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Originally Posted by cors8
Yeah, because the Dems didn't gut the "Obamacare" into the POS it is now to get some Republican votes at all...
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Aye, anyone PAYING ATTENTION would realize the end package was the result of intensive lobbying by the health insurance industry which (thanks to DEM spinelessness) all but eviscerated what was initially some pretty good ideas to reduce healthcare costs, share the risk across a large population, and take the load off of small business by removing the need to provide employees benefits.
What we got did help *some* (allowed parents to keep their children on a plan til 26yrs - since individual policies are unaffordable and worthless, fix some of the disaster with things like Part D, prevented insurance companies from dropping people who actually used the service, stopped them from denying insurance to people who had any condition at all, etc)... it also had the potential of making the health insurance industry irreplaceable by requiring everyone to buy insurance from them (permanent extraction of wealth from the system to a few pockets at the expense of the whole).
There's no illusion: both sides of the aisle are in the pockets of these extractive "moneychangers". It will take a Teddy Roosevelt tactic of populism to achieve any course correction here.