Barack Obama Economic Speech: President Declares American Middle Class In Jeopardy, Outlines Populist Economic Vision (VIDEO)

Both are great questions, and no, employers do not want to be the conduit for health care for Americans (that's why so many of them got exemptions from Obama from having to abide by the legislatio­n).

Employers not wanting to be the conduit is why I've said in other comments that 2008 was a 'perfect storm' of an opportunit­y to get affordable­, quality medical treatment for all Americans.  All the interests were coming together to wrest control over affordable healthcare access from the insurance industry and force PhRma to live up to the bargain it made decades ago with the American taxpayer (affordabl­e drugs).

What voters believed they were tasking Obama and Democrats to do isn't what Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats intended to do.  I have to hand it to him, how he did it was masterful -- He had no intention of putting in a public option (what would keep insurance companies honest and costs down, if insurance companies were to remain in the equation), but in order to prevent a public option, he first had to get single payer off the table.  Before negotiatio­ns began.
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