Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

msgirlintn   7 minutes ago (4:09 AM)

No what is wrong with the American Democrats today is fair weather Dems like you and Marco that would rather whine and complain than be thankful for what has been accomplish­ed.  You want to hold the President accountabl­e that your "wish list" wasn't fulfilled.  He never campaigned on single payer.  You admitted that, yet you want to criticize him for it not passing.  That's being a hypocrite!

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What Obama accomplish­ed was pretty much Republican­Care, Romney-car­e.  That's certainly not what I voted for.

Candidate Obama was all over the place, depending on who was talking to at any given time and what day it was in the campaign, which primaries were done with and who he didn't need to woo anymore.

During the campaign, Obama supported "healthcar­­e reform". By March 2010, two weeks before the legislatio­­n was passed in the Senate, Obama couldn't look into the cameras and say that what was happening was 'healthcar­­e reform' -- Obama and Democrats were by then ALL calling it a "health INSURANCE bill".

But for the record, 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/

I'm going to save us a few rounds of comments ("He supported single payer before he didn't support it; before 2008"), because even if it was true (that he didn't run on single payer or a public option), Obama ran against mandates, and criticized Hillary for them in her campaign promises.  Most of those who voted for Obama want single payer, and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out (although most brain surgeons would agree) that the way to get affordable quality medical care is through single payer universal healthcare­­.

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