Why your ACA plan from last year might not be the best one for you this year,

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88. No that is not at all true. The public option DIED in total when one Barack Obama

Went back on earlier pledges.

He campagined on Health Insurance.

Then the summer of 2009, he backed away publicly from any type of bully pulpit statements that might have fired up and induced the American public to call and put pressure on their Congress critters to take needed action and to put in the public option.

He claimed that he "had to back away" from any campaigning on his part, due to the respect he held for the three branches of government and their Constitutionally mandated "separation of powers." Please note first of all, how FDR did not invoke the separation of powers when he got to the White House - he actively went and dealt with Congress on the economy for one hundred days, until his platform for change was embodied by Congress!

But good ol' Obama, gosh and gee! he did not want to interfere with the Congressional critters and their need to have that separation. (Total hypocrisy as at that point in time, in reality, then Rahm and Ms Fowler were in the basement of the WH writing up the damn legislation that became the ACA!)

Also note how in summer of 2013, he was all bully pulpit for a war on the people of Syria, and took to the airwaves to bring the Puppet Masters their new war. (Luckily only 17% of all Americans were enthused about his idea about war, but due to ISIS/ISIL being leaked the weaponry we had gifted The UAE states and Saudi Arabia with, he got us in a new war.)

He was so cowardly during the summer of 2009 that even Jon Stewart mocked him. Jon brought about a discussion wherein mid-August 2009, he realted how Mr Obama was asked by a student at the Univ of Colorado, Boulder, about the public option.

Obama stated in response, "Well that public option is only one option among many tools we have."

That was all the enthuisiasm he had for it, and he backed away from further discussion stating that he had respect for "seapration of powers."

Here is his earlier enthusiasm for Single Payer, Universal HC: