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8. They succeeded with the healthcare debate

Reply to Chiquitita (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 12:25 PM

Nov 2012

...and got Obama to completely shut out advocates of the public option, talking only with health insurance companies (which you can read as "Wall St.&quot and cutting a deal with them. He went against his word as a candidate to serve the interest of finance.

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