Harkin: OBAMACARE Should Have Been SINGLE-PAYER But 'WE BLEW IT'

[Leopolds Ghost]

229. Shh. Don't remind DU activists that a public option was considered an absolute backstop

Now, four legs bad two legs good, if you lament the loss of a public option which Democratic activists were assured would be in the bill, thus being the only thing that made an individual mandate palatable (even though Washington Monthly established in interviews with Daschle years ago that the public option was always intended to be a fig leaf to protect the insurance lobby, since it would be funded by fines on people who cannot afford mandatory insurance (!!) I.e. there would always be less money for a public option than people with no option to afford mandatory privatized health care.

And now we have proof from the Clinton's creepy aides that it was always a scam on the "stupid" American people to protect the insurance lobby by fining people for not having private insurance (and the Washington Monthly went further back in 2006, pointing out that not only was the public option always a bait-and-switch designed to fool liberals into voting for the bill, but the mandatory privatized health care itself was explicitly stated (By Hillary, Gingrich, Daschle and others) to be necessary to shut down the movement towards single-payer, which the Clintons and the health care lobby agreed was unacceptable.