Nancy Pelosi: Nothing 'I Have Ever Done' Compares With Passing Health Care Reform

Yes, the public option is the 600 lb gorilla in the room. ==========­==========­==========­==========­======== Obama and Democrats were put into power to get affordable­, quality medical treatment for everyone. If affordable quality medical care for all is your goal, everything else pales next single payer. The public option is the 600 lb gorilla in the room because Obama took the most effective, least expensive method for providing affordable­, quality medical treatment for all (single payer) off the table, barred it from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, and had proponents barred from the discussion (and removed from the room), with the promise, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We' ll put a public option in..real soon". That promise turned out to be a Iy!ng, delaying and diversiona­ry tactic. Obama and Pelosi & Reid didn't get affordable­, quality healthcare for all Americans; they sold insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money. Over-price­d, lousy insurance policies, at that. Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care. BIG DIFFERENCE­. There are no cost controls in what Obama and Pelosi and Reid got. And it didn't do anything about the fact that 19% of our GDP is tied up in an employer-b­ased monopoly system. Ending employment­-based insurance was what everybody wanted. And the bitterest pill that Pelosi is going to have to swallow, to live with, which will have her going down in history as setting healthcare back for women in particular­, is that the Obama and Pelosi legislatio­n leads to eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all ab0rt!ons. Just to show you how cynical what Obama did was: Once the legislatio­n passed he appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s. He put a fox in charge of this chicken coop. You need to consider what that means along with Obama's budget cuts (like the freeze on federal employees wages) and the cuts that are coming in the next months and years of Obama's administra­tion alone due to his 'deal' over retaining Bush's tax cuts): Enforcing the few regulation­s in this legislatio­n isn't likely, nor is the Medicaid coverage of the poor. And then there's the PhRma deal. Oy. Democrats failed the American people big time.
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