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17 hours ago ago from Zandar Versus The Stupid
Look, Barack...no. Just no . "Nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than in the health-care bill," Obama said. "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill." OK, look man, this didn't work for Bush in the era of the Google, and I've got news for you: it's not magically working for you either . I call bullshit: “I didn’t campaign on the public option,” ...
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10 hours ago ago from The Civic Spirit
Here's President Obama today : Obama said the public option has become a source of ideological contention between the left and right. But, he added, I didn't campaign on the public option. And here's what he said last year: the Obama plan will: (1) establish a new public insurance program available to Americans who neither qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP nor have access to insurance through their employers, as well as to small ...
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17 hours ago ago from Later On
Obama is human, so he makes mistakes. This was a big one: after touting the public option as necessary and good, he refused to exert the slightest effort to push it through Congress. Is he averse to confrontation and conflict? Sometimes it's good to push. Zaid Jilani in ThinkProgress : In recent days, there has been an uproar in the progressive community over the Senate’s decision to drop the public option from its health care bill in ...
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10 hours ago ago from blueollie
During the campaign for President, then Senator Obama did put out his plan, which you can read here : Quality, Affordable Choices If You Don’t Have Insurance, the Obama Plan: * Creates a new insurance marketplace — the Exchange — that allows people without insurance and small businesses to compare plans and buy insurance at competitive prices. * Provides new tax credits to help people buy insurance. * Provides small businesses ...
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2 hours ago ago from Brendan Calling
Yesterday, Barack Obama made an extraordinary claim: I didn’t campaign on the public option. Think Progress adds: – In the 2008 Obama-Biden health care plan on the campaign’s website, candidate Obama promised that “any American will have the opportunity to enroll in [a] new public plan.” [2008] – During a speech at the American Medical Association, President Obama told thousands of doctors that one of the plans included in the new ...
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Did Obama Campaign On The Public Option? Yes But Not Entirely
14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
President Barack Obama, in an interview with The Washington Post , said on Tuesday that in the two years leading up to his election he "didn't campaign on the public option" for insurance coverage. Could that possibly be true? A plan for government-run insurance has been the focal point of the soon-to-be-concluded health care debate; the catalyst of white-hot partisan warfare; and the provision that progressive and conservatives alike have ...
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1 hour, 27 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
The health care reform debate may be dying down in Congress, but the ad wars continue. On Wednesday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee unveiled a new spot in which it all but accuses the president of abandoning the principles of his health care reform agenda. Tackling the two provisions that rankle liberals the most, the PCCC highlights footage of Obama himself rejecting the efficacy of an individual mandate and insisting that a ...
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I agree with with those who note the danger of progressives attacking individual mandates in the health care bill, and how such attacks could be construed to be a criticism of all compulsory policies. That's the conservative attack on mandates, of course, just like it is the conservative attack on taxes paid into social programs - namely, that anything the government requires individuals to do is unacceptable (tellingly, conservatives rarely ...
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