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In reply to the discussion: Beginning of the End for Major Health Insurers [View all]Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)The votes were not there because the insurance lobby prevented a fair public discussion on the merits of single payer.
With a fair public debate, support for single payer would have overwhelmed the process.
If the public understood the ACA included an unnecessary profit taker that raises health care costs unnecessarily, they would favor single payer instead.
That is why "Democrat" Max Baucus had protesters arrested and removed from the discussion.
The insurance industry, did not want the discussion to include better alternatives.
This is why we had the Tea Party brown shirts disrupting each town hall meeting-to make it appear as if we were lucky to get the ACA with the unnecessary insurance industry in place receiving their billions of free dollars for doing nothing but shuffling paper, you know, like a military contractor in Iraq.
SCAM! Like everything else in the USA now.