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In reply to the discussion: my doctor and health care. [View all]fadedrose
(10,044 posts)23. This was at the end of Bush's 2 terms
Unemployment, Wars to pay for, troops everseas, and the party was somewhat undivided because of the bruising primaries.
I think they were shocked that they got health care at all, and what a battle it was. I still remember the good speeches made at the Senate and House by Dems....the blue dogs who feared losing their seat never went along with us, as well as some of the great northwest and texas. So yes, it was all Dems, but they were not of one mind.
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I'm a doctor too. I don't get Drs who are opposed to patients getting care.
Pinkflamingo
Nov 2013
#1
it was not obama that did not go all the way. we gotta remember what exactly happened way back when
seabeyond
Nov 2013
#17
Oregon seems to have figured it out. They enrolled 50,000 people into Medicaid while the
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#29
But that really shows why states needed to form their own marketplace.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
#34
Actually two states. But the principal is the same. Without all the overhead that the ACA
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#35
I expect yet more doctors will start refusing Medicare patients. Isn't $700b coming from provider
Flatulo
Nov 2013
#25