

“So don’t believe anyone who says Obama’s health care legislation marks a swing of the pendulum back toward the Great Society and the New Deal. Obama’s health bill is a very conservative piece of legislation, building on a Republican rather than a New Deal foundation. The New Deal foundation would have offered Medicare to all Americans or, at the very least, featured a public insurance option.”
The word is that this bill will have to change radically before 2014 or insurance companies will have a stranglehold on our rates. Passage seemed more about political careers than real reform. There will be a lot of work to do before REAL reform happens, and there will be LOTS of opposition.
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