FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush... [View all]

[Drunken Irishman]

...they all had their chance to fix the broken healthcare system. Only a handful tried - and every single one of 'em failed.

Before you tell the President to fuck off and call him a piece of shit, maybe you should look to those leaders, who served well before Pres. Obama, and blame them too for a system that, even when it's reformed, is far from perfect. It's easy to blame Obama - but it wasn't his mess. It was the mess of a dozen-plus presidents who kicked the can down the road, or entirely gave up on the fight after initial backlash.

If you're going to suggest Obama is culpable, then so is every U.S. senator, representative and president who served before him. That includes Ted Kennedy, who crippled healthcare reform twice - back under Nixon, and then again under Carter (who deserves blame too for proposing a conservative plan liberal Democrats could not get behind - and failed to even budge one inch).

Obama was served up a heaping pile of shit and frankly, got out of it the best thing possible.

Our old system just about screwed everyone. This system will screw a few, hell, it'll screw a lot, but it's also going to help far more than the old system ever could have done.

Think about it this way - had any of those presidents I listed even passed marginal healthcare reform, we probably would have universal coverage today. But because that step wasn't taken, Obama was forced to make the first steps ... and it's always the first steps that prove the hardest.