Reply #157: Oh, really? [View All]

[JackDragna]

Well, I guess we should all ignore all of the many ways in which "Obamacare" is a toothless, pathetic tiger - like how Mr. Obama promised the pharmaceutical industry he wouldn't push for a public option as part of it, how it does nothing to keep down out-of-control increases in health care costs, how costs for low-income individuals can still be prohibitively expensive..or, the true piece de resistance: how we still manage to keep the same parasitic, middle-men involved in the health care industry who were responsible for all of the cruelty and corruption in the first place.

On edit: I'm also tickled pink by the Obama supporters' claims that "he did so much with such a difficult Congress!" The health care debate took place when he had majorities in both houses of Congress and the president did just about nothing to push for the more liberal reforms he had earlier promised. It's great that the people mentioned in the OP aren't going to be bankrupted, but this is a mere shadow of what this country needs. The president was willing to pass anything that let him both score a political victory and keep corporate power from being too affected by the new legislation.