the consistent effort by conservative, corporate dems to try and tarnish progressive

[Armstead]

42. The ACA is an example of wrong direction rather than compromise

For years, proponents of health care reform have advocated for some form of public social-insurance program, ideally single-payer universal care. Even President Obama in his prior life, made statements in support of that.

But when the issue finally made it to the table, the very people who had advocate for that werte shut out of even being in the room, literally. Instead the power to shape the bill was turned over to the Max Baucuses and Joe Lie-Berman's.

A whiff of compromise in the form of a "public option" and/.or Medicare buy-in option for younger people did surface. Still left the private insurance system in place, \but at least gave people an alternative of public insurance. It had the support of many Democratic politicians, including moderate ones. ...And those awful unyielding "progressives" did agree to support that compromise, as at least a step towards wider social-insurance.

But NOOOOOOO.....The corporate wing of the Democratic Party undercut even that compromise. And President Obama joined them, rather than putting his support behind a public option.

As a result we ended up with a system that went in the wrong direction overall.

It was designed by Republicans and the insurance industry to continue to keep us enslaved to insurance companies. It embedded the insurance companies even further into the healthcare system -- and it forced Americans to buy their overpriced coverage. (Only relief was to become poor enough to qualify for so-called subsidies or Medicaid. Middle class continues to be hammered.)

In other words, even the actual compromise was killed to placate Big Insurance. We were thrown crumbs while those at the root of the problem were given 90 percent of the loaf.

And you wonder why people get a little bit upset at the status quo?