The President's speech was anything but a surrender.

[Chuck Smythe]

12. another_liberal, I think the Washington Post disagrees with your claim...

You said:

"the blame for canceled insurance policies rightly belongs on greedy, deceptive insurance companies"

The ACA requires insurance companies to cancel all of the junk, substandard plans that don't meet the ACA's minimum requirements. This is what the Washington Post said about it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-consumers-whose-health-premiums-will-go-up-under-new-law-sticker-shock-leads-to-anger/2013/11/03/d858dd28-44a9-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story_1.html

"Beginning Jan. 1, the new plans must cover 10 essential benefits including pediatric care, prescription drugs, mental-health services and maternity care. In general, policies that don’t offer those can’t be sold after 2013."

The fact that Obama is now telling them that they can renew these canceled plans means that Obama is literally telling these big corporations to break the law.

Personally, I favor single payer. The ACA should have been a one page bill that gave everyone the option (but not a mandate) to sign up for Medicaid. It's such a simple, easy to understand idea, with no new government agencies and no new bureaucracies, and I don't see how any Republican could possibly object to it.