What is/are your favorite acomplishment(s) of the Obama administration?

[zipplewrath]

65. It isn't particarly progressive

Mostly it just nationalized health insurance regulation. It was regressive in its "cadillac tax" which affected middle class union health insurance more than anything else. It put the burden of buying health insurance on all americans (well, almost all, it left out about 7% or so of the most economically challenged) and yet only required that a small percentage of additional businesses actually provide it as part of employment. It did little to nothing to ensure that the poorest would be able to afford to be able to actually use their health insurance. And it did nothing about medical bankruptcy at all. There's not very much "progressive" in there. Of course that's not surprising since by the President's own admission, it was very similar to a very nonprogressive proposal by Dole and the GOP in the mid '90s intended to block Clinton's attempt a health care reform.

But the worst was ensconcing the insurance industry between the citizen and his health care. One can't get healthcare now without having to deal with an insurance company.

We have been working on a "socially progressive country" my whole 50+ years. For the last 30, we've been going backwards on most economic issues, including health CARE in many ways. Even the insured are now paying more out of their own pocket by any measure than they did 30 years ago. We've made no progress at all towards any sort of actual controls of the cost of health CARE. All the problems that Clinton was outlining in the mid '90s still exist, even with Obamacare.

And there won't be a "next big push" for the better part of 20 years. And when it does come, it will probably be the GOP that will be pushing it, because the democrats won't wanna go near this for a long time. Many feel they lost the House in '10 because of this, and much like gun control, that will disuade them from trying again for a very long time.