Reply #143: You know, I was advocating all along................ [View All]

[socialist_n_TN]

for Obama to be tougher in negotiations. But the outcome was ALMOST always pre-determined.

I WASN'T CONCERNED WITH THE OUTCOME AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY! It was obvious that RomneyCare was what we were going to get. HOWEVER, what I WANTED to see was a President and Democratic Party leader who was out front talking every week during the town hall astro turf rallies about "socialized medicine". I wanted him talking about how Medicare for All was the absolute MOST cost effective way to solve the HC crisis and how the NEXT best solution was the Public Option to keep Insurance companies honest in their dealings with the American public. And during the times Obama wasn't talking about the BEST AND MOST POPULAR SOLUTION to the health care crisis (the PO), I wanted Biden out there along with OTHER top administration officials talking it up. I wanted them to put the Republicans AND Blue Dog Dems on the spot, explaining to the American public WHY we weren't going to get the BEST and most POPULAR solution.

Then when we got RomneyCare, the public would know who was to blame for not getting the best and most popular solution. In short, I wanted ADVOCACY of the best and most popular solutions. And instead of unrelenting advocacy, I got lukewarm, OCCASIONAL props for the PO and a sense of the inevitability of RomneyCare.

THAT was my problem in a nutshell.