Reply #17: Single Payer really wasn't even in the Options when Obama proposed his HCR..though. [View All]

[KoKo]

I see you feel strongly for supporting Obama as more the Proposer and Bystander.

Many of us don't agree...and he did have to come in at the last minute to push it through. His style as a President is much different from how he governs. Some of us bought the "Change Thing" to literally and I realize that there are folks who think we were too innocent about politics to believe him...and we shouldn't have.

Thanks for your reply, though. And, yes, I do trash the Senate more than the House for why we got this weak bill. I just remember how Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan pushed through votes (also Bush II who got it all) so I'm not innocent about politics...but know that Obama didn't come in with a "weak hand"...but a MANDATE...and he kind of left it to Congress to sort out. If he had vigorously supported reducing health care costs he wouldn't have allowed the Insurance Lobbyists to write the bill. And, now the insurance companies are raising costs to all of us...