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(32,139 posts)They did much more than merely *stave off* reform. They managed to *entrench* the profit sucking corporate middleman model into our system and mandated by law that *every single American citizen* participate with funnel in pocket.
They guaranteed obscene profits for the industry by writing them into law, and they politically camouflaged the entire scam by advertising subsidies for the needy.....but by ensuring that subsidies went TO the profitmongers from the pockets of taxpayers, rather than demanding that the profitmongers provide any part of them.
It was perhaps the most cynically brilliant corporate political scam in recent history, pulled off by a Democratic administration. And now we get to see what the promises to fix some things later really meant...