Sorry I've just got to say it.....A Public Option would have avoided most of this crap

[truedelphi]

123. Back at the time, had we an outstandingly progressive President who

used this Bully Pulpit to get it bashed over the Congress people's heads that this public option was what poll after poll showed we in America wanted, perhaps then we would have gotten it.

But instead of a FDR-style President, we had a man who pretended that he had to distance himself from using the Bully Pulpit, because of the Constitutional requirement about the separation of powers. (Notice how he didn't feel there was such a provision when he wanted to take this nation to war against Syria recently.)

And Obama pretended that Rahm Emanuel and Liz Fowler were not receiving Big Time Big Insurance people in meetings held a block down from the WH, or inside the WH basement itself.

As a reward for his efforts to write up the exact legalese for legislation on the ACa that the Big Insurers and Big Pharma wanted, Rahm Emauel easily secured a lot of campaign monies, and now he is "da Mayor" of Chicago.

And Liz Fowler almost immediately garnered an impressive, cushy and lucrative job inside the Biggest of the Big Insurers..