No, Obamacare is not making your insurance premiums go through the roof.

[woo me with science]

50. You know what, Ms. Toad? Spare us.

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Seriously. You want to know what revisionist history I am sick to death of? I am so sick of Third Way apologism for a President who has been consistently in the pockets of the banks and corporations that I could vomit. I am sick to death of the constant efforts to pretty over the record of a President who has acted from Day One as a corporate Trojan horse, and try to portray him as a passionate progressive Democrat who has merely been blocked at every turn by powerful Republicans.

It gets old.

It gets old when we watch the sellouts, day after day after day after day after day, in every single area of policy important to the one percent. It gets old and tiring and nauseating beyond measure to be told, constantly, that the hand that is ripping rent money out of your hand and food out of your children's mouths and giving it to obscenely rich profiteers is really, honestly, in secret, caring about you and working for your best interests.

It is not only sickening, it is insulting as hell.

Since Day One, this President has pursued an agenda that is aggressively corporate. From his endless parade of crony appointments, to his relentless growth of the police state, to his murderous drone wars, to his environmental sabotage on behalf of big oil, to his selling off of our children's schools, to his inviting Monsanto into our pantries and profit mongers into our prisons....to this. Health care.

Not only did he make a backroom deal to kill the public option, he lied to the American people and claimed that he had never campaigned on a public option *after* the deal had been made, just as he lied to Americans that he would not support a mandate.

The ironically named ACA was perhaps the slickest bipartisan political scam by the corporate one percent in recent memory. It is an absolutely perfect example of how owning both parties allows the one percent to play them against each other to pass legislation that neither party would have accepted had it been presented honestly.

They fired up one side with the promise of universal healthcare, and they fired up the other side with the fear of government-controlled healthcare, and then they passed a "compromise" that favored neither but just happened to be a corporate wet dream: an unprecedented mandate for EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN to buy an outrageously overpriced corporate product FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.

I remember watching the corporate shills hawking this around the time of the vote. One of them noted the polls showing that Republicans hated it and that Democrats hated it and said (I am not making this up), "This shows they must be charting a good middle course."

Good god.

The "Affordable Care Act": Orwell would be impressed with that name. Its entire purpose is to entrench the predatory, for-profit companies into our health system and ensure that not a single American, from birth to death, will be able to avoid these bloodsucking middlemen.

U.S. Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialized Countries
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022339160

Big Pharma Donations to Obama Campaign
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022155847

TYT: Obama Pharma Deal (Devastating Video)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x434292

Obama's Deal (Frontline): A sobering look at the push to reform health care, revealing the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups and the role of money in policy making.About what happened behind the scenes.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/

Lobby E-Mails Show Depth of Obama Ties to Drug Industry
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014139402

Even With the Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Coverage Remains Unaffordable for Many
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14019-even-with-the-affordable-care-act-health-insurance-coverage-remains-unaffordable-for-many

Falling through the cracks in Obamacare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2491170

The devil, is as always, in the details.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022287017

Health Care Reform—the Charade of Regulation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002501716

Healthcare reform may not reduce medical bankruptcies, study suggests
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4761450

It's official, folks - your for-profit health insurance company is now part of the government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002867904

Top 10 Health Insurance Co's Profits 2007: $12.9Bn | Overhead Cost: $156Bn | Avg CEO Pay: $11.9Mn
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6349493

Obama Administration Rule Limits Aid to Families Who Can’t Afford Employers’ Health Coverage
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022298407

Large employers will not be penalized under ACA for failing to offer coverage for dependents
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022228022

The Mandated "Bronze" Policy on The Exchange will only cover 60% of the actual Health Care Cost
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021890586

Chief Justice Roberts' vote saved the ACA.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002867911

Long-Term Care Provisions Would Be Repealed in Fiscal Cliff Bill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022114009

" U.S. ranked near and at the bottom in almost every heath indicator. That stunned us."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022187464

We are bought and sold, by both parties now. Both colluding, corporate parties. At a certain point, we will stop circling the wagons and playing this ridiculous partisan game they have set up for us...and be honest, finally honest, about what is being done to us here.