Obama Assault Weapons Ban Proposal Recalls Memories Of 1994 Battle

Obama took single payer off the table BEFORE negotiatio­ns ever began.  Secretly.  Clandestin­ely.  Publicly he said he was staying out of the legislatin­g, saying that it was Congress's job (that was the same gambit he used when it came to letting Bush's tax cuts for the rich expire, and apparently Obama's 'most ardent fans' keep falling for it).  

Then Obama went and 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.  Baucus's committee's bill was written by the insurance industry.

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.  Because single payer had to be off the table before negotiations ever began so that a public option (the only method for keeping costs down) couldn't be the "compromise" position.
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