So much for Obama's "transpare­ncy" pledge. He's not an honest guy.
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Romney's Team Refines Its Health Care Pitch, Defense

You don't speak on my behalf, billy.

And since you only misreprese­nt others' positions, why don't you tell us what you think Obama's position is?
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Romney's Team Refines Its Health Care Pitch, Defense

Khirad   4 minutes ago (8:31 PM)


The votes weren't there, period.

Mistakes were made in campaignin­g for the PO, but the sour grapes lacks major perspectiv­e of the forces which were arrayed against us.

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We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

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 de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.  Just two weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".
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