McCaskill: Obamacare Is Like Ryancare For Non-Seniors

[zipplewrath]

11. I want a change in direction

You want a radical break from the past.

I may want a radical break too, but that's not how the US government works. Now was that how it was set up to work. Things happen slowly and incrementally. Think of the system of checks and balances. That was put into place to more or less insure there are no radical breaks.

I want a change in direction. Instead we head TOWARDS the GOP plans for health care. Read the OP. Obama passed the GOP plan for medicare, for the rest of us. It moved AWAY from progressive goals, not towards them. Progressives wanted health CARE changes, what we got was health INSURANCE changes, mostly ones dreamed up by the GOP. Insurance mandates? Obama campaigned that this was like ending homelessness by forcing people to buy houses.

These are incremental changes in the wrong direction. I'm not asking for a "radical break", I'm talking about turning left instead of right.