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EscapedAlcatraz t1_iutzvul wrote

Reply to comment by timberwolf0122 in What's up with the open enrollment healthcare plans? by buttergams

Thanks Obama!

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cryospam t1_iuu1k6o wrote

Actually, it was the Republitards who blocked the public option that would have actually controlled costs. Specifically Scott Brown.

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you_give_me_coupon t1_iuz4pmw wrote

Well, yeah. He's the one who squandered his parties brief supermajority on a milquetoast rehash of a Heritage Foundation policy paper, giving us a policy to the right of the Republican counter-proposal from the 1990s. He's the one whose staff admitted years later that they never wanted a public option, and certainly not universal healthcare, and that the Obamacare insurance mandates - massive corporate welfare for the useless, parasitic insurance industry - were where they hoped to arrive at via negotiations all along.

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