Hillary's new slogan: No We Can't!

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111. Totally Agree

Your post reminds us all that Obama's campaign heal care plan was NO mandate and A public option. We ended up with NO public option and A mandate.

I think your assertion that Obama never wanted the public option even though he ran on it is true and somewhat reinforced by my last post on his rejection of the House Bill which contained a Public Option which would seem to be a bill that the campaign Obama could get behind even though it also had a mandate. The fact that he immediately rejected it and turned it over to the Senate finance committee shows he really did not support a public option.

With respect to the mandate itself, Obama dropped his objection to the mandate pretty fast which makes sense as an intellectual matter. I say that because within the corporate concept of health insurance, if you are going to end pre-existing conditions as an insurance concept you really do need some form of a mandate so as to spread risk amongst a broad swath of healthy and unhealthy. The solution of course is to get rid of private insurance and go to health care as a right provided by the federal government providing a seamless risk pool of the whole nation with very little cost of developing or selling the risk pool or determining eligibility. Administrative costs all relate to the actual health condition and if it is covered and preventing fraud (administrative cost still in a private insurance).