Reply #186: I am glad we are able to have this conversation as well. I do not think the president was "lying" [View All]

[saracat]

either. I do think he "caved" to what was presented as political expedience. He had the support of the Public, the majority of whom wanted the Public Option. The problem with the current HCR, is it does more harm than good. With the deal with Big Pharma in place, we are now forced to purchase Health Insurance that we cannot use because we can't afford the medical treatment. Many times a doctor has attempted to prescribe meds that the patient cannot afford. And this situation is even worse for those of us that fall between the cracks.

The new High Risk Pool is another abomination and not as it was marketed at all.The cost is the same as regular insurance and the patient must be uninsured for 6 mos before applying. The part where the president was dishonest was campaigning against the mandate. Volunteers were specifically told during the primary to attack Hillary on that issue. it was the major issue he used against Hillary. He said HCR with a mandate was not HCR!

I do not agree that HCR was a good first step and I feel badly that I can't. The Public Option would have been a "good first step". It just looks to me that we handed the RW a weapon against us when it could have been so much more. If we were going to take that kind of risk, it should have been something worthwhile,not something that raised premiums even before it became law. And those premiums won't be lowered as the result of HCR either.

It is very sad to me but I believe the scab has been pulled off all the politicians in the last couple of elections.And now we are forced to see that it is all about politics, not people. And it is about power. That is all anything is about anymore.

There are still a few good soldiers for the people but they can only do so much and as Barny Frank once said to me in an interview, "the only time he ever voted for a candidate who was not compromised was when he voted for himself the very first time."