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nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
2. k&r
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 08:11 AM
Apr 2016

Obama on the public insurance option



Harry Reid doubled down



NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill Public Option

For months I’ve been reporting in The Huffington Post that President Obama made a backroom deal last summer with the for-profit hospital lobby that he would make sure there would be no national public option in the final health reform legislation. (See here, here and here). I’ve been increasingly frustrated that except for an initial story last August in the New York Times, no major media outlet has picked up this important story and investigated further...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/ny-times-reporter-confirm_b_500999.html


"The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican."- President Barack Obama

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