I am not liking Obama very much these days

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123. Factually Incorrect

What you wrote is your assumption of what happened in Clinton's term but if you actually research it you will find something different. That comes from starting from a point of view of what you think happened. Big insurance did not kill Clinton's health care reform attempt. Small insurance companies were against it because they would have been put out of business. The Harry and Louise ads were from the small insurance lobbying group. However, the big insurers would be fine either way, whether the Clinton plan passed or failed.

The large insurance companies like Cigna signed on and in fact were financial backers of Clinton when he ran for president because his plan like the ACA also enshrined private insurance companies as the front door to the health care market. Although, being Clintons, they pretended to meet with the world after election regarding what bill should be passed, coincidently it was the same bill that everyone knew he would support before he was elected.

The involvement of Big Pharma I actually do not remember. The real reason it failed is because the plan was another plan designed from the mushy middle. It had no support from the right or left side of the political spectrum. It was truly uninspiring and its defeat was not really a surprise to those who knew where it came from. The Clinton plan was similar to a plan called the Aspen Plan and was also similar to a plan that was earlier on the California ballot and rejected by voters.