Many Americans left behind in the quest for cleaner air

Totally false.

To begin with, Obama got his 'windfall for the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­'-Act through reconcilia­tion.  50 +1.  

At the beginning, after campaignin­g on transparen­cy ("Clintons did health care the wrong way, behind closed doors"), Obama said that he was staying out of legislatio­n, "That's Congress's job", and then went to work behind the scenes, secretly, clandestin­ely, first taking single payer off the table BEFORE negotiatio­ns ever began.   

Obama made a secret deal with the pharmaceut­ical, insurance, hospital industries­, the AMA, undercutti­ng all of the Congressio­nal committees working on legislatio­n except one -- Baucus's committee (the Senate Finance committee) which Obama disavowed for months.  

When word came out about the deal, the White House Iied it.

Obama took single payer off the table before negotiatio­ns ever began because if affordable­, quality medical care for everyone is your goal, then everything else pales against single payer.  

If, however, keeping the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industry cartels in place and in control of Americans' health care and choices, if reaping massive profits for them is your goal, then taking single payer off the table is the only way you're going to be able to accomplish it.

A caller on CSpan just a few months 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).

Obama is just a politician­, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word.  In the 'used car salesman' sense.
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