Obamacare Architect: ‘Lack of Transparency’ Helped Us Pass the Law

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35. Exactly.

But by flaw or by design it doesn't really matter to those left out in the cold. They lose. Does it bother those who have health insurance they can afford that there are losers out there? I know it bothers me. Back to your point, I'm with you, this should have been for everyone. Why wasn't it? Why couldn't it be sold? For that matter, if we're mandated to buy health insurance, why not bundle optical and dental into it? But I digress. If the American people can be sold on the idea that the Khardasian family is worthy of celebrity status, why couldn't our leaders sell us on the idea that everyone should have basic health care? Not that it mattered in the end; tptb got what they wanted. Yet again.

This feels like yet another thing to divide us, in this case, those who have health insurance and can afford to use it, and those who either don't, or do and can't afford it. If you can't, you shouldn't have been born in a red state, or moved there for reasons beyond your control. And those who can only afford the Bronze plan and find it inadequate, well, you should have just ponied up for the Silver or Gold. And why can't you be happy for everyone who got it?

That bothers me as much as the fact that insurance companies are now more entrenched than ever in our health care system and that it would take a miracle to get them out.