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Hortensis

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4. Sorry, I was just responding to the notion that

Reply to eniwetok (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 11, 2017, 03:09 PM

Mar 2017

a public option, or any kind of option, would provide any protection against dismantling. They'd just choose other means of sabotage. Remember, congress controls the checkbook.

In fact, the current threat of the market collapsing completely is actually a serious problem for the dismantlers. They want to drag the dismantling out long enough, while throwing vast clouds of smoke and mirrors over the process, that eventually people don't know who to blame for it and become resigned.

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If There Had Been A Public Option... [View all] eniwetok Mar 2017 OP

seriously... I don't know about #2.... does anyone? eniwetok Mar 2017 #1

Social Security is a public option. So is CHIPS. Hortensis Mar 2017 #2

I was asking specifically about the public option in Obamacare... eniwetok Mar 2017 #3

Sorry, I was just responding to the notion that Hortensis Mar 2017 #4