I don't think the Health Insurance Reform Act was a great progressive achievement.

[Leopolds Ghost]

118. Insurance execs who wrote the bill said "the goal is to create a captive pool of young, low-risk"

Insurance executives spoke out saying "we should not oppose this, the goal is to create a captive pool of young, low-risk customers to offset the aging of the Baby Boomers."

That was the goal as stated by the insurance lobbyists who were at the table when this program was being written ca. 2004-2008. It was created in think tanks by center-right Democrats and a few technocrats like Romney and Gingrich spoke out in favor of it (don't forget, it was modeled after Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts.)

Do Democrats now support ending rent control in urban areas like Romney did in Massachusetts?

Many Dems support Gingrich's welfare reform because a Democrat did it, and support Clinton's Health Care reform because Obama did it.

Hillary spoke out on the campaign trail calling these uninsured, working-poor twentysomethings "deadbeats". The captive market.

This language got repeated (it was originally a Gingrich term)

Hillary's policy on HCR became law as a condition of her endorsing the Obama campaign and combining staffs to achieve party unity in 2008.

Next we'll hear mainstream liberal Democrats (heck, I know a few who) attack Occupiers as "radical" for opposing bills like NDAA and FISA, saying "I am a liberal but I believe America should be strong and secure!"